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The Human Cost Of War

ACLU Releases Navy Files On Civilian Casualties In Iraq War ACLU
Public Has A Right To Unfiltered Information About The Human Cost Of War, ACLU Says
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org
NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union today released thousands of pages of documents related to Navy investigations of civilians killed by Coalition [...]

Afghan civilians killed in U.S.-led operation

U.S.-led forces killed four Afghan civilians, including two women and a boy, in an operation against Taliban insurgents in southeastern Paktika province, the U.S. military said in a statement on Wednesday.

What the U.S. wants in Afghanistan

The U.S. has held up a country’s terrible history of poverty, repression and inequality as the pretext for a war that only aggravates poverty, repression and inequality.

A U.S. Marine Corps general has decided not to bring criminal charges against two officers who led their unit on a March 2007 killing spree that left 19 Afghan [...]

Killing by the numbers

In 2007 elite U. S. snipers executed an unarmed Iraqi prisoner in cold blood. Have the insidious tactics that led to atrocities in Vietnam reemerged in Iraq?
By Mark Benjamin and Christopher Weaver

U.S. Army Sgt. Evan Vela in Baghdad, Iraq, on Feb. 10, 2008.

Genei Nesir Khudair al-Janabi, an Iraqi vegetable farmer, walked down to the ramshackle [...]

Rut-Roh George! .. oh, and Blair! .. and maybe Oz..

Surely you remember The Jetsons. I found this rather interesting:
Marine to stand trial over detainee killing in Iraq

British defense secretary announces public inquiry into Iraqi detainee death
One day apart. What baffles me is what about the thousands of other non-combatants were murdered by who knows how many other soldiers on both the US [...]

Our key still works

Kristen Ess - For the 60 year memorial of Al Nakba, I have been interviewing elderly refugees for months, people who remember their villages and towns, who talk about their old lives and the new ones they have etched out in the camps.

However on Monday I sat in the bedroom of a 21 year old [...]

Falluja’s struggle after invasion

By Dahr Jamail

Iraqis run for cover after US forces opened fire on protesters in Falluja on April 30, 2003 [AP]
On April 28, 2003, US soldiers occupying the Al-Qaid school in Falluja opened fire on dozens of demonstrators who had been protesting the use of the premises as a forward base for the US 82nd Airborne [...]

Survey finds divided views of Khadr

Michelle Shephard National Security Reporter Only a third of Canadians believe Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr will receive a fair trial if the U. S. prosecutes him for war crimes, but the majority of Canadians still don’t want him brought home, a new survey released today reveals.
The Angus Reid Strategies poll shows a country still [...]

Bush’s henchman ordered up legal fig leaf to justify torture

Tribune Editorial

I resisted watching ”Taxi to the Dark Side,” the documentary on America’s treatment of terror suspects that won this year’s Academy Award as best documentary feature. The review DVD I was sent was sitting on top of my television set for a week, reminding me - no exhorting me - to look at it, [...]

Iraq war: Victims and villains

Mumtaz Iqbal
Most wars have heroes, victims and villains. Not the Iraq War. It has no heroes, only victims and villains. The war’s fifth anniversary on 19 March 2008 is a good time to examine who these are.
VICTIMS
They are numerous and of all shades.
The foremost are Iraqis. Estimates of Iraqi dead vary from 89,000 (Iraq [...]

What “Freedom” Brought to Afghanistan

 Women in Afghanistan have a 1 in 8 lifetime risk of maternal death. (By contrast: The rate in neighboring Pakistan is 1 in 74; the rate in Sweden is in in 17,400).
It’s like a perfect storm of right-wing policies: The War on Drugs, women’s liberation by way of imperialism, and “freedom” at the barrel of [...]

Around 40 civilians killed in a deadly airstrike by US-led coalition

Jan.24, 2008: Afghan men shout anti-US forces slogans during a demonstration
in the main city of Ghazni province. US-led soldiers killed nine Afghan policemen,
including a district police chief, and a woman in an overnight raid aimed at
Taliban fighters, Afghan officials said Thursday. AFP/Mohammad Yaqubi
Photo Gallery of US victims in Afghanistan
The Afghan Victim Memorial Project by Prof. [...]

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