British military officials confirmed Friday that they are investigating new allegations that their soldiers abused a prisoner in Iraq.
From a Sky News report:
Photographs in the Daily Mirror show an Iraqi being battered with rifle butts, threatened with execution, and urinated on by British troops.
During his eight-hour ordeal, the suspected thief had his jaw broken [...]
France struggles with the fruits of its imperial past and welfare state present.
Or, two more reasons why I’ve lost interest in the LCpl. Boudreaux case.
* Justin interprets the lighthearted hijinks at Abu Ghraib.
* That infamous hate-America rag Stars & Stripes reports on business as usual in Okinawa.
Marines sentenced for mugging of Okinawa man
NAHA, Okinawa — Two Marines found guilty of mugging a 20-year-old Okinawan man in [...]
In light of the shocking torture scandal now circulating about the US Army’s treatment of Iraqi prisoners, Canadian war reporter Scott Taylor’s recent first-hand testimony from Iraq becomes eerily prescient:
“…all these armed bodyguards and contractors roaming around Iraq have many Iraqis quite concerned. People have legitimate questions.
For example, what jurisdiction do these guys have? Are [...]
Bush Administration whines to Qatar about Al Jazeera
“I am not responsible (for) al-Jazeera,” Foreign Minister Hamad bin Jassim said of the Qatar-based station funded by the Gulf ally’s ruler.
“But we will take this concern back to al Jazeera and they have to review (it), because we need al Jazeera to be professional and we don’t [...]
The Bushies–sorry, Iraqi Governing Council–got caught with their pants down on the new Iraqi flag, so they have now changed it. Kind of.
Via Atrios, we learn that Sinclair TV has announced a boycott of Ted Koppel’s Nightline show in which he intends to read the names and show a picture of all the Americans killed in combat in Iraq.
Apparently, Sinclair is only interested in good news from Iraq. This is from a story in the Baltimore [...]
The general in charge of the US-run prison system in Iraq has been suspended and put under investigation over the alleged abuse of Iraqi detainees by US soldiers.
A senior US military spokesman says Brigadier General Janis Karpinski was suspended from her duties in late January after six US soldiers were indicted for mistreating prisoners at [...]
The Independent is reporting that the 36th battalion, composed of Iraqi Arab and Kurdish peshmerga militia , has mutinied. The battalion has been fighting alongside the Marines in the siege of Fallujah. The Independent reports that the Marines separated out those who would fight from those who wouldn’t.
The battalion may have [...]
From an interesting article by Charles Paul Freund on images of war dead:
The struggle for war-image control began when a camera was first aimed at soldiers in Crimea, but that struggle is hardly founded on the absolutes implied by arguments like the one over the war coffins. The simple version of this and similar debates—that [...]
International Blog Roundup
I thought it might be interesting to some AntiWar readers if I put together a post of links to some good blogs written from interesting places that you might not have discovered yet. These are all active blogs that are worth checking daily.
De Spectaculis – This blog is written by Martial, an [...]
“Son, all I’ve ever asked of my readers is for them to treat Bush’s ramblings as if they were the word of God.” Whoa, it’s getting a bit chilly up in Canada, eh?
