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Thread #58076   Message #918318
Posted By: Willie-O
25-Mar-03 - 05:47 PM
Thread Name: BS: Salam has updated 'Where is Raed?'
Subject: RE: BS: Salam has updated 'Where is Raed?'
Jenny, I agree with Amos. Interesting incident yesterday which I imagine is newsworthy in Australia. It is being ignored by the American media.

Seems an Australian pilot refused an American command to bomb a site, because he wasn't sure what it was. The American command is pissed at him, but his own brass is backing him up. The Australians have different rules of engagement than the Americans, having signed on with more international agreements. (They don't do land mines, cluster bombs or civilian infrastructure).

Details in my LiveJournal including a link to the original story.

And Raed is not an Iraqi website per se. He posts from Iraq, supposedly via Jordan. Host server is in UK I think--his e-mail is in the domain of the music mag New Musical Express!

W-O