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September, 2003
Patriots and
invaders
By Sami Ramadani
Iraqi resistance to foreign occupation enjoys great
popular support
27 September, 2003
America Sinking
in The Quicksand of Iraq
Dr. Marwan Asmar
With attacks on American troops carried out on
a daily basis, the US is struggling for international support to get
out of the "Iraqi quagmire". A review of what the Arabic press
has to say
26 September, 2003
Brutal Reality
That Fans The Flames Of Hatred In Iraq
By Robert Fisk
If anyone wants to know why Iraqis set bombs for
American soldiers, they had only to sit in the two-storey villa in this
little farming village of Saqlawiyah and look at the frozen face of
Ahmed al-Ham and his angry friends yesterday
24 September, 2003
Breaking The
Silence
By John Pilger
An investigation of files and archive film for
my TV documentary Breaking The Silence, together with interviews with
former intelligence officers and senior Bush officials have revealed
that Bush and Blair knew all along that Saddam Hussein was effectively
disarmed
23 September, 2003
Iraq For Sale
By Philip Thornton and Andrew Gumbel
In an unexpected move unveiled at the meeting in
Dubai of the Group of Seven rich nations, the Iraqi Governing Council
announced sweeping reforms to allow total foreign ownership without
the need for prior approval
21 September, 2003
Iraq's Occupiers
Lose Touch With Reality
By Robert Fisk
A culture of secrecy has descended upon the Anglo-American
occupation authorities in Iraq. They will give no tally of the Iraqi
civilian lives lost each day
17 September, 2003
Baghdad's
Packed Morgue Marks
A City's Descent Into Lawlessness
By Jeffrey Fleishman
The number of reported gun-related killings in
Baghdad has increased 25-fold since President Bush declared an end to
major combat May 1
16 September, 2003
Secret Slaughter
By Night, Lies And Blind Eyes By Day
By Robert Fisk
Almost 1,000 Iraqi civilians are being killed every
week - and that may well be a conservative figure
13 September, 2003
Iraq's Epic
Suffering Is Made Invisible
By John Pilger
If the great crime in Iraq was represented not
by the poignant moment of a dead squaddie's flag-draped coffin returning,
but by the unrelenting horror I have watched on unseen videotape, the
cover would crack. And the illusion presented by the Hutton inquiry
would be revealed
10 September, 2003
Meet the New Iraqi
Strongman:Paul Bremer
By Robert Fisk
Today Bremer is the strongman, and under his rule
US troops are losing hearts and minds by the bucketful with each new,
blundering and often useless raid against the civilians of Iraq
09 September, 2003
Letter from
Baghdad: The Progress of Disaster
By Christian Parenti
Here the criminal is king. Saddam emptied the prisons
and the United States disbanded the police, while 60 percent of people
are unemployed. As a result, carjacking, robbery, looting, and murder
are rife. Marauding men in misery gangs kidnap and rape
women and girls at will
05 September, 2003
Baghdad's Frightening
Freedom
By Mario Vargas Llosa
There are no police stations or banks, the American
troops are scared and hated and anything that isn't guarded is stolen
or destroyed. Is there hope for the people of Baghdad? Peruvian novelist
Mario Vargas Llosa reports from Iraq
03 September, 2003
The war is
lost
By James Carroll
The war is lost. By most measures of what the Bush
administration forecast for its adventure in Iraq, it is already a failure
02 September, 2003
Iraq's 10 million
unemployed: The forgotten issue
By E.A.Khammas
There are about 10 million unemployed in Iraq.
They cannot afford to pay rent or to support their families. Their families
are disintegrating, and many of their wives are asking for divorce or
deserting their houses