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[Gorilla's Guides] Gorilla's Guides » Blog Archive » Indiscriminate attacks take ...: The ICRC helps the detainees and their families to keep in touch by exchanging Red Cross messages, which are collected and distributed in cooperation with the Iraqi Red Crescent Society, and by providing financial support enabling families to travel to Basra, in the southern part of the country, to visit relatives detained in Camp Bucca. In August, more than 300 detainees were visited by their relatives and almost 4,750 Red Cross messages were exchanged within Iraq and with other countries.

[The Washington Note] Realists Warn on Iraq Afghanistan War - The Washington Note: "One of America’s foremost experts on international affairs says that President Obama’s new policy of “opening to the world has been an enormous success.” General Brent Scowcroft, a widely-respected former national security advisor who served under US Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush, tells VOA’s Carol Castiel and senior news analyst Gary Thomas, that Obama has so far “done a terrific job of changing the mood inside the United States and towards the United States.”

[Soccer Dad] Soccer Dad: All that glitters isn't goldstone: During the years when Hamas sent thousands of rockets at Israeli civilians, the United Nations human rights bodies did not put together an investigation or issue a condemnation, Professors Steinberg and Ezrahi, and other experts, said, doing so only after Israel retaliated. In addition, officials here said, Israel's attack on Gaza was part of its need to deter Iran and its proxies and could not be looked at in isolation.

[Socialist Party Australia] Socialist Party Australia » Eight years since 9/11 and the ...: Rather than bring peace, stability and an end to terrorism, as promised, eight years on, the US, Britain, Australia and other Nato and imperialist powers are bogged down in an unwinnable and increasingly unpopular war in Afghanistan, while still overseeing the bloody wreckage of Iraq. Lives of many Afghan and Iraqi civilians are lost daily, as well as those of Western troops.

[Liveshots] Gaza War Crimes? « Liveshots: He went on to say that his mission “concluded that actions amounting to war crimes, and possibly in some respects crimes against humanity, were committed by the Israeli Defense Force.” His report also concludes that there is  “evidence that Palestinian armed groups committed war crimes, as well as possibly crimes against humanity” because “the rocket and mortar attacks have caused terror in the affected communities of southern Israel, causing loss of life and physical and mental injury to civilians”¦”

[Politics for Change] Civilian Casualties -- Desperation in Afghanistan: There is no doubt that giving up on fighting for a democratic government in Afghanistan would be fraught with terrible consequences for friendly Afghan parties, as well as do irreparable damage to U.S. credibility in international affairs, but half-hearted and ineffective campaigns that put off inevitable reckoning with reality are no better. President Obama did not design the war in Afghanistan, but as Commander-In-Chief he is undeniably now responsible for it. 

[Raw Story] Raw Story » Report: Iraq air raids kill disproportionate amount of ...: “Using the extensive and detailed database of Iraq Body Count (IBC), the researchers analyzed 14,196 events in which 60,481 civilians were violently killed during the first five years of the conflict in Iraq, thereby gaining an extraordinary overview of the harm that different weapons ”” from low to high tech ”” have brought to Iraq’s civilian population,” the press release continues.

[At War] John Burns on the NATO Strike - At War Blog - NYTimes.com: The masskilling of civilians by airbombardment is an old art with the US Airforce witness not least the indiscriminate bombing and machingunning in Germany the last two years of the Second World War which in the end eventually prevented the German Authority to dispatch food to variouse prison camps with resulting death in malnutrition. This was taken as an excuse for the US and British armed forces to exterminate the German guard personel when these camps were turned over to the Allies in accordance with agreements.

[Populist Party Blog] An Apology to Iran ”” Populist Party Blog: These loyal units, backed by helicopter gunships, began indiscriminately slaughtering insurgents and civilians in contested areas. An estimated 100,000 Shias and Kurds were killed, while the United States, with an army of a half million men on the Kuwaiti border, did nothing.

[At War] Ask John Burns: Wobbly American Allies? - At War Blog - NYTimes.com: The New York Times’s award-winning team of correspondents, photographers, videographers and local interpreters provide insight ”” and try to answer your questions ”” about the combatants shaping events along political, military and religious faultlines, and the civilians caught in the middle.

[John Mortell's blog] John Mortell's blog :: The media - moral power without responsibility?: Because the media confuse victimization with moral right, American troops in Iraq have had occasionally to contend with unsympathetic news coverage, which in an age of mass media has concrete tactical and strategic consequences. No matter how cleanly the Marines fought, it was not clean enough for the global media, famously including Al-Jazeera, which portrayed as indiscriminate killing what in previous eras of war would have constituted a low civilian casualty rate.

[Baghdad Bureau] More Answers From Dexter Filkins - At War Blog - NYTimes.com: The New York Times’s award-winning team of correspondents, photographers, videographers and local interpreters provide insight ”” and try to answer your questions ”” about the combatants shaping events along political, military and religious faultlines, and the civilians caught in the middle.

[SWJ Blog] 9 September SWJ Roundup (SWJ Blog): Metz concludes that the United States has a long-standing, continuing problem “developing sound assumptions when the opponent operates within a different psychological and cultural framework.” He sees a pattern of misjudgments about Saddam and Iraq based on Western cultural and historical bias and a pervasive faith in the superiority of America’s worldview and institutions. This myopia contributed to America being caught off guard by Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait in 1990, then underestimating his longevity, and finally miscalculating the likelihood of a stable and democratic Iraq after he was toppled.

[Baghdad Bureau] Definitely Not a J.V. Bombing - At War Blog - NYTimes.com: The New York Times’s award-winning team of correspondents, photographers, videographers and local interpreters provide insight ”” and try to answer your questions ”” about the combatants shaping events along political, military and religious faultlines, and the civilians caught in the middle.

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