Meanwhile, the London terror, which has shocked the world, is roughly equivalent to your average bad day in Iraq, as TruthOut reminds us. 23 Killed in Bombing at Baghdad Recruiting Center By John F. Burns The New York Times Monday… Read moreIraq terror continues
This sucks. Are we to assume that the Sharon Mall is named for the incumbent prime minister? Maybe the bombers were seeking some poetic justice. From TruthOut: Suicide Bomber Kills Self, 2 Others at Israeli Mall The Associated Press Tuesday… Read moreIsrael: suicide blast at Sharon Mall
A friend writes on the Car Free Cities list: Terrorism, Transit and Public Safety: Evaluating The Risks In 2002 according to statistics 1,000,000 people were killed by cars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_accident For 2003, 2004 and 2005 the numbers are (will be) higher… Read moreStatistics: cars worse than terrorism
From the London Times, July 7: West turns blind eye as police put Saddam’s torturers back to work IRAQI security forces, set up by American and British troops, torture detainees by pulling out their fingernails, burning them with hot irons… Read moreSaddam’s torturers back at work
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With all of the current horrors in the headlines, the world has paid little note to the tenth anniversary of the July 1995 massacre of 8,000 at the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica after it was overrun by besieging Serb… Read moreZ magazine supports genocide
UK memo says US, UK readying Iraqi withdrawal-report LONDON, July 10 (Reuters) – A leaked document from Britain’s Defence Ministry says the British and U.S. governments are planning to reduce their troop levels in Iraq by more than half by… Read moreUK, US plan Iraq withdrawal?
Syrian forces have arrested two fugitives from Jordan who are believed to be former bodyguards of Saddam Hussein and linked to the Iraq insurgency. The manhunt followed a clash between militants and Syrian forces on Qassioun Mountain overlooking Damascus July… Read moreIraq war spills into Syria?
More glowing reports of freedom on the march in Iraq. This from the July 7 New York Times, reprinted the following day in the International Herald Tribune. Shiite theocracy takes hold in Iraqi oil city By Edward Wong The New… Read moreBasra: Shi’ite theocracy bans music
As this fairly comprehensive account from The Australian makes clear, the notion that the London attacks were carried out by a heretofore unheard-of “Secret Organization of the Jihad of al-Qaeda in Europe” originates from reports on the websites of Germany’s… Read moreWho was behind London attacks?
In another sign that the administration of Mexican President Vicente Fox is seeking to capitalize on the Zapatista rebels’ new political direction to finally resolve the ongoing Chiapas headache, his government announced yesterday that it will release some 800 indigenous… Read moreMexico: government to free indigenous prisoners
A large area of downtown Edinburgh was evacuated today when police found a “suspicious package” on a bus, the Scotsman reports. The alert was called off after police conducted what they callled a “controlled explosion” on the bus. Given the… Read moreFear in Edinburgh
