Mr Allawi also publicly rebuffed claims by the US and British governments that the security situation was improving. Instead, he told the Iraqi National Council, which oversees the government, that the violence racking the country was likely to worsen.
...Senior Iraqi officials have said that there is growing evidence that the recruitshad been betrayed by fellow members of the Iraqi military.
Iraqi officials have complained that the US authorities do little checking of applicants to the forces because of Washington's desire for speed in replacing American and other Allied troops.
...Mr Allawi said: "It was a heinous crime, the outcome of great negligence on the part of some of the coalition forces. It seems there was some sort of determination on doing Iraq and the Iraqi people harm ... You should expect an escalation in terrorist acts."
...Senior Iraqi officials have said that there is growing evidence that the recruitshad been betrayed by fellow members of the Iraqi military.
Iraqi officials have complained that the US authorities do little checking of applicants to the forces because of Washington's desire for speed in replacing American and other Allied troops.
...Mr Allawi said: "It was a heinous crime, the outcome of great negligence on the part of some of the coalition forces. It seems there was some sort of determination on doing Iraq and the Iraqi people harm ... You should expect an escalation in terrorist acts."
Bad to worse.
"When you write it, call it the fall of the house of Bush."
As for the rest of that post of mine...
The US military said yesterday that a senior associate of of the Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had been killed in Fallujah in a "precision" air strike. Local people, however, insisted that an empty house was destroyed.
US troops cut roads and reinforced their cordon around Fallujah, with some units moving into the southern edges of the city.
Unconfirmed reports by local people claimed that a number of civilian drivers had been shot dead at checkpoints.
Unconfirmed reports by local people claimed that a number of civilian drivers had been shot dead at checkpoints.
I'm telling you, things are much, much worse than you even imagine. But I think it's only a matter of time before those soldiers who are refusing to perform missions and those who are talking to people off the record about things like this, start talking more openly. And we still haven't heard the full extent of those things that Hersh and various congresspeople said were worse than what we have been shown at Abu Ghraib.
People, there is a horror of our creating happening in our names, and it is increasing.
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