US helicopters kill eight including two children near Baghdad
22/5/08
Eight civilians, including two children, were killed when US helicopters attacked two cars near a town northwest of Baghdad, local police said on Thursday. The strike occurred near Baiji on Wednesday evening, a police official said. The bodies were disfigured beyond recognition, he added. Two boys, aged 8 and 11, were among the victims, police said. A US military statement confirmed the attack, saying: “This was an incident last night involving coalition forces that resulted in civilian casualties.”
See: http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Iraq/10215185.html
Bush’s last months in office
Patrick Seale; 22/5/08
In the troubled, conflict-ridden Middle East, President George W. Bush has done everything wrong. But his mandate still has half a year to run and, unless restrained, he can do a lot more damage -to the region and to America - before he retires to his ranch at Crawford, Texas, and to the obscurity he amply deserves.At the heart of the disaster of his presidency was his failure to grasp why the United States was attacked by Al Qaida on September 11, 2001. He appears never to have asked himself why 19 young Muslims - 15 of whom were Saudis, and several of them highly-educated - were prepared to throw away their lives in order to punish America.
See: http://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/columns/region/10215376.html
Tags: Human Rights, Terrorism, USA