Helen Williams & Kevin Williams, Youth Aid Iraq

Yet another bomb has exploded in our neighbourhood of Kerrada, Baghdad. This roadside bomb killed 2 Iraqis and Injured 8 - 10. The American soldiers, and Iraqi Police, clearly have orders from on high to make certain that the truth does not get out. The mainstream media are not brave enough or capable of doing their jobs. They should consider their positions. For at the very least they are damaging their professions reputation.

By Milan Rai
Justice Not Vengeance

US Broke Ceasefire Immediately:
‘Truce’ Merely A Stage In The Conflict

Before The Ink Was Dry
The Najaf ceasefire did not resolve the conflict in Najaf. Before the ink was even dry on the agreement signed by militant Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and the supreme Shia religious leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the United States and its client forces were breaking the terms of the truce. In particular, US Marines refused to withdraw from Najaf, as required by the Sistani peace deal. Muqtada al-Sadr may wish to move the conflict over the occupation to the political sphere, but the US and the Allawi do not.

By Milan Rai
Justice Not Vengeance

Terrorism - The Bush Doctrine

President Bush said at the Republican National Convention in New York, ‘We are staying on the offensive - striking terrorists abroad - so we do not have to face them here at home.’ http://tinyurl.com/55ad3

The tragedy in North Ossetia in Russia, where several hundred people have died in a school siege, demonstrates the end result of such an attitude.

The Bloody Week
‘Yesterday’s seizure of a school in the southern town of Beslan, about 30 miles west of Chechnya, caps a bloody week for Mr Putin, whose usual take on the [Chechnya] conflict is that it is “getting better”. Two planes and a metro station have been attacked, and now he must achieve what seems impossible: the safe extraction of up to 400 schoolchildren [actually more than twice that number] from a mined gymnasium.’ (Guardian, 2 Sept., p. 4)