A separate CIA report, leaked to the US press this week, severely weakened the Bush claim of a link between Baghdad and al-Qaida.
Following an outcry in the international press, a severely embarrassed Dubai government has since, it assures all who ask, got tough.
He strove to liberalize the press still severely bound by an absurd libel law that excluded effective social criticism.
"The conflicts in Sudan continue, human rights abuses are widespread, and political and press freedoms are severely curtailed," said a spokesman.
There is no place for such questions in societies that men like Ahmadinejad and Nasrallah preside over, countries where intellectual debate and press freedoms are severely limited.
In 1981, after Jim Brady, the White House press secretary, was severely and permanently wounded by a gun assailant who was aiming at President Ronald Reagan, Congress enacted the so-called Brady Law, mildly cracking down on the availability of handguns.
Press freedom was "severely restricted" under the former president according to watchdog groups, particularly in the months surrounding the end of the civil war between the government and the separatist Tamil Tigers in May 2009.
"What we needed this time was a body that would have real teeth and that the press would be severely punished if they overstepped their own code of conduct.
That story is dramatic enough in its own right and prompted an international press outcry that severely discredited the British and their blockade policy.
Cadenas' account of the mayhem within Kim's orbit contains all the hallmarks of the impersonal press junket, including severely limited access, verbatim responses to different reporters and a handful of off-limits topics.
