Iraq
The US is now the "occupying power" in Iraq. How is it progressing? What are the patterns ... or contrasts? Are there parallels to Israel's role in the occupied territories?
Sunday, June 18, 2006
'Wash Post' Obtains Shocking Memo from U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Details ... abductions, threats and ethnic cleansing
'Wash Post' Obtains Shocking Memo from U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Details Increasing Danger and Hardship: "'By Greg Mitchell | Published: June 18, 2006 6:20 PM ETNEW YORK The Washington Post has obtained a cable, marked 'sensitive,' that it says show that just before President Bush left on a surprise trip last Mrom U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Details Increasing Danger and Hardshiponday to the Green Zone in Baghdad for an upbeat assessment of the situation there, 'the U.S. Embassy in Iraq painted a starkly different portrait of increasing danger and hardship faced by its Iraqi employees.'
This cable outlines, the Post reported Sunday, 'the daily-worsening conditions for those who live outside the heavily guarded international zone: harassment, threats and the employees' constant fears that their neighbors will discover they work for the U.S. government.'
It's actually far worse than that, as the details published below indicate, which include references to abductions, threats to women's rights, and 'ethnic cleansing.' ...
