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Saturday August 23rd, 2003

British military officials in Iraq say three British soldiers have been killed and another wounded by gunmen in the southern city of Basra.

U.S. forces killed two Iraqis and wounded two others while intervening in clashes between Kurds and Turkmen in the ethnically divided northern Iraqi oil hub of Kirkuk, an army spokeswoman said Saturday.

So when the killers of Baghdad on Tuesday slaughtered 20 UN staff, with the UN's local proconsul, Sergio Vieira de Mello, the Americans embarked on one of their familiar flights into fancy. If it wasn't Saddam's "diehard remnants" who were tormenting them, it must be al-Qa'ida's "remnants" who are destroying America's best efforts to produce democracy in Iraq (though not Afghanistan); "foreign Arab" fighters were creeping over the border from Iran or Syria.

A G.I. Joe-like action figure depicting President George W. Bush as an "Elite Force Aviator" was recalled today by its manufacturer after consumers discovered that the $39.95 toy did not include the weapons of mass destruction pictured on the toy's packaging.

The international and national aid community in Afghanistan is concerned over the phenomenon of increasing incidents, in the context of the bombing of the United Nations office in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.

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