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Baratha Mosque Bombing

I've often been inside this mosque which was attacked by another suicide bomber today. It's very beautiful - and very tranquil. I first went there as a child. What was a Christian kid doing there? I was brought there on a pilgrimage when we were posted to Lebanon. Our ...

Fadlullah On The role of the UNIFIL

Full text of release:The Weakness of the European Union Encourages the American Administration to Persist in Its Aggressive Foreign PolicyFadlullah: The role of the UNIFIL is to protect Israel; and it is the Lebanese people’s right to be cautious towards itThe Religious Authority, Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadlullah, issued a statement ...

Tayib - A History Lesson For Badger

In his posting Tale of two so-called "nations" "Badger" says:"The writer explains that in pre-Islamic times, there was a ceremony of washing the hands in perfume (Tayib) before making important alliances, and there are aspects of the old stories that apply here, supposedly giving the name resonance and importance. (If ...

Hospitals Now A Battleground In The Bloody Civil War

Patrick Cockburn: Hospitals now a battleground in the bloody civil warPublished: 20 October 2006Iraqi hospitals are dangerous places. Policemen and soldiers carry their wounded comrades into operating theatres and demand immediate treatment, forcing doctors at gunpoint to abandon operations on civilians before they are completed. The hospital system is not ...

Medics Beg For Help As Iraqis Die Needlessly

Medics beg for help as Iraqis die needlesslyHalf of all deaths preventable, say country's medics Reconstruction seen as disaster More than 2,000 doctors and nurses are killed 18,000 more leave the nation Even the most basic treatments are lacking By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor Published: 20 October 2006The disintegration of Iraq's health service is leaving its ...

Aaaarrrrggghhh!!!!

I'm starting to see this a lot: 600,000 as the figure for the "Lancet Study"Wrong wrong wrong. The figurre is 654,965 not 600,000.The statistically most likely figure is 654,965.The lower boundary in the range is 392,979.The upper boundary in the range is 942,636.The upper and lower boundaries have the same ...

Congratulations Bush et al

"We literally do not know a single Iraqi family that has not seen the violent death of a first or second-degree relative these last three years. Abductions, militias, sectarian violence, revenge killings, assassinations, car-bombs, suicide bombers, American military strikes, Iraqi military raids, death squads, extremists, armed robberies, executions, detentions, secret ...

What happened in “Pacified” Dora Today?

This happened. The child seen here being treated for shrapnel wounds in Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital was of the thirteen people wounded in the roadside bombings this morning in Dora. Dora (al-Doura) has been repeatedly "pacified." Apparently the occupiers find this sort of thing "disheartening.""BAGHDAD, Iraq - The two-month-old U.S.-Iraqi bid to ...

If this onslaught was about Jews, I would be looking for my passport

If this onslaught was about Jews, I would be looking for my passportPoliticians and media have turned a debate about integration into an ugly drumbeat of hysteria against British MuslimsJonathan Freedland Wednesday October 18, 2006 The GuardianI've been trying to imagine what it must be like to be a Muslim in Britain. ...

Boy Holding The Feet Of His Father Baquba Hospital Morgue October 18 2006

Sometimes there's just nothing you can say.   markfromireland