Mubarak Dégage

Journalists rounded up. Time Magazine and Washington Post reporters arrested.

BBC maintains some live coverage at

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

Follow the sympathic comments of concerned Americans here

Noteworthy:

"We've spent a trillion dollars trying to bring democracy to the Middle East through our misadventure in Iraq. Now the Egyptians are doing it, all by themselves, with enormous courage and spirit"

Mubarek Dégage!

Link to Al-Jazeera's live coverage

http://videochat.corriere.it/index_H2401.shtml

2 million brave Egyptians in Tahrir Square. US nationals should be cheering them from the sidelines!

Recalling the surge

Women and children first...in the gunsites!

July 21, 2007

"American helicopters and warplanes attacked a Shiite area on the outskirts of northern Baghdad late Friday and early Saturday, killing at least 15 people and wounding 10, according to an official at the Iraqi Interior Ministry who said some of the casualties were women and children...."


July 16, 2007

"The pilots believe [Reuters personnel] to be insurgents, and mistake Mr. Noor-Eldeen’s camera for a weapon. They aim and fire at the group [on a Baghdad street], then revel in their kills.

“Look at those dead bastards,” one pilot says. “Nice,” the other responds.

A wounded man can be seen crawling and the pilots impatiently hope that he will try to fire at them so that under the rules of engagement they can shoot him again. “All you gotta do is pick up a weapon,” one pilot says.

A short time later a van arrives to pick up the wounded and the pilots open fire on it, wounding two children inside. “Well, it’s their fault for bringing their kids into a battle,” one pilot says.

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