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While the comments in this news item are valid... one cannot disregard that ALL the military and government personnel missed utilizing Tsun Tzu directives stipulated in the "Art of War". ALL involved in that forced "liberation" of Iraq needed to be focused on "securing" the civilian population which is what was NOT accomplished and resulted in exactly what tsun Tzu said would occur with removal of a government. Clinton "IRAQI ASKED FOR LIBERATION" Act passed by Congress 1998. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=457jp8VGhEE

About the Iraq Body Count project Iraq Body Count (IBC) records the violent civilian deaths that have resulted from the 2003 military intervention in Iraq. Its public database includes deaths caused by US-led coalition forces and paramilitary or criminal attacks by others. IBC's documentary evidence is drawn from crosschecked media reports of violent events leading to the death of civilians, or of bodies being found, and is supplemented by the careful review and integration of hospital, morgue, NGO and official figures. Systematically extracted details about deadly incidents and the individuals killed in them are stored with every entry in the database. The minimum details always extracted are the number killed, where, and when. Confusion about the numbers produced by the project can be avoided by bearing in mind that: IBC's figures are not 'estimates' but a record of actual, documented deaths. IBC records solely violent deaths. IBC records solely civilian (strictly, 'non-combatant') deaths. IBC's figures are constantly updated and revised as new data comes in, and frequent consultation is advised. IBC builds on innovative uses of new technologies without which this citizens' initiative would be impossible. The project was founded in January 2003 by volunteers from the UK and USA who felt a responsibility to ensure that the human consequences of military intervention in Iraq were not neglected. Finally, IBC could not exist without the journalists and media support workers, Iraqi and international, who labour to report war's daily carnage at the risk, and all too often the cost, of their health or their lives. For more on IBC's principles and objectives see the Rationale. For a more detailed description of IBC's working methodology and inclusion criteria, see the Methods section. For technical, research and media contacts, conditions of use, as well as a listing of IBC personnel

This American soldier received 110 years to serve in a prison while another soldier in the same group recieved a 100 year jail sentence for participating in the rape crimes on an Iraqi girl. Now if American soldiers are given severe prison penalties for their crimes; would America provide farin justice to the Guitmo "enemy combattants" who were captured by co-alition forces in Afghanistan/Iraw etc.?

كان ما يعرف بـ"زبيبة الصلاة" علامة تميز المسنين من المسلمين، وكانت تعتبر ثمرة سنوات طويلة من العبادة، أما الآن فلم يعد من النادر رؤيتها على جباه الشباب. وما يعرف بـ "الزبيبة" ما هو إلا بقعة من الجلد المتقرن تنشأ على الجبين نتيجة احتكاكه بسطح خشن عند السجود. وينظر البعض الى "الزبيبة" على أنها علامة من علامات العبادة، بينما يعتبرها البعض الآخر "مظهرا للتفاخر". والأسوأ من ذلك هو أن هناك مخاوف من تحول استعراض "مظاهر الإيمان" كالزبيبة والحجاب الى حالة من التعسف ضد من يعتبرون مخالفين، وقد شكا بعض الليبراليين والمسيحيين من تعرضهم للمضايقات في مكان العمل بسبب "عدم التزامهم". "هبة من الله" في الماضي كان ظهور الزبيبة علامة على كثرة السجود على مدى سنوات طويلة، وبالتالي فقد كان من الطبيعي أن تظهر على جباه المسنين، أما في العقود الأخيرة ومع ازياد توجه المصريين الى التدين أصبحت تظهر على جباه الشبان كمظهر من مظاهر التدين يقابله ارتداء الحجاب عند الفتيات. ولكن لا تظهر الزبيبة على جباه جميع المسلمين، وتختلف الآراء حول مصدرها، فهناك من يقول انها مرتبطة بنمط الجلد، وربما تعمد الشخص اختلاقها، أو قد تكون ناتجة عن نوع معين من السجاد. إلا أن البعض يعتقد أنها هبة من الله. ويعتقد بعض الشبان المصريين ال