World-News

The US military launched an inquiry after a video showing an Aegis Defence Services contractor firing at civilian cars in Iraq was shown on the internet.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5080970.stm



Under the Aegis

Channel 4 Video Report: "We don't know whether it was an innocent civilian or whether that was an insurgent - we don't know, because we never stop".

http://www.channel4.com/player/playerwindow.html?id=4089&vert=news


From Information Clearing House

Local residents accused the Americans of targeting civilians and a man wearing a white dishdasha held up the charred body of a toddler whose head had been blown in half.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13595.htm



US test fire kills three Iraqis

The US military has admitted that three Iraqi civilians killed in an explosion on Friday died because of an artillery training exercise that went wrong.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5047098.stm


From Information Clearing House

CounterPunch
by Robert Fisk

06/11/06

So, it's another 'mission accomplished.' The man immortalized by the Americans as the most dangerous terrorist since the last most dangerous terrorist, is killed -- by the Americans. A Jordanian corner-boy who could not even lock and load a machine gun is blown up by the US Air Force -- and Messrs Bush and Blair see fit to boast of his demise. To this have our leaders descended. And how short are our memories...

http://www.counterpunch.org/fisk06102006.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The Case of the Missing $21 Billion
http://counterpunch.org/lindorff06072006.html



Army has to turn over Halliburton docs

A U.S. district court judge has ordered the Army to release 14 documents, including six emails, dealing with the Halliburton oil contract in Iraq.

http://tinyurl.com/m3b2o


From Information Clearing House

The poll, found that 59 percent of adults say the United States made a mistake in going to war in Iraq - the highest level yet in AP-Ipsos polling.

http://tinyurl.com/hy39x


From Information Clearing House

Video

Historical account of the relationship between America and Saddam Hussein. Reveals the complicity of America in Saddam's atrocities. Forty years of secrets, incomprehension and incompetence led to the occupation of Iraq.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13512.htm

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13510.htm



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

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060506J.shtml



Supporting Our Troops Over a Cliff

"We can't pretend we don't know this is happening. It's happening in broad daylight. We know that 'as the Iraqis stand up, we'll stand down' is fiction, not reality." Frank Rich writes, "We know from the Pentagon's own report to Congress last week that attacks on Americans and Iraqis alike are at their highest since American commanders started keeping count in 2004. We know that even as coalition partners like Italy and South Korea bail out, we are planning an indefinite stay of undefined parameters: the 104-acre embassy complex rising in the Green Zone is the largest in the world, and the Decider himself has said that it's up to "future presidents and future governments of Iraq" to decide our exit strategy.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/060506L.shtml