Cursor's Media Patrol
Although the U.S. military said that it "knew of no civilian deaths" after "an F-15 dropped a bomb on a crowd," the Washington Post reports that "at Ramadi hospital, distraught and grieving families fought over body parts severed by the airstrikes, staking rival claims to what they believed to be pieces of their loved ones."
The Defense Department inspector general "doesn't have a single auditor or accountant in Iraq tracking spending," reports Knight Ridder, having "quietly pulled out of the war zone a year ago - leaving what experts say are gaps in the oversight of how more than $140 billion is being spent."
Eighteen Grandmothers Against the War were arrested for disorderly conduct after they showed up at a military recruiting center in Times Square and said they wanted to enlist, reports the AP. Plus: When movements collide.
Find out who was voted the world's top public intellectual in a poll sponsored by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines.
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