According to Le Monde, the ten French troops killed recently in Afghanistan may not have been killed by insurgents during a recent ambush near Kabul but by NATO air strikes called in to aid them - which reportedly took four hours to arrive. French troops that survived the incident have claimed they were hit by [...]

So the Poles have signed on to the American backed Eastern European BMD initiative. My, what a regional conflict won’t do to bring home the bacon. In exchange for opening the door to the US and allowing 10 interceptor missiles to be based at a facility on the Baltic, the Poles will get US assistance [...]

I have no idea if anyone has been following coverage of the emerging Anthrax scandal, but a piece run in Saturday’s edition of the New York Daily News provides a bit of a shocking primer… “In the immediate aftermath of the 2001 anthrax attacks, White House officials repeatedly pressed FBI Director Robert Mueller to prove it [...]

It’s as if it were simply publication errata, not the admission that innocent people had been killed – never mind the blatant lies involved… “The U.S. military said Sunday that the three people killed last month after U.S. soldiers shot at their car in one of the most secured areas of Iraq were civilians, not criminals [...]

According to the results of an investigation into the deaths of fourty-seven civilians last Sunday in the district of Deh Bala, authorities have confirmed that they were the result of a US air strike. Thirty-nine of the civilians killed were women and children. The remaining eight other victims were males between the ages of fourteen [...]

Despite the fact that it’s absolutely beautiful here in Toronto today, this entry is going to be quite the opposite. First up on the agenda… Afghanistan According to the International Red Cross, some 250 Afghan civilians have been killed or wounded by coalition and insurgent attacks in the last six days alone. Not surprisingly, with regards to [...]

The Los Angeles Times ran an interesting article yesterday entitled The Iraq war movie: Military hopes to shape genre. Here’s a short excerpt… “With military assistance, moviemakers get access to bases, ships, planes, tanks and Humvees. Military leaders also offer script advice. And unless a filmmaker agrees to address any problems, the Pentagon generally opts out. Most movies [...]

‘Collateral damage’ – a term popularized by the US military during the Vietnam War. In short it is the unintentional damage caused during an intentional military operation. Today in Afghanistan ‘collateral damage’ took the lives of 22 civilians, among them women and children. The civilians were complying with evacuation orders given them by US troops [...]

Seymour Hersh’s latest piece for The New Yorker, Preparing The Battlefield: The Bush Administration Steps Up Its Secret Moves Against Iran, is a must read… “Admiral Fallon acknowledged, when I spoke to him in June, that he had heard that there were people in the White House who were upset by his public statements. “Too many [...]

McClatchy’s eight-month investigation into the US detention system post 9/11 and wrongful imprisonments is, in my opinion, a must read. McClatchy describes the journalistic investigation as follows… “An eight-month McClatchy investigation of the detention system created after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has found that the U.S. imprisoned innocent men, subjected them to abuse, stripped them [...]