(Untitled)- May 31, 2003 The Geneva Conventions The full text of the Geneva Conventions on the treatment of prisoners of war and on the protection of civilians in time of war is available here: 1949 Conventions and 1977 Protocols.http://blogs.salon.com/0001947/categories/casualitiesOfWar/2003/05/31.html#a114 (Untitled)- May 31, 2003 Bush Administration Lied about WMD Reuters reported yesterday that "A growing number of U.S. national security professionals are accusing the Bush administration of slanting the facts and hijacking the $30 billion intelligence apparatus to justify its rush to war in Iraq." "In intelligence there is one unpardonable sin -- cooking intelligence to the recipe of high policy," it wrote. "There is ample indication this has been done with respect to Iraq." See: U.S. Insiders Say Iraq Intel...http://blogs.salon.com/0001947/categories/casualitiesOfWar/2003/05/31.html#a113 (Untitled)- May 31, 2003 Salam Pax Again The AP (London) reported today that the Guardian has signed Salam Pax to write a biweekly column beginning Wednesday. This is somewhat surprising considering the fact that Salam Pax wrote the following in his blog on May 22: "A day before that I sold my soul to the devil. I talked to Rory from the Guardian. Look, he paid for a great lunch in a place which had air-conditioning and lots of people from foreign. It was fun talking to him but when Raed saw me after 'the talk' he.http://blogs.salon.com/0001947/categories/casualitiesOfWar/2003/05/30.html#a112 (Untitled)- May 27, 2003 Death Count: 158 US, 32 British, 13 Journalists The BBC World News reported that "Gunmen have killed two US soldiers and wounded nine others in a flashpoint Iraqi town Falluja." Also, "on Monday one soldier was killed and another injured when gunmen fired on a 3rd Armoured Cavalry Regiment convoy near the town of Haditha." Also, "a US military vehicle ran over a landmine on the outskirts of Baghdad. One soldier died and three more were wounded in the incident." See: US soldiers die in new...http://blogs.salon.com/0001947/categories/casualitiesOfWar/2003/05/27.html#a110 (Untitled)- May 25, 2003 Death Count: 154 US, 32 British, 13 Journalists The AP reported that "A sailor returning from the war in Iraq fell from his ship into the Atlantic Ocean about 900 miles off the Virginia coast and was presumed dead, military officials said Sunday." See: Returning Navy Man Thought Dead in Mishap Iraqi body count since Jan 1 provided by http:www.iraqbodycount.orghttp://blogs.salon.com/0001947/categories/casualitiesOfWar/2003/05/25.html#a109 (Untitled)- May 24, 2003 Salam Pax After a long absence, Salam Pax has resumed publishing his blog from Baghdad: "Where is Raed ". He claims that the person going by the name "salam pax" who is writing on the website of the new student run, and only independent, newspaper in Baghdad, Al-MuaJaha-"The Iraqi Witness", is not him. "Let me tell you one thing first. War sucks big time. Don't let yourself ever be talked into having one waged in the name of your freedom. Somehow when the bombs start dropping or you hear...http://blogs.salon.com/0001947/categories/casualitiesOfWar/2003/05/24.html#a108 (Untitled)- May 20, 2003 Death Count: 153 US, 32 British, 13 Journalists The AP reported that "The family of Master Sgt. William Lee Payne said a soldier in Payne's unit took a box containing what were thought to have been dud munitions and tossed them against a tree, causing an explosion that killed him and injured three other soldiers last Friday." See: U.S. Soldier Killed in Ordnance Accident Also, "A Marine Corps transport helicopter crashed Monday in central Iraq near Karbala with at least four people...http://blogs.salon.com/0001947/categories/casualitiesOfWar/2003/05/19.html#a106 (Untitled)- May 18, 2003 The Fictional Aspects in the "Rescue" of Jessica Lynch Can it be called a rescue if the person being "rescued" isn't being held captive The Guardian reported last Thursday that the "rescue" of Jessica Lynch was staged for the cameras and timed to draw attention from "the talk...of coalition forces bogged down, of a victory too slow in coming." It reports that the U.S. forces knew going in that there would be no resistance, that the Fedayeen were no longer at the hospital where Jessica was...http://blogs.salon.com/0001947/categories/casualitiesOfWar/2003/05/17.html#a105 (Untitled)- May 12, 2003 Death Count: 146 US, 32 British, 13 Journalists The AP reports that "Three American soldiers were killed and a fourth injured when their Black Hawk helicopter crashed Friday during the rescue of an Iraqi child wounded in an explosion." "Also Friday, a U.S. Marine assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force was killed when the pickup truck he was in collided with a Marine heavy truck in the Kuwaiti desert." Iraqi body count since Jan 1 provided by http:www.iraqbodycount.org .http://blogs.salon.com/0001947/categories/casualitiesOfWar/2003/05/11.html#a104 (Untitled)- May 9, 2003 Death Count: 137 US, 32 British, 13 Journalists The AP reports that "Two American soldiers were killed Thursday in separate attacks in Baghdad -- one a bold daylight shooting at close range and the other a sniper attack."http://blogs.salon.com/0001947/categories/casualitiesOfWar/2003/05/09.html#a103 |