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October, 2003
Up To 15,000
People Killed In Iraq Invasion
By Suzanne Goldenberg
The report, by Project on Defence Alternatives,
a research institute from Cambridge, Massachussets, offers the most
comprehensive account so far of how many Iraqis died
This is
a Resistance Movement,
Whether We Like It or Not
By Robert Fisk
Robert Talks to Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!
29 October, 2003
The Two Brides
Of Baghdad
By Gerard Wright
Love blooms in the time of war. The slogan, "Lets
make love, Not War", which echoed across the globe in every antiwar
demonstration comes true in Baghdad. Two American GIs are under friendly
fire for marrying Iraqis
Iraq's Guerrillas
Learn The American Lesson
By Robert Fisk
The Iraqi guerilla's have learnt a lesson from
America's "war on terror". Kill the leadership.
Sunnis Wait For
Their Moment
By Nir Rosen
What we see now in Iraq may not be organized sunni
resistance
28 October, 2003
Slaughter
In The Rush Hour
By Patrick Cockburn
Suicide bombers struck four times yesterday, slaughtering
at least 35 and injuring 224 in the bloodiest day in the Iraqi capital
since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein
Living On Lies
By Robert Fisk
All American soldiers are supposed to believe
that Osama bin Laden's "al-Qa'ida" guerrillas, pouring over
Iraq's borders from Syria, Iran, Saudi Arabia are assaulting United
States forces as part of the "war on terror"
25 October, 2003
Post-war Civilian
Deaths In Baghdad
By Human Rights Watch
The U.S. military keeps no statistics on civilian
casualties. Such an attitude suggests that civilian casualties are not
a paramount concern. The Human Rights Watch report has several startling
findings
22 October, 2003
The Return Of
Arabophobia
By Neil Clark
Arabophobia has been part of western culture since
the Crusades, with Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden only the latest
in a long line of Arab bogeymen
16 October, 2003
The Quartet
'Party' In Iraq
By Hazem Saghieh
Is it possible to say that George W. Bush, Saddam
Hussein, Osama bin Laden and Moqtada Al Sadr are affiliated to one 'party'
whose objective is, regardless of the rhetoric, to fragment Iraq?
14 October, 2003
Inside The Iraqi
Resistance
By Zaki Chehab
Popular anger is forging an alliance between diverse
strands of Iraq's guerrilla movement
13 October, 2003
Iraq's Hidden
War
By Rory McCarthy
Almost every day brings news of another US death
in Iraq, but we hear almost nothing of the hundreds - maybe thousands
- wounded by Saddam loyalists. In a rare visit to an army hospital,
Rory McCarthy glimpses the victims of a hidden war
US Soldiers
Bulldoze Farmers' Crops
By Patrick Cockburn
Americans soldiers are resorting to brutal 'punishment'
tactics against villagers in central Iraq as part of a new policy of
collective punishment of farmers who do not give information about guerrillas
attacking US troops
10 October, 2003
Iraq, Six Months
On
A survey of the good, the bad and the uncertain
No Money, No
Play:US On The Brink In Iraq
By Herbert Docena
The US is now forced to turn to the creditor countries,
including war opponents France and Germany, and international financial
institutions because it has nowhere else to go
09 October, 2003
Turkish Troops
In Iraq:Recipe For A Civil War
By Pepe Escobar
If the Turks are allowed to go mobile in Iraq,
nothing could prevent Iranians from doing the same in the Shi'ite-dominated
south. This would be the recipe for a sectarian civil war
08 October, 2003
Over 1,500 Violent
Civilian Deaths
In Occupied Baghdad
From April 14th to 31st August, 2,846 violent deaths
were recorded by the Baghdad city morgue. When corrected for pre-war
death rates in the city a total of at least 1,519 excess violent deaths
in Baghdad emerges from reports based on the morgue's records
06 October, 2003
WMD Report: More
Proof Iraq War Was Based On Lies
By Bill Vann
The interim report delivered by Washingtons
handpicked chief weapons inspector has confirmed yet again that the
Bush administrations war against Iraq was an unprovoked act of
aggression that was based on lies
02 October, 2003
Oil, War And A
Growing Sense Of Panic In The US
By Robert Fisk
The USA occupied Iraq but it can't make the oil
flow. The cost of making it flow could produce an economic crisis in
the US. And it is this - rather than the daily killing of young American
soldiers - that lies behind the Bush administration's growing panic
01 October, 2003
The Changing
Face of Occupation
By Eman Ahmed Khammas
Baghdad today is another city. Everything has changed
- the most significant change is on Iraqi faces that articulate mounting
bewilderment and shock. Occupation Watch's Eman Ahmed Khammas on the
First Six Months of the Occupation
Veiled And
Worried in Baghdad
By Lauren Sandler
A single word is on the tight, pencil-lined lips
of women here. The word is "himaya," or security. Women fear
the abduction, rape and murder that have become rampant here since Saddam's
regime fell