American forces were responsible for 98.5 per cent of the 9,270 civilians assessed to have been killed by allied forces, or 37 per cent of the total who have died. Professor John Sloboda, one of the report's authors, said: "The failure of Western governments to recognise the lack of respect in not counting the civilian casualties must be a contributing factor to Muslim disaffection and anger.'' The report shows the anti- occupation or insurgency forces were solely responsible for the deaths of only 9 per cent, or 2,353 of the civilian total, despite the almost daily suicide bombings, that have accounted for more than 200 deaths this month alone. Almost 25,000 Iraqi civilians have been killed during the two years of war and insurgency that began with the US-led invasion in March 2003. Three policemen were lightly injured when scuffling and fist fights broke out between settlers and police who determinedly closed the gates to this small Negev community, within Israel but some 15 miles from Gaza.. Last night they and the Brauns prepared to spend their second night of sleeping out after police and troops, in effect, locked in the demonstrators -not to prevent them leaving but to prevent them continuing marching West.
It's expulsion."Like the good mother she is, Mrs Braun, a baseball cap - in orange, the settlers' colour of choice - perched on the headscarf that she wears like many other religious Jewish women - has marshalled her own family, seeing they are equipped for nights under the stars.Not to mention helping to organise the 300 residents who have joined the demonstration from the northern West Bank settlement of Karneish Shomron. We are fighting for the God-given right to live in our own country and against the uprooting of people from their homes This isn't a disengagement. This time Jews are doing it to Jews."Mrs Braun is ferociously pro-army. The Israeli military, she says, is in this episode "a pawn in Sharon's miserable game".But her hostility to Mr Sharon, who "was elected on one platform and then did a 180 degree turn" is strong enough for her to have joined his ruling Likud party with the specific purpose of having a say in choosing a leader more to her taste.Pointing out that the Likud Central Committee opposed disengagement, she says: "Those of us who actually toe the party line are being called the rebels.
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Unlike the average soccer mum, she is prepared to bring her family - her youngest child is nine - into what could prove a lengthy stand-off with tens of thousands of Israeli troops and police for a cause she defines in apocalyptic terms.Mrs Braun does not mention the Holocaust when she compares the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw 8,500 settlers next month from the homes they have lived in for hardly more than 30 years to "events that happened 60 years ago." But when you question the comparison of those events with withdrawing settlers - who will be amply compensated - from an occupied territory, she says sharply "I'll tell you how it's different. For the marchers, who want to help the Gaza residents resist disengagement, and the Israeli government, which has insisted they will not reach Kissufim, the stakes are high. Mrs Braun, 40, a fast-talking, good-humoured, politically-aware, occupational therapist, has the conversational style of a sassy American soccer mum: in fact, she emigrated to Israel from the US 20 years ago The style but not the outlook. Do they look like a threat to national security to you?" she said, adding: "You want to ask me what it's like having a son in the Army while all this garbage is going on? "This garbage" is a massive deployment of troops and police to stop Mrs Braun and an estimated 7,000 marchers reaching Kissufim, the main entry point to the Gaza settlements that the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon intends to evacuate next month. "We've just heard that the army has declared a Grade Four emergency, which is about as high as you can go Tell me. It was, he said, "one of the most emotional and proudest experiences of my life".James Gregory, president of the Charleston chapter of the Vietnam veterans' association, yesterday described General Westmoreland as a great leader He had received a raw deal, Mr Gregory said. "The war was actually run by the White House, not by the leadership in the field."In 1982, General Westmoreland sued CBS for $120m (£69m) in damages after a television documentary accused him of falsifying estimates of enemy strength in Vietnam. After 18 weeks of testimony, the case was settled with an apology from CBS, just as the jury was to start deliberations.