Thursday, August 04, 2005

haditha attack

btw - here's the 'official' AP version of the haditha deaths:
"Fourteen U.S. Marines and a civilian interpreter were killed Wednesday in western Iraq"
what this doesnt say is that one oother marine was apparently kidnapped. i wonder if the torture has started yet, and whether the torturers are using the US Army handbook. i wonder if mccain will mention it...

the other adjective that is missing from this description is the nationality of the interpreter - that person is probably an iraqi, but none of the reports seem to mention it.

we also get this:
" In addition, the Iraqi Defense Ministry said that since the beginning of April, more than 2,700 Iraqis -- about half of them civilians -- had been killed in insurgency-related incidents."
thats 'more than' 700 per week. and of course we get the typical AP nonsense that they were 'killed in insurgency-related'. apparently the americans have stopped killing people. or maybe american murders are all categorised as 'counter-insurgency' which would surely qualify as 'insurgency-related'

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