 Militant Islamic Web sites have posted video that purportedly shows the bodies of two U.S. soldiers kidnapped and killed last month in Yusufiya, Iraq.The video was accompanied by a statement that linked the killings with the alleged rape of a young Iraqi woman in March.CNN cannot independently authenticate the video, which does not show the soldiers being killed. (Watch analysis of video -- 2:59)"This video is issued and presented as a revenge for our sister who was dishonored by one of the soldiers of the same brigade that these two soldiers belonged to," reads the statement posted along with the video....
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 Mindless slaughter a calculated tactic |
IRAQ'S bloodshed is rarely the result of militant groups engaged in mindless sectarian slaughter in the name of religion. Violence such as Sunday's is carefully planned, and calculated to achieve a political objective.If the groups responsible can trigger a continuous cycle of tit-for-tat violence, they hope to create a broader civil war and make Iraq ungovernable. The newly formed, US-backed Government in Baghdad would crumble. The fledgling security forces would fall apart. Western public opinion would exert pressure on American, British and other leaders to bring their forces home. Extremist Sunni and Shia leaders would be free to carve out their own fiefdoms, much as Lebanon's warlords did three decades ago. At one level, the plan is working well. Since February's attack on a Shia shrine in Samarra, sectarian violence has erupted in Baghdad, where hundreds die every week in bombings or the grisly kidnapping, torture and execution favoured by the death squads...
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| Iraq to ask UN to end U.S. immunity after rape case |
Iraq will ask the United Nations to end immunity from local law for U.S. troops, the human rights minister said on Monday, as the military named five soldiers charged in a rape-murder case that has outraged Iraqis.In an interview a week after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki demanded a review of foreign troops' immunity, Wigdan Michael said work on it was now under way and a request could be ready by next month to go to the U.N. Security Council, under whose mandate U.S.-led forces are in control of Iraq. "We're very serious about this," she said, blaming a lack of enforcement of U.S. military law in the past for encouraging soldiers to commit crimes against Iraqi civilians, such as the alleged rape and murder of a teenager and killing of her family. "We formed a committee last week to prepare reports and put it before the cabinet in three weeks. After that, Maliki will present it to the Security Council. We will ask them to lift the immunity," Michael said. ...
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-07-10T162747Z_01_KAR040738_RTRUKOC_0_UK-IRAQ-RAPE.xml
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| Israeli Inquiry Faults Army for Not Preventing Militants From Abducting Soldier |
Despite warnings of a planned attack, Israeli forces reacted slowly to a Palestinian raid that captured an soldier, failing to note he was missing for 90 minutes, the head of an inquiry said Monday. The inquiry sought to determine how seven Palestinians sneaked through a tunnel under the border from the Gaza Strip and attacked an Israeli tank and a nearby lookout tower, seizing the tank crew member. Brig. Gen. Giora Eiland described the June 25 incident "an operational failure" on Israel's part. Eiland said that four of the Palestinians had escaped back into Gaza with Cpl. Gilad Shalit six minutes after the first shots were fired and well before the army grasped the magnitude of the situation. ...
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| White House seeks dismissal of wiretap suit Bush administration says defending NSA program would risk U.S. security. What a bunch of B S |
The Bush administration Monday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the National Security Agency’s domestic eavesdropping program, arguing that defending the four-year-old wiretapping program in open court would risk national security.In arguments before U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor in Detroit, the American Civil Liberties Union Monday renewed its call for a court order that would force the government to suspend its program of intercepting without a court order the international phone calls and e-mails of U.S. citizens.But the U.S. Justice Department has asked federal judges in Detroit and New York to throw out the landmark challenges to the eavesdropping program. Ninety % of the time when National Security is given as an excuse, you can bet it has nothing to do it. Mainly it’s used as a catchall to stop embarrassing info from getting out ...
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Editor - 21:11:00 07-10-06
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| Two dead after blast in Wisconsin resort |
At least one explosion damaged three buildings in this resort community early Monday, killing two people and sending seven others to hospitals, authorities said.The blast struck a grocery store, a cottage and a maintenance building that contained living quarters in Ellison Bay, on the Door County peninsula that juts into Lake Michigan, said Chief Chris Hecht of the Sister Bay/Liberty Grove Fire Department."It was the most unbelievable thing that I have felt in my entire life," said Tamara Little of Milwaukee, who was staying at a nearby resort cabin. "I almost ran into this big shard of glass that was sticking out of the ground."Investigators had not yet pinpointed the cause of the blast but suspected a propane gas leak was involved, said Charles Most, chairman of the Door County Board and the Liberty Grove Town Board....
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