U.S., British bombing on Iraq

U.S., British bombing on Iraq

I refer to The Jakarta Post's front page coverage of
terrorist bombings in Sunday's edition (Feb. 18). One of the
articles (U.S.,British aircraft strike near Baghdad) was
especially interesting. There is only one thing the Post didn't
do, and should have done: check with Iraqi authorities if the
radars hit were, as I suspect, civilian radar installations
serving Iraq's growing international civil air traffic, or if
this was a terrorist attack against the Iraqi military.

The Post should try to give it's readers both sides of a
story, and in this case we could only read what the terrorists
had to say. How about the victims? President Bush's statement
"Our intention is to ensure that the world is as peaceful as
possible," (by delivering bombs all over the world at his
liberty) is a shining example of Orwellian double-talk. But
again, the question of fair reporting: do Iraqi authorities have
anything to say?

BRANIMIR SALEVIC

Tangerang