“The only thing these sand niggers understand is force and I’m about to introduce them to it.”
Deadly harvest: The Lebanese fields sown with cluster bombs
Lebanese villagers must risk death in fields ‘flooded’ with more than a million Israeli cluster bombs - or leave crops to rot
By Patrick Cockburn in Nabatiyeh
Published: 18 September 2006
The war in Lebanon has not ended. Every day, some of the million bomblets which were fired by Israeli […]
Thomas Nash: It’s time to outlaw these ruthless killers
Published: 18 September 2006
I was in Lebanon in July 2005 on a trip to document the residual problem from cluster bombs used in 1978 and 1982. Unexploded cluster munitions were still claiming lives more than two decades after that conflict. I recently returned from another trip […]
The captions supplied with these two photographs are very revealing:
An Iraqi boy reacts in front of a burning vehicle, in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday Sept. 18, 2006. A roadside bomb targeting a convoy of foreign private security guards, exploded late Sunday, damaging one of their vehicles and injuring two occupants, police said. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
Iraqis dance […]
Via a comment of his on Juan Cole’s place I’ve just discovered Badger’s new blog “Missing Links” which Badger describes as; “News items from the Arabic-language press to help fill in the gaps.”
I’m impressed. The articles he’s selected are well worth reading both in their own right and as indicators of what’s drawing attention in […]
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