Civilians

How stupid does CNN think we are?There are always lies and propaganda on the news, but this takes it to an extreme.CNN has been caught using footage of Georgian forces slaughtering citizens in the South Ossetian city of Tskhinvali and actually saying on air that the footage is of Russians killing civilians in the Georgian town of Gori.Fortunately the Russian camerman who took the footage has come

Russia expanded its bombing blitz Sunday against neighboring U.S.-allied Georgia, targeting the country’s capital for the first time while Georgian troops pulled out of the breakaway province of South Ossetia, as Russia has demanded. Georgia’s Security Council chief Alexander Lomaia says that Georgian troops have relocated to new positions outside South Ossetia. “They are outside

The “Tell-Your-Own-Story” military spouse contest sponsored by www.YourMilitary.com in connection with Lifetime TV’s Season 2 of ARMY WIVES has announced the contest winners. Their names and the winning essays can be read at www.YourMilitaryBlog.com. Here are winning essays by two of the five grand prize winners; reprinted with permission from YourMilitary.com. Jennifer B. – Civi

Several days ago this blog reported about an American air strike in Afghanistan that allegedly resulted in the death of civilians at a wedding party. US air force public relations denied the incident had ever happened. Today, a report was published by a special nine member panel of Afghan legislators to examine the incident. They [...]

GAZA - PalestineNews : Three Qassam fighters were killed, Tuesday afternoon, in the Shejaeyyah suburb in east Gaza city, while five civilians were wounded when an IOF tank fired artillery shells at a group of Qassam fighters. Palestinian medical sources confirmed the death of the three fighters and said there were children amongst the wounded, adding that emergency services hurried to the scene an

~Snooper~We have all heard how Nancy Pelosi has stated that the Troop Surge failed and that any success is due to the benevolence of Iran. The audio of the interview is here but A Newt One has the verbiage in question for our readers. The segment is about two minutes long and the entire interview is about an hour and twenty minutes or so which I also have downloaded and will be picking apart for

Numbers of civilians killed by Taliban increasing: NATO Here is further proof of terrorists intentionally TARGETING CIVILIANS. Something terrorists do because they know they cannot win a fight against an actual military. So being the cowards they are, they target the unarmed. There is a special place in Hell reserved for these pieces of excrement. NATO-led [...]

At the end of 2006, President Bush encouraged Ethiopian forces to invade the Islamic nation of Somalia and throw out its Islamic leaders. The conflict has dragged on for over a year with increasing violonce and displacement of thousands of innocent civilians. In the latest manifestation of ignoring human rights, Amnesty International has accused the [...]

Press Release (25 April 2008) Amnesty International refutes statements made by the Ethiopian government on its report about a raid on the Al Hidya Mosque in Mogadishu on 19 April 2008. In the attack, Ethiopian forces killed at least 21 people, including 11 unarmed civilians inside the mosque, and detained at least 40 children and youths, aged 9 to 18. At least 10 others were killed by Ethiopian forces in the vicinity of the mosque.Reports released by the organization are based on several cross-checked, independent sources such as family members of victims, testimonies gathered at the location, including individuals present in the mosque while the killings took place, and local Amnesty International contacts.“Deliberately killing civilians is a war crime,” said Amnesty International.

An organization known as Breaking the Silence will publish tomorrow testimonies from 39 people who served in the Israeli army which paint a picture of a “reign of terror” brought upon the Palestinian civilians living in Hebron and other areas .The testimonials describe random beatings by Israeli soldiers as well as theft, murder and intimidation of the civilian population in an effort by the NGO "to force Israeli society to address the reality which it created".Among the disturbing testimony to be published are accounts of torturing children and their parents by placing loaded pistols in the mouths of children and threatening to kill them as their parents watch in horror. Source: www.independent.co.uk

An American plane destroyed a house in the southern cty of Basra which resulted, according to the United States, in the death of a militant. However, Iraqi witnesses and hospital officials claim that innocent civilians were killed in the air attack. Iraqi sources insist that three civilians were killed and others are still in the [...]

The Swedish military has accused French soldiers of torturing civilians during the EU-led Operation Artemis in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2003, one of the bloc’s first joint missions. Five years ago, the European Union sent some 1,500 soldiers to DR Congo as part of a UN mission to take action against the bandits [...]

Hamas leader Mashaal offered to have his organization cease any further attacks on Israel civilians if Israel would end attacks on Palestinian civilians. “We renew our offer to Israel to let the civilians on both parts not be part of the conflict. We renew this offer today.” He also confirmed that captured IDF soldier Gilad [...]

Lebanese children injured in Israeli missile attacks.Jennifer Daskal and Leslie Lefkow, both with Human Rights Watch, state the obvious that by killing innocent civilians with errant missile attacks targeting terrorists, the US government only furthers anti-American sentiment worldwide. In African countries, where civilians looked favorably on the US, the tide is turning as US attacks on militant strongholds continue to inflict significant casualties on innocent people. The US has taken upon itself to make these attacks in countries with weak governments that can't or won't make efforts to apprehend terrorists on their own. That's why there are no such attacks in the United Kingdom or any other Western country, although it doesn't explain why there are no missile attacks in Pakistan, where

The protest group Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW), made up of US veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, organized in Washington, D.C. this week to reveal what is really going on in Iraq: "The veterans are not against the military and seek not to indict it – instead they seek to shine a light on the bigger picture: that the Abu Ghraib prison regime and the Haditha massacre of innocent Iraqis are not isolated incidents perpetrated by “bad seeds” as the military suggests, but evidence of an endemic problem. They will say they were tasked to do terrible things and point the finger up the chain of command, which ignores, diminishes or covers up routine abuse and atrocities."read more | digg story

The main point: Hillary Clinton voted to let our military continue to use cluster bombs in areas with concentrated civilian populations, despite the thousands of innocent children who have died or been handicapped due to picking up unexploded cluster bomb fragments.read more | digg story

America’s efforts in Afghanistan have been undermined from the beginning by persistently high levels of civilian deaths. In May and June, a number of articles cited America’s failure to win hearts and minds. Journalists suggested that the multitude of recent incidents of unwarranted civilian killings would, if not stopped, lose the war for NATO. In early August, a British commander asked US forces to leave a “hotspot” of fighting against the Taliban because they were killing too many civilians: Tension between British and American commanders in southern Afghanistan erupted into the open yesterday as a senior UK military officer said he had asked the US to withdraw its special forces from a volatile area that was crucial in the battle against the Taliban. British and Nato defence officials have consistently expressed concern about US tactics, notably air strikes, which kill civilians, sabotaging the battle for “hearts and minds” and infuriating Hamid

Blackwater USA guards shot at Iraqi civilians as they tried to drive away from a Baghdad square on Sept. 16, according to a report compiled by the first U.S. soldiers to arrive at the scene, where they found no evidence that Iraqis had fired weapons."It appeared to me they were fleeing the scene when they were engaged. read more | digg story

A tribal leader today accused Pakistani forces of killing more than 50 civilians in the worst clashes near the Afghan border for years.Maulana Nek Zaman, a local MP for Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, a hard-line religious party, said innocent people were killed in air strikes."We know that the army killed 55 innocent people, and they included women and children," Mr Zaman told the Associated Press."We know it because we buried them."At least 50 people were killed on Tuesday when Pakistani F-16 jets and helicopter gunships attacked suspected militant positions in Epi village in North Waziristan. Article continues <a href="http://ads.guardian.co.uk/click.ng/Params.richmedia=yes&spacedesc=mpu&site=Guardian&navsection=1699&section=10

A Marine testifying under immunity Friday said he saw Staff Sgt. Frank D. Wuterich shoot five unarmed Iraqi men moments after a roadside bomb exploded in Haditha in November 2005, a week after Wuterich said that if such an attack occurred, "we should kill everybody in that vicinity."read more | digg story

While the media is reporting more than 3,000 GI’s killed in Iraq and many civilian victims of inter-confessional violences, it looks away from the daily slaughter of civilians by U.S. patrols conducting their search operations for suspects. Professor Michael Schwartz estimates that their number reached 10,000 a month in the first 3 years of occupation. And much more since Bush ordered his surge of operations. Global Research August 13, 2007

To all the idiots who still claim that the Palestinians are peaceful people, I got something to tell you. When I was younger, I was watching an American news show when they suddenly showed a Palestinian civilian mob murder two Israeli soldiers who took a wrong turn and ended up in Ramallah. That... [ visit A Jewish Blog to continue reading ]

internet advertisingThis must be the biggest lie in the world. In this video clip called "flanndawg" US Marines arbitrarily fire at civilians driving along the freeway.In the clip you can hear the professional marines brag about shooting unarmed and innocent civilians in the head.So what happens now?LiveLeak calls one of the marines who tries to convince us that there where snipers and suspicious activities around the area. Huh! Yeah right!You can really se the snipers in the cars driving by.Liers! Murderers! Bastards!But it's not over yet! The murderers in the US Marines have more video clips and they promise to upload more pics when they kill civilians.Technorati tags: Iraq Ramadi MarinesGoogle tags: Iraq Ramadi Marines IceRocket tags: Iraq Ramadi Marines

Coalition forces killed and captured several extremists in Afghanistan over the past few days, U.S. military officials reported. Coalition forces detained an extremist and discovered makeshift bomb-making material in a compound in Afghanistan's Paktika province today. The compound consisted of multiple safe houses that use natural terrain to facilitate the movement of fighters from Pakistan. The bomb-making materials were destroyed in place. No shots were fired and no one was injured during the operation, officials said. Meanwhile, Afghan National Army and coalition troops operating in Afghanistan's Helmand province received rocket-propelled grenade and small-arms fire from an unknown number of Taliban fighters yesterday. Afghan and coalition troops returned fire and maneuvered to the enemy observation site. After pinning down the Taliban fighters, coalition close-air support was requested and destroyed the enemy observation site. Six Taliban fighters were killed, and there were no A

I’m sure there are plenty of good men and women fighting in Iraq, but watch this video and ask yourself why it seems so strange for people in the Middle East to hate the U.S. One of the soldiers calls the men ‘looters’. I wonder what wood goes for on the black market over there. Or do you think that just like the ‘looters’ who were ’stealing’ food in New Orleans after Katrina, that these men were just trying to get wood for a stove to feed their families or build a shelter? “That’s what you get when you loot.” What the fuck? Is destroying someone’s property the penalty for looting in the U.S.? It’s easy to feel like a big man when you’re carrying a rifle or driving a tank. I bet that taxi driver would love the chance to have a little chat with one of these tough guys sometime when they aren’t packing heat. When U.S. soldiers destroy a car, we call it justice, but when Iraquis retaliate against assholes

I’m sure there are plenty of good men and women fighting in Iraq, but watch this video and ask yourself why it seems so strange for people in the Middle East to hate the U.S. One of the soldiers calls the men ‘looters’. I wonder what wood goes for on the black market over there. Or do you think that just like the ‘looters’ who were ’stealing’ food in New Orleans after Katrina, that these men were just trying to get wood for a stove to feed their families or to build a shelter? “That’s what you get when you loot.” What the fuck? Is destroying someone’s property the penalty for looting in the U.S.? It’s easy to feel like a big man when you’re carrying a rifle or driving a tank. I bet that taxi driver would love the chance to have a little chat with one of these tough guys sometime when they aren’t packing heat. When U.S. soldiers destroy a car, they call it justice, but if Iraqis retaliate against asshol

Warning Graphic Violence ...*Israeli Bombs Target Civilians(scroll down the page)The Forgotten Facts ...*Israel’s Palestinian Prisoners"Every time we do something, you tell me Americans will do this and will do that. I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel; we, the Jewish people, control America. And the Americans know it."--Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, 3 October 2001 Read more ...*Bush Puppet

Innocent civilians are being collectively punished in Lebanon by the state of Israel in deliberate acts of terrorism asLebanese civilians have been under the constant attack of the state of Israel for several days. The State of Israel, in disregard to international law and the Geneva Convention, is launching a maritime and air siege targeting the entire population of the country. described in Article 33 of the Geneva Convention.Please go to Julywar and sign the Save the Lebanese Civilians Petition and forward this invitation to your friends.Alternative Buzz