By Jimmy Breslin
Newsday August 11, 2006 By the way, there are many American soldiers fighting in the Middle East.
In case you haven't noticed, they get killed. A lot of them get killed. I was watching the endless television coverage of Israel and Hezbollah/Lebanon killing women and children, and then picking up the papers to read almost exclusively of the same thing. I found no picture on television and almost no mention in newspapers of Americans dying. The dead babies of Lebanon and those dismembered by rockets in Israel are considered to be glorious distractions that allow our government to stroll the hallways that appear to have no blood on the floors. I made a call to the Defense Department: "How are our soldiers doing lately?" "We've had a bad month," the man responded. "How bad?" "Stay there and you'll see." There now came faxes detailing American soldiers who died in Iraq since July 1. There have been 50 who died from then to August 6. |
Reuters
Fri Aug 11, 2006 BAGHDAD - The bodies of two missing U.S. servicemen have been discovered among the wreckage of their helicopter which crashed in Iraq's Anbar province, the U.S. military said on Friday.
"We have recovered the bodies of the two missing soldiers from the wreckage of the aircraft," the military said in a statement concerning Tuesday's crash. The U.S. Army Blackhawk helicopter from the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing crashed into water and divers were needed to find and recover the men's bodies, the military said. The cause of the crash was a malfunction, not enemy action, and was being investigated, the statement added. |
AFP
Friday August 11, 2006 British soldiers in Afghanistan are involved in some of the worst and most prolonged fighting since World War II, the British commander of NATO forces in the country said.
"This sort of thing hasn't really happened so consistently, I don't think, since the Korean War (in 1952) or the Second World War (in 1939)," Lieutenant General David Richards told the BBC World Service. "It happened for periods in the Falklands (in 1982), obviously, and it happened for short periods in the Gulf on both occasions (1991 and 2003). But this is persistent, low-level, dirty fighting." |
Associated Press
08/10/06 A suicide bomber detonated a belt of explosives Thursday near a highly revered Shiite shrine in southern Iraq, killing at least 35 people and injuring 122, an official said.
The bomber blew himself up while being patted down by police near the Imam Ali mosque in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, said Dr. Munthir al-Ithari, the head of the city's health directorate. Shiite religious leaders in Najaf accused Sunni loyalists of former dictator Saddam Hussein of carrying out the attack. Comment: Another fake "suicide bombing" carried out by agents of the US government. What most people fail to realise is that the number of people in any given society who would be willing to carry out a suicide bombing is infinitesimally small. Why would any militant kill themselves in an attack on the enemy instead of simply mounting a standard attack with guns and thereby have a chance of surviving to fight another day??
The real perpetrators of these fake sucicide attacks do not want to reveal their identity, so they cannot risk a standard attack and possible capture and exposure, for this reason they have created the myth of the "suicide bombers" and have convinced the world, by the propogation of the myth of "Islamic fundamentalism", that every Muslim is willing to sacrifice him or herself at a moment's notice. |
By Paul J. Gough
Hollywood Reporter Aug. 10, 2006 NEW YORK -- "60 Minutes" veteran correspondent Mike Wallace may have retired last March but that didn't stop him from scoring an exclusive interview Tuesday with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
And that fact wasn't lost on the controversial Iranian president, who halfway through the interview asked Wallace: "I thought you had retired." |
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