Here comes “The Freedom”

[Paranoid Dot Calm]

Here comes “The Freedom”
By Dahr Jamail
January 27, 2005
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000186.php

Prostitute used in Habib torture: lawyer
January 27, 2005
Mamdouh Habib was the victim of atrocities fit for a concentration camp, including being tied to the ground while a prostitute menstruated on him, his lawyer said yesterday.
Interrogators at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay had also told the Sydney man they had killed his family and superimposed animal heads on photos of his wife and children, Steven Hopper said.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7891.htm

 

[Paranoid Dot Calm]

Here comes “The Freedom”
By Dahr Jamail
January 27, 2005
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000186.php

Prostitute used in Habib torture: lawyer
January 27, 2005
Mamdouh Habib was the victim of atrocities fit for a concentration camp, including being tied to the ground while a prostitute menstruated on him, his lawyer said yesterday.
Interrogators at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay had also told the Sydney man they had killed his family and superimposed animal heads on photos of his wife and children, Steven Hopper said.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7891.htm

 

[Paranoid Dot Calm]

Here comes “The Freedom”
By Dahr Jamail
January 27, 2005
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/weblog/archives/dispatches/000186.php

Prostitute used in Habib torture: lawyer
January 27, 2005
Mamdouh Habib was the victim of atrocities fit for a concentration camp, including being tied to the ground while a prostitute menstruated on him, his lawyer said yesterday.
Interrogators at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay had also told the Sydney man they had killed his family and superimposed animal heads on photos of his wife and children, Steven Hopper said.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7891.htm

 

[Paranoid Dot Calm]

Bush's Almanac
Never mind the body count. When reality annoys you, simply ignore it
By Sydney H. Schanberg
January 25, 2005

What if the war in Iraq were happening here—say, in New York State? What would it be like? In reality, the numbers are roughly comparable. The state has 19 million people. Iraq has 25 million. Baghdad's population is about 6 million. New York City's is 8 million.

Place such a guerrilla war in New York State, which has about 80,000 state and local police, and apply the military casualty rate. The result would be 800 police killed in the line of duty in the state since the invasion in late March 2003, and 5,530 wounded. If this had taken place, we, like the Iraqis, would be living under martial law, with a night curfew and restricted movement by day, frightened all the time and guarding our children closely—maybe sending them to Canada for the duration. Few Iraqis have the ability to seek asylum anywhere. No reliable count of Iraqi civilian casualties has been kept. But relief workers estimate that it is, at the very minimum, in the low tens of thousands.

Incidentally, the actual police deaths in New York in that time frame were less than 20.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0504,schanberg,60421,6.html

 

[Paranoid Dot Calm]

Bush's Almanac
Never mind the body count. When reality annoys you, simply ignore it
By Sydney H. Schanberg
January 25, 2005

What if the war in Iraq were happening here—say, in New York State? What would it be like? In reality, the numbers are roughly comparable. The state has 19 million people. Iraq has 25 million. Baghdad's population is about 6 million. New York City's is 8 million.

Place such a guerrilla war in New York State, which has about 80,000 state and local police, and apply the military casualty rate. The result would be 800 police killed in the line of duty in the state since the invasion in late March 2003, and 5,530 wounded. If this had taken place, we, like the Iraqis, would be living under martial law, with a night curfew and restricted movement by day, frightened all the time and guarding our children closely—maybe sending them to Canada for the duration. Few Iraqis have the ability to seek asylum anywhere. No reliable count of Iraqi civilian casualties has been kept. But relief workers estimate that it is, at the very minimum, in the low tens of thousands.

Incidentally, the actual police deaths in New York in that time frame were less than 20.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0504,schanberg,60421,6.html

 

[Paranoid Dot Calm]

Bush's Almanac
Never mind the body count. When reality annoys you, simply ignore it
By Sydney H. Schanberg
January 25, 2005

What if the war in Iraq were happening here—say, in New York State? What would it be like? In reality, the numbers are roughly comparable. The state has 19 million people. Iraq has 25 million. Baghdad's population is about 6 million. New York City's is 8 million.

Place such a guerrilla war in New York State, which has about 80,000 state and local police, and apply the military casualty rate. The result would be 800 police killed in the line of duty in the state since the invasion in late March 2003, and 5,530 wounded. If this had taken place, we, like the Iraqis, would be living under martial law, with a night curfew and restricted movement by day, frightened all the time and guarding our children closely—maybe sending them to Canada for the duration. Few Iraqis have the ability to seek asylum anywhere. No reliable count of Iraqi civilian casualties has been kept. But relief workers estimate that it is, at the very minimum, in the low tens of thousands.

Incidentally, the actual police deaths in New York in that time frame were less than 20.

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0504,schanberg,60421,6.html