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Arab nations want UN meeting on Iraq to stop the war Is there anything activists can do to support this?...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 9:44pm PDT
Peter Arnett: BOMBS BLAST HOMES INSTEAD OF SADDAM One body was pulled out dead after a couple of hours. Others were still buried when I got there, including the wife and two children of Abdil Hassad.
Abdil is a Christian who owns a shop. He is a handsome, well-dressed young man in his mid-30s.
He escaped the blast but wife Sena, 36, and daughters Rana, 10, and seven-year-old Maria were not so lucky. I found him sobbing uncontrollably by the pile of rubble.
"My wife and children are there," he cried as he crouched over the ...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 9:39pm PDT
Double standard of the media concerning Iraqi civilian deaths The following describes only partially the massacre of the Christian families in the homes which were bombed because the US claims Saddam Hussein was there. Unlike the friendly fire incident which killed Kurdish and US soldiers, the media didn't refer to this as carnage, but in this case, children and young women were murdered....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 9:23pm PDT
Red Cross official on casualties; Roundtable discussion: Alexander Cockburn,Michael Albert ......
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 6:20pm PDT
Civilian vehicles indiscriminately being mowed down along stretches of Iraq's highways ...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 5:58pm PDT
Journalist describes what happened to Ali's family - the boy who lost both his arms Then she brought up some images of Ali’s family just after the bodies had arrived at the hospital’s morgue. It was difficult to make out what had once been human beings. Cloth stuck to the bodies, bits of bold red-and-green fabric with flower designs....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 5:52pm PDT
Killing the Messengers: Deliberate or Accident: It Doesn't Really Matter If they really did hit these two clearly off-limits locations and kill three journalists "by accident" in just one day's fighting, just imagine how many innocents are being slaughtered "by accident" every day of this war whose locations don't even register on all those war maps? It is significant that when a U.S. pilot accidentally bombed a convoy of Kurdish troops and American special forces personnel, reporters were quick to report on the incredible carnage caused by the...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 2:28pm PDT
Journalists Die, the Networks Lie, Iraqis Ask Why? 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...
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 11:42am PDT
Robert Fisk-4-8-03: Amid Allied jubilation, a child lies in agony, clothes soaked in blood This is the latest Robert Fisk dispatch....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 8:58am PDT
Robert Fisk: Many civilian casualties resulted from US incursion into Baghdad This is an excerpt of Robert Fisk's latest article that includes what I thought were his most important observations. To see the entire article, follow the link at the bottom....
Posted: Tue, Apr 8, 2003 2:42am PDT
Abu Dhabi TV, Al Jazeera cars come under fire 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
US mowing civilian cars down on the highways; Journalist and his family among the victims ...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
BOY BOMB VICTIM STRUGGLES AGAINST DESPAIR 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
Hospitals admitting hundreds of cases every hour 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
US bombs apartment building with five 2000 pound bombs from a B-1 bomber 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 -- 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 to get to him....
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2003 8:27pm PDT
US bombs apartment building with five 2000 pound bombs from a B-1 bomber 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
Hear Evil, See Evil, Stand for Peace and Justice I remember a civil disobedience action many of us participated in the 80’s where a Shoshone elder woman led the crossing of the barbed wire fence at the Nevada Test Site. The native woman was carrying a sign that said “Nuclear Weapons is the Ultimate Child Abuse.”...
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2003 4:54pm PDT
Attack on Iraq is based on racist disregard for Arab lives ......
Posted: Mon, Apr 7, 2003 1:10pm PDT
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