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News :: Peace
Time To Die! Current rating: 0
01 Apr 2003
russian anti-tank units let burst Abrams tanks like balloons!
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We are coming with overwhelming power and give you a new life - in the Kingdom of Heaven. We give you food and medicine we have hold back since 12 years. Will not stop till the ultimate victory - and your nation is completely destroyed. (The right hand of God Bush at 31.3.03)

In one and a half days 43 British and US soldiers were killed.
Nothing to gorge, insufficient water and no diesel fuel
Cruise missiles misfire by GPS-Jammer
One third of tomahawk missiles gone without effect
Four Apache helicopters and two predator drones downed.
13 tanks, 8 troop-carries and 6 armored vehicles destroyed.

The newest russian anti-tank units let burst Abrams tanks like balloons!

The egomaniacal left hand of God Rumsfeld led you to an dead-end street and in the face of his collapse he cover all over Bagdad with a carpet of 3000 bombs in 72 hours. He has failed, will bring you the death and immeasurable dolor in the cities.
With any bomb you create death, desperation and endless hate in this country.
By the siege of cities you are hence not more liberators but butcher and the people will will drop like flies.
You create hundreds of new Bin Ladin's by your massacre and America will bitter pay for it.

You have yet lost the war !

Because this sweated people will not rest as long as the last british and american soldier is killed or has leaved their home land no matter if Hussein is dead or not. They are fighting for their own home land and no longer for Hussein.

And in your fear you slay women and kids, it will not be forgotten - never!
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Intolerable
Current rating: 0
02 Apr 2003
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By propaganda of invaders compared to one dead US/UK mercenary 100 iraqi draftee soldiers get killed!
The outcome of this is 4300 killed Iraqis compared to officially 43 killed mercenaries.

During two lachrymose self-righteous nations are snivel about a couple of 'heroical' mercenaries 8600 fathers and mothers in iraq bewail the death of their sons. Which American and British has ever think about?
They cannot celebrate impossibly you as liberators, you kill their children!

Meanwhile iraq women coming to an christian hospice in Bagdad for scrape out their unborn children with spoons because they would not survive the war. These women leave the hospital immediately with their dead kids because they would not die in the hospice (tv report canal 8).

They will kill you anywhere they can as long as American and British are in this country.
And you only could protect you by eradicate this whole nation.

You are maltreat this nation with your sanctions and with your felonious war, you destroy their homeland and coerce this starving and thirsty people by abasing manner to take water and food from the hands of their murderer. You agonize them with bags over heads and take them any human dignity. You are crimes!

They will never forget it!
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The Rigged Nation
Current rating: 0
03 Apr 2003
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Since 50 years the CIA is killing politicians in the whole world on behalf of USA, overthrow governments and cover all over other nations with civil wars.
Since 12 years the CIA would'nt liquidize Hussein so that they could wage a war against the 'evil weapons' delivered by US and for 'US Democracy'(the license to kill at every place and time they want).
In the meantime clusterbombs go down on Iraq, the pates from children become tear off by projectiles of panic liberators, exempt Iraqis get compel to laugh in the camera for the evening show in disneyland with an brutish propaganda campaign, Goebbels would'nt believe, at that military speaker Brooks answers with thick-skulled hollow words to probing questions:

'no evil weapos here, we don't know nothing, the others have it done, We have to check out, we don't know nothing till we have clarify it you have yet forgotten it (your numskulls)' and ' any iraqi civilian is a terrorist so long as he has proven the converse...'

They can shoot them promptly or haul out to cuba with plastic bags over their heads tied up as living packets to molder there because they take in and speak not the speech of their slayers.

Slowly but surely the Brit savvy with what a kind of critters they have to do.

How long the world keep still in consideration of this blackguards?

To do nothing means to accept!!!

BEAT THE SYSTEM AT MAIN NERVE

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Western Journalists Beaten, Starved by Americans
Essam Al-Ghalib, Arab News War Correspondent


KUWAIT CITY, 3 April 2003 — Two Western journalists have arrived safely back in Kuwait City after being arrested, beaten up and deprived of food and water in Iraq — by members of the US Army’s military police.

Arab News has learned that Luis Castro and Victor Silva, both reporters working for RTP Portuguese television, were held for four days, had their equipment, vehicle and video tapes confiscated, and were then escorted out of Iraq by the 101st Airborne Division.

Despite possessing the proper “Unilateral Journalist” accreditation issued by the Coalition Forces Central Command, both journalists were detained.

Their ordeal at the hands of the Americans is in stark contrast to that received by Newsday journalists in Baghdad, who yesterday in Jordan described as “humane” their treatment at the hands of their Iraqi interrogators despite suffering various indignities. “I have covered 10 wars in the past six years — in Angola, Afghanistan, Zaire, and East Timor. I have been arrested three times in Africa, but have never been subjected to such treatment or been physically beaten before,” Castro said in an exclusive interview with Arab News.

“The Americans call themselves liberators and freedom fighters, but look what they have done to us,” he added.

Castro and Silva entered Iraq 10 days ago. They had been to Umm Qasr and Basra and were traveling to Najaf when they were stopped by the military police.

According to Castro, their accredited identification was checked and they were given the all clear to proceed.

“Suddenly, for no reason, the situation changed,” Castro told Arab News. “We were ordered down on the ground by the soldiers. They stepped on our hands and backs and handcuffed us.

“We were put in our own car. The soldiers used our satellite phones to call their families at home. I begged them to allow me to use my own phone to call my family, but they refused. When I protested, they pushed me to the ground and kicked me in the ribs and legs.”

“I believe the reason we were detained was because we are not embedded with the US forces,” he continued. “Embedded journalists are always escorted by military minders. What they write is controlled and, through them, the military feeds its own version of the facts to the world. When independent journalists such as us come around, we pose a threat because they cannot control what we write.”

After being held for four days, they were transported to the 101st Airborne Division to be escorted out of Iraq.

Castro told Arab News: “A lieutenant in charge of the military police told me, ‘My men are like dogs, they are trained only to attack, please try to understand’.”

The journalists were then transported by truck to Camp Udairi to await a helicopter transfer out of Iraq. At Camp Udairi, they told their stories to members of the US Marines.

One soldier, who Castro asked not be identified, wrote out a note, which was shown to Arab News. The note said: “I am so sorry that you had to endure such bad conditions, but remember that I care and pray you can forgive.”

“The Americans in Iraq are totally crazy and are afraid of everything that moves. I would have expected this to happen to us at the hands of the Iraqis, but not at the hands of the Americans. This is typical of the American attitude, as related to us by British forces. The attitude is ‘shoot first and ask questions later’”, Castro added.

Castro, a veteran journalist, has had all his tapes and equipment returned to him, but not his jeep.

When asked by Arab News what he intends to do next, he replied: “Return to Iraq as soon as possible to tell the truth to the world about what is happening there.”

http://www.arabnews.com/Article.asp?ID=24644
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So Far We Have No Information
Current rating: 0
04 Apr 2003
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Clusterbombs proscribed by UN on Bagdad: 'this must be an falsity, Saddam has done it, we don't know anything - we only use clusterbombs if it is necessary' (to kill lots of people at a single blow) -'try too kill anything which moves back to town'(US officer) - bombed power plants - total power blackout in Bagdad: ' Saddam was it, we know nothing about' (we don't bomb like in Serbia), Peace campaigners attacked by US helicopter: 'we know nothing about, we don't do such things' (it must be Saddam with his ugly Mig's)

The children suffer daily a horrible trauma and they will be hag-ridden for lifetime. Extremities of injured people will be amputated without narcosis.

Meanwhile the US arm industry is selling their products at trade fair Idex in Abu Dabi 500 miles away which are shown at the Live Show in Iraq:
'Because you never know if a weapon actually is good for before it hasn't killed effectively thousands of soldiers quasi by day-to-day long-term usage', 'It's said to make hay while the sun shines'

Rearm nations and to disarm nations with slaughterous wars and the world have to pay for it! The American way of life!

A pretty clean testing war!

In Ufa a city in South Ural Talgat Tadschuddin the spiritual leader of 20 million Muslims in Russia has proclaimed yesterday the holy war against America. (This is the second appeal in this vein. The first one was targeted to the Nazi Regime at world war II)

Americe will pay for it and it's a part of the plan schemed by the Bush Junta because the next wars are a foregone conclusion!

To do nothing means to accept!!!


BEAT THE SYSTEM AT MAIN NERVE
worldwide permanent boycott, complete replacement of agreement currency on the oil markets from Dollar to Euro, reparation payments and economic sanctions for 12 years to reduce the budget for the US arm industry

Only we, the people on the streets, can cut off the financing of wars!



Robert Fisk: Reports of airport assault premature

04.04.2003
8.00am
SADDAM HUSSEIN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - So where are the Americans? I prowled the empty departure lounges, mooched through the abandoned customs department, chatted to the seven armed militia guards, met the airport director and stood beside the runways where two dust-covered Iraqi Airways passenger jets -- an old 727 and an even more elderly Antonov -- stood forlornly on the runway not far from an equally decrepit military helicopter.

And all I could hear was the distant whisper of high-flying jets and the chatter of the flocks of birds which have nested near the airport car park on this, the first day of real summer in Baghdad.

Only three hours earlier, the BBC had reported claims that forward units of an American mechanised infantry division were less than 16km west of Baghdad -- and that some US troops had taken up positions on the very edge of the international airport.

But I was 27km west of the city. And there were no Americans, no armour, not a soul around the runways of the airport whose namesake, in poster form, sat nonchalantly in the arrivals lounge in a business suit, cigar in hand. Even more astonishingly, there was no sign of the 12,000 Republican Guards whom the US division expected to fight.

Indeed, Saddam Hussein International Airport looked as if it was enduring an industrial strike (let us not conceive of such an event in Saddam's Iraq) rather than an imminent takeover by the world's only superpower.

Was it true, the Iraqi minister of information was asked at his daily 2pm press conference (11pm NZT) - a routine institution of usually deadly tedium - that the Americans were at the airport?

"Rubbish!" he shouted. "Lies! Go and look for yourself."

So we did.

And, alas for the Anglo-American spokesmen in Doha and the US officer quoted on the BBC, the Iraqi minister was right and the Americans were wrong. But it's a good idea to take these things, if not with a pinch of salt, then at least with the knowledge that there are always two reasons for every decision taken in this violent, ruthless land.

Sure, the Americans had been caught lying again - as they were about the "securing" of Nasiriyah more than a week ago - but was that the only reason journalists were permitted to visit Baghdad airport? We saw no Republican Guards - just as the Americans have themselves somehow failed to discover the 12,000 Republican Guards supposedly facing them.

Indeed, what I found most extraordinary was that there appeared to be absolutely no attempt to block the road into Baghdad from the airport.

Save for a few soldiers on the streets and a police squad car, you might have thought this a mildly warm holiday afternoon.

Was their some kind of trap about to be sprung? Were the Americans being lured into the gentle, palm-fringed highway into town because, unknown to all of us, there was in fact some real armour hidden away in the great fields on the western banks of the Tigris?

All day, I had asked myself about the supposed American assault-to-come on Baghdad.

Where were the panicking crowds? Where were the food queues? Where were the empty streets? True, the motorway to the airport was a spooky, lonely journey.

But the centre of Baghdad was livelier than for many days.

The city authorities have put more of their Chinese double-decker buses back on the streets - normal service, as they say, has been resumed - and the railway company claimed its trains were still leaving for northern Iraq.

At lunchtime, I dropped into the Furud Takeaway for my daily fix of chicken "shish-taouk", tomatoes and green beans.

It was packed with Shia families, the ladies in black chadors, the men largely bearded, chomping through giant "mezzes" of "hoummus" and "tabouleh" and lamb and rice.

The television was showing an Iranian channel, a musical in the Persian language. Iranian TV has two Arabic channels whose signal can be picked up without a satellite dish - and many Baghdadis trust their news service more than that of Kuwaiti or Saudi television.

Near the Rafidiyeh Bridge, in a canyon of traffic, I caught sight of a middle-aged man staring at the great monument to Saddam's "victory" in the 1980-88 war with Iran.

At the base of a column, iron, helmeted soldiers stood behind iron sandbags, firing an iron machine-gun at their Persian enemies, an iron soldier throwing an iron grenade in the same direction.

There is this monument to military victory in Baghdad, a monument to the "martyrs" of that victory - perhaps half a million of them - and a monument to the unknown soldier of that same war.

Ex-prisoners asked for a monument to their suffering - in eight years, there were 60,000 of them - but their request was officially turned down.

Was that to emphasise the humiliation of surrender? Is this a lesson for the young Iraqi soldiers of today whose combat troops I saw on the road south of Baghdad on Wednesday, jumping from their trucks in steel helmets and flak jackets? Each night, I can hear the drumbeat of explosions and cluster bombs west of the city.

Who is dying there? The Chief of Staff of the Republican Guards' Baghdad Division -- the same division whom the Americans are supposedly incinerating - announces that he has suffered only 17 dead and 35 wounded.

Every morning, the newspaper Qaddisiyeh carries a detailed battle report from the front lines - always supposing there is a front line - which includes unit numbers and brigades.

On Wednesday, for example, the newspaper informed its readers that the Americans failed to cut the Kut to Baghdad highway, that Iraqi forces destroyed 14 US tanks in the province of Diwaniyeh, that the 704th, 424th and 504th Brigades of the Iraqi army's 3rd Army Corps prevented a US thrust near Suq el-Shuqh.

And so on and so forth.

Whether this represents anything like the battles which the Iraqis believe they are fighting will await the inquiries of historians.

Certainly, no one here takes the total of tanks and planes destroyed too seriously, although the Iraqis inevitably popped up yesterday to "confirm" the American admission of an F-18 aircraft shot down over the country.

Thus another long day, peppered with the rumble of faraway detonations, closed at Baghdad airport last night, dusk falling over the grimy terminals with their painted exhortations of "Down, Down America" and the airport's director, Wafa Abdullah Jabbouri, announcing that "there is no-one at the airport, you can see it's completely safe, even the workers still turn up each day." No doubt they do.

And while there's a large complex of buildings blown to pieces by missiles a mile away and the airport radar system is out of action after an early raid by American or British jets, Mr. Jabbouri appeared to be correct.

Had the Americans found themselves miles away on the edge of the old RAF airbase at Habbaniyeh, one wondered, and confused it with the airport outside Baghdad? Had they sent a patrol up to the far side of the Saddam airport for a few minutes, just to say they'd been there? Back in 1941, a German patrol briefly captured the last tram-stop on the line west of Moscow, collecting the discarded passenger tickets as souvenirs - and then got no farther.

But few here believe the Americans cannot bash their way into Baghdad if they really want to. After all, Napoleon got to Moscow in the end.

I guess it's the same old question. The Russians could hold Stalingrad because they loved Russia as much as they feared Marshal Stalin.

Does that equation of patriotism and dictatorship apply to the Iraqis? Messers Bush and Blair must hope it does not.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3350810&thesection=news&thesubsection=dialogue



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The Democracy We Bomb To You
Current rating: 0
05 Apr 2003
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We give you presidents which come to power by election fraud, cutback of civil rights, impoverishment of population, censorship, government consolidation of mass media, sedition and denunciation of critics by TV media, total state control of citizens, mass imprisonments, disinformation, total corruption of administration by affiliated groups and whose direct representatives in this cabinet, bribery, repression, total military upgrade at the expense of public standards, wage wars of aggression, breach of public international law, contempt of human-rights and breach of Geneva Conventions, total control of the government by corporate enterprises...

What - you mean you don't need this all! You have this all yet!


Then perhaps the israeli democracy in the grip of a couple family clans, possession of weapons of mass destruction (200 nukes etc.), consolidation of mass media, censorship and cutoff media (CNN due to friendly reporting about Palestinian and BBC due to neutral war reports), repression, torture and killing of an disenfranchised folk (since the beginning of war in Iraq 100 Palestinian were killed therefrom 26 children) permanent breach of UN conventions without any consequences...

No? Well then so we replace your feudal systems and dictatorships by our military dictatorship!

Yes, there is an international terror, it is a state terror and the nations are well known!

To do nothing means to accept!!!

BEAT THE SYSTEM AT MAIN NERVE
worldwide permanent boycott, complete replacement of agreement currency on the oil markets from Dollar to Euro, reparation payments and economic sanctions for 12 years to reduce the budget for the US arm industry


PS: At 1:00 PM CET in the centre of Bagdad european reporter Antonia Rados LIVE on n-tv and also reporter of ARD-TV Germany have not seen any US tanks and troops in centre of Bagdad - a next great propaganda fake of Rumsfeld
Here we can see what glamor guys this Americans are and how cackhanded the Brit at Basra!
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Re: Time To Die!
Current rating: -2
10 Apr 2003
Dear Backside,

I noticed you have not put in any pictures of Iraqis hugging our troops or removing their sandles and whacking Saddam over the head with them. Are you afraid to show the whole story?

Jack