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Richard Goldstein on Abu Ghraib and the limits of the "fit to be seen."



Over 100,000 SBC workers will strike for four days. Will this be enough?



The California State Senate vs. The California Correctional Peace Officers Association.



I want to blog something about the huge numbers of civilian deaths we've seen over the last few days in Rafah and in Western Iraq. The latter case, as you may have read, may or may not - depending on whether you believe the US Armed Forces over Al-Arabiya TV, have occurred in the context of a wedding.

But Dubai-based Al Arabiya television, quoting eyewitnesses, said the raid on the village of Makr al-Deeb before dawn had targeted people celebrating a wedding and had killed at least 41 civilians.



"We received about 40 martyrs today, mainly women and children below the age of 12," Hamdy al-Lousy, the director of Qaim hospital, told Al Arabiya. "We also have 11 people wounded, most of them in critical condition."



Arabiya showed pictures of several shrouded bodies lined up on a dirt road. Men were shown digging graves and lowering bodies, one of a child, into the pits while relatives wept.



"The U.S. planes dropped more than 100 bombs on us," an unidentified man who said he was from the village said on Al Arabiya. "They hit two homes where the wedding was being held and then they levelled the whole village. No bullets were fired by us, nothing was happening," he added.

In Rafah, IDF forces opoened fire on a group of protesting refugees and killed nine people a day after another IDF raid which killed nineteen.



This shit has to stop.