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  • Bloodbath a bad omen for coalition forces
    6 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Star (S.Africa)
    http://www.thestar.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=132&fArticleId=393104
    To the horror of the occupying powers in Iraq, the country’s ever more bloody insurgency has at last spilled over into the majority Shi’ite Muslim community.
    Coalition soldiers fought gunmen in the holy city of Najaf yesterday with the loss of at least 20 lives.
    The shooting started after protesters gathered at the Spanish base on the outskirts of the city following the arrest of an aide to (…)

  • Only an ’uptick’ in violence
    6 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.dawn.com/2004/04/04/op.htm#2
    What has happened to the ’Coalition Provisional Authority’, also known as the occupying power? Things are getting worse, much worse in Iraq. Last week’s horrors proved that.
    Yet just a day earlier, Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, America’s deputy director of military operations, assured us that there was only an "uptick" in violence in Iraq . Not a sudden wave of violence, mark you, not a down-to-earth increase, not even a "spike" in violence - (…)

  • Occupiers Spend Millions on Private Army of Security Men
    1 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Coalition of the Mercenaries
    The Independent (UK)
    An army of thousands of mercenaries has appeared in Iraq’s major cities, many of them former British and American soldiers hired by the occupying Anglo-American authorities and by dozens of companies who fear for the lives of their employees.
    Many of the armed Britons are former SAS soldiers and heavily armed South Africans are also working for the occupation. "My people know how to use weapons and they’re all SAS," said the British (…)

  • Demonstrate Globally, Organize Locally
    22 March 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Future Hope column
    It was a definite "up" to be on the streets of Manhattan yesterday with 100,000 or so sisters and brothers marching for peace, justice and a new world, knowing that, as it turned out, upwards of 2 million of us were demonstrating together around the U.S. and the world. Our movement needs days like March 20th, 2004.
    And we will need an even bigger and more powerful "World Says No to Bush" international day of action on August 29th, the day before the opening of the (…)

  • One Year On - War Without End
    17 March 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Saddam may be gone but peace has not come. Robert Fisk was in Baghdad when the tyrant was in his pomp and when the first bombs fell on 19 March 2003. His acclaimed reports revealed the suffering of the Iraqi people. Now, as the anniversary of the war approaches, he returns to a land riven by chaos, where liberation is a myth.
    The Independent (UK) March 14, 2004 http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/story.jsp?story=501026
    The surviving Iraqi employees of the United Nations fearfully (…)

  • Tariq Ali - Resistance is the first step
    4 November 2003 par (Open-Publishing)

    Resistance is the first step towards Iraqi independence
    This is the classic initial stage of guerrilla warfare against a colonial occupation
    By Tariq Ali
    The Guardian (UK) November 3, 2003
    Some weeks ago, Pentagon inmates were invited to a special in-house showing of an old movie. It was the Battle of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo’s anti-colonial classic, initially banned in France. One assumes the purpose of the screening was purely educative. The French won that battle, but lost the (…)

  • US Plan for Global Domination Tops Project Censored’s...
    22 September 2003 par (Open-Publishing)

    US Plan for Global Domination Tops Project Censored’s Annual List
    By Kari Lydersen, AlterNet September 17, 2003
    We know a lot more now about the dangers and disasters of U.S. empire building in Iraq - the ongoing bloodshed on the ground, expansion of terrorist activities, the huge budget busting costs of occupation, the stretching and undermining of the military, and the increased sense of fear and insecurity that many Americans feel as a result of the invasion and its potential for (…)

  • Occupied Iraq Will Never Know Peace
    30 August 2003 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tariq Ali
    The Age
    August 27, 2003
    The recolonisation of Iraq is not proceeding smoothly.
    The resistance in the country (and in Palestine) is not, as Israeli and Western propagandists like to argue, a case of Islam gone mad. It is, in both cases, a direct consequence of the occupation. Before the recent war, some of us argued that the Iraqi people, however much they despised Saddam Hussein, would not take kindly to being occupied by the United States and its British adjutant. (…)

  • America’s Crumbling Authority
    25 August 2003 par (Open-Publishing)

    UN Attack Underlines America’s Crumbling Authority And Shows It Can Not Guarantee The Safety Of Any One
    Robert Fisk
    08/20/03: What UN member would ever contemplate sending peace-keeping troops to Iraq now? The men who are attacking America’s occupation army are ruthless, but they are not stupid. They know that President George Bush is getting desperate, that he will do anything - that he may even go to the dreaded Security Council for help - to reduce US military losses in Iraq. But (…)