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03/26/2003 Archived Entry: "Iraq: Fear of war crimes by both sides"

WHAT'S AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REALLY WORRIED ABOUT?: (Via The Corner) Interesting press release from Amnesty International today entitled "Iraq: Fear of war crimes by both sides".

They open their parade of war crimes by condemning the coalition attack on Iraq's main television station. They then slam the Iraqi government over alleged shelling of civilians in Basra and reports of Iraqi soldiers dressing as civilians.

One of these things is not like the other. Can you guess? If you said attacking the television station, you were right!

Indiscriminate attacks on civilians and dressing regular army in civilian clothes are war crimes, whereas bombing a government owned television station (it is not "civilian" as AI states) is not.

Quiz question number 2: In their list of alleged war crimes, what did AI forget to mention? If you said parading POWs on television and allegedly executing captured American soldiers in front of civilians, your right again!

Another thing to note, if you read the press release, the attack on the television statement takes up several paragraphs. Iraqi war crimes? Two paragraphs composed of three sentences.