From the heart of Iraq

Robert Fisk has been reporting from within Iraq since before the war began and has proven to be a thorn in America's deceptive war numerous times. Here are a few of his latest articles with snippets:

Iraq Isn't Working
They protest in the streets, especially against the aggressive American military raids, and they protest in the press. Much good does it do them. When ex-Iraqi soldiers demonstrated outside Bremer's office at the former Presidential Palace, US troops shot two of them dead. When Falujah residents staged a protest as long ago as April, the American military shot 16 dead. Another 11 were later gunned down in Mosul. During two demonstrations against the presence of US troops near the shrine of Imam Hussein at Karbala last weekend, US soldiers shot dead another three. "What a wonderful thing it is to speak your own minds," Lt-Gen Sanchez said of the demonstrations in Iraq last week. Maybe he was exhibiting a black sense of humour.

Al-Jazeera Accuses US of Harassment in Row Over "Bias"
The antagonism between Washington and Al-Jazeera goes back to the 2001 bombing of Afghanistan when, after the station showed a tape of Osama bin Laden, a US cruise missile hit the Kabul bureau. Then in April, after beaming pictures of Iraqi civilians mutilated by US air raids and tape of American prisoners in Iraqi hands, a US jet targeted the Baghdad bureau, killing a reporter. Al-Jazeera had earlier given the co-ordinates of the offices to the Pentagon to prevent any accidental bombing.

American Agents are Blamed for Raid That Became a Massacre
"Why did they shoot at the innocent?" he asked. "What did we do to the Americans? We were only going to post a letter. They shot at us from 50 metres away. Why?"

The United States, of course, has refused to sign up to the International Criminal Tribunal for fear its soldiers serving overseas may be forced to appear before it.

US Troops Turn Botched Saddam Raid Into A Massacre
A doctor at the Yarmouk hospital, which received four of the dead, turned on me angrily last night, shouting: "If an American came to my emergency room, maybe I would kill him."

Loyalists abound

Major combats been declared over for more than a couple months now. The regime is supposed to be gone. But the loyalists remain. Fanatical at times! Meanwhile the human rights violations continue unabated. And they wonder why they are hated! Wonder if justice will ever see the light of day! :(

To borrow from Salam Pax's blog, a Samuel P. Huntington quote:

"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."

And the deception goes on...