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| December 18, 1998 Iraq bombed because Muslim blood is cheap. The bombing against Iraq should be seen as a reaction to President Clinton's impotence against Israel's insolence (as Israel had rebuffed Clinton during his visit there early this week) and to postpone impeachment proceedings against him, argues next week's issue of The Muslim News. "What better way to do it than spill some Muslim blood. And what better partner in crime than Britain, which is supposed to have an 'ethical' foreign policy," says the Editorial. Over 300,000 were killed during the last Gulf War by "precision" bombing. Many Muslim civilians are expected to be killed by the current bombings. The accuracy of "precision" bombings is suspect. "The 'updated' and 'accurate' version of the Tomahawk missile was fired at Iraq and landed in Khoramshahr in Iran," says the paper. Even a briefing meeting organised by the Home Secretary Jack Straw for the Muslim media yesterday afternoon did not allay the concern in the Muslim community that the bombing of Iraq was not thought through properly. Mr Straw was evasive on questions such as: why UN Security Council permission was not taken; how can the Government claim that the bombing was not against the people of Iraq when most of the casualties would be innocent civilians; how can they bomb the hidden chemical and biological weapons when they do not know where they are; and even if they did succeed in hitting the targets, the poisonous gas thus released would kill untold number of civilians. All Muslim organisations have condemned the bombings. "The attack is a panic reaction by a besieged president, totally irresponsible and the work of a leader bent on saving his presidency," said Ghayasuddin Siddiqui, Leader of the Muslim Parliament. A spokesman of Muslim Solidarity Committee said it will be civilians who will be the victims of the bombings: "Several times more Iraqi civilians were killed by the sanctions and lack of food and medicine, then by the Allied bombings in the Gulf War and in subsequent air strikes, and so again innocent Iraqi civilians will be the main victims of this aggressive campaign."
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