The flip side
As the world watches the events in the jails in Iraq, the Muslim world is highly charged to find the evidences of brutality of US soldiers to Iraqi prisoners. What US soldiers at the prison did is immoral and it has been brought out by US media and the Secretary of Defence had to answer to the Congress and actions are being taken to minimise it. An evil act is always evil. I see a flood of outrage in the newspapers' "letter to the editor" section, and rightly so.
Now, in Iraq a US civilian was beheaded as a counter-measure for the jail events. Before the war at Mosul, five US contractors were burned and their charred body parts were hung on a bridge. Are those acts of self defence ?
I would count how many letters are published in this newspaper, along with mine, condemning violence and brutality of both sides.
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