Jim P. Cassella This is Me

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1. 1. www.unknownnews.net

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   Jim Cassella, a Pentagon spokesman, said Tuesday that the U.S. military did not count civilian casualties. "Our efforts focus on destroying the enemy's capabilities, so we never target civilians and have no reason to try to count such unintended deaths," he said.

2. 2. Duluth News Tribune | 12/20/2003 | An activist's work is never done

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   Jim Cassella, an Army officer stationed at the Pentagon. Cassella heads the Army's Iraqi information team.
   
   "Any idea that Iraqi civilians are being tortured is ludicrous," he said.
   
   The rare occurrences where an individual soldier or group of soldiers breaks the rules of engagement or commits a crime against a civilian are fully investigated, and those involved are prosecuted under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the U.S. military's judicial system.
   
   But, by and large, U.S. forces in Iraq are conducting their missions with "professionalism, courage and compassion," Cassella said. "They are taking very extensive measures to protect civilians in our continuing efforts to eliminate or capture former regime loyalists and the terrorists operating in Iraq."
   
   Without the military presence, the Iraqi people would still be subjected to Saddam's brutal regime. "And there is little doubt that he was responsible for butchering and murdering 300,000 of his own people, which we have now found in mass graves throughout the country," Cassella said.
   
   Naar-Obed agrees that the Iraqi people may be better off without Saddam, but said she worries the United States, as an occupying force, is fast becoming what it meant to overthrow. "We are becoming the regime that we went in to eradicate and liberate the people from," she said.
   
   A regular Northland peace protester, Naar-Obed is expected to be sentenced to 90 days in federal prison for trespassing at the Navy's Extremely Low Frequency transmission station in Clam Lake, Wis., during protests there.
   
   She has served other federal sentences for protesting against the military in other states and more recently served 30 days in the St. Louis County Jail for littering when she and others placed symbolic rubble, not the rubble from Basra, in front of the Army recruiting station on Superior Street.
   
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   To some degree, Naar-Obed's commitment to her mission is similar to the commitment of the U.S. soldiers, said Cassella, the Army officer at the Pentagon. "We all want peace for the Iraqi people. We all want the same thing," he said.
   
   A volunteer, wife and mother, Naar-Obed's moral convictions force her to leave behind her family, but she doesn't fear for her life, she said.
   
   During her last trip to Iraq in January, she was injured in a car accident that also claimed the life of a Canadian peace activist. She understands her work can be dangerous, but believes that, as a U.S. citizen, she has a responsibility to make reparations in some fashion for the damage she says the military has caused in Iraq.
   
   "I obviously didn't support the war, but it happened, in part in my name," she said.
   
   Naar-Obed's trip, which is expected to cost $2,500, is paid for by friends. She is also serving as representative of many in the Twin Ports who don't support the war.

3. 3. www.unknownnews.net

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   Jim Cassella, a Pentagon spokesman, said Tuesday that the U.S. military did not count civilian casualties. "Our efforts focus on destroying the enemy's capabilities, so we never target civilians and have no reason to try to count such unintended deaths," he said.