This Year, Contractor Deaths Exceed Military Ones in Iraq and Afghanistan by Pro Publica:

More private contractors than soldiers were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in recent months, the first time in history that corporate casualties have outweighed military losses on America’s battlefields.

More than 250 civilians working under U.S. contracts ( Read more... )

• NATO Admits U.S. Forces Killed Innocent Pregnant Women in Afghanistan [Read]
• General Stanley McChrystal Admits U.S. Troops are Killing Innocent Afghans at Checkpoints: «We have shot an amazing number of people, but to my knowledge, none has ever proven to be a threat» [Read]
• Video footage from a US Apache helicopter in 2007, showing Reuters ( Read more... )

IRAQ: BISHOP NEGOTIATES FOR KIDNAPPED PRIESTS
Compass Direct News, CA ( Read more... )

Jasper Gerard
Sunday October 14, 2007
The Observer

Remind me, what is the war on terror for?
The world is viewed through the prism of a war on terror. President ( Read more... )

2 IRAQI WOMEN KILLED IN SHOOTING BY SECURITY CONVOY
Joao Silva for The New York Times ( Read more... )