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...bringing to bear withering firepower from land and air against which the those insurgents who stood and fought had no chance of surviving. U.S. forces retook the city at a cost of 38 casualties against the upward of 1,000 insurgents they claim to have killed. The number of civilian casualties remains unknown - the U.S. military and Iraqi interim government insists the number is negligible, but media sources suggest there may have been substantial numbers of Iraqi civilians killed and wounded, whose fate will be known once the fighting ends and the media and aid workers gain access...
...itself to be very much alive in Samarrah, with insurgents taking a heavy toll on the Iraqi security forces. And the tactics that the insurgents employed in and around Fallujah suggest there's good reason to suspect they are likely to begin reentering the city along with the returning civilian population, resuming attacks on Iraqi and any U.S. forces that remain once the main combat force begins withdrawing...
...process which the U.S. and Israel insist is a bid for nuclear arms. Last week some E.U., Iranian and U.N. officials were hailing as a potential breakthrough an agreement in which Iran would suspend its enrichment activities in exchange for additional nuclear technology and guaranteed fuel deliveries for a civilian nuclear capability. But at week's end, the optimism was fading. German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer said that there had been no breakthrough, and French negotiators said they were "still analyzing" the latest Iranian counterproposal...
...these pragmatic concerns, we fear for innocent Iraqi citizens. If the civilian toll of the actual fighting in Falluja remains extremely low, this is largely because the city is abandoned; but the preparatory bombardment of the city seems to have killed a number of innocent Iraqis. A recent study from researchers at Johns Hopkins University estimated the civilian toll in Iraq since March 2003 may be upwards of 100,000. Although there are many valid criticisms of this study’s methodology, from the standpoint of maintaining moral legitimacy in this fight, there is little question that America must...
...abhorrent. To be sure, such calculations usually occur in a context where soldiers’ lives are at stake, but if America is to be true to its stated goals of bringing security and stability to the Iraqi people, it is necessary that forces err on the side of civilian safety. At the very least, America must demonstrate a stronger public commitment in this area. In the run-up to these operations, American commanders complained that Falluja General Hospital, an early target of the operation, disseminated false statistics on civilian casualties. But such complaints fall on deaf ears in light...