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...Responsibility for the attack on the patrol was quickly claimed by Abu Musab al Zarqawi's al-Qaeda-affiliated terrorist group. Officials in Canberra claimed the vehicles were not hit specifically because they were Australian, but a post boasting of the attack on a Zarqawi-linked website noted the soldiers' nationality. Even if the intention had been to strike U.S. or Iraqi troops, the men who triggered the bomb by remote control would have known they were about to hit Australians, who wear distinctive camouflage fatigues and drive different vehicles from the Americans. Several times, when this Australian reporter...
...Insurgents The most significant opponents of the election are clearly the Sunni insurgency, composed of former Baathists, Sunni nationalists and Islamists (mostly local, although with small numbers of foreigners, most notably the Jordanian Abu Musab Zarqawi, who recently became al-Qaeda's man in Iraq). That's because they're waging a campaign of terror to intimidate would-be candidates, electoral workers and voters from showing up at the polls. The insurgency is believed to number some 20,000 to 40,000 hard-core fighters, although Iraq's interim intelligence chief says it is able to call on a wider...
...Iraq is to be Bush’s legacy, it will never be a legacy of liberty. Elections will not erase the damage done to American credibility by faulty intelligence or cleanse the world of the horrifying images from Abu Ghraib. Bush’s unilateral war on Iraq has been marked by a series of disastrous blunders, and his administration’s failure to plan for reconstruction has been an astounding error of judgment...
...COURT-MARTIALED. LANCE CORPORAL MARK COOLEY, 25; CORPORAL DANIEL KENYON, 33; and LANCE CORPORAL DARREN LARKIN, 30, British soldiers suspected of mistreating Iraqi prisoners in 2003 while setting up a food depot in southern Iraq; at a British base in Osnabr?ck, Germany. Much like the U.S. abuse scandal at Abu Ghraib prison, the case came to light through disturbing photos of Iraqi detainees being beaten and humiliated. Prime Minister Tony Blair denounced the images as "shocking and appalling," but staunchly defended the work of the 65,000 British troops who have served in Iraq. The accused soldiers, who maintain they...
...People want to kill me just because of a few pictures." LYNDDIE ENGLAND, U.S. Army private, on death threats she has received since her appearance in photos showing the abuse of Iraqi detainees in Abu Ghraib prison...