fragging

WAR
* "Riverbend: I can see how many Americans can be misled by American corporate media. We sometimes find ourselves watching, fascinated, with news we know to be false, and yet American media makes it look so convincing!" LINK

* "And it's been one of the deadliest weeks of the war for journalists in Iraq. The International Federation of Journalists is reporting that five Iraqi journalists have been killed over the past week." LINK

* "The Iraqi security forces surrounded Madain but, on entering, found no hostages or evidence they had ever been held or that there were any gunmen present. Shia officials then said that bodies had been found in the Tigris south of Madain, but residents and police in the area said they had not seen the bodies.
Mr Talabani, one of the two main Kurdish leaders, has a reputation for making explosive off-the-cuff remarks without considering the consequences. The most fanatical Sunni Arab groups have denied that any Shia were killed, saying it was a hoax by the government." LINK
this situation is still no clearer...

* "The two lawyers, Robert Parton and Miranda Duncan, resigned in the belief that the report that cleared Mr Annan was a whitewash, sources familiar with the investigation said yesterday." LINK
didnt anyone resign due to hutton? nope. WMD commission? nope. 911comm? nope. (and it seems to have taken them a long time to make this decision, maybe its all spin spin spin)

* "Mr Sharon underlined his determination to go ahead with (settlement expansion) in defiance of US exhortations by pointing out that settlement growth had always gone ahead in the past despite formal expressions of US opposition to it." LINK

* "Mystery still surrounds the claim by President Jalal al-Talabani that the bodies of 50 Shia hostages, from Madain, south of Baghdad, had been found in the Tigris river. Dr Falah al-Permani of the Swera health department said 50 bodies had been found in the river over three weeks. But Mr Talabani said there had been a massacre of Shia hostages in the past few days." LINK

* "Iraq was engulfed in a fresh wave of violence when insurgents shot down a helicopter killing 11 people, and al-Qa'ida in Iraq claimed one of its suicide bombers had come close to assassinating the Prime Minister Iyad Allawi." LINK

* the fragger is convicted. itll be fun to watch how studiously the word 'fragging' is avoided. this is *not* vietnam. LINK