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Good summary of the landmark decision.

It is not the result of just negligence by the worker. They gave him permission. Happy Independence Day, veterans, your own government has helped to ruin your life.

This is a must-read, can someone tell me why this man died?

At least watch the first minute or so.

Here’s the lowdown on how iPods are made. Apple says they’ve “begun an investigation” of working conditions. I don’t expect to hear much about the result.

USA TODAY also says they lied about casualties during the search itself.

The military had said that one other soldier was killed and 12 soldiers were wounded in the search effort. Monday’s statement, however, said no troops were killed in the search. It did not elaborate.

The Army said the three soldiers were left alone while other vehicles in their patrol moved out of sight to inspect traffic. Earlier reports reported the three Humvees became separated under fire.

Those reports now appear to be wrong, said Lt. Col. Michelle Martin-Hing, a spokeswoman for the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq.

I think this BBC article is the best analysis I’ve seen.

Apologies for being far behind on posts, the bad news has been overhwhelming and I simply took the weekend off from blogging.

BBC article sums it up quite well.

We look up and he says, “car bomb, city centre, six dead, 20 injured”, or “nine more bodies found shot dead”. And we finish the sentence for him, “with wounds suggesting they’ve been tortured”.

I have been here for two weeks.

Hardly a day has gone by without several car bombs in Baghdad and so many bodies dumped in the street that I have lost count.

There have been hijackings, ambushes, American soldiers captured and killed, a lawyer on the Saddam Hussein trial defence team abducted from his home and murdered, suicide bombs successfully aimed at police or army patrols, buses taking factory workers home held up by men with guns and driven away. Workers at a commercial bakery abducted at gun point.

“This is not a state”, said Ali one morning, “this is anarchy”.

Note: this is just the warm-up paragraph.