A former CNN Iraq correspondent suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder says his employers wouldn’t run footage he filmed of what he describes as a war crime by US troops, an Australian news source reports. Michael Ware, who covered Iraq for…
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Not guilty. The Israeli captain who emptied his rifle into a Palestinain schoolgirl
· Officer ignored warnings that teenager was terrified · Defence says ‘confirming the kill’ standard practice An Israeli army officer who fired the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl and then said he would have…
Tagged with: Israel Defense Forces
Posted in Attacks on Civilians, Israel, Military, US Foreign Policy, War Crimes
Posted in Attacks on Civilians, Israel, Military, US Foreign Policy, War Crimes
Wikileaks: Hundreds Of Afghanistan Civilians Killed By Coalition Forces
So this is what had the Wikileaks founder so jumpy. No wonder the government wanted to keep this under wraps: A huge cache of secret US military files today provides a devastating portrait of the failing war in Afghanistan, revealing how coalition forces…
Tagged with: Der Spiegel, insurgency, new york times, The Guardian, whistleblower, Wikileaks
Posted in Afghanistan, Attacks on Civilians, Journalism, Military, Reports/Studies/Books, Top Secret, War Crimes
Posted in Afghanistan, Attacks on Civilians, Journalism, Military, Reports/Studies/Books, Top Secret, War Crimes
Israel Lobby Gets Congress to Stick It to Turkey
Yesterday the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed the Armenian genocide resolution. That is the bill, kicking around for years, that recognizes the Armenian genocide as precisely that – genocide. The Turkish government has always strongly opposed the resolution, arguing –…
Tagged with: Armenia, Israel lobby
Posted in Attacks on Civilians, Reports/Studies/Books, Suspect Legislation, Turkey, US - Israel relations, War Crimes
Posted in Attacks on Civilians, Reports/Studies/Books, Suspect Legislation, Turkey, US - Israel relations, War Crimes
Iraq War Vet: “We Were Told to Just Shoot People, and the Officers Would Take Care of Us”
On Monday, April 5, Wikileaks.org posted video footage from Iraq, taken from a US military Apache helicopter in July 2007 as soldiers aboard it killed 12 people and wounded two children. The dead included two employees of the Reuters news…
Tagged with: Wikileaks
Posted in Attacks on Civilians, Bush Adminisration, Iraq War, Journalism, Military, US Foreign Policy, War Crimes, War on Terror
Posted in Attacks on Civilians, Bush Adminisration, Iraq War, Journalism, Military, US Foreign Policy, War Crimes, War on Terror
Families of Iraq war dead voice anger at ‘smirking’ Blair
Former prime minister accused of ‘not facing up to facts’ as he gives evidence to Chilcot inquiry The families of British military personnel killed in Iraq condemned Tony Blair’s performance before the Chilcot inquiry today, accusing him of being disrespectful.…
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