This is a question I’ve been asked over and over again. Almost everyone poses it to me. Tunisians ask why I speak their dialect rather than mine. Non-Tunisians ask about the reasons for me to speak Tunisian.Some look at it as being ashamed of my dialect, or being afraid of identified as a foreigner, or […]
Spc. Jeremy Sivits, the first soldier to face a court-martial in the abuse scandal, is one of seven military police officers facing charges in the case. He will plead guilty at a court-martial proceeding next week, the Washington Post reported on Friday. Sivits admitted in a sworn statement that he photographed the abuse but never […]
As expected, many arguments concerning the prisoners’ abuse in Iraq are created to save the reputation of the countries involved in the abuse and to save the soldiers from punishment.First we heard the American soldiers claiming they had orders from higher ranks and not the free will to act the way they’ve acted. Which I […]
Professor Michael Wolffsohn, an instructor in Munich at one of Germany’s top two military officer training schools, attracted controversy earlier this month when he told a German television reporter that “if we attempt to counter terror with gentlemanly methods, we will fail.” Referring to the excesses at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, he said, […]
US-Parlamentarier zeigten sich am Mittwochabend (Ortszeit) schockiert über die neuen Fotos und Videos von Misshandlungen irakischer Gefangener durch US-Soldaten. Der demokratische Senator Ron Wyder sagte, er habe mit dem Schlimmsten gerechnet, aber was er gesehen habe, sei noch „wesentlich schlimmer“. Der republikanische Senator John Cornyn nannte die Bilder „schändlich“.Der demokratische Senator Richard Durbin sprach am […]
“There were some awful scenes. It felt like you were descending into one of the wings of hell and sadly it was our own creation,” said Sen. Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat. “And when you think of the sadism, the violence, the sexual humiliation, after a while you just turn away, you just can’t take […]
The family and friends of Berg are really angry with the US government for denying he was in their custody in Iraq. Berg was missing from 24 March until his release on 6 April, when he told his parents he had been detained by Iraqi police in Mosul. He disappeared again on 9 April after […]
Arsenic pollution of drinking and irrigation water has emerged as a massive health threat in Bangladesh and India, where wells drilled into aquifers have turned out to be tapping poisoned water. When the water is used to irrigate rice paddies, arsenic also accumulates in the crop. According to one estimate, 3,000 people may be dying […]
All I can say is: this is the price of war. More and more innocent people will get killed from all ages and all nationalities. The solution is not to limit ourselves to go look for who’s done this and who’s done that, the solution is to STOP war, get out of Iraq, give back […]
So America has come up with this brilliant idea that will guarantee the success of war on terror. US claims that Syria “supporting” Hamas in Palestine, and Hizballah in Lebanon, which means it’s taking part in the “terrorist attacks” done by those two parties, therefore it should be “punished” by imposing sanctions on it. […]
