Iraq War Grief Daily Witness (photo) Day 282

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   RubDMC on March 31, 2006 at 12:06 pm

   

   Click on the candle to copy the image into your own comment (you can leave it on my server), and/or rate this one – not for mojo, but to leave a small mark after taking this moment.

   ” I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.”
   from Dirge Without Music
   by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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   ask on March 31, 2006 at 12:31 pm

   
   Rice admits “thousands” of errors in Iraq

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   Oui on March 31, 2006 at 12:32 pm

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   Carroll to Return Home Soon, Christian Science Editor Says

   Bergenheim said that neither the Monitor nor Carroll’s family was involved in negotiations for her release. Her captors, calling themselves the Revenge Brigades, had demanded the release of all women detainees in Iraq by Feb. 26 and said Carroll would be killed if that didn’t happen. The deadline passed without word of her safety.

   “Neither we, nor the family, nor anyone that we know of were involved with negotiations. This really was a bolt out of the blue,” Bergenheim told ABC’s “Good Morning America.”

   
   A scene soon to be repeated ...

   Her twin sister, Katie Carroll, described in the Monitor the wake up call she got at about 5:45 a.m. Thursday.

   “Katie, it’s me,” said the voice on the other end of the line. “I’m free.” Then she burst into tears and I did, too, Katie Carroll said.

   January 18 – Iraq’s ministry of justice has told the BBC that six of the eight women being held by coalition forces in Iraq are to be released early.

   ● ‘Wonderful day’: Journalist Carroll freed in Iraq

   ≈ Cross-posted from my diary — U.S. Army Bans Use of Privately Bought Body Armor ≈

   

   LEAVE Iraq to the Iraqis

   “But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.”

   ▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY

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     Oui on April 1, 2006 at 3:23 am

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     Freed U.S. Journalist Lands in Germany

     BERLIN (ABC/AP) 30 minutes ago — Journalist Jill Carroll arrived in Germany on Saturday, the first stop as she headed home to the United States from Iraq where she was kidnapped and spent 82 days in captivity.

     A military transport plane brought Carroll from Balad Air Base near Baghdad to Ramstein Air Base in western Germany.

     Carroll was riding in the cockpit as the U.S. Air Force C17 Globemaster came to a stop. She cast a bemused look at the line of television cameras waiting on the tarmac. She got off the plane smiling and wearing jeans, a gray sweater, and a desert camouflage jacket.

     Col. Kurt Lohide, commander of the 435th Air Base Wing, greeted her briefly before escorting her into an Air Force van.

     “Welcome to Ramstein,” he said he told her.

     “I’m happy to be here,” was her answer.

     Jill Carroll was scheduled to leave Frankfurt at 10:25 a.m. local time on a Lufthansa flight bound for Boston, with a stopover in Washington, officials at Ramstein said.

     “But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.”

     ▼ ▼ ▼ MY DIARY

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   dada on March 31, 2006 at 12:37 pm

   

   Peace

5. 

   cotterperson on March 31, 2006 at 12:54 pm

   

   Impeach NOW. When there’s only one way, you’ve got to go with it.

6. 

   Damnit Janet on March 31, 2006 at 3:15 pm

   

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     alohaleezy on March 31, 2006 at 3:33 pm

     Oh that is just too perfect. I want a tshirt with that on it!!

     IMPEACH NOW!

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   shermanesqe on March 31, 2006 at 4:17 pm

   

8. 

   jimstaro on March 31, 2006 at 7:23 pm

   
   Light A Candle For
   Peace, Tolerance, Understanding
   and For The Children – Innocence Lost!

   Please visit This Diary-‘Sir! No Sir!’ How To Stop A War!!

   Comments not needed, but the Favor is: ‘Please pass this information on to your friends etc.’, especially any in New York City, or the West Coast, about the April Showings. What they get could determine how many more theaters, around the country, will Show the Documentary!!

   It Is Needed Now!!

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     cotterperson on April 1, 2006 at 12:03 am

     and introduction. I didn’t know about he GI antiwar movement. Hope lots of people see it!

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   scribe on March 31, 2006 at 11:21 pm

   comfort to those who mourn
   safety to those who fear
   rest to those gone on
   courage to keep working
   for peace

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    DuctapeFatwa on April 1, 2006 at 12:00 am

    A “trigger-happy” U.S. army squad leader shot the foot off an unarmed Iraqi man and soldiers kicked a severed head around like a soccer ball, a U.S. war deserter told an Immigration and Refugee Board hearing Thursday.

    Joshua Key, the first U.S. deserter with combat experience in Iraq to apply for refugee status in Canada, told the board he witnessed numerous atrocities committed by U.S. forces while serving eight months as a combat engineer.

    Mr. Key, 27, said he was never trained on the Geneva Convention and was told in Iraq by superior officers that the international law guiding humanitarian standards was just a “guideline.”

    “It’s shoot first, ask questions later,” Mr. Key said of his squad’s guiding principles. “Everything’s justified.”

    Mr. Key is one of five members of the U.S. armed forces asking for asylum in Canada.

    But the Oklahoma native is unique in that he is the only applicant that has combat experience in Iraq…

    he often saw soldiers ransack the homes and steal jewellery or money, while superior officers looked the other way.

    He also said several Iraqis were shot dead…

    In Ramadi, Mr. Key said he saw the beheaded bodies of four Iraqis beside a shot-up truck and witnessed several members of the Florida National Guard kick a severed head “like a soccer ball.”

    Mr. Key also said he witnessed one of his “trigger happy” platoon’s squad sergeants shoot part of an unarmed Iraqi man’s foot off in Khaldia, a village between Fallujah and Ramadi. The man was sitting on a chair outside a store and had raised his foot as a sign of disrespect, he said.

    Mr. Key added he was never questioned about the incident and was not aware of any charges being laid….

    Mr. Key also described seeing U.S. soldiers indiscriminately kick and scream at two hooded and naked detainees while escorting them to a grassy area to relieve themselves.”…

    The only thing we were told was how to keep them quiet,” Mr. Key said, explaining that soldiers cuffed prisoners’ hands behind their backs and put hoods over their heads.

    “Could they breathe?” Mr. Brennenstuhl asked.

    “I guess it wasn’t my concern,” Mr. Key responded, adding that officers said the hoods were designed “to humiliate them.”

    Mr. Key, the father of four young children, told the hearing he joined the army for steady pay and medical coverage for his family…

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