This is a letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan from Kassim Abdullsattar al-Jumaily, President of the Fallujah-based Human Studies Center of Democracy and Rights.

Fallujah 14 October 2004

Excellency

It is very obvious that the American forces are committing crimes of genocide every day in Iraq. Now, while we are writing to your excellency, the American forces are committing such kind of crimes in the city of Fallujah.  The American warplane is dropping its most powerful bombs on he civilian in the city killing and injured hundreds of innocent people. In the same time their tanks are attacking the city by using their heavy artillery. As you know, there is no any military position in the city. There were no any activities by its resistance in the past weeks; the negotiation with representatives of the city and the Government was going well. In this atmosphere the new development happened while its people are trying to prepare them self to fast the firs day of the holy month of Ramada many of them are now under the wreckage of their demolished houses, no body can help while the military activity are continues.

Just to give your Excellency an examples; the result of one night bombardments by the American forces (that was on 13/14 Oct. 2004)  was demolishing (50) houses on its residents. Is this a genocide crime or  a lesson about the  American democracy?

Rob Eshelman submits:

US Conservatives Cast Wary Eye at EU Treaty
Frederick Studemann, Financial Times

US conservatives have teamed up with eurosceptics in Britain to tackle what they see as a threat to American strategic interests.

Organisations such as the American Enterprise Institute, home to leading neo-conservatives, and the Heritage Foundation, a more traditional conservative foreign policy think-tank, have expressed concern that "vital American strategic interests" are threatened by the European Union's constitutional treaty and its implications for foreign and security policy.