"Steel curtain" in Iraq--another US war crime

Once again the US military has laid siege to an Iraqi city. Dubbed "Operation Steel Curtain," the offensive launched by some 2,500 American troops and 1,000 US-trained Iraqi forces entered its third day Monday in the Euphrates River market town of Husaybah.

The US occupation forces are waging a dirty colonial war against the Iraqi people with the purpose of suppressing mass opposition to the country's subjugation. The methods that are being employed in Husaybah, like those used in Fallujah a year ago, constitute war crimes under the terms of the Geneva Conventions and the precedents set by the Nuremberg trials of the leaders of Germany's Nazi regime.