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  • Egyptian diplomat in Iraq taken captive
    24 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Aljazeera
    An Egyptian diplomat has been seized in Baghdad by a group calling itself "Lions of God Battalions in Iraq".
    The capture was in response to comments by Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmad Nazif that Egypt is ready to offer its security experience to the interim Iraqi government, a videotape aired on Aljazeera channel said
    The captive has been identified as Muhammad Mamduh Hilmi Qutb, the television said based on the videotape sent to it by the group on Friday.
    Egypt reaction (…)

  • Militants kidnap six more in Iraq
    23 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ravi Nessman in Baghdad
    A MILITANT group said today it had taken six more hostages — three Indians, two Kenyans and an Egyptian — and would behead them if their countries did not immediately announce the withdrawal of their citizens from Iraq.
    The US death toll since the start of the war rose to 900 when a roadside bomb killed a soldier.
    The seizure of the hostages came a day after a Filipino truck driver was released in exchange for Manila’s withdrawal of its 51-member troop (…)

  • Dear Senator Kerry
    23 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Ward Reilly
    Greetings from a common American citiizen, and a fellow veteran. I am writing this letter to you because our nation is in dire distress, due to the wreckless lack of leadership from the White House concerning our nation’s foreign policy, and because of the depression here at home. Our country is "out-sourcing" itself, to borrow a modern phrase.
    I have been pondering for weeks now on what words of mine might have a chance of making an impact upon you. I wrote a similar (…)

  • Samarra toll mounts in continuing clashes
    21 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The toll from fighting in Samarra has risen to five dead and eight wounded, according to Iraqi police sources.
    An AFP correspondent in the city said powerful explosions rocked Samarra’s northern edge near al-Qadisiya neighbourhood starting at about 7pm (1700 GMT) on Tuesday, and mosques later urged residents to donate blood .../...
    – http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exe...

  • Torturing Children
    21 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Rivers Pitt
    The biggest story of the Iraq war is not about missing weapons of mass destruction, or about deep-cover CIA officers getting their covers blown by vengeful White House agents, or even about 896 dead American soldiers. These have been covered to one degree or another, and then summarily dismissed, by the American mainstream news media. The biggest story of the Iraq war has not enjoyed any coverage in America, though it has been exploding across the international news (…)

  • The Crisis of Information in Baghdad, four Missiles, 14 Deaths
    20 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Robert Fisk
    This is how they like it. An American helicopter fires four missiles at a house in Fallujah. Fourteen people are killed, including women and children. Or so say the hospital authorities.
    But no Western journalist dares to go to Fallujah. Video footage taken by local civilians shows only a hole in the ground, body parts under a grey blanket and an unnamed man shouting that young children were killed.
    The US authorities say they know nothing about the air strike; indeed, (…)

  • Red Cross urged to investigate Allawi claims
    19 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Tom Allard
    The former British foreign secretary, Robin Cook, has urged the International Committee for the Red Cross to investigate witness claims that the new Iraqi prime minister, Iyad Allawi, shot dead six insurgents last month.
    Revelations of the accounts of the killings by chief Herald correspondent Paul McGeough at the weekend and the refusal of US authorities to deny them outright sparked concerns around the world.
    The Herald reported that two independent witnesses alleged Dr (…)

  • The Iraq War is All Right Then
    19 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Robert Fisk
    Lord Butler told us Wednesday that Tony Blair acted in good faith. So that’s all right then.
    At the al-Yarmouk hospital in Baghdad on the same morning, there was blood on the walls, blood on the floor, blood on the doctors, blood on the stretchers. In the dangerous oven of Baghdad, 10 more lives had just ended. So what was it Tony Blair said in the Commons? "We are not killing civilians in Iraq; terrorists are killing civilians in Iraq." So that’s all right then. (…)

  • Iraq’s new leader faces triple challenge
    19 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by David Hirst
    With the "resignation" of President Hassan al-Bakr of Iraq, Mr Siddam (sic) Hussein Takriti, long the "strongman" of the Ba’athist regime, has finally emerged as its uncontested master. But the Government as a whole is almost certainly the weaker for it.
    Whether or not the 67-year-old President resigned for health reasons, his removal will have important, and potentially disruptive repercussions within the ruling hierarchy. Both Mr Bakr and his Vice-President, the 42 year (…)

  • Let Bush and Kerry Lead With their Children Into Iraq and Afghanistan
    18 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Let Bush and Kerry Lead With their Children Into Iraq and Afghanistan
    By Sam Hamod
    It is clear that if Bush really believes in sacrifice for Iraq and Afghanistan, he should send Barbara to Iraq as a U.S. Army soldier and Jenna to Afghanistan as a soldier; in this way, he’ll show that he really believes in these two wars he’s put our young men and women into. If Kerry wants to lead, he should do the same; as should Edwards. Otherwise, they must capitulate and say publicly that Nader, (…)