Artbrooks, why does "one" suppose that cash is available to witnesses? And since when has transmission on Al Jazeera been the test of whether a story is true?

The fact that such a sickening story has been run in a newspaper of international standing should be reason enough for the "coalition" to instigate a thorough enquiry. It shouldn't be difficult, and nowithstanding Iraqi soverignty there is a legitimate interest given that the perpetrator of this atrocity, if it happened, was under the protection of American military at the time.

Regime change is the only remaining basis - a weak one at that - for the invasion. If there is any vestige of truth in the SMH reports, one would be entitled to wonder if the regime has been changed in any significant way at all.