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A Soldier's Story

Combat can change a life in a second. The snap of a sniper's bullet or the blast of a bomb will instantly end it or turn a healthy body into a maimed wreck. But for US marine James Blake Miller what changed his life was the sudden shutter click of a war photographer's camera.

https://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/070206H.shtml

https://news.web-hh.de/index.php?newsfull=1&lid=24136&rubrik=politik



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sarkawi
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Zarqawi

https://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2006/06/how_did_us_assess_iraqi_biowea.html


Informant: Kev Hall

Malcolm Kendall-Smith, the Royal Air Force officer jailed for refusing to go to Iraq recorded a short video message.

https://www.mfaw.org.uk/mkspage.html


From Information Clearing House



https://tinyurl.com/pqdjm
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Watada

Haditha, My Lai and the Media
https://tinyurl.com/efg5n


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Haditha

The killings appeared to have been a "crime of opportunity," the official said. The soldiers had not been attacked by insurgents but had noticed the woman on previous patrols.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13800.htm

Investigators believe a group of U.S. soldiers suspected of raping an Iraqi woman, then killing her and three members of her family plotted the attack for nearly a week, a U.S. military official said Saturday.

https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060701/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_us_investigation


From Information Clearing House

Washington Times

06/30/06

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, speaking unknowingly into an open microphone, chastised her Russian counterpart yesterday for bemoaning the killing of five Russian diplomats in Iraq, saying it was wrong to focus on the deaths of diplomats when so many others are dying there. 'The implication that by somehow declaring that diplomats need to be protected, it will get better, I think is simply not right,' Miss Rice said during a closed luncheon as the foreign ministers from the Group of Eight leading industrialized countries negotiated their meeting's final statement...

https://tinyurl.com/g3frc


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Issam Hamza and his son Ahmed were killed in their Baghdad home by U.S. troops who say the men ignored shouted orders during the arrest of an al Qaeda suspect. Relatives said they were simply panicked by the night-time raid.

https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13797.htm