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A dangerous groundswell of resentment is building up on the streets of Baghdad Without American power, Iraqis would still live in fear of Saddam. With American power, they feel weak and humiliated
A BBC correspondent reports from the streets of Bagdhad on how "the forces suppressed for the last quarter of a century are emerging. None are friendly to the US or its vision for the Middle East. What exactly did the Allies believe would emerge when it burst open the doors of Saddam's demented republic? Peace, democracy, secularism?"....
Posted: Sat, Apr 19, 2003 10:35am PDT
Gunfire interrupts first press conference by 'Pentagon's man' As Ahmed Chalabi, the Pentagon's candidate for leader of Iraq, was being asked if he was a thief, the sound of gunfire interrupted the press conference. Mr Chalabi insisted his conviction for embezzling $60m (£38m) was all a plot.
Outside, one of his supporters, Haqi Ismail, sat in shock dabbing the graze on his nose from one of the eight bullets fired into his pick-up truck....
Posted: Sat, Apr 19, 2003 10:22am PDT
Thousands protest against U.S. presence in Baghdad 
Discontent with the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq burst into the streets of Baghdad yesterday as tens of thousands marched in protest against the presence of U.S. troops.
(Interesting that this is the leading story for the weekend edition of Canada's national newspaper, the Globe and Mail. In contrast Saturday's headliner on CNN covers the arrest of Laci Peterson's husband, a California story.
Mainstream American news appears to purposely avoid the bad news on Iraq that the rest of the ...
Posted: Sat, Apr 19, 2003 10:15am PDT
it must make sense to Mr Chalabi/Telegraph repost it must make sense to Mr Chalabi that great many Iraqis want to "make democracy" from the onset resisting colonial oppression by the occupying anglo force....
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2003 11:52pm PDT
Sharp Dressed Man Says, "PG&E Should Manage Iraq's Electricity" 
Sharp Dressed Man here saying, "Now that Betchel has been awarded the contract to rebuild Iraqi power, PG&E should win a contract to manage Iraq's electricity once its up and running again."...
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2003 10:12pm PDT
Palestinians say Clinton signed amnesty for Abbas The Palestinian Authority has launched a campaign for the release of a Palestinian terrorist captured in Iraq....
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2003 9:59pm PDT
Iraqis Chant No Bush, No Saddam, Yes Islam Tens of thousands of Iraqis, both Sunnis and Shiites, joined hands in massive demonstrations in Baghdad after the first Friday prayers since the fall of the capital, demanding an end to the Anglo-American occupation of their country. Chanting anti-American slogans, the protestors called for establishing an Islamic regime to replace Saddam Hussein's deposed government, terminating the occupation and safeguarding the unity of the country....
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2003 9:16pm PDT
IRAQIS CALL FOR ISLAMIC STATE Tens of thousands of protesters demanded yesterday that the United States get out of Iraq, as US troops arrested a fourth wanted aide of Saddam Hussein. The demonstrators poured out of Friday prayers in Baghdad mosques chanting anti-American slogans and calling for an Islamic state to replace Saddam’s toppled government....
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2003 9:12pm PDT
Looters return objects to museum Baghdad residents returned 20 looted pieces from Iraq's ransacked national collection holding some of the earliest artefacts of civilisation....
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2003 9:07pm PDT
The Entire Middle East Agrees: US Has No Right To Steal Iraqi Oil The US-led forces that invaded Iraq had no right to exploit its oil and UN sanctions on Iraq should end only when it has a legitimate government, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said on Saturday.
Speaking after a meeting of eight regional states on post-Saddam Hussein Iraq, he said the invading forces must reestablish security and withdraw as soon as possible, allowing Iraqis to form their own government....
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2003 7:04pm PDT
Arrests at Lawrence Livermore Lab 
LIVERMORE -- About 300 anti-war, anti-nuclear activists gathered this Good Friday to protest the continued research and development of weapons of mass destruction at the Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab and to protest the Iraq war....
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2003 5:32pm PDT
WARNING: US will plant evidence of Weapons of Mass Desctruction in Iraq The fact that the US has denied UN inspectors back in, even at the urging of UN Inspector Hans Blix, suggests the US will plant evidence of WMDs in order to retroactively justify the invasion and occupation of Iraq....
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2003 12:27pm PDT
Thousands in Iraq protest U.S. occupation Tens of thousands of Iraqis demonstrated against the US occupation of Iraq in central Baghdad today after religious leaders spoke out against America....
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2003 11:00am PDT
Plans Under Way for Christianizing the Enemy Two leading evangelical Christian missionary organizations said Tuesday that they have teams of workers poised to enter Iraq to address the physical and spiritual needs of a large Muslim population....
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2003 7:57am PDT
U.S. corporations set to profit off Iraq The Bush administration’s attempt to fashion for itself the sole role of ruler and victor in post-war Iraq is meeting growing domestic and international opposition....
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2003 7:49am PDT
Anti-US protests flare in Baghdad Tens of thousands of demonstrators in Baghdad protested against the United States presence in Iraq on Friday, following Friday prayers. Waving banners in English and Arabic reading “Leave our country, we want peace,” protestors outside of the Abu Hanifa Al-Numan Mosque chanted “No to America, no to Saddam” and “This homeland is for the Shia and Sunni,” in a sign of unity among the two groups....
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2003 7:31am PDT
Barred! US military bans peace team members from Palestine Hotel Less than 24 hours after issuing a press release highlighting the failures of the U.S. military's attempts to oversee humanitarian intervention in Iraq, Voices in the Wilderness was banned from meeting with the U.S. Civil Military Operations Center, or with international journalists working out of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. If the freedom to critique U.S. policies in Iraq regarding humanitarian issues is being curtailed already, then exactly what does this mean for building "democra...
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2003 1:00am PDT
Atomic Veterans Meet the Gulf War The following excerpt from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists shows that the US must realize perfectly well what it is doing to Iraq - and has known about these types of effects since the early 1940s!...
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2003 12:46am PDT
Experts Thieves Pillaged Iraqi Museums PARIS - Professional thieves, likely organized outside Iraq, pillaged the nation's priceless ancient history collections by using the cover of widespread looting - and vault keys - to make off with irreplaceable items, art experts and historians said Thursday....
Posted: Thu, Apr 17, 2003 8:58pm PDT
Peace Activists: Say no to corporate news! Protest at the SF FCC Hearing on 4/26! While Secretary of State Colin Powell led the U.S. invasion against Iraq, his son, Michael Powell, head of the FCC, ramped up an attack on federal media regulations that could give the corporate media even more power than it already has. SF Bay Area activists: this is our chance to say no to the Bush Administration’s push to give free reign to the corporate media. This is our chance to speak out against media that puts corporate profit ahead of journalism and truth-telling....
Posted: Thu, Apr 17, 2003 10:41am PDT
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