Who Are The Real Terrorists In Iraq?

"There is a huge campaign for the agents of the foreign occupiers to enter and plant hatred between the sons of the Iraqi people and spread rumours in order to scare the one from the other... The occupiers are trying to start religious incitement and if it does not happen, then they will start an internal Shi'ite incitement."

- Fatah al-Sheikh, a member of the Iraqi National Assembly.

John Pilger takes a closer look at the mysterious events in Basra this week. He says both the Times and the Mail initially reported that the two captured Brits were carrying explosives, although this was later omitted from news reports. If it is true - as it increasingly seems - that coalition forces are planting bombs and killing civilians for propaganda purposes in Iraq, that is surely the most vile and reprehensible terrorism on the planet.