I certainly did not have the option of un-knowing it. Moose Flanagan and his family have just moved to Alcatraz Island so that his father can take a job as a prison guard and his sister. I was, if you like, the prisoner of this knowledge. (Post-Kuwait inspections by the United Nations had uncovered a huge nuclear-reactor site that had not even been known about by the international community.) I had seen with my own eyes the evidence of a serious breach of the Genocide Convention on Iraqi soil, and I had also seen with my own eyes the evidence that it had been carried out in part with the use of weapons of mass destruction. Gennifer Choldenko Orphan Eleven One-Third Nerd Al Capone Throws Me a Curve Chasing Secrets Al Capone Does My Homework Guys Read: The Snake Mafia No. I knew that its vast patrimony of oil wealth, far from being 'nationalized,' had been privatized for the use of one family, and was being squandered on hideous ostentation at home and militarism abroad. Al Capone Shines My Shoes (Tales from Alcatraz Series 2) by Gennifer Choldenko 4.4 (140) Paperback 8.99 Paperback 8.99 eBook 8.99 Audiobook 0.
I knew that its police force was searching for psychopathic killers and sadistic serial murderers, not in order to arrest them but to employ them. “So, whenever the subject of Iraq came up, as it did keep on doing through the Clinton years, I had no excuse for not knowing the following things: I knew that its one-party, one-leader state machine was modeled on the precedents of both National Socialism and Stalinism, to say nothing of Al Capone.
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