Der britische <a href=news.independent.co.uk target=_blank>Independent schreibt gestern u.a.: The American military has been asking the Israeli army for advice on fighting inside cities, and studying fighting in the West Bank city of Jenin last April, unnamed United States and Israeli sources have confirmed. Reports that US troops trained with Israeli forces for street-to-street fighting have been denied. If the US army believes the road to Baghdad lies through Jenin, there is reason for Iraqi civilians to be concerned. During fighting in the Jenin refugee camp last April, more than half the Palestinian dead were civilians. There was compelling evidence that Israeli soldiers targeted civilians, including Fadwa Jamma, a Palestinian nurse shot dead as she tried to treat a wounded man. A 14-year-old boy was killed by Israeli tank-fire in a crowded street after the curfew was lifted. A Palestinian in a wheelchair was shot dead, and his body was crushed by an Israeli tank.

Die USA und Grossbritannien seien gerade dabei, die gesamte muslimische Welt gegen sich aufzubringen, warnt der britische Ex-Aussenminister Robin Cook in einem <a href=www.sundaymirror.co.uk target=blank>Beitrag für die Zeitung "Sunday Mirror". Die Koalition riskiere ein "langfristiges Erbe des Hasses auf den Westen", schreibt Cook. Und: "Personally I would like to volunteer Rumsfeld, Cheney and Wolfowitz to be 'embedded' alongside the journalists with the forward units."