FALLUJA MASSACRE

The headline says it all:

US strikes raze Falluja hospital.

A hospital has been razed to the ground in one of the heaviest US air raids in the Iraqi city of Falluja.



Witnesses said only the facade remained of the small Nazzal Emergency Hospital in the centre of the city. There are no reports on casualties.

Well, casualty reports are usually sourced from doctors at the hospital, since nobody else does body counts.

Given that US planes have been pounding Falluja for months, this hospital would have been packed with patients, many of them pysically unable to leave the city even if they had wanted to. Needless to say, this is yet another outright breach of the Geneva Convention.

The BBC readers comments make depressing reading: no new ideas, anti-war protestors helplessly exasperated by the ongoing madness, while gung-ho hawks continue to trumpet their force-fed ignorance (e.g. Kofi Annan is to blame for all this, the UN should be disbanded). Heart-breakingly surreal.