IRAQ

Zmag:


Guardian: Victims of trigger-happy Task Force 20
Rage triggered by US raid that claimed five lives
The first hint that something might be up came at 1.30pm on Sunday afternoon. A car full of westerners in civilian clothes with cropped military-style haircuts pulled up outside the Al Sa'ah restaurant, two blocks from Prince Rabiah Muhamed al-Habib's house in the wealthy Mansur district of Baghdad.

Japantoday:
Japanese reporters in Iraq say U.S. troops roughed them up
A Japanese reporter was manhandled and temporarily detained
by U.S. soldiers Sunday for filming without their permission in an area of Baghdad where they were conducting raids, another reporter who accompanied him said. Japan Press reporter Kazutaka Sato, 47, was put in a hold, thrown
to the ground and kicked, sustaining injuries to his face and hands,
according to Mika Yamamoto, 36, a Japan Press reporter who was with Sato at the time of the incident. She said the two had been in the Mansur district of Baghdad filming the damage caused to civilians by the U.S. military when they had their cameras confiscated.