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textAbu Dhabi TV, Al Jazeera cars come under fire by Doha |WAM
US is trying to silence the Arab press because of their coverage of civilian casualties. The US government wants no witnesses to what's about to take place in Baghdad. They want the civilian victims to die quietly without a lot of publicity....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 1:15am PDT
textUS mowing civilian cars down on the highways; Journalist and his family among the victims by Neena Gopal, Gulf News
...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...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 12:53am PDT
textBOY BOMB VICTIM STRUGGLES AGAINST DESPAIR by Samia Nakhoul
The Red Cross has been touring hospitals with first aid and surgery kits. Spokesman Roland Huguenin-Benjamin said: "They were overwhelmed by sheer numbers - during fierce bombardment they received up to 100 casualties an hour." Doctors who treated victims of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war and the 1991 Gulf War were taken aback by the injuries. Dr Duleimi, 48, said: "This is the worst I've seen in the number of casualties and fatal wounds. "This is a disaster because they'...
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2003 9:41pm PDT
textHospitals admitting hundreds of cases every hour by Al Jazeera
The reality of what is happening to REAL PEOPLE is just so horrifying. The child below had both of his arms blown off and his entire family killed when a bomb hit his neighborhood in Baghdad....
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2003 8:39pm PDT
textUS bombs apartment building with five 2000 pound bombs from a B-1 bomber by MATT KELLEY, Associated Press Writer
It is sickening how this story is framed. They openly admit that a residential building is bombed but see no moral implications to this. How many civilians may have been killed in this -- possibly hundreds? But AP doesn't seem to care. Also the other day, with all the hype about killing "Chemical Ali," no mention was made of the 17 civilians also killed when the US bombed a residential neighborhood in Basra....
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2003 8:19pm PDT
textUp to 14 killed as missiles strike residential area by Al Jazeera
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Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2003 8:02pm PDT
textAttack on Iraq is based on racist disregard for Arab lives by Ghada Karmi, repost
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Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2003 1:10pm PDT
textJohn Pilger: Media begins to desensitize people to 'inevitable' carnage against civilians by John Pilger, reposted from Zmag
In lauding Bush and Blair as "heroes', [media mogul Rupert Murdoch, owner of FOX and a number of newspapers worldwide] said, "there is going to be collateral damage in Iraq. And if you really want to be brutal about it, better we get it done now.' Every one of his 175 newspapers carries that sinister message, more or less, as does his American television network. The 80 villagers rocketed to death on Thursday are proof of the urgency he describes; other victims in other countries ar...
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2003 12:19pm PDT
textEdward Herman on "anti-Semitism" by Edward Herman, repost from Zmag
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Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2003 11:32am PDT
textJohn Pilger: The War for Truth by John Pilger
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Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2003 8:14am PDT
textRed Cross horrified by number of dead civilians by Canadian Press
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Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2003 12:50am PDT
text17 civilians killed in airstikes on Basra by Al Jazeera
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Posted: Sun, Apr 6, 2003 1:25am PST
textBritish government to deport dissident by Liberty
The British government has introduced new laws that enables them to remove the British citizenship of any 'undesirable' with dual nationality....
Posted: Sat, Apr 5, 2003 12:49pm PST
textUN, Red Cross alarmed by civilian casualties in Iraq - US using cluster bombs on civilians by Agence France Presse (AFP)
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Posted: Fri, Apr 4, 2003 10:45am PST
textIsrael, We Won't Forget Rachel by ALISON WEIR
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Posted: Thu, Apr 3, 2003 9:08pm PST
textRobert Fisk: US using cluster bombs on civilian towns by Robert Fisk, repost
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Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2003 11:23am PST
text11 killed (not 7) in checkpoint atrocity. Family member watched her daughters die by Associated Press (AP)
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Posted: Wed, Apr 2, 2003 8:30am PST
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