Month July 2006

Craig Murray on Lebanon

I have just watched on television sixty bodies being buried in a mass grave in Tyre, victims of Israeli bombing. At the same time I saw the odious Kim Howells, Foreign Office minister, arguing that a ceasefire would not solve…

A potential US Stalingrad in Iraq?

The US Army’s long tail in danger of being chopped off? Pat Lang points to the dangers of Iranian sponsored guerrilla attacks on US supply lines running from Kuwait to Iraq (after Hezbollah’s demonstration of small unit performance in Lebanon,…

Timid Tony breaks with Bush

Britain dramatically broke ranks with George Bush last night over the Lebanon crisis, publicly criticising Israel’s military tactics and urging America to ‘understand’ the price being paid by ordinary Lebanese civilians.