31 December, 2003
The Reconstruction's Bottom-Line
By Herbert DocenaThe US-led reconstruction business in Iraq is faltering because it is less about reconstruction than about business
Samarra: Plenty Of Troops,still No Infrastructure
By Dahr JamailIf repairing/rebuilding something in Iraq isn't necessary to serve US and British interests, it is left as it is
11 December, 2003
Catching Up
By Jo WildingA visit with an Iraqi family provides a reflection on the realities and frustrations that many live with under the occupation
10 December, 2003
US, Israel Prepare Mass Killings In Iraq
By Bill VannThe Bush administration is about to launch a campaign of wholesale killings in Iraq with the assistance of the Israeli military, according to both US and Israeli sources quoted in several recent news reports
The Privatisation Of War
By Ian TraynorThe private sector is so firmly embedded in combat, occupation and peacekeeping duties in Iraq that the US military would struggle to wage war without it
06 December, 2003
The True Story Of The Battle Of Samarra
By Phil ReevesA bloody victory or dangerous fantasy? The Samarra story could have been a fabrication which was intended to generate positive headlines for the US, after a disastrous weekend in which guerrilla attacks killed 14 foreigners
Samarra: An Entire City Up In Arms
By May Ying“All of Samarra is with the resistance. The guerrillas can shoot at the Americans on a sidewalk in the middle of town at noon knowing no one will report them. When they do this, the people clap - men, women and children.”
The BBC And Iraq: Myth And Reality
By John PilgerThe BBC gave just 2 per cent of its Iraq war coverage to opposition views
05 December, 2003
InsideThe Iraqi Resistance
By P. Mitchell Prothero"If the Americans leave and Saddam comes back, we will fight him too. Maybe if he were elected we'd allow it. But no one in Iraq wants Saddam back. He turned into a thief and a murderer who made too many mistakes. We don't want Saddam, but American cannot occupy us any longer."
Exporting The Islamic RevolutionTo Iraq
By Michael JansenGeorge W. Bush may be on the way to transforming Iraq into an Islamic state modelled on the Iranian system of “valayet-e-faqih”, rule of the jurisprudence
04 December, 2003
Human Rights Testimonies From Iraq
By Le Anne Clausen and David MilneTestimony of an Iraqi Minor Detained and Mistreated by US Forces. The family has asked that the 16 year old youth who gave the testimony not be identified because his relatives are still detained
Perhaps Saddam Read Tolstoy
And Bush’s People Didn’t
By Ben BagdikianThere is an eerie similarity between Leo Tolstoy's novel, War and Piece, which describes with considerable accuracy Napoleon's 1812 invasion of Russia and George Bush's 2003 invasion of Iraq
03 December, 2003
What Happened At Samarra
By Muhammad Abu NasrEye Witness Report of the "Battle" at Samarra: "After inflicting casualties on the Americans the Resistance fighters withdrew. The American troops, however, continued to shell and rocket residential quarters of Samarra' for hours as if to punish residents and drive a wedge between them and the Iraqi Resistance"
The Battle That Left No Bodies
By Jack FairweatherAmericans say 54 attackers died in the fiercest engagement since the war ended while Iraqis insist that eight civilians were killed by reckless US fire.It was impossible to reconcile the two versions of the battle
02 December, 2003
Samrra Killings An Inside Story
By A Combat LeaderA combat leader gives the inside story of the samrra killings
Buying Up Iraq
By Amal Sedky WinterThe United States cannot tolerate Arab democracy at the national level because of its unilateral support of Israel's occupation of Palestine and no freely elected Arab government will support Israel against the Palestinians. If real democracy means letting people have a real voice in governing themselves then there is little hope of this happening in any Arab state, including Iraq