THE US, THE UN AND THE IRAQIS THEMSELVES, V. 7.0

Press Watchdog “Deeply Disturbed” by Iraqi Regime’s Media Threat

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPA) said it was “deeply disturbed” by the statement.

“We are very troubled by this directive, which is an attempt to control news coverage through government coercion,” said CPJ’s executive director, Ann Cooper. “It damages the government’s credibility in establishing a free and democratic society.”

Article III.Section 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.

Main Entry: ad·here
Pronunciation: ad-'hir, &d-
Function: verb
Inflected Form(s): ad·hered; ad·her·ing
Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French adhérer, from Latin adhaerEre, from ad- + haerEre to stick
intransitive senses
1 : to give support or maintain loyalty
2 obsolete : ACCORD 3
3 : to hold fast or stick by or as if by gluing, suction, grasping, or fusing
4 : to bind oneself to observance
transitive senses : to cause to stick fast
synonym see STICK

The Iraqi was one of five wounded left in the mosque after Marines fought their way in on Friday and Saturday. The U.S. military has accused insurgents in Iraq (news - web sites) of using mosques to launch attacks against American forces.

U.S. forces, along with Iraqi government troops, launched an offensive one week ago on Falluja, and have gained overall control of the formerly rebel-held city, although scattered resistance remains.
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He said one Marine noticed one of the prisoners was still breathing.

A Marine can be heard saying on the pool footage provided to Reuters Television: "He's f***ing faking he's dead. He faking he's f***ing dead."

"The Marine then raises his rifle and fires into the man's head. The pictures are too graphic for us to broadcast," Sites said.

The report said the Marine had returned to duty after being shot in the face a day earlier.

If I were that Marine, I would have also shot that insurgent or any other insurgent like that rather than again risk being shot dead by an insurgent faking he's dead. This is a brutal life and death situation these Marines face continually almost 24 hours a day, not some simple matter of cops and suspects. Get off their backs!

Criticism? Very few situations are improved by a declaration of war.

I criticise a country which will falsify reasons to attack another country.

A military which will attack a weaker enemy with massive force.

A military which will used bombers against civilians.

A military which uses cluster bombs and uranium-tipped ordnance, poisoning the land for future unborn generations.

A military which will call in air strikes against vehicles, against unarmed groups of pedestrians, against wedding parties even.

A military which uses artillery barrages on a town containing civilians.

A military which will bring down buildings, irrespective of who may be underneath them.

So, War is hell. Shame, that all the participants do not dress themselves properly or observe the niceties others would impose on them.

ican711nm wrote:

If I were that Marine, I would have also shot that insurgent or any other insurgent like that rather than again risk being shot dead by an insurgent faking he's dead. This is a brutal life and death situation these Marines face continually almost 24 hours a day, not some simple matter of cops and suspects. Get off their backs!

Why didn't he just arrest him?

If there is an act of "harboring" then there is, by definition, "a relationship wherein the parties to such relationship act in concert to perpetrate their action or actions," which is how you, ican, define the phrase "collaborative operational relationship." In the act of harboring, the parties act in concert to perpetrate their action, harboring, with one party "giving shelter or refuge," and the other "taking said shelter in or as if in a harbor." That is, by definition, a "collaborative operational relationship."

Ican, I thought we pretty much agree on the fact that this group of injured insurgents had been treated by a group of marines who went in before the group in question.

WTF is going through Koffi Annan's head?

UN lowers flags to honor the murderer of Munich (Arafat)

Hassan lived in Iraq for 30 years and married an Iraqi. She was a citizen of Britain, Ireland and Iraq.

In its statement, her family said: "Nobody can justify this. Margaret was against sanctions and the war. To commit such a crime against anyone is unforgivable. But we cannot believe how anybody could do this to our kind, compassionate sister.

"The gap she leaves will never be filled."