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FROM THE TCI WIRE:
Let's start with some wisdom from Noam Chomsky.
Noam Chomsky
I mean, suppose it was true
that Iran is helping insurgents in Iraq. I mean, wasn’t the United
States helping insurgents when the Russians..
-
... invaded Afghanistan? Did we think there was anything wrong with that?
From wisdom, let's move to confusion: the status of Iraq's president.
December 2012, Iraqi
President Jalal
Talabani suffered a stroke. The incident took place late on December
17, 2012 following Jalal's argument with Iraq's prime minister and chief thug Nouri al-Maliki (see the December 18, 2012 snapshot). Jalal was admitted to Baghdad's Medical Center Hospital. Thursday, December 20, 2012,
he was moved to Germany. He remains in Germany currently.
This week, Rudaw noted
the rumors that Jalal might "soon return to Kurdistan" and quoted his
son Qubad stating Jalal was "willing to return." Dropping back to the April 3rd snapshot:
Here are all three photos:
Jalal may not be able to fulfill his duties as president but he's clearly the new reverse Streisand. For years (up until Funny Lady), Barbra hated to be filmed from an angle that emphasized the right side of her face.
For some reason, Jalal refuses to show the left side of his face.
That's true in the photos above, true in all of the photos released so far including back in May of 2013 when Jalal was posed for his first series of photos (below is one example).
What's wrong with Jalal's right hand? And why does the Talabani family keep releasing still photos instead of video? Can Jalal speak? What range of motion is he capable of?
Like all the previous photo releases, the latest ones don't answer those questions.
The only advance evident in the latest photos is that Jalal can now smile and show teeth. That's not sarcasm. Whether he can do a full smile or not is unknown. He may only be able to manipulate the right side of his mouth. Clearly, his recovery has not been the 'progress' that the Talabani family has repeatedly announced.
Rudaw noted this week:
Since
December 2012 when Talabani was rushed to Germany after a serious
stroke, the PUK has only released some photos of the ailing leader. But
there have been no videos to show the extent to which Talabani -- who is
also Iraq’s president – is able to move or talk. The pictures alone
have not been enough for the public to gauge the degree of the ailing
leader’s recuperation.Here are all three photos:
Jalal may not be able to fulfill his duties as president but he's clearly the new reverse Streisand. For years (up until Funny Lady), Barbra hated to be filmed from an angle that emphasized the right side of her face.
For some reason, Jalal refuses to show the left side of his face.
That's true in the photos above, true in all of the photos released so far including back in May of 2013 when Jalal was posed for his first series of photos (below is one example).
What's wrong with Jalal's right hand? And why does the Talabani family keep releasing still photos instead of video? Can Jalal speak? What range of motion is he capable of?
Like all the previous photo releases, the latest ones don't answer those questions.
The only advance evident in the latest photos is that Jalal can now smile and show teeth. That's not sarcasm. Whether he can do a full smile or not is unknown. He may only be able to manipulate the right side of his mouth. Clearly, his recovery has not been the 'progress' that the Talabani family has repeatedly announced.
Rudaw noted this week:
Latif Rasheed, who is the husband of Talabani’s sister-in-law and appeared in the president’s latest photos, said those pictures were taken last Newroz.
[. . .]
Rasheed also added that, “In the future videos and photos of Talabani will be released.” But he did not say when that would be, nor did he give any other details.
However, a source close to the Talabani family denied speculations both of his imminent return or that videos of him would be released anytime soon. “No videos of Talabani will be released,” the source said.
Why no videos?
What is clear is that Jalal should have been relieved his duties.
He's not done is job since December 2012.
APA reported Thursday on the rumors that Jalal was dead -- rumors which include he's dead and has been dead and that the Talabani family plans to announce the death immediately after the elections are held.
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