Insurgents in Baghdad have mounted dozens of separate bombings in recent weeks. Nowhere is the fallout from the violence more apparent than in the city's emergency rooms and trauma centers. Jamal Enad, a second-year surgical resident at Baghdad's Yarmouk Hospital, said he has seen firsthand the effects of the increased violence. "It was a very bad week, the last week," he said.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3092

http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2659/


Informant: jensenmk

From ufpj-news

Translation carried out for The Independent on Sunday reveals for the first time that several references to UN sanctions were cut from the Arabic text. On one page, the words "biological agents" were changed to read "nuclear agents".

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8640.htm

The Iraq war was thrust dramatically into the election spotlight last night after long-sought government legal advice, cautioning that the invasion could be illegal, was leaked.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8639.htm

by Patrick Cockburn

"We should end the immunity of US soldiers here," says Dr Mahmoud Othman, a veteran Kurdish politician who argues that the failure to prosecute American soldiers who have killed civilians is one of the reasons why the occupation became so unpopular so fast. He admits, however, that this is extremely unlikely to happen given the US attitude to any sanctions against its own forces.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8641.htm

04/24/05

An American patrol roared past us with the soldiers gesturing furiously with their guns for traffic to keep back on an overpass in central Baghdad. A black car with three young men in it did not stop in time and a soldier fired several shots from his machine gun into its engine. The driver and his friends were not hit, but many Iraqis do not survive casual encounters with US soldiers. It is very easy to be accidentally killed in Iraq. US soldiers treat everybody as a potential suicide bomber. If they are right they have saved their lives and if they are wrong they face no penalty...

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=632439

from Independent [UK], by Patrick Cockburn


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The news article below presents one of the rare first-hand accounts of the sudden and unpredictable impact of urban warfare among the more than 300,000 U.S. troops deployed overseas. The Washington Post reporter was on the scene as the bloodshed unfolded.

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/?Page=Article&ID=3085

Flash presentation:
http://bushflash.com/y2.html


From Information Clearing House

A humanitarian aid worker's death in Iraq last week is spurring calls for a public accounting of civilian casualties by the United States government and more attention to the issue by the U.S. media.

http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=28421


From Information Clearing House