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Friday August 1st, 2003

The unprecedented dispute between an Anglo-American occupation authority supposedly dedicated to "democracy" in Iraq and an Arab station once praised by Washington for its services to free speech in the Arab world comes at a time when the US administration appears to be laying the ground work to close down Al-Jazeera's operations in Iraq–along with those of the Arabia channel–for alleged "incitement to violence". 

John Poindexter, the retired Navy admiral who spearheaded two sharply criticized Pentagon projects, intends to resign from his Defense Department post within weeks, a senior U.S. defense official said on Thursday. 

Those are good kids that we're sending into the shooting gallery called Iraq, and unless you have the conviction of a Bush or a Rumsfeld or a Bechtel or a Halliburton, you have to be nursing the sick feeling that each death is a tragic waste, and that this conflict is as much of a fool's errand as the war in Vietnam. 

Halliburton, the world's second-largest provider of oil-field services, said Thursday that it swung back to a profit in the second quarter after a loss last year as revenue from government contracts more than doubled because of work in Iraq. 

U.S. helicopter gunships have killed four Mujahideen in southern Afghanistan and coalition troops forced another group to flee into Pakistan after attacking a U.S. base, a U.S. spokesman says. 

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