+ Rumsfeld has banned camera phones from the military. Why? The obvious reason is to protect his ass from more evidence leaking of his secret operations, “known inside the intelligence community by several code words, including Copper Green”, to extract intelligence from Iraqis using “physical coercion and sexual humiliation”. - just thought I should post that, since at 3am Pacific time, only two US news agencies, Yahoo and The Washington Times, have picked up the story…

+ And now we learn of an Iraqi scientist’s murder after being held for 10 months. Dr Mohammed Munim was killed by a blow to the back of his head from a blunt instrument. The military report states that he died of ‘brainstem compression’. “The death certificate provided by the coalition, which is almost entirely blank, fails to explain how he got a fracture in his skull, or the small cut above his left eye. The scientist is merely a number, 1909.” Dr. al-Izmerly’s daughter Rana told the Guardian “The evidence is clear. It suggests the Americans killed him and then tried to hide what they had done. I will hate Americans and British people for the rest of my life. You are democrats. You said you were coming to bring democracy, and yet you kill my father. By accepting your governments, you accept what they do here in Iraq. ” - Is that a sound argument? Any American citizen who accepts their government is complicit in the atrocities of Iraq…