this diary is dedicated to all who suffer because of war and other disasters
cross-posted at DailyKos, Booman Tribune, European Tribune, and My Left Wing.
image and poem below the fold
Relatives of those killed by a car bomb in the market at Nahrawan, about 20
miles (32 kilometers) east of Baghdad, Saturday, wait next to vehicles carrying
coffins on top after arriving to collect their bodies at the al-Kindi hospital
in Baghdad Sunday Sept. 18 2005. Four days after al-Qaida in Iraq declared
all-out war on the Shiite majority, more than 250 people have been killed, 30 of
them by a car bomb Saturday outside a produce market in a poor Shiite suburb
east of Baghdad. The blast underlined one of the bloodiest weeks since the
U.S.-led invasion.
(AP Photo/Karim Kadim)
Rattler Bites Nightingale Sings
by Carol Frost
When time is divided into venom and blood,
the watchers of the snake know the harm done, the bitten
one feels cell by cell by cell rubber, mint, metal; agonized
in the heart; then numb. Homer tells and the old paintings show:
each new death and new grief aren’t new. But for you,
rebuking yourself, heart growling, as you try to sleep:
the copse again that must be walked through; cryptic
crawl like over an open fire the twisting of an intestine
filled with fat and blood; fear dividing from hidden joy
it wasn’t you: -once more there is only one death.
Blind, how the nightingale, snake’s cousin,
sings in green darkness and seems to touch upon
fresh pain and fault elemental.
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~ Cross-posted from Another Billion Missing in Iraq ◊ by NorthDakotaDemocrat ~
Most of the money was “siphoned abroad in cash and has disappeared” to finance the purchase of arms in Poland and Pakistan, according to the report. But rather than purchasing state-of-the-art weaponry Iraq had procured “museum-piece weapons,” the Independent charged.
The paper listed a series of problems with the arms purchased including armoured cars which “turned out to be so poorly made that even a bullet from an elderly AK-47 machine-gun could penetrate their armour.” Other armoured cars reportedly leaked so much oil that they had to be abandoned.
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An Iraqi soldier looks at a military vehicle destroyed in a road side bomb explosion in Kirkuk. A billion dollars has been plundered from the coffers of Iraq's defence ministry, seriously affecting the government's ability to combat the insurgency, the Independent newspaper in London reported, citing the Iraqi finance minister. AFP/File/Marwan Ibrahim
A shipment of the latest MP5 American machine-guns turned out to be Egyptian copies worth a fraction of the price, according to the report.
“Many Iraqi soldiers and police have died because they were not properly equipped,” the daily added.
The rip-offs were so huge, said the paper, that Baghdad officials estimate that the Iraqis involved “were only front men and ‘rogue elements’ within the US military and intelligence services may have played a decisive role behind the scenes”.
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exploitation and greed and misappropriation and such comes on any crininal act by whomever,,,,mostly this group of politicans we have now in our world I am begining to wonder about any nation and if they can get beyond this behavior. Yes we have the bush adm. leading the group too…no more needs to be said…monkey see, monkey do attitude, IMHO
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British Forces Surrounded a Police Station in the Center of Basra
BAGHDAD (AFP) 10 minutes ago – Iraqi police have detained two British soldiers in the southern port city of Basra, following a shooting incident.
One Basra policeman said the two men who were detained were undercover soldiers, wearing Arab costume, and carrying explosives, allegedly fired at a police patrol before being forced to stop.
“We can confirm that the Iraqi authorities are holding two UK service personnel and we are liaising with the Iraqi authorities on this matter,” a British military spokesman told AFP by telephone from Basra.
British forces on Monday surrounded a police station in the centre of Basra after Iraqi police refused to release the two men, an AFP photographer at the scene said Monday.
A British citizen detained by Iraqi police sits in a police lockup in the southern Iraq city of Basra. REUTERS/Atef Hassan
● Iraqi working for NYT found shot dead in Basra
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JAIL BREAK –
UK USE TANKS TO ENTER POLICE COMPOUND
Contrary statement from Governor of Basra ::
“Act of barbaric aggression”.
“UK Soldiers Have Been Released” Min of Defence
The official statement from the British Ministery of Defence (MoD) has just been read on BBC News:
After negotiations with local authorities …
A wall may have been knocked down …
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Two UK Special Ops men were apprehended at a road block of Iraqi police, doing their duty for security of all citizens. The UK undercover men in Arab clothes, with weapons and explosives, shot and killed an Iraqi policeman.
The Iraqi local government have an agreement to hand over each other’s soldiers, cq policemen after an incident. However, when you are not in uniform, there is no protection under any Geneva Convention,
because you will be considered a terrorist. These two UK terrorists can be tried by court martial and executed within hours, as the UK Iraq Command knew what was about to happen.
The UK Iraq Operations has been compromised by this incident, as there is proof that terrorists are operating from coalition side. When you don’t live by the rules, you will die without rules.
«« click on pic for more photos Basra Incident
As I have stated recently :: UK Losing Basra?
… can be appropriately changed to :: UK are Losing Basra! – this diary.
The two UK men should be tried for war crime or murder, and can be tried in an International Court of Justice! That’s why the UK tried to prevent their photos from being published on the Internet.
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