The Bush-administration "outsourced" partially Iraq war by engaging private security firms such as Blackwater and Haliburton, in order to escape unwanted questions by US Congress and to lower costs of warfare. Theses firms provided diplomacy and oil escorting, food transports and here and there battles.

Six years after two supposedly ex-Blackwater-members are asking the opening of a civil process against Blackwater for reasons such as promoting a culture without law, murdering of civil persons, organizing a women's sexring, child abuse and smuggling weapons!

Already in 2007 Blackwater was in the news for opening fire on civilians and killing 17 people. In relation to this the government of Iraq ended the protection of penal prosecution for firms like this.

The whole article you can find: http://www.taz.de/1/politik/amerika/artikel/1/letzte-chance-auf-ein-urteil/

I do really hope that at least they will have success in their process! But not only this, the way war is organized has changed. It has become a Business-as-usual. All wars get more and more fought by paid soldiers and private security firms, supported by low-cost-personal from Asia...more than 80.000 served in Iraq without any insurance, reported by the ARD, a German public channel in April 2008.

Read whole article on: http://www.taz.de/1/leben/medien/artikel/1/die-schattenarmee-der-usa/

Let us not remember the reasons for which Iraq has been invaded...

And here we go again, today it was revealed that 24 people were killed in Iran due to drug dealing. Another 20 death penalties were carried out at the beginning of July. However, it is also believed that behind these death penalties are political reasons.

I personally find the figures quite shocking - there have been more than 294 death penalties in 2009! There is a good artickle in the Spiegel: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,640686,00.html

There have been clashes in Iran since June 12th and the world is watching and nobody does anything. Why? On the one hand, all major news websites reported today (3rd August) that the Iranian leaders have approved Ahmadinejad as the new president:

"I am endorsing the presidency of this brave, hard-working and wise man as the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran," Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said, in praise of Ahmadinejad who will be sworn in by parliament Wednesday." (for the full article see: http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL373426820090803)

But on the other hand, the US can threaten Iran with sanctions if they do not stop their nuclear programme:

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,640163,00.html

Why don't Western countries interfere in the Iran's national politics? Iran is killing innocent people, undermining women rights and is above all violating human rights!

To understand more about the Iranian crisis, one should go to BBC. The BBC has put a very good Q&A catalogue together:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8101621.stm