Sunday, October 12, 2003

 

US soldiers bulldoze farmers' crops
Americans accused of brutal 'punishment' tactics against villagers, while British are condemned as too soft


By Patrick Cockburn in Dhuluaya

12 October 2003

US soldiers driving bulldozers, with jazz blaring from loudspeakers, have uprooted ancient groves of date palms as well as orange and lemon trees in central Iraq as part of a new policy of collective punishment of farmers who do not give information about guerrillas attacking US troops.
complete article at

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=452375

Why, I'm shocked! -- when collective punishment was working so well for our allies, the Israelis.

posted by Michael 1:27 AM