World Tribunal on Iraq : Final Declaration of the Jury of Conscience
by AmigaPhil Tuesday, Aug. 02, 2005 at 1:07 PM

The World Tribunal on Iraq met in Istanbul from 24-26 June 2005. The principal objective of the WTI is to tell and disseminate the truth about the Iraq War, underscoring the accountability of those responsible and underlining the significance of justice for the Iraqi people. Here is the final declaration of the jury of conscience :

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DECLARATION OF THE JURY OF CONSCIENCE

WORLD TRIBUNAL ON IRAQ - ISTANBUL 23^rd - 27^th JUNE 2005

27^th June 2005, Istanbul

In February 2003, weeks before an illegal war was initiated against Iraq, millions of people protested in the streets of the world. That call went unheeded. No international institution had the courage or conscience to stand up to the threat of aggression of the US and UK governments. No one could stop them. It is two years later now. Iraq has been invaded, occupied, and devastated. The attack on Iraq is an attack on justice, on liberty, on our safety, on our future, on us all. We, people of conscience, decided to stand up. We formed the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) to demand justice and a peaceful future.

The legitimacy of the World Tribunal on Iraq is located in the collective conscience of humanity. This, the Istanbul session of the WTI, is the culmination of a series of 20 hearings held in different cities of the world focusing on the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. The conclusions of these sessions and/or inquiries held in Barcelona, Brussels, Copenhagen, Genoa, Hiroshima, Istanbul, Lisbon, London, Mumbai, New York, Ostersund, Paris, Rome, Seoul, Stockholm, Tunis, various cities in Japan and Germany are appended to this Declaration in a separate volume.

We, the Jury of Conscience, from 10 different countries, met in Istanbul. We heard 54 testimonies from a Panel of Advocates and Witnesses who came from across the world, including from Iraq, the United States and the United Kingdom.

The World Tribunal on Iraq met in Istanbul from 24-26 June 2005. The principal objective of the WTI is to tell and disseminate the truth about the Iraq War, underscoring the accountability of those responsible and underlining the significance of justice for the Iraqi people.

I. Overview of Findings

1. The invasion and occupation of Iraq was and is illegal. The reasons given by the US and UK governments for the invasion and occupation of Iraq in March 2003 have proven to be false. Much evidence supports the conclusion that a major motive for the war was to control and dominate the Middle East and its vast reserves of oil as a part of the US drive for global hegemony.
2. Blatant falsehoods about the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and a link between Al Qaeda terrorism and the Saddam Hussein regime were manufactured in order to create public support for a "preemptive" assault upon a sovereign independent nation.
3. Iraq has been under siege for years. The imposition of severe inhumane economic sanctions on 6 August 1990, the establishment of no-fly zones in the Northern and Southern parts of Iraq, and the concomitant bombing of the country were all aimed at degrading and weakening Iraq's human and material resources and capacities in order to facilitate its subsequent invasion and occupation. In this enterprise the US and British leaderships had the benefit of a complicit UN Security Council.
4. In pursuit of their agenda of empire, the Bush and Blair governments blatantly ignored the massive opposition to the war expressed by millions of people around the world. They embarked upon one of the most unjust, immoral, and cowardly wars in history.
5. Established international political-legal mechanisms have failed to prevent this attack and to hold the perpetrators accountable. The impunity that the US government and its allies enjoy has created a serious international crisis that questions the import and significance of international law, of human rights covenants and of the ability of international institutions including the United Nations to address the crisis with any degree of authority or dignity.
6. The US/UK occupation of Iraq of the last 27 months has led to the destruction and devastation of the Iraqi state and society. Law and order have broken down, resulting in a pervasive lack of human security. The physical infrastructure is in shambles; the health care delivery system is in poor condition; the education system has virtually ceased to function; there is massive environmental and ecological devastation; and the cultural and archaeological heritage of the Iraqi people has been desecrated.
7. The occupation has intentionally exacerbated ethnic, sectarian and religious divisions in Iraqi society, with the aim of undermining Iraq's identity and integrity as a nation. This is in keeping with the familiar imperial policy of divide and rule. Moreover, it has facilitated rising levels of violence against women, increased gender oppression and reinforced patriarchy.
8. The imposition of the UN sanctions in 1990 caused untold suffering and thousands of deaths. The situation has worsened after the occupation. At least 100,000 civilians have been killed; 60,000 are being held in US custody in inhumane conditions, without charges; thousands have disappeared; and torture has become routine.
9. The illegal privatization, deregulation, and liberalization of the Iraqi economy by the occupation regime has coerced the country into becoming a client economy that is controlled by the IMF and the World Bank, both of which are integral to the Washington Consensus. The occupying forces have also acquired control over Iraq's oil reserves.
10. Any law or institution created under the aegis of occupation is devoid of both legal and moral authority. The recently concluded election, the Constituent Assembly, the current government, and the drafting committee for the Constitution are therefore all illegitimate.
11. There is widespread opposition to the occupation. Political, social, and civil resistance through peaceful means is subjected to repression by the occupying forces. It is the occupation and its brutality that has provoked a strong armed resistance and certain acts of desperation. By the principles embodied in the UN Charter and in international law, the popular national resistance to the occupation is legitimate and justified. It deserves the support of people everywhere who care for justice and freedom.

II. Charges

On the basis of the preceding findings and recalling the Charter of the United Nations and other legal documents indicated in the appendix, the jury has established the following charges.

A. Against the Governments of the US and the UK

1. Planning, preparing, and waging the supreme crime of a war of aggression in contravention of the United Nations Charter and the Nuremberg Principles. Evidence for this can be found in the leaked Downing Street Memo of 23^rd July, 2002, in which it was revealed: "Military action was now seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." Intelligence was manufactured to willfully deceive the people of the US, the UK, and their elected representatives.
2. Targeting the civilian population of Iraq and civilian infrastructure by intentionally directing attacks upon civilians and hospitals, medical centers, residential neighborhoods, electricity stations, and water purification facilities. The complete destruction of the city of Falluja in itself constitutes a glaring example of such crimes.
3. Using disproportionate force and weapon systems with indiscriminate effects, such as cluster munitions, incendiary bombs, depleted uranium (DU), and chemical weapons. Detailed evidence was presented to the Tribunal by expert witnesses that leukemia had risen sharply in children under the age of five residing in those areas that had been targeted by DU weapons.
4. Using DU munitions in spite of all the warnings presented by scientists and war veterans on their devastating long-term effects on human beings and the environment. The US Administration, claiming lack of scientifically established proof of the harmful effects of DU, decided to risk the lives of millions for several generations rather than discontinue its use on account of the potential risks. This alone displays the Administration's wanton disregard for human life. The Tribunal heard testimony concerning the current obstruction by the US Administration of the efforts of Iraqi universities to collect data and conduct research on the issue.
5. Failing to safeguard the lives of civilians during military activities and during the occupation period thereafter. This is evidenced, for example, by "shock and awe" bombing techniques and the conduct of occupying forces at checkpoints.
6. Actively creating conditions under which the status of Iraqi women has seriously been degraded, contrary to the repeated claims of the leaders of the coalition forces. Women's freedom of movement has severely been limited, restricting their access to the public sphere, to education, livelihood, political and social engagement. Testimony was provided that sexual violence and sex trafficking have increased since the occupation of Iraq began.
7. Using deadly violence against peaceful protestors, including the April 2003 killing of more than a dozen peaceful protestors in Falluja.
8. Imposing punishments without charge or trial, including collective punishment, on the people of Iraq. Repeated testimonies pointed to "snatch and grab" operations, disappearances and assassinations.
9. Subjecting Iraqi soldiers and civilians to torture and cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment. Degrading treatment includes subjecting Iraqi soldiers and civilians to acts of racial, ethnic, religious, and gender discrimination, as well as denying Iraqi soldiers Prisoner of War status as required by the Geneva Conventions. Abundant testimony was provided of unlawful arrests and detentions, without due process of law. Well known and egregious examples of torture and cruel and inhuman treatment occurred in Abu Ghraib prison as well as in Mosul, Camp Bucca, and Basra. The employment of mercenaries and private contractors to carry out torture has served to undermine accountability.
10. Re-writing the laws of a country that has been illegally invaded and occupied, in violation of international covenants on the responsibilities of occupying powers, in order to amass illegal profits (through such measures as Order 39, signed by L. Paul Bremer III for the Coalition Provisional Authority, which allows foreign investors to buy and takeover Iraq's state-owned enterprises and to repatriate 100 percent of their profits and assets at any point) and to control Iraq's oil. Evidence was presented of a number of corporations that had profited from such transactions.
11. Willfully devastating the environment, contaminating it by depleted uranium (DU) weapons, combined with the plumes from burning oil wells, as well as huge oil spills, and destroying agricultural lands. Deliberately disrupting the water and waste removal systems, in a manner verging on biological-chemical warfare. Failing to prevent the looting and dispersal of radioactive material from nuclear sites. Extensive documentation is available on air and water pollution, land degradation, and radioactive pollution.
12. Failing to protect humanity's rich archaeological and cultural heritage in Iraq by allowing the looting of museums and established historical sites and positioning military bases in culturally and archaeologically sensitive locations. This took place despite prior warnings from UNESCO and Iraqi museum officials.
13. Obstructing the right to information, including the censoring of Iraqi media, such as newspapers (e.g., al-Hawza, al-Mashriq, and al-Mustaqila) and radio stations (Baghdad Radio), the shutting down of the Baghdad offices of Al Jazeera Television, targeting international journalists, imprisoning and killing academics, intellectuals and scientists.
14. Redefining torture in violation of international law, to allow use of torture and illegal detentions, including holding more than 500 people at Guantanamo Bay without charging them or allowing them any access to legal protection, and using "extraordinary renditions" to send people to be tortured in other countries known to commit human rights abuses and torture prisoners.
15. Committing a crime against peace by violating the will of the global anti-war movement. In an unprecedented display of public conscience millions of people across the world stood in opposition to the imminent attack on Iraq. The attack rendered them effectively voiceless. This amounts to a declaration by the US government and its allies to millions of people that their voices can be ignored, suppressed and silenced with complete impunity.
16. Engaging in policies to wage permanent war on sovereign nations. Syria and Iran have already been declared as potential targets. In declaring a "global war on terror," the US government has given itself the exclusive right to use aggressive military force against any target of its choosing. Ethnic and religious hostilities are being fueled in different parts of the world. The US occupation of Iraq has further emboldened the Israeli occupation in Palestine and increased the repression of the Palestinian people. The focus on state security and the escalation of militarization has caused a serious deterioration of human security and civil rights across the world.

B. Against the Security Council of the United Nations

1. Failing to protect the Iraqi people against the crime of aggression.
2. Imposing harsh economic sanctions on Iraq, despite knowledge that sanctions were directly contributing to the massive loss of civilian lives and harming innocent civilians.
3. Allowing the United States and United Kingdom to carry out illegal bombings in the no-fly zones, using false pretenses of enforcing UN resolutions, and at no point allowing discussion in the Security Council of this violation, and thereby being complicit and responsible for loss of civilian life and destruction of Iraqi infrastructure.
4. Allowing the United States to dominate the United Nations and hold itself above any accountability by other member nations.
5. Failure to stop war crimes and crimes against humanity by the United States and its coalition partners in Iraq.
6. Failure to hold the United States and its coalition partners accountable for violations of international law during the invasion and occupation, giving official sanction to the occupation and therefore, both by acts of commission and acts of omission becoming a collaborator in an illegal occupation.

C. Against the Governments of the Coalition of the Willing

Collaborating in the invasion and occupation of Iraq, thus sharing responsibility in the crimes committed.

D. Against the Governments of Other Countries

Allowing the use of military bases and air space, and providing other logistical support, for the invasion and occupation, and hence being complicit in the crimes committed.

E. Against the Private Corporations which have won contracts for the reconstruction of Iraq and which have sued for and received "reparation awards" from the illegal occupation regime

Profiting from the war with complicity in the crimes described above, of invasion and occupation.

F. Against the Major Corporate Media

1. Disseminating the deliberate falsehoods spread by the governments of the US and the UK and failing to adequately investigate this misinformation, even in the face of abundant evidence to the contrary. Among the corporate media houses that bear special responsibility for promoting the lies about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, we name the New York Times, in particular their reporter Judith Miller, whose main source was on the payroll of the CIA. We also name Fox News, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC, the BBC and ITN. This list also includes but is not limited to, The Express, The Sun, The Observer and Washington Post.
2. Failing to report the atrocities being committed against Iraqi people by the occupying forces, neglecting the duty to give privilege and dignity to voices of suffering and marginalizing the global voices for peace and justice.
3. Failing to report fairly on the ongoing occupation; silencing and discrediting dissenting voices and failing to adequately report on the full national costs and consequences of the invasion and occupation of Iraq; disseminating the propaganda of the occupation regime that seeks to justify the continuation of its presence in Iraq on false grounds.
4. Inciting an ideological climate of fear, racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia, which is then used to justify and legitimize violence perpetrated by the armies of the occupying regime.
5. Disseminating an ideology that glorifies masculinity and combat, while normalizing war as a policy choice.
6. Complicity in the waging of an aggressive war and perpetuating a regime of occupation that is widely regarded as guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
7. Enabling, through the validation and dissemination of disinformation, the fraudulent misappropriation of human and financial resources for an illegal war waged on false pretexts.
8. Promoting corporate-military perspectives on "security" which are counter-productive to the fundamental concerns and priorities of the global population and have seriously endangered civilian populations.

III. Recommendations

Recognizing the right of the Iraqi people to resist the illegal occupation of their country and to develop independent institutions, and affirming that the right to resist the occupation is the right to wage a struggle for self-determination, freedom, and independence as derived from the Charter of the United Nations, we the Jury of Conscience declare our solidarity with the people of Iraq.

We recommend:

1. The immediate and unconditional withdrawal of the Coalition forces from Iraq.
2. That Coalition governments make war reparations and pay compensation to Iraq for the humanitarian, economic, ecological, and cultural devastation they have caused by their illegal invasion and occupation.
3. That all laws, contracts, treaties, and institutions established under occupation, which the Iraqi people deem inimical to their interests, be considered null and void.
4. That the Guantanamo Bay prison and all other offshore US military prisons be closed immediately, that the names of the prisoners be disclosed, that they receive POW status, and receive due process.
5. That there be an exhaustive investigation of those responsible for the crime of aggression, war crimes and crimes against humanity in Iraq, beginning with George W. Bush, President of the United States of America, Tony Blair, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, those in key decision-making positions in these countries and in the Coalition of the Willing, those in the military chain-of-command who master-minded the strategy for and carried out this criminal war, starting from the very top and going down; as well as personalities in Iraq who helped prepare this illegal invasion and supported the occupiers.
   

   We list some of the most obvious names to be included in such investigation:

   • prime ministers of the Coalition of the Willing, such as Junichiro Koizumi of Japan, Jose Maria Aznar of Spain, Silvio Berlusconi of Italy, Jose Manuel Durao Barroso and Santana Lopes of Portugal, Roh Moo Hyun of South Korea, Anders Fogh Rasmussen of Denmark;
   • public officials such as Dick Cheney, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Colin L. Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Alberto Gonzales, L. Paul Bremer from the US, and Jack Straw, Geoffrey Hoon, John Reid, Adam Ingram from the UK;
   • military commanders beginning with: Gen. Richard Myers, Gen. Tommy Franks, Gen. John P. Abizaid, Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez, Gen. Thomas Metz, Gen. John R. Vines, Gen. George Casey from the US; Gen. Mike Jackson, Gen. John Kiszely, Air Marshal Brian Burridge, Gen. Peter Wall, Rear Admiral David Snelson, Gen. Robin Brims, Air Vice-Marshal Glenn Torpy from the UK; and chiefs of staff and commanding officers of all coalition countries with troops in Iraq.
   • Iraqi collaborators such as Ahmed Chalabi, Iyad Allawi, Abdul Aziz Al Hakim, Gen. Abdul Qader Mohammed Jassem Mohan, among others.
   
   
6. That a process of accountability is initiated to hold those morally and personally responsible for their participation in this illegal war, such as journalists who deliberately lied, corporate media outlets that promoted racial, ethnic and religious hatred, and CEOs of multinational corporations that profited from this war;
7. That people throughout the world launch nonviolent actions against US and UK corporations that directly profit from this war. Examples of such corporations include Halliburton, Bechtel, The Carlyle Group, CACI Inc., Titan Corporation, Kellog, Brown and Root (subsidiary of Halliburton), DynCorp, Boeing, ExxonMobil, Texaco, British Petroleum. The following companies have sued Iraq and received "reparation awards": Toys R Us, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Shell, Nestle, Pepsi, Phillip Morris, Sheraton, Mobil. Such actions may take the form of direct actions such as shutting down their offices, consumer boycotts, and pressure on shareholders to divest.
8. That young people and soldiers act on conscientious objection and refuse to enlist and participate in an illegal war. Also, that countries provide conscientious objectors with political asylum.
9. That the international campaign for dismantling all US military bases abroad be reinforced.
10. That people around the world resist and reject any effort by any of their governments to provide material, logistical, or moral support to the occupation of Iraq.

We, the Jury of Conscience, hope that the scope and specificity of these recommendations will lay the groundwork for a world in which international institutions will be shaped and reshaped by the will of people and not by fear and self-interest, where journalists and intellectuals will not remain mute, where the will of the people of the world will be central, and human security will prevail over state security and corporate profits.

Arundhati Roy, India, Spokesperson of the Jury of Conscience
Ahmet Ozturk, Turkey
Ayse Erzan, Turkey
Chandra Muzaffar, Malaysia
David Krieger, USA
Eve Ensler, USA
Francois Houtart, Belgium
Jae-Bok Kim, South Korea
Mehmet Tarhan, Turkey
Miguel Angel De Los Santos Cruz, Mexico
Murat Belge, Turkey
Rela Mazali, Israel
Salaam Al Jobourie, Iraq
Taty Almeida, Argentina

International Law Appendix

Explanatory Note

This international law appendix is intended to back up the Jury Statement that rests its assessments primarily on a moral and political appraisal of the Iraq War. The Statement relies upon the extensive testimony given in written and oral form by international law experts who have a world-class scholarly reputation during the Istanbul Culminating Session of the World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI). It also reflects the testimony and submissions on related issues of war crimes and the failure of the United Nations to protect Iraq against aggression.

The Jury of Conscience was not a body composed of jurists or international law experts. It did not hear arguments supporting the legality of the invasion of Iraq as would have been made before a judicial body under the authority of either the state or an international institution acting on behalf of the international community. The World Tribunal on Iraq throughout all of its session proceeded from a sense of moral and political outrage of concerned citizens from all over the world, with respect to the war. The Tribunal was not interested in a debate solely as to legality. The legal issues were relevant to the extent that they added weight to the moral and political purpose of the Tribunal, which was to expose the Iraq War as the crime it is, appealing to and drawing upon the deep bonds that link us all in our humanity. Therefore the Tribunal sought testimony and evidence to call into question the mantle of respectability thrown over the Iraq War by the aggressors, and the false impression disseminated by mainstream media, that the Iraq War was in any sense justified by political circumstances, moral considerations, or legal analysis.

The WTI is a worldwide process dedicated to reclaiming justice on behalf of the peoples of the world. It aims to record the severe wrongs, crimes, and violations that were committed in the process leading up to the aggression against Iraq, during the war, and throughout the ensuing occupation, continuing with unabated fury to this day. The role of international law is understood in light of these WTI goals.

The concerns of the WTI range much further than the demand for the implementation of international law, especially as much of this law currently serves the interests of wealth and power. Nevertheless, international law with respect to the use of force and recourse to war is important in relation to the work of the WTI. International law is useful for the WTI for the following reasons:

• International law grounds the political and moral demand for the criminal indictment and prosecution of those responsible for the Iraq War, and it clarifies the extent of criminal accountability as extending to corporate and media participation;
• International law rejects the dangerous imperialist claims of the United States and the United Kingdom to be exempt from international legal obligations.

In addition, the WTI makes use of international law to fulfill its mission:

• The WTI connects a call for global justice with the demand for the implementation of international law, but also for a rethinking of the premises and operations of international law so that it might be of greater relevance to the achievement of human security in the future;
• The WTI demands an interrogation as to why international institutions, particularly the United Nations, proved powerless against US unilateralism and aggression;
• The WTI insists that United Nations exercise its constitutional responsibility to protect its Members from aggression and illegal occupation;
• The WTI possesses the authority, as representing civil society, to declare and seek enforcement of international legal obligations when states and the United Nations fail to uphold international law in matters of war and peace.

It is important to distinguish:

• violations of international law, including the UN Charter, by a state; and
• crimes associated with these violation committed by political and military leaders, government officials, corporations and their officers, soldiers and private contractors, journalists and media personnel.

Legal Analysis

• International law consists of (1) international treaties, including the UN Charter [see list of documents]; (2) international customary law [especially in relation to the conduct of states in war]; (3) international criminal law [a sub-category of (1) resting on treaties and agreements among states, based on the framework of the Nuremberg Judgment in 1945, unanimously affirmed by the UN General Assembly's adoption of the Nuremberg Principles in 1946, Res. 95(I)].
• In the War on Iraq the three principles of customary international law have been violated: (1) Principle of Proportionality: force can only be used to attain permissible legal objectives, and then only to the extent required by 'military necessity'; (2) Principle of Discrimination: force and weaponry can only be used if confined to military targets; indiscriminate weapons and tactics are prohibited; (3) Principle of Humanity: force must never be used to cause unnecessary suffering and maximum care must be taken to protect civilian society, including its cultural heritage.
• The War on Iraq violates the Nuremberg Principles that set forth the following essential guidelines (as formulated by the International Law Commission of the UN in 1950 in response to request from General Assembly):

Principle I

Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefore and liable to punishment.

Principle II

The fact that internal law does not impose a penalty for an act, which constitutes a crime under international law, does not relieve the person who committed the act from responsibility under international law.

Principle III

The fact that a person who committed an act which constitutes a crime under international law acted as Head of State or responsible Government official does not relieve him from responsibility under international law.

Principle IV

The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his Government or of a superior does not relieve him from responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible to him.

Principle V

Any person charged with a crime under international law has the right to a fair trial on the facts and law.

Principle VI

The crimes hereinafter set out are punishable as crimes under; international law:

a) Crimes against peace:

i. Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances;

ii. Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the acts mentioned under (i).

b) War crimes:

Violations of the laws or customs of war which include, but are not limited to, murder, ill treatment or deportation to slave-labor or for any other purpose of civilian population of or in occupied territory, murder or ill treatment of prisoners of war, of persons on the seas, killing of hostages, plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity.

c) Crimes against humanity:

Murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation and other inhuman acts done against any civilian population, or persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds, when such acts are done or such persecutions are carried on in execution of or in connection with any crime against peace or any war crime.

Principle VII

Complicity in the commission of a crime against peace, a war crime, or a crime against humanity as set forth in Principles VI is a crime under international law.

Violations and Crimes:

I. The invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003, together with the continuing occupation of Iraq, constitutes a violation of the core obligation of the United Nations Charter:

• resolving international conflicts by recourse to force or the threat of force is unconditionally prohibited by Article 2(4) of the Charter;
• the only exception to this probation is the right of states to act in self-defense against a prior armed attack as allowed by Article 51, but with the requirement that defending state report its claim to the Security Council;
• the claims of the US/UK Governments based on doctrines of 'preemption' or 'preventive war' have no standing in international law, and reliance on such specious arguments was in any event unsupported by facts; even if weapons of mass destruction had existed in Iraq it would not provide a legal justification for the invasion; nor would the claim that 'regime change' would liberate the Iraqi people from dictatorial rule violative of human rights;
• with respect to Iraq there existed no basis for claiming self-defense or acting on the basis of a Security Council authorization; the invasion of Iraq and the subsequent occupation of the country constitutes a continuing aggression against a sovereign state and member of the UN in violation of international law;
• the cumulative effect of these violations is to create a strong factual and legal foundation for the indictment, prosecution, and punishment of the individuals responsible for planning, initiating, and waging a crime of aggression against Iraq.

II. Iraq War by the invading military forces, principally those of the United States and United Kingdom, and subsequent occupation, violated the law of war such as the Geneva Conventions on the Humanitarian Laws of War (1949), Additional Protocols to Geneva Conventions (1977) and Hague Conventions on the Laws of War (1899, 1907) in numerous respects, including the following:

• use of cluster bombs, napalm, depleted uranium;
• bombing of civilian targets and areas (e.g. markets, restaurants, media facilities, religious and cultural sites);
• intense and indiscriminate military operations against many cities and towns causing massive civilian casualties (e.g. Najaf, Falluja);
• repeated and systematic use of torture and degrading treatment of Iraqi civilian and military personnel detained in prison facilities or covertly transferred to foreign countries known for torture and severe prison conditions;
• overall failure to protect the civilian population and their property, cultural heritage (shootings at check points; house raids; lootings of museums and other cultural sites; refusal to assess extent of civilian death and damage) [see especially common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions imposing duty to take special measures to protect civilian population to the extent possible) (Also Geneva Convention IV specifies the obligations of the occupying power in Articles 47-78);
• the cumulative effect of this pattern of flagrant and extensive violations of the laws of war is to create the foundation for the indictment, prosecution, and punishment of those individuals responsible, as policy makers, leaders, and as implementers at various levels of command;
• Article 1 of the Geneva Conventions reads: "The High Contracting Parties, including US/UK, undertake to respect and ensure respect for the present Convention in all circumstances." The American legal specialists in Office of the Legal Counsel in the White House, in the Justice Department, and Department of Defense who advised on the 'legality' of torture and other behavior that violates the law of war are priority targets for indictment and prosecution.

III. The occupation of Iraq has fragrantly violated The Right of Self-Determination of the People of Iraq:

• Article 1 of the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights and of the International Covenant on Political and Civil Rights (1966): "(1) All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development";
• It is evident that the occupation, by its decrees, practices, imposition of an interim government, managed elections, and administered constitution-making process has violated the right of self-determination of the Iraqi people, a fundamental element of international human rights law.

IV. The occupation of Iraq has included massive abuses of the Iraqi civilian population, including the widespread and pervasive reliance on torture, the practice of which is unconditionally prohibited by international law:

• Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "No one shall be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment" (repeated in Article 7 of International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966), including Article 4(2) that affirms there are no exceptions, even in conditions of war or emergency) and further confirmed by the widely ratified treaty�- Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984).

V. The United Nations has failed to uphold its obligations to protect sovereign states, especially its members, from violations of their legal rights to political independence and territorial integrity, passively allowing Iraq to be threatened and attacked for twelve years prior to the invasion of 2003:

• the UNSC maintained sanctions on Iraq that had a demonstrated genocidal effect on the civilian population during the period 1991-2003;
• the UNSC refrained from censuring and preventing repeated air strikes within Iraq territory during the period 1991-2003;
• the UNSC refrained from censuring and preventing overt calls for the subversion and replacement of the Iraqi government, as well as the financing and training of exiles dedicated to armed struggle;
• the UNSC failed to condemn or act to prevent aggressive threats or the actual initiation and conduct of an aggressive war against Iraq in 2003, and has to a limited extent cooperated in the illegal occupation of Iraq since the invasion .

Conclusions

1. The Jury Statement is consistent with an objective understanding of international law, including the United Nations Charter.
2. Members of the United Nations and governments of sovereign states have legal obligations to uphold the Charter and act to ensure respect for the laws of war.
3. All three categories of Nuremberg Crimes are associated with the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
4. The International Criminal Court should indict, prosecute, and punish the perpetrators and collaborators for this aggression against Iraq and the related international crimes arising from the subsequent occupation of the country.
5. The ICC should be supplemented by a specially constituted international tribunal with authority to indict, prosecute, and punish for crimes committed before 2002 when the ICC was established and to the extent that crimes associated with states not Parties to the ICC are not addressed.
6. The UNGA should be encouraged to implement international law with respect to the Iraq War and occupation.
7. National courts relying on universal jurisdiction should be urged to investigate and prosecute individuals associated with Nuremberg Crimes in Iraq.
8. Organs of civil society, including the WTI, should act to ensure that the recommendations and conclusions of the Jury Statement are promptly and fairly implemented.

Appendix: List of Legal Documents

• Hague Convention IV Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land (1907)
• Protocol for the Prohibition of the use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods (1925)
• General Treaty ('Pact of Paris') for the Renunciation of War as an Instrument of National Policy (1928)
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)
• Geneva Conventions (I-IV) on International Humanitarian Law (1949)
• Nuremberg Principles Recognized in the Charter of the Tribunal and in the Nuremberg Judgment (1950)
• European Convention on Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (1950)
• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)
• Convention on the Political Rights of Women (1953)
• Code of Conduct for the Armed Forces of the United States of America (1963)
• International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (1965)
• International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966)
• International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966)
• American Convention on Human Rights (1969)
• Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Biological Weapons and Toxin Weapons (1972)
• Universal (or Algiers) Declaration of the Rights of Peoples (1976)
• Principles of Co-Operation in the Detection, Arrest, Extradition and Punishment of Persons Guilty of War Crimes or Crimes Against Humanity (1973)
• Protocol Additional (I-II) to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 (1977)
• Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979)
• African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights (1981)
• Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984)
• International Convention Against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries (1989)
• Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989)
• Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons (1992)
• Declaration for the Protection of War Victims (1993)
• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (1998)

www.worldtribunal.org/

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farce
by AQ Buster Wednesday, Aug. 03, 2005 at 12:53 PM

Who represented the government of Canada? Why was this not done when China invaded Tibet? Oh I seee it is make believe this tribunal. Wait I hear the familiar refrain of the loony left. Squak...the Zioinsts did it...Squak...the US did it...Squak! I have no evidence but I will parrot the same old left lies. Squak...the Zioinsts did it...Squak...the US did it...Squak!

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by RELIGION OF PEACE Wednesday, Aug. 03, 2005 at 1:51 PM

" The List " of Islamic Terror Attacks Since September 11th, 2001

Date Country City Killed Injured Description
8/3/05 Iraq Basra 1 1 Shia gunmen abduct and execute an American journalist. They also cause severe injury to his female interpretor.
8/3/05 Iraq Haditha 15 1 Fourteen U.S. Marines and one civilian are killed when terrorists detonate a bomb under their vehicle.
8/3/05 Israel Sderot 1 9 Palestinian terrorists fire a rocket at a group of Israeli demostrators. The missile hits their own group instead, killing a 3-year-old boy and injuring nine others, including five children.
8/2/05 India Pulwama 1 0 The Mujhideen kill a man who is woking his paddy fields.
8/2/05 India Nandyali 1 0 A woman is shot to death by the Mujahideen inside her home.
8/2/05 Afghanistan Nuristan 8 0 The Taliban kill eight police in an attack on their station.
8/2/05 Iraq Shu'la 7 0 Shia gunmen kill a Sunni cleric and his brother, then gun down a vehicle carrying five mourners on their way to view the bodies.
8/2/05 Iraq Baghdad 4 24 An Islamic suicide bomber kills four civilians and injures two dozen.
7/31/05 India Badarkot 1 0 A civilian is shot to death inside his own home by militant Muslims.
7/31/05 Iraq Haswa 7 12 Seven civilians are killed by a Jihad car bombing.
7/30/05 India Srinigar 2 25 The Mujahideen stage an attack on a hotel that claims the lives of two security personnel and injures about twenty-five others.
7/30/05 Iraq Baghdad 3 0 Police find the bodies of three airport workers, bound and tortured by the Jihadis. Their throats were cut.
7/30/05 Iraq Basra 2 2 A bomb attack on the British Embassy convoy leaves two security guards dead and two children injured.
7/30/05 Afghanistan Charchino 3 0 A district governor and his two bodyguards are assassinated by the Taliban in a roadside attack.
7/30/05 Iraq Baghdad 6 26 A Fedayeen suicide bomber kills six Iraqis near a theatre. Twenty-six others are injured.
7/29/05 India Kupwara 2 0 The Mujahideen invade a home to kill the wife of a police officer, along with his young nephew.
7/29/05 India Rajouri 6 0 Muslims line up five Hindu villagers and then slit their throats. Elsewhere in the same district, they murder a woman with an axe.
7/29/05 India Doda 2 0 Islamists kill two policemen in an ambush.
7/29/05 Algeria Boumerdes 2 4 The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat kill two Algerian police officers in an ambush.
7/29/05 Iraq Rabiah 52 35 A suicidal religious extremist wanders into a crowd of people and detonates explosives strapped to his body, killing at over fifty people.
7/29/05 Thailand Pattani 1 3 A village leader is gunned down and three others suffer injuries in a separate attack in Narathiwat.
7/28/05 India Sokar 3 0 A 5-year-old girl, her mother and grandmother are slaughtered in a home invasion by the Mujahideen.
7/28/05 Bangladesh Boalmari 2 0 Two Christian charity workers are hacked to death inside their home by hard-line Islamic militants.
7/27/05 Iraq Baghdad 2 0 al-Qaeda executes two Algerian diplomats that were abducted several days earlier.
7/26/05 Chechnya Dargo 1 3 Muslim terrorists ambush a security patrol, killing one and injuring three.
7/26/05 Ethiopia Jigjiga 5 30 A Muslim separatist group, the ONLF, kills five people, including a child, in two grenade attacks against civilian targets.
7/26/05 Afghanistan Kandahar 2 0 The Taliban kill a police chief and one other with a rocket attack on their car.
7/26/05 India Mahore 1 0 Hizb-ul-Mujahideen members invade a home and murder a civilian.
7/26/05 Iraq Baghdad 16 27 Sunni gunmen massacre sixteen Shia civilians with an automatic weapons attack on their vehicles. Over two dozen are inured with gunshot wounds.
7/26/05 Iraq Basra 3 0 In two separate attacks (one in Tikrit) Jihadis kill three innocents, including a child and a truck driver.
7/26/05 Iraq Hilla 3 0 Three policemen are killed when terrorists fire a rocket at point-blank range.
7/25/05 Iraq Baghdad 12 16 A Fedayeen suicide bomber drives his car in front of a hotel and slaughters a dozen people. Sixteen others are injured.
7/24/05 Dagestan Makhachkala 1 4 Muslim terrorists put a bomb beneath a passenger train that kills one and injures four commuters.
7/24/05 Iraq Baghdad 22 30 A horrific scene as a Fedayeen suicide bomber kills twenty-two people, mostly civilians in a crowded area near sidewalk cafes.
7/23/05 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Islamic militants shoot a 58-year-old village leader twice in the head as he is riding with his wife.
7/23/05 Afghanistan Kandahar 1 0 The Taliban assassinate a judge as he is walking to work.
7/23/05 Lebanon Beirut 0 12 Twelve people are injured by a car bomb placed in a Christian neighborhood.
7/23/05 Israel Kissufim 2 5 Palestinian gunmen murder an Israeli husband and wife. They also open fire on medical rescue workers, injuring five of them.
7/23/05 Egypt Sharm el-Sheik 88 119 More than eighty tourists and workers are killed when Islamic militants detonate three powerful car bombs outside a café and two hotels. One suicide bomber drove into the lobby. Over one-hundred people suffer injuries.
7/22/05 Iraq Baghdad 12 5 Four Jihad attacks leave twelve Iraqis dead, including a senseless ambush on a wedding party that left the bride and her mother dead.
7/22/05 Pakistan South Waziristan 4 0 al-Qaeda suspected in shooting deaths of a tribal leader, his two sons and brother.
7/21/05 Afghanistan Helmand 2 0 The Taliban ambush a vehicle carrying two people. Both are killed in the explosion.
7/21/05 India Anantnag 1 2 Militant Muslims fire on a bus stop, killing a civilian and injuring two others.
7/21/05 Iraq Mahmudiya 5 8 A religious extremist kills himself and five innocents in a blast at a traffic checkpoint.
7/21/05 India Sopore 2 2 Two civilians are killed when the Mujahideen attack a security camp.
7/20/05 Pakistan Gilgit 3 0 Three people are gunned down in sectarian attacks.
7/20/05 Iraq Hilla 4 4 Two Jihad car bombings kill four and injure four, including a young girl.
7/20/05 Iraq Baghdad 10 21 A suicidal Sunni murders ten people near an airport and causes egregious injuries to at least a dozen others.
7/20/05 India Srinigar 6 17 Hizbul Mujahideen suicide bomber targets a missionary children's school in the Indian capital, killing at least six and injuring more than a dozen.
7/19/05 Iraq Baqubah 13 0 Jihadis stage a shooting attack on a minivan carrying civilians, killing thirteen in all.
7/19/05 Chechnya Znamenskoye 14 36 Fourteen people, including civilians, are killed in a Jihad attack by Muslim separatists on a remote road.
7/19/05 India Chitabas 6 0 The Hizbul Mujahideen enter a residence and slaughter six members of a family, in a heinous attack.
7/18/05 Iraq Baghdad 7 0 Islamic insurgents murder six policemen and a government worker in six separate shooting attacks.
7/18/05 Pakistan Chilas Farm 5 15 Five passengers aboard a bus are killed when the Mujahideen ambush it along a mountain road. Fifteen others are injured.
7/18/05 Afghanistan Uruzgan 9 0 Nine villagers are slaughtered in a Taliban raid.
7/18/05 India Arwani 1 1 The Mujahideen shoot a man to death outside his shop.
7/18/05 Pakistan Quetta 1 1 A Shia schoolteacher is gunned down, and his wife critically injured.
7/18/05 Pakistan Karachi 1 1 A Sunni cleric is attacked in his car by Shia on motorcycles, who manage to kill his son.
7/18/05 Thailand Yala 3 1 In three separate attacks, Muslims behead a farmer and shoot at least two other people to death, including a school principal.
7/17/05 Iraq Baghdad 22 21 Four Fedayeen kill twenty-two people in separate suicide suicide bombings.
7/16/05 Iraq Musayyib 71 160 A religious extremist with explosives wrapped around his chest, detonates himself in a crowded city street, killing over seventy other people. Nearly two-hundred others are injured in the horrific attack.
7/16/05 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Muslim separatists attack a school, killing two security guards.
7/16/05 India Baramulla 2 0 The Mujahideen shoot a man to death outside his home, and also stage a separate attack that kills a 6-year-old girl.
7/16/05 Iraq Basra 3 2 Muslim terrorists kill three British soldiers with a roadside bomb.
7/15/05 Iraq Baghdad 27 100 Seven suicide bombers take at least twenty-seven innocents with them to Allah. About one hundred others suffer injuries; many lose limbs.
7/15/05 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Two female teachers are gunned down by Muslims on motorcycles as they are walking home.
7/14/05 Thailand Yala 2 21 Islamic militants set off four bombs in restaraunts and other business areas, killing at least two people.
7/14/05 Israel Netiv Haasara 1 1 Palestinian terrorists hit an Israeli residence with a missile, killing a woman.
7/13/05 Iraq Baghdad 27 25 An Islamic suicide bomber deliberately plows his car into a group of children, slaughtering at least twenty-seven. Children were amply represented among the injured.
7/13/05 Iraq Jalawlah 2 16 A suicide bomber kills two others inside a Sunni mosque.
7/13/05 India Bigambri 1 0 The Mujahideen abduct a civilian, then kill him in captivity.
7/13/05 Pakistan Jhal Magsi 3 3 Three children, including two brothers, are killed by a homemade bomb.
7/12/05 Israel Netanya 5 70 The terror group, Islamic Jihad, takes credit for a suicide bombing, in which a bomber kills five Jews crossing the street in front of a mall. All of the victims were female, two were teenage girls. About seventy others were injured.
7/12/05 Iraq Kirkuk 3 15 Sunnis detonate a car bomb in an industrial district, killing three civilians and injuring fifteen more.
7/11/05 Somalia Mogadishu 1 0 al-Qaeda assassinates a Somali peace activist outside his home.
7/10/05 Iraq Syrian Border 7 0 Two Islamic suicide bombers kill seven customs agents.
7/10/05 Iraq Baghdad 25 47 A al-Qaeda suicide bomber blows himself to Allah, taking twenty-five innocents with him. Nearly fifty others are injured.
7/10/05 Iraq Kirkuk 4 15 Suicidal Sunni kills four civilians on a highway, near a hospital. Fifteen are injured in the blast.
7/9/05 Pakistan Karachi 1 0 A Shia cleric is gunned down on a street by Pakistani Sunnis.
7/9/05 Algeria Tezi Ozo 4 0 A group of thirty Islamists set-up a fake roadblock, then slaughter four Algerians that are fooled into stopping.
7/9/05 Iraq Baghdad 8 0 A family of eight Shia is grusomely murdered by Sunni radicals as they sleep in their home.
7/8/05 India Rajouri 4 0 Four Indian soldiers are ambushed and killed by Islamic militants.
7/7/05 Afghanistan Helmand 10 0 Ten Afghan police officers are captured by the Taliban and senselessly beheaded.
7/7/05 Iraq Baghdad 1 0 al-Qaeda Organization for Holy War pronounces "Allah's judgment" and kills a kidnapped Egyptian diplomat on video.
7/7/05 UK London 52 750 Islamic terrorists massacre more than fifty commuters on three separate subway trains and a double-decker bus on the street with four suicide bombs. Over seven-hundred people are injured.
7/7/05 Iraq Mosul 5 52 Five people at a market are killed when Sunni terrorists lob more than a dozen mortar rounds into the square.
7/6/05 Algeria Skikda 1 13 Islamic fundamentalists bomb a convoy, killing one Algerian solider and injuring thirteen others.
7/6/05 Iraq Jbeila 13 30 Thirteen civilians are slaughtered in twin suicide bombings by Muslim extremists. About thirty others are injured.
7/6/05 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Muslims on motorcycles shoot a 52-year-old in the neck and hand as he is riding to market.
7/6/05 India Budgam 1 0 The Mujahideen kidnap a student from his classrom and subsequently shoot him to death.
7/5/05 Dagestan Makhachkala 2 0 A prominent politician is assassinated, along with his uncle, by suspected Islamists as they sit in their car at a light.
7/5/05 Iraq Baghdad 3 0 Islamic extremists shoot three barbers to death for shaving beards.
7/5/05 Thailand Pattani 1 0 A 44-year-old security force member is abducted and beheaded by Islamists.
7/5/05 India Pulwama 2 1 In two separate home invasions, the Mujahideen shoot two people to death and critically injure the wife of one.
7/4/05 Iraq Baghdad 2 1 Sunni insurgents kill a painting contractor, and kidnap, torture and behead another man.
7/4/05 Dagestan Makhachkala 2 2 Two policemen are killed by an insurgent bombing.
7/4/05 Afghanistan Bande Sardeh 1 2 A suicide bomber on a bicycle kills a Turkish engineer and injures two others.
7/4/05 Iraq Baghdad 2 4 A remote-controlled bomb kills two civilians, including a woman.
7/4/05 Iraq Fallujah 3 9 Three civilians are blown to bits, and nine others badly injured by a Fedayeen suicide bombing on a busy road.
7/4/05 India Wagbal Karhama 1 0 A youth is abducted and hanged by the Mujahideen.
7/4/05 India Dadsar 1 0 The Mujahideen abduct then shoot a civilian to death.
7/3/05 Syria Damascus 2 0 Two Syrian border patrol personnel are killed an an Islamic extremist, near Lebanon.
7/3/05 Afghanistan Kandahar 1 0 Pro-democracy cleric is killed by a Talibn sniper his home.
7/2/05 Iraq Mahmoudiya 2 0 A bomb hidden in a vegetable cart targets a Shia funeral procession.
7/2/05 Iraq Hillah 6 26 Two Sunni suicide bombers kill at least six people and injured dozens more in a Shia neighborhood.
7/2/05 Iraq Baghdad 16 22 A suicidal Muslim bomber kills sixteen other people outside a police station. About two dozen others are injured in the blast.
7/2/05 Dagestan Makhachkala 11 23 Russian troops and civilians are casualties in a radio-controlled bomb attack outside a bathhouse blamed on Islamic militants.
7/2/05 Afghanistan Paktika 6 2 The Taliban attack a UN convoy with a roadside bomb, killing six Afghan security personnel.
7/1/05 Iraq Baghdad 1 0 A Shiite cleric is gunned down in cold blood by Sunnis in a drive-by attack.
7/1/05 India Kashmir 3 0 Three civilians are abducted from their homes and executed by the Mujahideen, including a 65-year-old man.
6/30/05 Afghanistan Tirin Kot 9 1 Nine village elders are kidnapped and killed by the Taliban, along with a 10-year-old boy.
6/30/05 India Kallar Kattal 1 0 A man is attacked in his home and beaten to death by militant Muslims.
6/30/05 Iraq Baghdad 7 0 Muslim gunmen burst into an optician's shop and kill seven people in cold blood - four from the same family.
6/30/05 India Mahakund 4 0 The Mujahideen kill a 20-year-old girl on the night before her wedding, along with her mother and a neighbor. A civilian is also abducted from his home and killed in the same district.
6/29/05 India Srinagar 0 14 Fourteen people are injured when the Mujahideen toss a grenade into a city street.
6/29/05 Israel Mt. Dov 1 3 Hezbollah attacks an Israeli position from across the Lebanese border, killing one and injuring three.
6/28/05 Iraq Baghdad 5 0 An 87-year-old Iraqi politician and four others, including his son, are killed by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.
6/28/05 Iraq Musayyib 3 13 A suicide bomber enters a hospital then detonates his explosives, killing three other people.
6/28/05 Iraq Tal Afar 4 21 Four people, including a child, lose their lives in a Jihad mortar attack.
6/28/05 Thailand Pattani 2 0 A janitor and a poultry trader are murdered in separate attacks by Islamic militants on motorcycles.
6/28/05 Thailand Yala 1 0 Islamic militants shoot a government worker to death as he is walking along the side of the road.
6/28/05 Iraq Kirkuk 3 0 Sunni terrorists kill three oil company workers with a roadside bomb.
6/28/05 Iraq Baghdad 4 24 Four civilians are killed, and dozens injured when fundamentalists detonate a car bomb outside a theater.
6/28/05 India Bhaderwah 4 0 Four security personnel are killed by Muslim militants in a shootout.
6/27/05 Iraq Baghdad 3 0 Islamic fundamentalists attack a barbershop, killing two, including a 9-year-old boy, then blow up the building.
6/27/05 India Kupwara 1 0 The Mujahideen abduct a woman from her home, torture then murder her.
6/26/05 India Dachabpore 1 0 The Mujahideen abduct a civilian from his home, take him to an orchard and kill him in brutal fashion.
6/26/05 Iraq Mosul 36 19 Four bombings by suicidal Fedayeen in disguised vehicles leave three dozen people dead and dozens more injured.
6/25/05 Israel Beit Hagai 2 3 A brutal shooting attack a point-blank range on a group of Israeli teenagers, hitchhiking on a roadside, leaves a 17-year-old and a 16-year-old dead. Three others were injured. al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade take credit for the murder.
6/25/05 India Behibagh 1 0 A female schoolteacher is killed by the Mujahideen.
6/25/05 Iraq Mosul 5 2 Suicide bomber blows himself to Allah, taking five innocents with him.
6/25/05 Iraq Samarrah 9 16 Suicide bomber slams into a residential neighborhood, killing nine civilians and injuring sixteen.
6/25/05 Iraq Baghdad 5 7 Sunni insurgents mortar bomb a crowded Shia café, killing five civilians and injuring seven.
6/24/05 India Srinigar 9 25 Nine people are killed when Islamic militants detonate a powerful car bomb at a popular tourist attraction.
6/24/05 Thailand Yala 2 0 A man and his wife stop to remove a tree branch from the road, when they are attacked by militant Muslims, who then cut off their heads.
6/24/05 Iraq Ramadi 13 10 Eight policemen are captured at a checkpoint by Jihadis, then executed. Two separate attacks elsewhere leave five others dead.
6/24/05 Afghanistan Chora 3 0 The Taliban murder an election candidate and two of his bodyguards.
6/23/05 Iraq Baghdad 17 60 Four more car bombs aimed at Shia civilians kill fifteen and injure over fifty in residential neighborhoods.
6/23/05 Pakistan Karachi 2 1 Two Sunni clerics are assassinated in an attack that leaves a boy injured.
6/23/05 Pakistan South Waziristan 4 0 Probable al-Qaeda ambush on a delivery truck leaves four people dead.
6/23/05 Iraq Fallujah 4 13 A senseless attack on a U.S. Marine mail convoy kills four, including three women.
6/22/05 Iraq Baghdad 18 46 Eighteen Shiite civilians are slaughtered in three separate bombing attacks by radical Sunnis. About fifty are injured.
6/22/05 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Muslim extremists behead a 34-year-old cloth vendor. The head is found 2km away.
6/22/05 Thailand Narathiwat 0 7 A bomb set off by Muslim extremists injures seven, including two monks and three elderly people.
6/22/05 India Bijbehara 0 17 About seventeen people, including two teenage boys are injured when the Mujahideen toss a grenade onto a road.
6/22/05 India Nadihal 2 0 The Mujahideen abduct and kill two civilians by slashing their throats.
6/21/05 Thailand Pattani 3 0 Islamic militants invade a home and shoot three young volunteer teacher to death.
6/21/05 Afghanistan Maiwand 1 1 Taliban terrorists kill the husband of an election worker.
6/21/05 Lebanon Beirut 1 1 An anti-Syria political leader is assassinated by a car bomb in Lebanon.
6/20/05 India Watalar 1 0 Two Harkat-ul-Mujahideen terrorists assassinate a local political figure.
6/20/05 Israel Baqa al-Sharqiya 1 1 Palestinian snipers kill an Israeli civilian traveling in his car. His 13-year-old son is shot as well.
6/20/05 Iraq Ebril 19 118 Three car bombs, at least one by a suicidal "holy warrior," kill eighteen people, mostly Kurds, and injure over one-hundred.
6/19/05 Iraq Tikrit 3 9 Fedayeen suicide bomber kills three Iraqis.
6/19/05 Iraq Iskandariya 3 7 Sunni terrorists open fire on shoppers at a marketplace, killing three and injuring seven.
6/19/05 Iraq Baghdad 23 36 A suicidal religious extremist walks into a restaurant and blows up twenty-three innocent people. Another thirty-six patrons are injured.
6/19/05 Israel Gaza 1 2 The Palestinian terrorist group, Abu Rish Brigade, takes credit for an ambush on a civilian labor group that leaves an Israeli guard dead.
6/19/05 India Dachan 1 1 The Mujahideen fire into a civilian's home, killing his 14-year-old daughter and injuring his wife.
6/19/05 Afghanistan Nad-e Ali 3 0 The Taliban machine-gun a car with three people, including a judge.
6/18/05 Iraq Baghdad 3 0 A 10-year-old girl is killed by a bomb and two bodies are found, brutally executed.
6/18/05 Saudi Arabia Makkah 1 0 Senior Saudi official is gunned down by Islamists outside his home.
6/17/05 Iraq Fallujah 14 8 Fourteen Iraqis die when a suicide bomber detonates an explosives laden car on a street corner.
6/16/05 India Awantipora 0 15 Fifteen people, including a child and two women are injured by the splinters of a grenade thrown by the Mujahideen on a road.
6/16/05 Thailand Narathiwat 2 3 Three separate attacks in the same Thai province by militant Muslims leave two dead and three injured.
6/16/05 Iraq Mosul 2 0 Ansar al-Sunna terrorists shoot an Iraqi judge to death, along with his driver.
6/15/05 India Chaklas 2 0 The Mujahideen assassinate a veterinarian and also set fire to another civilian's house, killing his 8-month-old daughter in the flames.
6/15/05 Iraq Baghdad 4 29 A suicide bomber detonates near a market, murdering four Iraqis and injuring twenty-nine others.
6/15/05 Iraq Khalis 23 28 A particularly heinous suicide bombing attack on Iraqi soldiers eating lunch at their base leaves twenty-three dead and about thirty injured.
6/15/05 Iraq Ramadi 5 0 Five U.S. Marines are killed by a terrorist while riding in their vehicle.
6/14/05 Iraq Baqubah 6 4 Suicide bomber kills six Iraqis, including two children and injures four others.
6/14/05 Iraq Kirkuk 19 89 A Fedayeen suicide bomber wades into a crowd of people shopping in a market and kills nineteen, including children, and injures about ninety others in an egregious and senseless attack.
6/14/05 Afghanistan Khost 7 0 Taliban extremists walk into a medical clinic and gun down a doctor and seven hospital workers in cold blood.
6/13/05 India Pulwama 13 100 At least thirteen people are slaughtered, and over one hundred injured when the Mujahideen set off a truck bomb near a school. Many schoolchildren are among the casualties.
6/13/05 Thailand Pattani 1 1 Two Buddhist twin brothers are shot by Islamic terrorists as they are riding home from school. One dies.
6/13/05 Thailand Narathiwat 1 3 Islamic radicals plant a bomb in a garbage truck, killing one of the workers and injuring several more.
6/12/05 Iraq Baghdad 3 4 Three people are killed, and at least four injured in two separate suicide blasts.
6/12/05 Afghanistan Kandahar 1 4 The Taliban kill a woman with a landmine. The blast injures her two children and two other women.
6/12/05 Russia Uzunova 0 15 Fifteen people are injured when a bomb believed to be planted by Chechan terrorists derails a commuter train
6/11/05 Iraq Baghdad 10 0 Ten people are slaughtered by a Sunni bomb in a Shia neighborhood, including a pregnant woman and her husband.
6/11/05 Iraq Diyara 11 2 Jihad gunmen open fire on a bus carrying construction laborers, killing eleven in the brutal attack and injuring two.
6/11/05 Thailand Narathiwat 1 0 Muslims murder a 49-year-old Buddhist construction worker on his way to work.
6/11/05 Iraq Najaf 2 3 A bomb planted in a Shia cemetery kills two people, including an 8-year-old girl, and injures three others, all from the same family.
6/10/05 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Two separate shooting attacks by Muslim militants leave two, including a Buddhist, dead.
6/10/05 Iraq Basra 2 0 A policeman and his brother are shot to death by Jihadis while riding in their car.
6/9/05 Syria Damascus 1 1 Two Syrian security force personnel are shot by religious extremists as they are attempting an arrest.
6/9/05 Iraq Haqlaniya 5 0 Five U.S. Marines are killed in a terrorist bombing.
6/9/05 Thailand Yala 1 0 A Buddhist teenager is shot in the head by Muslim separatists.
6/9/05 Chechnya Tver 7 1 Seven Chechnyan police officers are killed when Mujahideen rebels fire a grenade launcher at their car.
6/9/05 Iraq Kirkuk 2 0 Two Iraqis are killed in a Jihad attack on their vehicle.
6/9/05 Iraq Qaim 17 0 The bodies of seventeen Iraqi Shiites are discovered bound and executed. Some were beheaded.
6/8/05 Afghanistan Shkin 2 8 al-Qaeda terrorists shoot rockets at American soldiers unloading supplies, killing two.
6/7/05 Iraq Hawija 18 38 Militant Sunnis kill eighteen Iraqi civilians in a series of four suicide bombings and other attacks.
6/7/05 Afghanistan Spin Boldak 2 0 Two Pakistani truck drivers are murdered by the Taliban.
6/7/05 Algeria M'Sila 13 6 Militants fighting for an Islamic state kill thirteen soldiers in a bombing attack on their truck.
6/7/05 India Bahk-e-Hakar 1 0 A civilian is abducted from his home and beheaded by the Mujahideen.
6/7/05 Iraq Habaniyah 7 0 The 'Army of Ansar al-Sunna' ambushes a civilian truck convoy and slaughters seven drivers.
6/7/05 Israel Ganei Tal 3 0 Islamic Jihad bomb an Israeli greenhouse, killing three, including a Chinese worker.
6/6/05 Thailand Bangkok 1 0 A 59-year-old Buddhist plantation worker is captured and beheaded by militant Muslims.
6/5/05 India Bandipora 2 0 The Mujahideen abduct and kill two civilians.
6/5/05 Iraq Shorgat 1 3 An Iraqi soldier is killed by a suicide bomber on a motorcycle.
6/4/05 Mauritania Limgheiti 15 19 al-Qaeda militants attack and kill fifteen Mauritanian soldiers in a remote area. Nineteen others are injured.
6/3/05 Afghanistan Kandahar 5 5 Five separate attacks by the Taliban, leave five people dead and at least five others injured.
6/3/05 Iraq Balad 10 12 Ten Iraqis are slaughtered by a suicidal religious fanatic in a car bombing. Twelve more are injured.
6/3/05 Aghanistan Tirin Kot 1 1 The Taliban invade the home of a civic educator, beat up his elderly father, then execute him.
6/2/05 Iraq Baghdad 9 0 Muslim militants fire into a crowded market from three passing cars, murdering at least nine civilians.
6/2/05 Iraq Mosul 5 13 Jihadis detonate bombs on two motorcycles parked outside a café, killing five Iraqis.
6/2/05 Lebanon Beirut 1 1 Car bombing in a Christian area of the city takes the life of a journalist who oppossed Syrian hegemony.
6/2/05 Iraq Baqouba 4 4 Four Iraqis killed in a blast by a suicidal Sunni.
6/2/05 Iraq Kirkuk 4 11 A convoy of civilian contractors is targeted by a Fedayeen suicide bomber who paves his way to Paradise with at least four dead bodies.
6/2/05 Iraq Tuz Khormato 12 40 Suicidal religious extremist plows his car into a restaurant and detonates a blast that leaves at least twelve people dead, including children, and forty others maimed.
6/2/05 India Harwan 4 1 The Mujahideen abduct and later behead four members of two families.
6/1/05 Aghanistan Kandahar 21 42 An al-Qaeda member wades into a crowd of mourners at a funeral for a murdered anti-Taliban cleric, killing about two dozen people and hurting dozens more.
6/1/05 Aghanistan Lashkargah 2 5 The Taliban kill two mine-dectection crewmen in a remote-controlled blast.
5/31/05 Pakistan Karachi 5 26 A suicide bombing attack at a Shia mosque kills five people and injures twenty-six.
5/31/05 Pakistan Karachi 6 0 A mob of angry Shias take out their frustration at Sunnis on Kentucky Fried Chicken employees, killing six, including four who were burned alive.
5/31/05 Algeria Boumerdes 2 5 The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat ambushes a security patrol, killing two and injuring five.
5/30/05 Iraq Baghdad 27 118 Two Fedayeen suicide bombers kill twenty-seven Iraqis. The first waded into a crowd before detonating. The second ran after the survivors, killing many of them as well.
5/29/05 Afghanistan Kandahar 1 0 The Taliban stage a bold assassination on an opposition cleric, as he is leaving his office.
5/29/05 Iraq Mosul 8 0 Eight civilians, including children, are blown to bits by Islamic terrorists.
5/29/05 Iraq Tuz 2 9 Jihadis kill two civilians with a car bomb outside a school. Nine others are injured.
5/29/05 Iraq al-Madyen 2 8 A suicide car bomber kills two Iraqis and injures eight on his way to Paradise.
5/29/05 Pakistan Kani Wam 3 2 al-Qaeda suspected in ambush on Pakistani official's car that leaves three dead.
5/29/05 India Anatnag 0 44 Forty-four people are injured in twins blasts set by Hizb-ul-Mujahideen. One went off near a post office.
5/28/05 Iraq Baghdad 1 0 Islamists stab a 44-year-old Japanese hostage to death on videotape.
5/28/05 Iraq Sinjar 5 45 Two religious extremists kill five other people and injure at least forty more in coordinated suicide bombings.
5/28/05 Indonesia Sulawesi 22 60 A priest and an infant are among the nearly two dozen Christians killed when Islamic militants detonate two bombs in the center of a village. At least sixty others are injured.
5/27/05 Pakistan Islamabad 19 41 A suicide bomber blows himself up amid a crowd of mostly Shia worhippers at a Pakistani shrine. At least nineteen are killed and dozens injured.
5/27/05 Nigeria Sokoto 1 14 Nigerian Sunnis attack a Shia political office, killing one and injuring fourteen.
5/27/05 Philippines Sulu 2 3 Abu Sayyaf militants trigger a landmine against a vehicle on a water run, killing two soldiers and inuring three others.
5/27/05 Iraq Tikrit 2 24 Two civilians are killed and at least two dozen others injured, some badly, in a terrorist bombing.
5/26/05 Iraq Baghdad 3 6 Suicidal extremist kills three Iraqis and injures six with bombs hidden in a taxi.
5/26/05 Iraq Baghdad 5 0 Jihadis attack and kill a university professor, along with three of his bodyguards. They also knife a Shiite to death elsewhere.
5/25/05 Pakistan Makin 6 0 A woman, her two sons and three daughters, are killed by a bomb planted in their home.
5/24/05 Iraq Baghdad 6 8 Car bombing outside a girl's school kills six and injures eight.
5/23/05 Iraq Mahmoudiya 7 22 A suicidal Sunni tries to drive his explosives-packed car into a mosque. Seven are killed and more than thirty hurt. Five killed are family members.
5/23/05 Iraq Baghdad 10 82 Muslim extremists detonate a car bomb outside a Shiite restaurant, killing seven and injuring more then eighty. Many have serious injuries.
5/23/05 Iraq Tal Afar 35 25 Two suicidal religious extremists murder more than thirty people outside the house of a community leader with twin bombings.
5/23/05 India Kashmir 3 3 In a series of overnight attacks, the Mujahideen hang a woman and shoot two other innocents to death.
5/22/05 Iraq Baghdad 2 3 Sunni radicals spray a car with automatic weapons fire, killing a top official and his driver.
5/20/05 Dagestan Makhachkala 2 2 Gema’at Sharia assassinate a government official with a powerful bomb that also kills his driver and injures two children playing nearby.
5/20/05 India Moghla 4 0 The Mujahideen ambush a security patrol from behind bushes, killing four Indian soldiers.
5/20/05 Iraq Baghdad 2 3 Two civilians are killed by a suicide bomber. Three others are injured.
5/19/05 Afghanistan Zabul 6 0 Taliban gunmen ambush and kill six humanitarian aid workers transporting the bodies from those killed in an attack the day before.
5/19/05 Iraq Samarrah 2 0 In a brutal attack, Sunni gunmen kill a policeman and his elderly father as they are riding in a car.
5/19/05 Iraq Baghdad 1 8 Suicide bomber kills an Iraqi soldier at a checkpoint. Eight others are injured.
5/19/05 Iraq Mosul 7 3 Fedayeen gunmen attack the house of a Sunni politician, killing seven people inside the home.
5/18/05 Afghanstan Helmand 5 0 A gruesome scene as an attack on a humanitarian project leaves five people dead.
5/18/05 Afghanistan Kabul 1 0 Religious fundamentalists kill a 24-year-old woman in her home. She had been a pop music personality.
5/17/05 Iraq Dujail 6 0 Six Iraqi truck drivers are pulled from their cabs and killed by radical Sunnis.
5/17/05 India Lohardaga 4 3 Seven family members, including women are asleep in their home when militant Muslims barge in and slit the throats of four of them while beating the rest.
5/17/05 India Srinigar 2 17 The Mujahideen attacks a funeral of a man they murdered, killing two additional mourners and injuring seventeen.
5/17/05 Algeria Lakhdaria 3 5 Members of an al-Qaeda linked group ambush an Algerian patrol, killing three and wounding five.
5/16/05 Iraq Aalgaya 2 2 Muslim gunmen shoot a policeman and his wife to death in their car. The attack also left their two young children badly injured.
5/16/05 Indonesia Maluku 6 0 Five policemen and a civilian are killed by Islamic militants in Indonesia, as they were sleeping. The militants accused them of protecting a Christian village.
5/16/05 Iraq Baghdad 3 0 Three blindfolded and bound bodies are found. Some were shot miltiple times.
5/15/05 Iraq Latifiyah 6 0 Three Kuwaiti TV journalists, two Iraqi assistants and their driver are forced off the road by Jihadis then forced to kneel as their throats are cut.
5/15/05 Algeria Khenchela 11 0 All eleven members of a water supply convoy are blown up or machine-gunned by the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat.
5/15/05 Iraq Iskandariya 34 0 The bodies of thirty-four people, some in handcuffs, are found dumped in three locations. Jihadis tortured and beheaded many of them.
5/15/05 Iraq Baqubah 5 20 Two suicide bombers, one in a car the other following on foot, attempt an assasination. Five innocents are blown apart - another twenty badly injured.
5/15/05 Thailand Narathiwat 1 5 After burning down in elementary school in Yala, Muslim extremists bomb a government vehicle, killing one Thai and injuring five others.
5/14/05 Iraq Baghdad 4 10 Civilians are victimized by another suicidal car bomber looking for a ticket to paradise.
5/14/05 India Kalakote 4 1 The Mujahideen murder a father and his three sons as they are returning from their work in a coal mine.
5/14/05 Iraq Jurf al-Sakhar 3 0 Three beheaded corpses are found with signs of torture.
5/14/05 India Srinigar 1 0 A businessman is gunned down by Muslim militants.
5/13/05 Chechnya Ishkoi-Yurt 2 3 Islamists kill two policemen in an ambush. Three others are injured.
5/13/05 Iraq Baiji 5 0 Car bomb kills five Iraqis.
5/13/05 India Sangdan 1 0 A government teacher is dragged out of a high school class and shot to death on the sidewalk by the Mujahideen.
5/13/05 Iraq Baqubah 3 6 Fedayeen suicide bomber plows into a troop transport, killing two Iraqi soldiers and one civilian.
5/12/05 India Srinigar 2 46 The Mujahideen target a school with grenades, killing two women and injuring about fifty others, including eleven children.
5/12/05 Iraq Baghdad 17 65 Jihad terrorists detonate a car bomb outside a market and a cinema, killing seventeen people and injuring nearly seventy, some with severe burns and internal injuries.
5/11/05 India Srinigar 1 40 The Al-Nasreen terrorist group claims responsibility for a powerful car bombing at a busy intersection.
5/11/05 Iraq Hawija 30 37 A Fedayeen straps explosives to his chest then wades into a group of unemployed civilians waiting to apply for government jobs. At least thirty are blown to bits, with another forty suffering injuries.
5/11/05 Iraq Tikrit 27 75 A suicide car bomber swerves his vehicle into a crowd of people on a sidewalk. At least Twenty-seven are killed in the explosion.
5/11/05 Iraq Baghdad 4 14 Three separate Jihad attacks leave four dead and fourteen injured.
5/10/05 Iraq Baghdad 7 16 Seven civilians are blasted and burned to death by Fedayeen suicide car bomber on a busy street.
5/9/05 India Chakka 3 0 The Mujahideen open fire on civilians exiting a mosque, killing three and injuring an unknown number.
5/9/05 Iraq Baghdad 4 8 A grisly scene as a suicidal Sunni rams his car into two police vehicles, burning the occupants to death.
5/8/05 India Kuligam-Lalpora 1 2 A 12-year-old girl is killed by a bomb that also injures her father and sister.
5/8/05 Afghanistan Kabul 2 6 A suicide bomber in a café kills two civilians and injures six in a horrific blast.
5/7/05 Yeman Sanaa 0 5 Five solider are injured when Yemeni fundamentalists throw a grenade at them from a passing car.
5/7/05 Iraq Baghdad 22 36 Suicidal Sunnis target a civilian convoy at a busy intersection. Twenty-two are killed in the blast and dozens lay injured in the circle of mutilated bodies.
5/7/05 Lebanon Jounieh 0 28 Twenty-eight people injured by a bomb set in a commercial district of a Christian town.
5/6/05 Iraq Suwayra 16 36 Sixteen Iraqis shopping at a marketplace are murdered by a Fedayeen, who wades into the crowd before detonating explosives strapped to his body. At least thirty-six are injured.
5/6/05 Iraq Baghdad 14 0 Assyrian Christians are thought to be among the fourteen, bound corpses of torture victims found in a city garbage dump.
5/6/05 Iraq Tikrit 7 8 A suicidal religious extremist blows his car up next to a minivan taking Iraqi police to work, killing seven and injuring eight.
5/5/05 Afghanistan Shah Wali Kot 9 3 Taliban fundamentalists ambush a military patrol with a landmine and automatic weapons, killing nine Afghans.
5/5/05 India Udhampur 3 22 Mujahideen militants lob a grenade then open fire on a Hindu wedding party, killing two teenage girls (ages 15 and 17) and injuriing twenty-two others.
5/5/05 Iraq Baghdad 22 43 Three separate attacks, including another suicide bomber at a recruitment station, leave twenty-two Iraqis dead and at least that many injured.
5/4/05 Iraq Erbil 60 150 A Fedayeen suicide bomber walks into a crowd of Iraqi civilians standing in line to apply for jobs with the police and detonates his explosives, killing sixty and injuring about three times that number.
5/3/05 India Pattan 5 0 A political figure is assassinated by the Mujahideen, along with three civilians and a police officer.
5/3/05 India Pulwama 0 14 Fourteen people are injured when an Islamic terrorist lobs a grenade into the road near a bus stop.
5/2/05 Afghanistan Shah Wali Kot 2 4 Taliban fundamentalists kill two police officers with a terrorist bomb.
5/2/05 Iraq Mosul 23 50 Twenty-three Iraqis, including children are killed in eight car bombings by Muslim extremists. More than fifty are badly injured.
5/2/05 India Harni 1 4 The Mujahideen attack a security patrol, killing one personnel.
5/1/05 Iraq Baghdad 5 0 Iraqi policemen are shot to death by al-Qaeda operatives at a checkpoint.
5/1/05 Iraq Baghdad 4 5 A Jihad car bomb kills four civilians and injures another five.
5/1/05 Israel Tzieda 1 1 Islamic Jihad kills a 21-year-old Israeli soldier.
5/1/05 Afghanistan Baghlan 3 0 The Taliban kill three women, at least one of whom was an aid worker.
5/1/05 Iraq Tal Afar 25 51 A Kurdish funeral is the target of a suicidal religious fanatic, who kills at least twenty-five others and injures about fifty mourners.
4/30/05 Iraq Baghdad 11 36 A series of five bombings kills at least eleven and injures dozens.
4/30/05 Egypt Cairo 0 9 Two women in veils stage a shooting attack on a tour bus. They are the only fatalities, but nine innocents are injured.
4/29/05 Iraq Baghdad 41 120 Seven separate suicide bombings by Muslim extremists leave more than forty people dead and at least one-hundred and twenty injured. Women and children are among the victims.
4/29/05 Russia Nalchik 1 2 One Russian cop is killed by Islamic militants.
4/28/05 Algeria Sidi Daoud 2 0 Algerian fundamentalists kill two soldiers in a terror bombing.
4/27/05 India Pahalgam 1 0 The Mujahideen abduct and murder an Indian school teacher.
4/27/05 Iraq Najaf 1 0 Shiite cleric gunned down on his way to work.
4/26/05 Afghanistan Dishu 4 2 Four police officers are killed in an ambush by Taliban terrorists on their convoy.
4/25/05 Philippines Jolo 2 5 Abu Sayyaf terrorists kill two Philippine soldiers with a bomb. Five others are badly injured.
4/25/05 India Khurhama 1 0 A political activist is kidnapped by the Mujahideen and then shot to death.
4/25/05 Yemen Sanaa 2 2 Followers of a radical Shiite throw a bomb from a car window, killing two, including a student and injuring two others.
4/24/05 Thailand Narathiwat 2 3 Militant Muslims kill two Thai policemen with a remote-controled bomb that injures three civilians as well.
4/24/05 Afghanistan Kandahar 2 0 The Taliban attack a government building, killing two security staff.
4/24/05 Iraq Tikrit 6 33 Jihadis murder six policemen with two bombs. Nearly three dozen others are injured.
4/24/05 Indonesia Sulawesi 6 0 At least six Christian villagers are killed by their Muslim neighbors after refusing to 'return to Islam.'
4/24/05 Iraq Baghdad 15 40 Sunni extremists plow a car into a crowd of people outside an ice cream shop in a Shia neighborhood, then detonate the vehicle as others rush to help the victims.
4/23/05 Iraq Baghdad 13 30 Multiple bombings by Jihadis, including at least one suicide attack, leave thirteen Iraqis dead and at least thirty injured.
4/23/05 Algeria Ain Defla 4 4 The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat shoots two family members to death, then kills two community guards in separate attacks.
4/22/05 Iraq Baqubah 1 1 Radical Sunnis murder a 7-year-old girl with a roadside bomb.
4/22/05 Iraq Baghdad 12 26 Twelve people, including a 10-year-old boy, are killed when religious extremists bomb a Shia mosque. Twenty-six others are badly injured.
4/22/05 India Baramulla 2 0 Two youth are killed in separate attacks by the Mujahideen. One has his throat slit.
4/22/05 Algeria Bir El Ater 2 0 Two Algerian civilians die in a bomb attack by Islamic fundamentalists.
4/21/05 Saudi Arabia Mecca 2 0 Saudi Islamists kill two Saudi policmen.
4/21/05 Iraq al-Taji 11 0 Yelling "Allah Akbar" Islamists bring down a civilian helicopter with a missile, killing ten. The lone survivor is helped to is feet, then shot to death.
4/21/05 Iraq Suwayra 57 0 Women and children are amply represented among the more than fifty bodies pulled out of a river after having their throats cut by Islamist kidnappers.
4/20/05 Iraq Haditha 19 0 Jihadis mark the birth of Muhammed by abducting nineteen Iraqi soldiers in civilian clothes heading home to celebrate the holiday with their families. The men are then executed in a soccer stadium.
4/20/05 Iraq Baghdad 4 13 Three terrorist attacks, including an ambush on a truck convoy, leave four civilians dead and at least thirteen injured, some critically.
4/20/05 India Sopore 2 10 The Mujahideen take out a vegetable vendor and another innocent woman in a grenade attack in a shopping district.
4/20/05 Pakistan Nowshera 1 0 Pakistani mob chases a 'blasphemer' up a tree then kill him.
4/19/05 Iraq Baghdad 4 38 Islamist blows himself to Allah in a green minivan, taking four Iraqi police recruits with him and injuring thirty-eight others
4/19/05 Iraq Baghdad 2 4 Two American soldiers are killed by a Fedayeen suicide bomber.
4/17/05 Pakistan Kandahar 1 3 One truck driver is killed, and three others injured when Taliban extremists attack their oil convoy with rockets.
4/16/05 Iraq Baghdad 3 6 Religious extremists blows himself up, killing three other civilians and wounding six. One of the women killed was described as 'Angel of Mercy.'
4/16/05 Iraq Baqubah 9 12 Radical Sunnis detonate a bomb in a restaurant, killing nine patrons and injuring over a dozen.
4/14/05 Iraq Mahawil 4 6 Suicide bomber takes four Iraqi with him. Six others are badly injured.
4/14/05 Iraq Kirkuk 6 0 Ansar al-Sunnah terrorists gun down five police officers and one civilian in a single attack.
4/14/05 Iraq Baghdad 18 36 al-Qaeda sets off two car bombs on a crowded city street, massacring eighteen people and injuring about forty others.
4/13/05 Algeria Relizane 2 5 Two civilians are shot to death in an ambush by religious fundamentalists. Five others are injured in the attack.
4/13/05 Iraq Kirkuk 12 3 Muslim terrorists plant a decoy bomb near another live one that kills a dozen policemen while they are trying to defuse the decoy.
4/13/05 Dagestan Makhachkala 1 2 A policeman is killed and two others injured as Islamic militants plant a bomb on a road leading to the airport.
4/13/05 Algeria Tebessa 3 3 Religious fundamentalists kill three security guards and injure three others in three different bombings.
4/12/05 Iraq Mosul 5 12 Fedayeen suicide bomber murders five civilians on a city street.
4/12/05 Iraq Tal Afar 5 8 A suicide car bomber manages to kill five Iraqis and injure eight. Most of the victims were children.
4/12/05 India Shopian 1 0 The Mujahideen shoot a woman to death in front of her house.
4/11/05 Iraq Qaim 0 0 Three remarkably inefficient suicide bombers manage to send themselves to Allah, but not anyone else.
4/11/05 Iraq Samarrah 3 22 Fedayeen suicide bomber blows his pickup truck to pieces in a crowded market, killing three civilians an injuring more than twenty others.
4/10/05 Nigeria Benue 14 4 Fourteen Christians are killed in an attack on their villages by Muslim militants in the large African nation.
4/10/05 India Shopian 2 20 Islamic militant hurls a grenade into a group of pedestrians, killing two and injuring twenty.
4/10/05 India Srinigar 4 3 The Mujahideen kill four people in four separate shooting attacks across the region and take take three policemen hostage.
4/9/05 Iraq Mosul 2 13 Islamic insurgents detonate a roadside bomb, killing two civilians and injuring thirteen others.
4/9/05 Afghanistan Qalat 1 0 The Taliban murder government official taken hostage two days earlier.
4/8/05 Iraq Baqubah 10 0 The bodies of ten civilians, abducted, bound and executed by Jihadis are found.
4/8/05 Iraq Baghdad 4 0 Roadside bomb kills four children.
4/8/05 Iraq Latifiya 15 0 In a senseless killing, members of the "Islamic Army" stop a vehicle carrying non-uniformed Iraqi soldiers and machine-gun them to death.
4/7/05 Egypt Cairo 3 18 Islamist detonates a nail-packed bomb in a shopping area, killing a French woman and two others, including an American tourist. Eighteen others are injured.
4/7/05 Sudan Khor Abeche 17 0 Arab militia raids an African village, killing at least seventeen and torching homes. A small mosque was one of only two structures spared.
4/7/05 Algeria Oued-Djerma 14 0 Algerian fundamentalists set up a fake roadblock then slaughter the trapped victims and set fire to their cars.
4/7/05 Pakistan Peshawar 2 0 A priest and his Christian driver are detained then stabbed to death by Muslim extremists, who also cut off the hands, noses and ears of the victims.
4/7/05 India Srinigar 0 7 Fedayeen suicide attack on the bus terminal housing elderly 'freedom riders' is largely unsuccessful. Two attackers are killed.
4/6/05 Afghanistan Charchino 3 0 Three civilians are murdered by the Taliban.
4/6/05 Iraq Mosul 2 0 Video posted on the Internet showing two young men brutally stabbed to death as assailants yell "Allah Akbar."
4/6/05 India Hanjivira 0 7 Mujahideen bomb intended for a passenger bus explodes early, injuring seven civilians.
4/5/05 India Jammu 2 3 Pakistani Fedayeen take Indian border guards by surprise, killing two Hindus and injuring three before fleeing.
4/3/05 Algeria Boumerdes 3 2 Three farmers are killed when Islamic fundamentalists with suspected ties to al-Qaeda set off a roadside bomb in Algeria.
4/3/05 Thailand Songkhla 2 70 Islamic militants set off three bombs, killing two and injuring at least seventy. The fatalities were from the bomb set at the airport. The other two bombs were at a hotel and a department store.
4/3/05 Afghanistan Helmand 9 3 Muslim extremists attack a government building, killing nine Afghan soldiers.
4/2/05 Iraq Baghdad 6 5 Car bomb kills five Iraqis and injures another five. A government minister of education is gunned down in a separate attack.
4/2/05 Afghanistan Kandahar 4 5 The Taliban kill four people, including two children, in two bomb attacks (the second in Mazar-i-Sharif).
4/1/05 Pakistan Lahore 1 3 Sunni gunmen kill a Shiite cleric in his car in an attack that also his young daughter and two of her friends.
4/1/05 Afghanistan Spin Boldak 3 0 Taliban extremists kill three truck drivers and then burn their vehicles.
4/1/05 Lebanon Broummana 0 12 Bomb placed outside a shopping center in a Christian resort village by Syrian-backed terrorists injures a dozen.
3/31/05 Iraq Tuz Khormato 5 14 Fedayeen suicide bomber murders five others, including a child, outside a shrine.
3/31/05 India Thannamandi 5 5 The Mujahideen kidnaps and kills two more villagers from their home. Elsewhere in Kashmir three other civilians are killed in separate attacks.
3/31/05 India Sonabrari 3 0 The bodies of three shepherds abducted and executed by the Mujahideen two days earlier are found.
3/30/05 Iraq Mahaweel 1 2 Sunni extremists open fire on a Shiite pilgrims making their way to a religious festival, killing at least one person.
3/30/05 Iraq Mosul 6 8 Four Jihadi gunmen open fire on a street, killing six people and injuring another eight in what appeared to be a suicide attack.
3/29/05 Algeria Thenia 1 0 The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat kidnaps a 32-year-old man then slits his throat.
3/29/05 Afghanistan Anar Darah 4 0 The Taliban ambush and kill four policemen in a remote area.
3/29/05 India Biwilian 1 0 Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists kill a boy who refuses to courier money for them.
3/29/05 Iraq Mussayib 5 5 Suicide bicycle bomber pedels his way to Paradise, taking five other souls with him including three civilians.
3/28/05 Iraq Karbala 7 9 Sunni extremist kills seven Shia pilgrims at a religious event with a suicide car bombing. At least nine others are injured.
3/28/05 Yemen Saada 4 0 Islamic extremists ambush and kill four Yemeni policemen.
3/28/05 India Machan 2 8 Muslim terrorists ambush a local security patrol, killing two and injuring eight.
3/27/05 Iraq Abu Tamir 6 3 Six Iraqis are killed by Jihadists in and around Baqubah in several shooting attacks.
3/27/05 Thailand Narathiwat 0 15 Bombing and shooting attack on a train by Muslim separatists results in more than a dozen casualties.
3/27/05 India Udhampur 4 0 Mujahideen militants set fire to a civilian's house after killing his mother, wife and infant daughter. They also murder a neighbor.
3/27/05 Iraq Baghdad 2 2 Religious fanatic blows himself up, also killing two U.S. soldiers.
3/27/05 Pakistan Khambay 1 6 Four Islamic militants open fire on an church Easter service, killing at least one Christian and injuring six other worshippers.
3/26/05 Lebanon Beirut 0 5 Bomb in a predominately Christian suburb injures five.
3/26/05 India Srinagar 1 16 Sixteen people are injured and one killed when the Mujahideen lob a grenade near a crowded bus stop.
3/26/05 Iraq Tal Afar 4 6 Four policemen are killed, and six wounded, in an attack on their station by radical Sunni.
3/25/05 Iraq Ramadi 11 14 Fedayeen suicide bomber kills eleven police officers at a checkpoint and injures another fourteen.
3/25/05 Iraq Karbala 2 19 Two Shia pilgrims are killed, and nineteen others injured by a Sunni suicide bomber as they are marching to the shrine city.
3/25/05 India Manwa-Dangal 1 0 Muslim terrorists abduct a civilian then slit his throat a day later.
3/24/05 Iraq Baghdad 5 0 Jihad gunmen open up on a van carrying cleaning women from their job at an American base. Five women are shot to death.
3/24/05 Thailand Yala 0 4 Four people, including an elderly Buddhist monk are injured by a bomb that Islamic militants trigger with a cell phone.
3/24/05 India Bakhipora 2 0 Hizb-ul-Mujahideen invade a civilian's home, kidnap his son and nephew then execute them in captivity.
3/23/05 India Srinigar 1 5 The Mujahideen kill a civilian and injure several other people with a car bomb in a shopping district.
3/23/05 Lebanon Jounieh 3 3 Three people are killed when Muslim terrorists detonate an 80kg bomb in a shopping center in a Christian area north of Beirut.
3/22/05 Iraq Mosul 10 0 Roadside blast kills four civilians. Elsewhere (in Kut), the bodies of six captured soldiers are found bound and executed.
3/21/05 Thailand Songkhla 1 3 Islamic separatists open fire on a restaurant, killing one customer and injuring three others.
3/21/05 Iraq Aziziyah 7 0 A roadside bombing rips through the bodies of four women and three children riding in a vehicle.
3/21/05 Iraq Sammarah 3 6 Three people, including two women, are murdered in a Jihad car bombing.
3/20/05 Thailand Yala 1 13 One civilian is killed, and thirteen other people injured by two bombs placed by Islamic separatists, one near a river pavilion.
3/20/05 Iraq Mosul 5 14 A suicide bomber walks into a government building and kills three others. Jihadists then open fire on the subsequent funeral, killing two others.
3/20/05 Pakistan Fatehpur 39 55 Radical Sunni suicide bomber blows up a Shia religious festival near a Pakistani shrine, killing about three dozen and injuring many more.
3/19/05 Qatar Doha 1 16 Egyptian suicide bomber slams his car into a theatre, killing a British national and injuring sixteen others in the Qatari capital.
3/19/05 Lebanon Beirut 0 9 Syrian-backed terrorists set off a car bomb in a Christian neighborhood, injuring at least nine.
3/19/05 Thailand Narathiwat 2 2 Three separate shooting attacks by Islamic militants leave at least two villagers dead, including a Buddhist man shot in the back of the head while sitting in his tea shop.
3/19/05 Iraq Kirkuk 4 5 Jihad insurgents gun down a police officer, then kill three others at his funeral procession.
3/18/05 India Bandipore 1 6 The Mujahideen kill an 8-year-old boy by tossing a grenade into a school. Six of his classmates sustain critical injuries.
3/17/05 Afghanistan Kandahar 5 32 The Taliban detonate a roadside bomb targeting a humanistarian convoy that kills two women, two men and one Afghan child. Thirty-two others are injured.
3/17/05 Nigeria Benue 1 0 Two Muslim men rape a Christian girl and then poison her.
3/17/05 India Rajouri 3 24 Three people are killed when the Mujahideen hurl a grenade at a restaurant.
3/16/05 Iraq Baqubah 3 8 al-Qaeda suicide bomber kills three soldiers and injures eight other people, including civilians.
3/15/05 India Tangmarg 2 0 A leader of the terrorist group, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, kills two people in making an escape from jail.
3/15/05 India Poonch 0 7 Seven people standing outside a bank are injured when the Mujahideen hurl a grenade at them.
3/15/05 Iraq Baghdad 1 4 Suicide bomber successfully kills a young child and injures four others.
3/15/05 Iraq Baghdad 4 7 Jihad car bombing kills four civilians and injures seven.
3/15/05 Thailand Yala 1 3 A policeman is killed and three other people injured when Muslim separatists set off a bomb at a railway station.
3/14/05 Scotland Glasgow 1 0 Five Pakistani immigrants abduct, torture and then burn alive a 15-year-old Scottish teen in a horrendous attack. Three later flee the country.
3/14/05 India Baramulla 2 0 The Mujahideen ambush a search party, killing at least one person. They also kill a civilian at his home (Gagrot Piri).
3/14/05 Philippines Manila 3 3 Abu Sayyaf militant grabs a gun and shoots three prison guards to death.
3/14/05 Iraq Baghdad 6 10 Three car bombings kill a total of four civilians, including two farmers.
3/13/05 Iraq Mosul 6 1 Sunni Jihadists kill a police officer's wife and two young children then shoot three other policemen attending the funeral a day later.
3/13/05 Iraq Hillah 2 1 Muslims kill two American security contractors with a roadside bomb.
3/12/05 Algeria Bouira 2 2 Islamic extremists set up a fake roadblock, then machine-gun two policemen to death in their vehicle.
3/11/05 Philippines Sulu 5 4 Moro Islamic Front attack a military patrol, killing five and injuring four.
3/10/05 Iraq Mosul 50 86 Devout Sunni blows himself up inside a Shiite mosque, taking fifty lives and leaving about a hundred other people badly injured.
3/9/05 Iraq Al-Rumana 41 0 The bodies of forty-one people, massacred by Jihadists, are found. All had been executed, many were beheaded, including several women and young children.
3/9/05 Iraq Baghdad 2 40 Two suicide bombers drive a garbage truck packed with explosives into a hotel, killing two others and injuring several dozen.
3/8/05 Bangladesh Jalalpur 1 0 Christian pastor attacked and beheaded by Muslim extremists as he is returning home from work.
3/8/05 Pakistan Danyore 1 0 Sunni government official shot to death by Shia militants while waiting for a bus.
3/7/05 Iraq Balad 12 21 Jihadists murder a dozen people, mostly civilians with a car bombing in a residential neighborhood.
3/7/05 Afghanistan Kabul 1 0 British national gunned down by a Taliban terrorist while waiting at a traffic light.
3/7/05 Iraq Baqoubah 15 17 al-Qaeda suicide bomber accounts for most of the fifteen people dead in four attacks. At least twenty-six others are injured.
3/7/05 Thailand Pattani 3 0 Three people, including two Bhuddists and a businesswoman are murdered in three separate attacks by Muslim terrorists.
3/7/05 Israel Hebron 0 2 Two Israelis are wounded by a Palestinian sniper.
3/6/05 Thailand Narathiwat 2 0 Gema’ah Islamiyah terrorists, disguised as fully-veiled Muslim women open fire on a police checkpoint, killing two Thai officers.
3/6/05 Thailand Narathiwat's 2 0 Two young civilians are gunned down by Islamic militants in a motorcycle attack.
3/4/05 Iraq Ramadi 4 0 Jihadists kill four American soldiers with a terrorist bombing.
3/3/05 Iraq Baghdad 5 7 Five people are killed by two Fedayeen suicide bombers outside a government building.
3/3/05 Iraq Baqoubah 1 3 Jihad car bombing kills one civilian and injures three.
3/2/05 Thailand Pattani 3 1 Muslim terrorists murder three civilians in separate random shooting attacks.
3/2/05 Iraq Baghdad 13 30 Two suicide car bombings kills thirteen Iraqis and wound thirty. In a separate attack a judge and his son are gunned down.
3/2/05 Bangladesh Narsingdi 0 10 Militant Muslims injure ten people with a bomb outside a shrine.
3/1/05 Chechnya Grozny 1 16 One policeman is killed, and sixteen others injured when the Mujahideen attack their station.
2/28/05 Sudan Toray 17 14 Arab militias with the support of the Islamic government attack a village and kille seventeen civilians and injure a dozen others including several women who were raped.
2/28/05 India Matribugh 2 0 Hizb-ul-Mujahideen terrorists capture, disarm and then execute two Indian soldiers.
2/28/05 India Surankote 1 0 The Mujahideen kidnap a 17-year-old boy from his home and then kill him.
2/28/05 Iraq Hilla 135 141 Fedayeen suicide car bomber blows his way to paradise by driving into a crowd of unemployed Iraqi Guard volunteers and taking the lives of more than one-hundred souls. Well over a hundred more are injured in the barbaric attack. Many were Christian.
2/27/05 Algeria Souk El-Khemis 2 0 Two people in a small Algerian town are killed when religious fundamentalists set off a bomb.
2/27/05 Iraq Mosul 12 2 Car bomber kills eight people and Jihad gunmen kill another four in a separate incident, also in Mosul.
2/25/05 Israel Tel Aviv 5 49 Three weeks after a truce-signing, a Palestinian suicide bomber kills five Israelis outside a nightclub. Forty-nine others in line are injured.
2/24/05 Thailand Yala 7 0 Muslim terrorists kill seven people over a two day stretch that includes a Buddhist grocery store owner and a village chief.
2/24/05 Iraq Tikrit 15 22 Islamic suicide bomber drives an explosive-packed vehicle into a police compound, killing fifteen and leaving another two dozen in various stages of agony.
2/24/05 Iraq Iskandariyah 3 8 A young girl is among the three people killed by a Sunni car bombing. Eight others are injured, two critically.
2/24/05 India Srinigar 5 2 The Mujahideen kill five people and injure at least two others in a suicide assault on a government building in the region's capital.
2/24/05 India Sopore 0 12 Militant Islamist hurls a grenade into a crowd of people, injuring at least ten civilians.
2/24/05 Afghanistan Chakul 9 0 The Taliban ambush and murder nine Afghan police officers.
2/23/05 Iraq Mosul 2 14 Jihad car bombing kills two Iraqis and leaves fourteen others injured.
2/22/05 Afghanistan Sangin 2 0 The Taliban stop a vehicle carrying two humanitarian aid workers then execute each with a shot to the back of the head.
2/22/05 Iraq Baghdad 4 30 Suicide bomber rams his car into a police convoy, killing four and injuring about thirty.
2/21/05 Chechnya Grozny 9 2 Nine Russian servicemen are killed in an attack by the Mujahideen in the capital's suburbs.
2/19/05 Algeria Batna 4 0 The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat ambush and kill four soldiers in remote Algeria.
2/19/05 Iraq Baqubah 42 91 Eight suicide attacks by Fedayeen 'Holy Warriors' (including one on a bicycle), along with a bus explosion kill at least forty innocent people and injure over one-hundred.
2/18/05 Lebanon al-Shuwayfat 2 0 Islamists bomb a Christian-owned gas station, killing two people.
2/18/05 Thailand Sungai Kolok 6 44 Muslim separatists kill six people near a hotel hosting a wedding reception with a powerful car bomb.
2/18/05 Iraq Baghdad 10 20 Another suicide bomber blows himself to Allah outside a Shia mosque, taking at least ten others with him.
2/18/05 Iraq Bahgdad 15 23 Suicide bomber kills fifteen Shia worshippers inside a mosque just as Friday prayers are beginning. Another two dozen are injured.
2/18/05 Iraq Baghdad 2 8 Two people in a religious procession are killed by a Fedayeen suicide bomber on a city street.
2/17/05 Iraq Zakho 1 0 Christian taxi driver gunned down after refusing to convert back to Islam.
2/17/05 Somalia Mogadishu 2 5 Bombing kills two and injures five near a hotel.
2/16/05 India Kishtwar 2 7 Mujahideen toss a grenade into a bus stop, killing one and injuring seven. Elsewhere (Rajouri) they kidnap and kill a 60-year-old man.
2/15/05 Indonesia Ambon 2 2 Muslims shoot two people, including a teenage girl, to death in an attack on a karaoke club.
2/15/05 Pakistan Noorpur Shahan 3 14 Sectarian shooting attack leaves three dead Sunnis and fourteen others injured.
2/14/05 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 Muslim separatists shoot a 48-year-old man off of a motorcycle, injuring his wife as well.
2/14/05 India Shopian 0 25 Twenty-five people are injured when the Mujahideen toss a grenande into a crowded street.
2/14/05 Philippines General Santos 5 36 An bomb outside a shopping mall kills five shoppers and injures at least three dozen others. Abu Sayyaf claims responsibility.
2/14/05 Philippines Manila 3 79 The Abu Sayyaf terrorist group detonates a bomb in the Philippine capital outside a crowded bus terminal, setting three buses on fire and killing at least three.
2/14/05 Philippines Davao 1 8 A 12-year-old boy is killed in an Abu Sayyaf bombing at a bus stop. Eight others are injured.
2/14/05 Iraq Baghdad 3 0 Sunni extremists spray the inside of a passenger car with automatic weapons, killing an Iraqi officer and two companions.
2/14/05 Lebanon Beirut 15 120 Powerful suicide bomb blast kills the former Lebanese Prime Minister and fourteen others. One-hundred and twenty are injured in the blast.
2/13/05 Iraq Nasiriyah 2 0 An Iraqi translator and his son are gunned down by Islamists near their home.
2/11/05 Iraq Balad Ruz 13 40 Suicidal fanatic detonates a massive bomb using a vegetable truck outside a Shia mosque, killing over a dozen and injuring more than forty.
2/11/05 Iraq Baghdad 11 0 Sunni gunmen block off a street with their cars and then mow down Shia patrons at a bakery, killing eleven and injuring a unknown number of others.
2/11/05 Thailand Yala 2 24 Thai Muslims shoot a buddhist shopkeeper to death, then trigger a bomb that kills another person and injures two dozen.
2/10/05 Iraq Suwairah 21 0 The decomposing bodies of twenty-one Iraqi truck drivers hauling food are found two days after their convoy was ambushed by Islamic radicals. They had all been burned inside their vehicles.
2/10/05 Thailand Narathiwat 1 1 Thai Islamists set off a bomb in a market stall, killing one villager and injuring another.
2/9/05 Iraq Basra 2 0 Shiite radicals gun down an Iraqi journalist and his 3-year-old son in front of their home.
2/8/05 Iraq Baghdad 21 27 Shaheed suicide bomber blows himself to paradise, along with nearly two dozen others. About thirty are seriously wounded in the street attack.
2/7/05 Philippines Panamao 12 15 Muslim separatists attack Philippino troops, killing a dozen.
2/7/05 Pakistan Wana 2 2 al-Qaeda militants ambush four journalists riding in a car. Two are murdred.
2/7/05 Iraq Mosul 12 4 Suicidal extremist kills a dozen police who were guarding a teaching hospital, by pretending to need assistance from the officers.
2/7/05 Iraq Baqubah 15 17 Fedayeen suicide bomber kills himself and at least fifteen others who were seeking jobs outside a police station.
2/4/05 Nigeria Demsa 36 0 Militant Muslims attack a Christian village in Nigeria, killing at least three dozen and displacing some three thousand others.
2/4/05 India Taryath 1 2 Two people escape after being kidnapped from their village by the Mujahideen, but another is executed.
2/3/05 Iraq Balad 2 0 Two people are shot to death by Sunni radicals

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Re: AL QADA IS MISUNDERSTOOD
by AmigaPhil Thursday, Aug. 04, 2005 at 2:52 AM

What's the point of your post ?

Do you mean that as there are people who are committing crimes and other human rights violations, WE suddenly have the legitimacy to commit the same kind of crimes we are condemning (and even worse as we use WMD other people don't have) ?

The World has several times expressed its opposition to terrorism. I can't find any legal and moral exception that allow us to bomb, destroy, kill innocents, humiliate and torture, loot, ...

If we are serious about spreading peace, freedom, justice, democracy, ... we have to play fair and be honest about OUR faults too. Otherwise, we have no credibility at all, we are just cheating and lying on our responsibilities.


"Patriotism is to support your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."

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Learn
by red Tory Thursday, Aug. 04, 2005 at 4:54 AM

Who is us in your article? As for being at war that does allow us to use violence. Learn your own history and then come back sometime.

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Re: Who is us in your article?
by AmigaPhil Friday, Aug. 05, 2005 at 1:25 AM

"Us" is for "we", the "good guys" who are supposed to fight against evil.

"If you are not with us, you are with the terrorists." Are you confused ?

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moron
by red Ken Friday, Aug. 05, 2005 at 4:58 AM

What part of "we" are at war don't "you"nderstand?

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Re: We are at war
by Red Oil Friday, Aug. 05, 2005 at 12:28 PM

Thanks for the reminder.
Indeed, G.W. Bush himself has repeated many times that the September 11th attacks were an act of war. Now we can regard the 9/11 victims as acceptable collateral damages too and forget about those expensive commemorations.

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It's Called Disinformation
by Impeach, Investigate, Prosecute Friday, Aug. 05, 2005 at 1:05 PM

"What's the point of your post ?"

To distract from the topic at hand, which are the War Crimes of the Neo-Fascists he supports/works for. He wants us to think that an arbitrary list is "evidence", but it's not, nor is it relevant to the topic.

Please look up "The 25 Tactics of Disinformation" and "A Field Guide to Hasbara" for more on this.

The site Administrators would do well to keep tabs on this poster and his activities. This is the same Spook who was banned on VicIMC right before it went under.

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shame
by Mohammed Friday, Aug. 05, 2005 at 5:09 PM

Good grief. Don't let your anti-semitic hatred get in the way when you post.

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That Didn't Even Make Sense
by Thanks for the Illustration Saturday, Aug. 06, 2005 at 12:15 PM

Yes, that's the Hasbara/Disinformation of which I was speaking. Your need to toss about empty charges only hilights the complete emptiness of your position.

"What's the point of your post ?"

To distract from the topic at hand, which are the War Crimes of the Neo-Fascists he supports/works for. He wants us to think that an arbitrary list is "evidence", but it's not, nor is it relevant to the topic.

Please look up "The 25 Tactics of Disinformation" and "A Field Guide to Hasbara" for more on this.

As support for Bush/PNAC/Bliar steadily declines, and demands for Investigation, Impeachment, and Prosecution grow in both volume and popularity, be sure to pay close attention to who still supports these LIARS, and drives their Neo-Fascism, because they're getting easier to single out.

Take detailed notes.

The site Administrators would do well to keep tabs on this poster and his activities. This is the same Spook who was banned on VicIMC right before it went under.

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