Al Jazeera's David Chater went on a joint U.S.-Iraq patrol in Baghdad to see whether such moves are succeeding in reducing the violence or if doubts over the Iraqi troops ability to take over remain. . . read more

Amnesty International's latest report on Iraq finds the U.S. guilty of human rights abuses, including the "killing, rape and/or inhumane treatment of civilians". AI's report highlights the "physical and psychological brutality" of your interrogations and calls the enforced disappearance of numerous detainees, "a crime under international law". Oxfam agrees: "Iraq's civilians are suffering from a denial of fundamental human rights - chronic poverty, malnutrition, illness, lack of access to basic services, destruction of homes, injury and death". Since your forces invaded Iraq, the slide into poverty and deprivation has been dramatic, and a "deep trauma for the Iraqi people". Clear enough for you Paul?

• Four million people are 'food-insecure and in dire need of assistance'.
• Over two million displaced inside Iraq
• Over two million Iraqis in neighbouring countries - the fastest-growing refugee crisis in the world!
• Over half the population now without work.
• 92% of Iraqi children suffer learning problems, mostly due to the climate of fear created by your crazy invasion.

Tel us again, Paul Gimigliano, about the CIA and the U.S. Army's "bold, lawful work". . . read more

As the two car convoy was waiting nearby, an American helicopter nearby opened fire on the vehicles. As the vehicles were hit, the drivers attempted to seek cover, but both vehicles were repeatedly shot and disabled. The helicopter landed but instead of assisting those shot and needing medical help, the American soldiers killed any survivors and then wrote numbers on the foreheads of some.

Several children including a young girls body are clearly visible, and the wounds suffered by the men are horrific. The vehicle is clearly shot with many rounds and the seats and road is covered with blood. Iraqi police were called to the scene to remove the bodies, and some video footage was taken - it has been repeatedly removed from YouTube but links to the video can be found here. It is clear that these people were unarmed civilians.

This story has not yet migrated to mainstream media, and probably never will. Surely it’s time Australia started to question its long held alliance with the U.S. military, the most lawless, trigger happy, unaccounable and sadistic bunch of lunatics on the planet.  . . read more