The savagery the Americans have practiced against the Iraqis, well, now we have seen it, touched it and felt it..."
Someone of rank had to approve using Saddam's former torture cells. Tainted too are the commanders of the military and security units assigned to the prison who allowed, encouraged or were ignorant of the crimes.
The MPs will be disciplined. They're not the only ones who should be held accountable.
For months it has been clear to them that the occupation is very brutal; for weeks they have been watching pictures of the dead and injured in Fallujah on al-Jazeera satellite television which CNN did not broadcast.
Their viewers missed Koppel's voice intoning the names of those who left America in uniform, only to return in coffins draped in a flag.
With time, activists also focused on America's domestic agenda, and this was accelerated by abuse of Arab-American civil rights, especially following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
On this occasion they were able to navigate round it to reach the two chapels. In a few more weeks, however, the section of wall will be complete and the route will be impassible - to pilgrims and Palestinians alike.
Few seem interested in the question of whether the invasion has made Iraqis feel safer, which is too bad because the questions are intimately related. As Khamis says: "It's not the war that caused the hatred. It's what they did after. What they are doing
Such soldiers are almost never seen or heard from in a war now entering its second year, but their numbers are growing. The Pentagon's senior health official told Congress this week that the military had carried out 18,000 evacuations from Iraq of wounded
Given the destructive nature of Israeli government action against Palestinian education and academic freedom, and your simultaneous expression of concern for Israeli academic freedom in the face of the boycott, we feel that it is only fair to ask the Isra
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