Salon

by Phillip Robertson

07/27/05

As Salihee approached the patrol from the east, another car was turning around in front of him. He began to drive around it to the right. Exactly what happened next is in dispute. What is certain is that as Salihee went around the car, the two U.S. snipers, thinking he was a suicide bomber, opened fire. At least four rounds were fired. One blew out the car's right front tire; another ricocheted off the ground and pierced the gas tank. The final 7.62 millimeter round pierced the driver's side of the windshield, entering Salihee's right eye and shattering his skull. ... Yasser Salihee was not a suicide bomber. He was a physician and journalist who was going to his house on his day off to pick up his two-year-old daughter Dania and take her swimming...

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/07/27/sniper/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Two Iraqis at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison were bitten by dogs as they were being handled by sergeants who were competing to see who could scare more detainees, a witness testified Tuesday.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9574.htm

We must end the view that civil liberties are negotiable: A democratic state has a duty to maintain non-negotiable standards - otherwise, we slip further and further into arbitrary state power.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9562.htm

I've been stunned these last few days by the juxtaposition of American reactions to the July 7 terrorist attacks in London, where 59 died, and the huge July 17 attack of a single suicide bomber in Musayyib, Iraq, where 71 people died.

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1519/5521390.html


From Information Clearing House

by Eric Margolis

Murdering civilians in London, New York or Tel Aviv is a heinous crime. But to many people around the globe, so was the trumped-up invasion of Iraq that violated every norm of international law, the ongoing U.S. occupation of Afghanistan, and the agony of Palestine. Deporting or jailing loudmouth radical Muslim clerics and closing madrassas won't stop the dangerous jihadist movement. Neither will blaming Islam or Pakistan. Terrorist violence is the effect, not the cause.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9565.htm

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050725/D8BIE6HO0.html


Informant: Martin Greenhut and NHNE

Innocent civilians, including people who are considered vital to building democracy, are increasingly being killed by US troops.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/072505B.shtml

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article301250.ece


Informant: Lew Rockwell

Telegraph [UK]

07/23/05

Two years into the occupation of Iraq the menace of drug abuse appears to be afflicting American troops. Aware of the debilitating effect drugs had on the morale and effectiveness of GIs in the Vietnam War, the authorities are attempting to stifle a repeat in Iraq. Aside from random urine tests and barrack room searches, commanders have asked their troops to inform on colleagues. ... Since the overthrow of Saddam's regime the borders that have been so porous for insurgents have been equally open for heroin and hash smugglers from Afghanistan and Iran providing a cheap market for troops. With colleagues being killed or wounded on a daily basis, some US soldiers have turned to drugs to escape the horrors of fighting insurgent...

http://tinyurl.com/9orn9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

It is time for Blair to go. He took a calculated risk when he decided to back Bush and US foreign policy. He proclaimed proudly that in order to defeat Saddam Hussein a 'blood price would have to be paid.' It is being paid by tens of thousands of Iraqi dead and now by innocent Londoners.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9556.htm



Back to you, Mr Blair :

By putting the onus on Muslims to defeat terror, the prime minister absolves himself of responsibility.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9547.htm



Blair's "Evil Ideology":

We know that Blair lied to us before and during the war, we know that all the official commissions of enquiries were nothing more than to provide a service of whitewashing.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9554.htm