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KFF - Killed by 'Friendly Fire' - truthout

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The Libyan rebels are learning that "no-fly zone" can translate in practice into lethal onslaughts in which NATO planes have killed or wounded at least a score of their number. Civilians in Tripoli have also died in large numbers from aerial onslaughts ...

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Killed by 'friendly fire': war's dirty little secret - First Post

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The Libyan rebels are learning that 'no-fly zone' can translate in practice into lethal onslaughts in which Nato planes have killed or wounded at least a score of their number. Civilians in Tripoli have also died in large numbers ...

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Libya: This is war, bloody and terrible? Scarcely - First Post

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Alexander Cockburn: As for evil deeds, is Gaddafi a Mobutu, a Bokassa, or any US president? Surely not By Alexander Cockburn Libya has dislodged from the headlines a nuclear catastrophe in Japan - on top of a seismic one - that's one of the epic dramas ...

Libya, oh what a stupid war - The Nation, Pakistan

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The war on Libya now being waged by the US, Britain and France must surely rank as one of the stupidest martial enterprises, smaller in scale to be sure, since Napoleon took it into his head to invade Russia in 1812. Let's start with the fierce ...

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Libya rebels: Gaddafi could be right about al-Qaeda - Sunday Times.lk

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The war on Libya now being waged by the US, Britain and France must surely rank as one of the stupidest martial enterprises, smaller in scale to be sure, since Napoleon took it into his head to invade Russia in 1812. ...

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Libya rebels: Gaddafi could be right about al-Qaeda - First Post

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The war on Libya now being waged by the US, Britain and France must surely rank as one of the stupidest martial enterprises, smaller in scale to be sure, since Napoleon took it into his head to invade Russia in 1812. ...

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Libya rebels: Gaddafi could be right about al-Qaeda - First Post

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The war on Libya now being waged by the US, Britain and France must surely rank as one of the stupidest martial enterprises, smaller in scale to be sure, since Napoleon took it into his head to invade Russia in 1812. ...

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Benghazi rebels: reports point to al-Qaeda links - First Post

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The war on Libya now being waged by the US, Britain and France must surely rank as one of the stupidest martial enterprises, smaller in scale to be sure, since Napoleon took it into his head to invade Russia in 1812. ...

Here, on the Other Side of the Ring of Fire - truthout

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Alexander Cockburn is co-editor with Jeffrey St. Clair of the muckraking newsletter CounterPunch. He is also co-author of the new book "Dime's Worth of Difference: Beyond the Lesser of Two Evils," available through www.counterpunch.com. ...

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Another Fukushima? In America? Not if, but when - First Post

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Americans read the increasingly panic-stricken reports of deepening catastrophe at Fukushima, speed to the pharmacy to buy iodine and ask, "It's happened there; can it happen here?" Along much of California's coastline runs the ...

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