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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (28233)	9/19/2003 6:09:10 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 89467

A culture of secrecy has descended upon the occupation authorities in Iraq. They will give no tally of the Iraqi civilian lives lost each day. They will not comment on the killing by an American soldier of one of their own Iraqi interpreters yesterday - he was shot dead in front of the Italian diplomat who was the official adviser to the new Iraqi Ministry of Culture - and they cannot explain how General Sultan Hashim Ahmed, the former Iraqi minister of defence and a potential war criminal, should now be described by one of the most senior US officers in Iraq as "a man of honour and integrity". from news.independent.co.uk and Piero Cordone, an Italian diplomat and member of the provisional US-led administration in Iraq, escaped unhurt after American troops reportedly opened fire on his car near a military roadblock, Italian Foreign Ministry sources confirmed on Friday. from news.xinhuanet.com I'm sure other countries are anxious to jump into the Iraqi "meat grinder". lurqer