Iraq death video triggers outrage too late

A video showing the violent death of civilians, including two Reuters journalists, in Iraq on July 12, 2007 that was published recently on the Website Wikileaks has sparked a global debate on the war tactics of the US army. Once more images are setting off a belated wave of indignation at facts that have long been public knowledge, writes the daily Kurier: "Right from the start the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan claimed the lives of thousands of innocent victims. Women and children continually come under fire. But these horrors are the foreseeable consequences of a guerilla war. It is a fight against an enemy that emerges out of the local population before evaporating into it once more. The borders between civilians and soldiers are blurred. One must obstinately put faith in military propaganda to believe to this day that these of all wars are not dirty, and that soldiers fighting in them can avoid making fatal mistakes."

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