Hussein accused of genocide (tags)
Saddam Hussein has been charged for the first time with genocide, an Iraqi judge announced today. Hussein will stand trial on charges relating to the Anfal campaign against Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s. The campaign included the gassing of 5,000 civilians in the village of Halabja, but judge Ra'id Juhi said that incident was not included in the charges and would be prosecuted separately.
SAO TOME, Sao Tome and Principe -- Renegade troops said Wednesday they had deposed the government of this oil-rich West African island nation and intended to appoint new leaders to rule during a transition period...more
Iraq: UK suffers 6 KIA, 8 WIA 2 veh 1 helo (tags)
...in one incident, six British personnel have been killed...In a second incident the patrol took one casualty and two vehicles were destroyed. An RAF Chinook helicopter responded and was downed, with seven on board wounded, three seriously...
The gang that couldn’t think straight (tags)
Now some U.S. lawmakers are calling for congressional hearings to find out whether the Bush Administration truly did overhype the threat posed by Iraq. Republican Sen. John Warner, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and a former secretary of the Navy (as well as one of Liz Taylor’s ex-husbands), has said his panel will take part in such a probe. But somehow House Majority Leader Tom DeLay thinks this is all unfair.
The truth is blowing on the winds of change, and the dust of another adminastration will be rubbed from between the toes of the children...
These are the children Bush has killd (tags)
"I consider what was done to be a crime of war," Mr. Hamoodi said. "How would President Bush feel if he had to dig his daughters from out of the rubble?"
The Orwellian aspect, of course, was an American press that can no longer lay even the scarcest claim to being journalists, and its complete merger with the Department of Defense, specifically Central Command (CENTCOM).