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From here - Hat tip reader Pete Tx.
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Evening Roundup: Israeli Carnage Triggers Global Outrage as Ceasefire Appears Farfetched
More than 60 people were killed, many of them sleeping children, when Israeli warplanes bombed the village of Qana on Sunday, triggering global outrage and warnings of retribution for a ‘war crime’ as a ceasefire appeared more remote than ever….
Lebanon

Saniora Accuses Israel of ‘State-Sponsored Terrorism’
Ceasefire […]

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IRAQ: Child prisoners left without support
BAGHDAD, 30 Jul 2006 (IRIN) - He isn’t a criminal, but just the sight of a police officer terrifies 14-year-old Omar.
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“51. Another area where support to the Iraqi government is urgently required is that of juvenile justice. [snip]. Juveniles are however often subjugated to the same lack of proper […]

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Washington Post
“I came over here because I wanted to kill people.”
By Andrew Tilghman
Sunday, July 30, 2006; B01
” I came over here because I wanted to kill people.”
Over a mess-tent dinner of turkey cutlets, the bony-faced 21-year-old private from West Texas looked right at me as he talked about killing Iraqis with casual indifference. It was […]

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Several things need to be borne in mind about Qana.

It’s not the first time. This is the second massacre at Qana the first was a deliberate shelling of the UN refugee compound there back in 1996.
Now, exactly as they did in 1996 the Israeli government is trying to say that this is all very unfortunate […]

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The ancient Greeks used to call the Arabs “Sarakenoi” - “the people who live in tents,” it’s where our word “Saracen” comes from. In Iraq the violence being caused by the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has brought those days back for many. The UN estimates that in past four months alone […]

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“Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business.” - Michael Ledeen.
Good riddance to the myth of IDF military invincibility which first died in 2000. Somehow resurrected itself and has just been killed […]

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This photograph was taken in Beirut July 29th 2006. What was that we were saying? :-)
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PS: Obviously I optimise images to conserve bandwidth. If you want the original image I uploaded it to thumbsnap for you. The filesize is 73.67kb. mfi
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