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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: TheSarge on June 24, 2008, 12:48:47 PM
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London Mayor Boris Johnson poured scorn Tuesday on a "ludicrous" police investigation into how he came into possession of a cigar case belonging to former Iraqi deputy premier Tariq Aziz.
Johnson, who took office last month as the opposition Conservatives' most powerful politician, accused the governing Labour Party of triggering the probe, which he jokingly likened to a "war crime".
The former journalist admitted to having found the red leather cigar case among the bombed-out debris of Aziz's home while visiting Iraq as a reporter in 2003. He wrote about it at the time, and kept it as a trophy of his trip.
Little more was said about it -- until Labour aides unearthed the story during recent campaigning for London mayor, which saw a close-fought race between him and veteran Labour mayor Ken Livingstone.
"They found the article, and with bulging eyes they went to the Metropolitan Police and demanded that I be prosecuted," he wrote in The Daily Telegraph newspaper.
"The poor police have no choice but to investigate this ludicrous affair, and in the interim I am told I must hand the cigar case into police custody -- or else be led in manacles from City Hall.
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080624105812.t4de4es0&show_article=1
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Cigars? Huh?
Paging Bill Clinton....
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Cigars? Huh?
Paging Bill Clinton....
They really shouldn't use "cigar" and "probe" in the same article. :uhsure:
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The problem is, this is looting and theft and against the rules. It was Aziz's cigar case after all. Not Johnson's. The army has to live under very strict rules these days I understand about the liberation of things belonging to civilians in the war zone.
That said, Labour is being idiotic, and I think by now the statute of limitations must have kicked in by now. It is the depth of patheticness that you can't argue a man down by ideas, you have to resort to "gotcha"
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He knew he was wrong when he did it, shouldn't have run his suck about it in the paper, welcome to politics.
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No, welcome to idiocy.