Rumsfeld bans all recording devices in Iraq

After the unfortunate attack on a wedding party in Iraq by the U.S., and the surfacing of actual video footage showing the wedding, Donald Rumsfeld announced this morning that camcorders, digital or not, are prohibited from now on during any kind of celebration,...

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Who’s a Pervert Now?

Justin on Abu Ghraib nine days ago:The Abu Ghraib photo gallery of S&M imagery, far from being a prank, is art. Monstrously perverted, even vile, yet the sheer horror of it, calculated to elicit an emotional reaction, qualifies it as such, at least technically, as...

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Video shows the truth about Iraqi wedding

OK, so there's a video of the wedding and a video taken after the US bombed the wedding that proves the Americans are lying. In the face of such overwhelming evidence that they had killed innocent revellers, the US stubbornly insisted that the raid was against a...

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Death Total Tops 800

Another grim milestone was reached on Sunday with the deaths of two more American soldiers in Iraq. Despite the recent American pullout, the deaths occurred in the city of Fallujah, bringing the death total above 800. UPI reports:Two U.S. soldiers were killed and five...

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Rumsfeld bans cameras

In keeping with the current neocon/republican argument that the Iraqi prisoner torture problem isn't as bad as the fact that incontrovertible evidence of it in the form of gruesome video and digital images has been made public, Rumsfeld has banned.....not torture, but...

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Things Fall Apart

Neocons react to the Chalabi raid. That last link, by Rich Lowry, looks to be the beginning of an alternative neocon narrative in which Chalabi was a bad guy all along. Let's see how many war supporters hitch their wagons to it and how many persist in apotheosizing...

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Sanchez present during torture?

From the Dow Jones Newswire: NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- A military lawyer for a soldier charged in the Abu Ghraib abuse case testified that a captain at the Baghdad prison said the highest-ranking U.S. military officer in Iraq was present during some " interrogations...

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Devastating UK memo leaked

The Sunday Times and the Scotsman are both reporting on a memo highly critical of American "heavy handed tactics" in Iraq and accusing the US of responsibility for the uprisings currently engulfing Iraq:THE FIRST cracks in Britain’s coalition with the United States...

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