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...the family...decided they would head out of Nassiriya for the town further south to the safe haven of Souk Al Shuyoukh. Unfortunately, with the information blackout under which most Iraqis live...[they] had no idea that U.S. forces, sweeping north from Kuwait had control of that very highway that Monday night...the edgy Americans were shooting at everything on the stretch of road between the southern town and Nassiriya...from Basra. Jawad and his family, part of a huge convoy of cars car...

"As the Bush administration continues its illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq, we must steel ourselves for the difficult days that lie ahead." from: http://www.thenation.org...

Six protestors in San Francisco were arrested this morning for staging a non-violent occupation of Autonomy Corporation offices in San Francisco while scores of others picketed outside the office. This protest, coordinated with a simultaneous action in Cambridge, England, highlighted the surveillance software company’s unethical ties to Bush advisor Richard Perle. Pearle, an influential Pentagon insider and key promoter of the war on Iraq, was placed on the board of the company three years a...

Former BBC reporter Kate Adie warned that non-embedded journalists in Iraq could be Pentagon targets before the war began. She was right. Today, an American tank shell was fired at Baghdad's Palestine Hotel--temporary home of international reporters and film crews--causing casualties among those who bravely stayed in a war zone so that we could know. He wonders how independent reporters (as opposed to embeds) can continue to do their jobs when such danger emanates from their own side. Not fro...

International journalists killed, missing and held in Iraq. The International Federation of Journalists condemns both sides in the Iraq war over the deaths of reporters and says those responsible must be brought to justice....

"We were targeted because the Americans don't want the world to see the crimes they are committing against the Iraqi people." Ayoub aged 35, was married with one daughter. He travelled to Baghdad only five days ago to join the Al-Jazeera team from the channel's Amman......

Most Americans no longer care whether weapons of mass destruction are found in Iraq. But to the rest of the world, the issue remains crucial....

"The Iraq Body Count site is attracting 100,000 visitors a day, many of them journalists, who are increasingly citing the site's reporting in their own accounts. The material is critical given that no government, NGO or other organization is currently chronicling this information. As US General Tommy Franks has said: 'We don't do body counts.' Launched this past January, IBC is run by 16 researchers, based in the United States and the United Kingdom, who closely analyze reports from a ra...

The White House's concentration on the Palestinian problem is based on the fact that it was the main focus of Arab anger against America until the Iraq war began and will probably continue long after the guns fall silent...

The Secret Behind the Sanctions How the U.S. Intentionally Destroyed Iraq's Water Supply by Thomas J. Nagy...