Mike Ferner

ABU SIFFA, IRAQ—“How could this happen?” nearly everyone asks these days.  But as the U.S. now releases hundreds of men from Abu Ghraib prison, another question, “Why were so many Iraqis locked up there in the first place?” is likely to become part of the debate. The story of this farming hamlet 30 miles north … Continue reading “On Their Way to Abu Ghraib”

This is the farm village that Cliff Kindy, leader of the Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT), refers to as the “razor wire place.” It’s actually a small town, around half of which the U.S. Army has unrolled concertina razor wire, and completed the effect with a checkpoint and curfew. Six CPT members are returning for an … Continue reading “Iraq Dispatch
American Troops Cut Down Iraqi Couple, Terrorize Village”

If a "rogue nation" or swarthy men with foreign accents did it, we know what we’d call it. What the world’s most powerful military did to the village of Abou Siffa must be called the same thing: terrorism. A small citrus grove was the last stop on our tour of this farming hamlet on the … Continue reading “Terror by Another Name”