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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
...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
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
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
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
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Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2003 1:10pm PDT
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
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Posted: Sun, Apr 6, 2003 1:41am PST
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
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