Giving Headline Billing To Military Spin
Last week, yet more innocent civilian lives were claimed by a US air attack in Iraq. How many times this tragedy has been repeated across that country is completely hidden from public view - a second, deeper tragedy.
According to Iraqi police major Khedr Hussein, 32 people were killed in the attack at Ishaqi, 90 km north of Baghdad. The local mayor, Amer Alwan, said that US aircraft bombed two homes around 1 a.m last Friday morning. Of 25 bodies pulled from the rubble so far, eight were women and six were children. (Reuters Foundation, December 8, 'Iraqis say US raid killed 32, including 6 children', (MORE)
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Last week, yet more innocent civilian lives were claimed by a US air attack in Iraq. How many times this tragedy has been repeated across that country is completely hidden from public view - a second, deeper tragedy.
According to Iraqi police major Khedr Hussein, 32 people were killed in the attack at Ishaqi, 90 km north of Baghdad. The local mayor, Amer Alwan, said that US aircraft bombed two homes around 1 a.m last Friday morning. Of 25 bodies pulled from the rubble so far, eight were women and six were children. (Reuters Foundation, December 8, 'Iraqis say US raid killed 32, including 6 children', (MORE)
http://www.medialens.org/alerts/index.php
This media alert will shortly be archived here:
http://www.medialens.org/alerts/06/061211_BBC_buries_the.php
Visit the Media Lens website: http://www.medialens.org
Please also see:
The Corporate Occupation Of Iraq
by Antonia Juhasz, TomPaine.com
The Iraq Study Group Report is right to flag Iraq's flawed reconstruction—but wrong in identifying the cause. (MORE)
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/12/11/the_corporate_occupation_of_iraq.php
As ‘major catastrophe’ looms over Iraq, UN envoy urges regional approach to peace (MORE)
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20938&Cr=iraq&Cr1=
IRAQ STANDS ON BRINK OF CIVIL WAR, ‘VIOLENCE SEEMS OUT OF CONTROL’,
SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE TELLS SECURITY COUNCIL (MORE)
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2006/sc8895.doc.htm
Final Statement of the International Conference in Support of Resistance
Beirut 19/11/2006 The People’s Right to Resistance (MORE)
http://www.brusselstribunal.org/BeirutResistance.htm