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COURT CASE AGAINST GENERAL TOMMY FRANKS IN BRUSSELS

 

PROCES CONTRE LE GENERAL FRANKS A BRUXELLES 
Pas d'impunité pour les crimes de guerre commis par les troupes US en Irak

20 victimes de crimes de guerre commis par les troupes US au cours de la récente guerre contre l'Irak déposent plainte entre les mains du Procureur Fédéral de Belgique du chef d'infractions au droit international humanitaire. 

 APPEL INTERNATIONAL   -  La plainte contre Tommy Franks   -  documents (en anglais) - Apperçu plainte contre le général Tommy Franks (documents, photos, vidéo) (Indymedia 15/05/2003) - SIGNATAIRES: Personalités--Organisations

COURT CASE AGAINST GENERAL FRANKS IN BRUSSELS
No impunity for war crimes committed by U.S. troops in Iraq

Twenty victims of war crimes committed by U.S. troops during the recent war against Iraq are filing charges before the federal prosecutor of Belgium for violations of International Humanitarian Law.
 INTERNATIONAL APPEAL   -
Table of contents of the accusation   - Complaint against Tommy Franks Full text  -  documents - Overview Complaint against general Tommy Franks (documents, pictures, video) (Indymedia 15/05/2003) - ENDORSERS: Personalities--Organisations

PROCES TEGEN GENERAAL FRANKS IN BRUSSEL
Geen straffeloosheid voor de oorlogs- misdaden van de VS-troepen in Irak

20 slachtoffers van de oorlogsmisdaden gepleegd door Amerikaanse militairen tijdens de oorlog tegen Irak leggen klacht neer in handen van de Federale Procureur van Belgie wegens inbreuken gepleegd tegen het internationaal humanitair recht.

 INTERNATIONALE OPROEP   -  La plainte contre Tommy Franks   -  documenten (engels) - Overzicht aanklacht tegen generaal Tommy Franks ( documenten, foto's, video) (Indymedia 15/05/2003) - ONDERTEKENAARS: Personaliteiten--Organisaties

 

Iraqis Sue Franks For war Crimes in Belgium, U.S. Irked  28/04/2003 Iraqi Civilians Want Americans Tried for War Crimes 4/28/03 US anger at war crimes threat  The Bush dictatorship has reacted angrily to suggestions that General Tommy Franks, the commander of the US-led war in Iraq, might be charged with war crimes. 29/04/2003 War crimes case planned against U.S 15/04/2003  US Tells Belgium to Curb 'Political' Lawsuits 4/29/03    White House Threatens Belgium over War Crimes Prosecution 29 April 2003 - Other articles: Google search - in Dutch: Indymedia Belgium - Audio File on Pacifica Radio: IRAQI CIVILIANS SUE GENERAL TOMMY FRANKS FOR WAR CRIMES 07/05/2003 - US Threatens to Move Nato After Franks is Charged 5/18/03 - Monbiot on war crimes case in Belgium 20/5/2003 - Becoming the 51st State 20/5/2003 - War crimes case against General Franks: Interview with Belgian lawyer Jan Fermon 20 May 2003 - Belgium: government seeks to block war crimes case against US General Tommy Franks 20/5/2003- Franks War Crimes Complaint Sent to U.S. 21/5/2003 - US Threatens NATO Over Belgian Law Suits 6/12/03 - Belgian Law May Force US to Stop Attending NATO Meetings 6/12/03 - Rumsfeld Waves Stick Over War Crimes Law 6/14/03 - Belgium Tries to Soothe US Anger 6/14/03 - A revised Human Rights Watch Backgrounder on the Belgian law 6/13/03 - Rumsfeld Wrong to Attack Belgian Human Rights Law 6/13/03 - Belgium Goes Ahead with War Crimes Lawsuits Against Bush, Blair 6/20/03 - War Crimes Suits Filed in Belgium Against Bush, Blair 6/20/03 - Belgium Guts Universal War Crimes Law 6/24/03 - Belgium Forgoes its Role as "the World's Judge" 6/24/03 - The war on al-Jazeera The US is determined to suppress the independent Arab media 10/4/2003 -

 

US/UK WAR CRIMES & LAW SUITS

 

Nobel laureate proposes US, Britain be put on trial for invading Iraq 9/4/03 - Pilger: Crime Against Humanity 4/10/03 - US Investigates Marine for War Crimes After Newspaper Interview 4/30/03 - Embedded Photographer:'I Saw Marines Kill Civilians' 4/16/03 - The Charges Against British Officer 5/23/03 - Guilty of War Crimes – or Victim of a Feud with US Soldiers? 5/22/03 - British Officer: I'm No War Criminal 5/21/03 - Blair faces war crimes suit (Greece) 23/05/03 - British Colonel's Accuser Did Not Witness Iraq Incidents 5/26/03 - War crimes in Iraq 5/24/03 - US Has No Plans to Count Iraqi Civilian Casualties 4/15/03 - US Troops Open Fire on Mosul Protesters, 10 Killed, 100 Hurt 4/16/03 - UN: Coalition Breaching Geneva Convention 4/11/03 - Marines Kill Two Iraqi Children at Checkpoint 4/11/03 - 'We Shoot Them Down Like the Morons They Are': US General 4/9/03 - Iraqis Claim UK Forces Committed Mass Killings in Umm Qasr 4/8/03 - Three British Soldiers Sent Home After Protesting at Civilian Deaths 3/31/03 - British Soldier Arrested for Torture Photos of Iraqi POWs 5/30/03 - Pentagon Dodges Iraqi Damage Claims 5/31/03 - British Military Probes Deaths of Iraqi POWs 6/5/03 - UK Investigates Basra Civilian Deaths in Custody 6/4/03 - War Crimes, US Planners and Iraq’s Water Vulnerability 6/4/03 - Two British Soldiers Accused of Beating Iraqi POW 6/3/03 - US Marines: We Want to Be Feared, Not Loved 6/5/03 - Iraqi Family: Brits Beat My Father to Death 6/6/03 - US Forces Deny Iraqi Teen Rape Claim 6/9/03 - US Troops Kill 100 Iraqis in Major Strike 6/13/03 - Iraqi Shepherd Sues US Forces for $200mn 6/15/03 - Evaluation of the attacks on the civilian population of Baghdad carried out by the governments of the United States of America, the United Kingdom and allied countries between 20 March and 15 April 2003, Spanish Brigade Against the War - Rapport: "Evaluation des attaques contre la population civil de Bagdad executes par les gouvernements des États Unis, du Royaume Uni et des pays allies entre le 20 mars et le 5 avril, 2003 25 APRIL 2003

 

THE ILLEGALITY OF INVADING IRAQ

 

NEW: March 18, 2003 CESR's new report, Tearing up the Rules: The Illegality of Invading Iraq is a comprehensive analysis of why war against Iraq is unequivocally illegal. - THE OCCUPATION OF IRAQ: WHAT INTERNATIONAL LAW REQUIRES NOW - 17/04/2003 - UK Armed Forces Chief Originally Questioned Legality of War 4/29/03 - How the Road to War Was Paved With Lies 4/27/03 - Blair 'Ignored Advice That Occupation is Illegal' 5/22/03 - Australia PM Says Legality of War No Longer an Issue 5/7/03 - US Intelligence on Iraq Under Scrutiny 5/24/03 - War on Iraq was illegal, say top lawyers 5/25/03 - US Declares it is an 'Occupying Power' 5/10/03 - Blix: Case for War Built on Fake Reports 4/23/03 - GI Who Pulled the Trigger Shares Anguish of Two Innocent Deaths 4/12/03 - Blueprint for War Was Drafted in 1998 3/30/03 - Blaming Sanctions Deaths on Saddam 3/29/03 - Ten Killer Questions to Put to Blair 6/4/03 - Blair Denies Secret Deal on War 6/4/03 - Skepticism Mounting About Motive for War 6/10/03 - Bush: War in Iraq Was 'Right Decision' 6/10/03 - The Unravelling Of Tony Blair 6/12/03 - Bush's Case For War Exposed 6/12/03 - Rangwala: Evidence And Deceit: How The Case For War Became Unstuck 6/02/03 - Seven Searching Questions for Jack Straw to Answer About War 6/22/03 - Wolfowitz Aimed to Undermine Blix So US Could Strike Iraq in 2002 6/26/03 - US Senate Leader: WMD Not Main Cause of Iraq War 6/26/03 -

 

statement released and signed by  over 100 U.S. economists, including seven Nobel laureates 04/03/03

US/UK DELIBERATELY TARGETS CIVILIANS

 

U.S./UK War Crimes Ravage Public Health in Iraq De oorlogsmisdaden van de VS/VK - Civilian Deaths in Iraq Could Be as High as 10,000 5/23/03 - Surveys Pointing to High Civilian Death Toll in Iraq 5/22/03 - US invasion produces human catastrophe in Iraq 05/05/2003 - Iraq in danger of starvation, says UN 11/5/2003 - Iraq at risk of major public health crisis as water and sewage systems crumble 20 May 2003 - Questions Linger About Hilla Battle That Left Hundreds of Civilian Casualties 5/15/03 - Untold stories of those who died during the war on Iraq 16/5/2003 - Iraq war victims body count - Anger, Horror at War's Violence 4/28/03 - Photos Of Highway Slaughter At Taji 4/23/03 -  Distraught Man Says Baghdad Blast Wiped Out Family 4/26/03 - Another Unarmed Civilian Killed at Checkpoint 4/1/03 - Wash. Post Reporter: US Troops' Mistake Killed 10 Women and Children 4/1/03 - US Bombs Kill 48 in Central Iraq Residential District 4/1/03 - Journalists Accuse US Troops of Excess Force 4/1/03 - US Captain to Troops: 'You Just F***ing Killed a Family!' 4/1/03 - US Backs Troops That Killed Civilians at Checkpoint 4/1/03 - Civilian Killings Mar US Campaign 4/1/03 - Hospital Struggles to Cope as Civilian Injuries Mount 4/3/03 - Red Cross: 280 Iraqis 'Dismembered' by Bombs in Hilla 4/3/03 - Red Cross: Iraq Wounded Too High to Count 4/6/03 - US Bombs Kill 48 in Central Iraq Residential District 4/1/03 - Iraqi Hospitals Offer Snapshot of War Horror 4/6/03 - 14 Killed as Baghdad Homes Razed in Air Raid 4/8/03 - 'Bombing Civilians – This Is the Democracy of George Bush' 4/8/03 - Children Killed and Maimed in Central Iraq Neighborhood, Video Footage Indicates US Cluster Bombs Likely 4/2/03 - US Bombs Maternity Hospital on Way Into Baghdad 4/2/03 - Three Killed as Maternity Hospital Hit by US Bombs 4/3/03 - Proved: Iraqi Marketplace Deaths Caused by US Missile 4/2/03 - The Unreported Rural Casualties of Coalition Bombs 4/3/03 - Reports: 30 Children Killed, 215 Wounded in Hospital Bombing 4/3/03 - 'Dirty War' Allegations Cut Both Ways 4/5/03 - War Toll: The Numbers So Far 4/5/03 - Clinic Reveals Human Cost of Iraq War 4/5/03 - Hospitals Buckle as Casualties Escalate 4/7/03 - 14 Killed as Baghdad Homes Razed in Air Raid 4/8/03 -  Lack of Fresh Water Threatens Hospitals Swamped by Casualties 4/8/03 - Growing Civilian Casualty Toll Raises Worries About Alienating Iraqis 4/8/03 - Bombs Blast Homes Instead of Saddam 4/9/03 - US Troops Kill 7 Iraqi Women and Children at Checkpoint 3/31/03 - Horrific Human Suffering in an Insane War 3/31/03 - A Family Destroyed 3/30/03 - More Than 50 Die as Missile Hits Baghdad Blast 3/29/03 - Number of Iraqi Dead May Be Unknowable 4/10/03 - Civilian Casualty Figures Cause Concern 4/10/03 - Horror for Family as Three Shot by Marines 4/12/03 - US Has No Plans to Count Iraqi Civilian Casualties 4/15/03 - Amnesty: Iraqi Oil Better Protected Than People 4/15/03 - U.S. massacres Iraqi civilians 4/17/03 - More Civilians Killed by US Troops as Mosul Riots Continue 4/17/03 - Child Casualties Fill Iraq Hospitals 4/17/03 - Bombs Silent, but the Children Still Suffer 4/18/03 - After War, the Terrible Peace 5/19/03 - Nine Iraqi Children Killed in Explosion 5/15/03 - Questions Linger About Hilla Battle That Left Hundreds of Civilian Casualties 5/15/03 - Hospitals: Baghdad Battle Killed 2,300 Civilians 5/3/03 - US Troops Kill Two More Iraqi Civilians at Checkpoint 5/29/03 - BBC Reporter Berates 'Trigger-Happy' Troops 6/5/03 - Iraq: Another Death, Another Doubt 6/9/03 - AP Tallies 3,240 Civilian Deaths in Iraq 6/10/03 - Researchers: War Has Killed 10,000 Iraqi Civilians 6/13/03 - The uncounted dead 5/29/03 - Witnesses: US Forces Slaughtered Iraqis at Dawn 6/14/03 - U.S. Accused of Killing 5 Iraqi Civilians 6/14/03 - Activist Seeks Tally of Iraq's Casualties 6/16/03 - Iraqis Say US Fired Indiscriminately at Bus Full of Civilians 6/18/03 - Firing on Iraqi Civilians: 'I Just Pulled the Trigger' 6/19/03 - US Forces Kill Three Civilians in Western Iraq 6/20/03 - US Troops Admit to Regularly Killing Iraqi Civilians 6/19/03 - 'Apocalypse Now': US Troops Hyped Up on Wagner Before Assaults 6/21/03 - Officials: Hundreds of Iraqis Killed by Faulty US Grenades 6/22/03 - Veil of Secrecy Around Village Hit in US Raid 6/25/03 - Iraqis: US Punishes People with Power, Water Cut-Offs 6/25/03 - Rumsfeld: Expect More Casualties in Iraq 6/25/03 - Iraqi Villagers Blame Brits' 'Brutal Searches' for Massacre 6/27/03 -

 

US/UK SOLDIERS TRAUMATISED

 

Coalition forces wonder why more Iraqis didn't surrender to survive. Trauma may linger as soldiers return. 11/04/2003 - Three UK soldiers sent home 4/10/03 - Two British Soldiers Commit Suicide Over Gulf War Syndrome Symptoms 6/8/03 - US Troops Face Depression, Boredom, General Malaise 6/20/03 - US Troops in Iraq: Get Me Outta Here! 6/20/03 - US Troops Frustrated With Role in Iraq 6/20/03 - Tired and Depressed, GIs in Iraq Want to Go Home 6/23/03 - Soldier, Home from Iraq, Speaks Against War 6/22/03 -

 

CHILDREN: VICTIMS OF WAR

 

UNICEF Iraq Press Room - UNICEF: Iraq survey finds child health sliding 14/05/2003 - Murder Irai children ... or fight for rights at home? 4/10/03 - Iraq's Cancer Children Overlooked in War 4/29/03 - UNICEF: Water Supplies in Southern Iraq Will Be Undrinkable Within Weeks 4/29/03 - UN: Iraq in Danger of Starvation 5/11/03 - Help Children in Iraq 5/24/03 - Unexploded Bombs Make Children at Play the New Casualties of War 4/25/03 - US Firm Hired to Re-Brainwash Iraqi Kids 4/22/03 - Bombs Silent, but the Children Still Suffer 4/18/03 - Child Casualties Fill Iraq Hospitals 4/17/03 - Orphaned Kids Weep in Packed Hospital 4/2/03 - In Iraqi Hospitals, Child War Casualties Mount 4/3/03 - Rep. Rangel: US Troops Are Child Killers 3/28/03 - Children Suffer on Baghdad Streets 5/29/03 - Grim Time for Iraq's Street Children 6/4/03 - Child Sickness 'Soars' in Iraq 6/9/03 - UNICEF wary of post-war child trafficking in Iraq 6/13/03 - Young Iraqis Face a Bewildering World 6/21/03 - US Army Doctors Turn Away Burned Iraqi Children 6/23/03 - Mines Advisory Group (MAG) photos from Iraq -

 

THE FACES OF COLLATERAL DAMAGE

 

The Faces of Collateral damage - emergency mission to Iraq, sponsored by the Brooklyn-based Center for Economic and Social Rights. Friends Journal, april issue. - Undocumented Death Count in Iraq Left to Media 5/19/03 - Battle of Baghdad's Civilian Death Toll Assessed at 1,700 5/18/03 - Body Counts: Many More Iraqi Soldiers Died Than Civilians 5/28/03 - A Tribute to Those Who Died in the Iraq War 5/30/03 - Why AP Counted Civilian Deaths in Iraq 6/24/03 -

 

ETHNIC VIOLENCE, CHAOS AND MISERABLE LIVING CONDITIONS

 

The US has a Lot to Answer For Mounting Ethnic Violence and Misery 14/04/2003 - Three Weeks On, Many in Baghdad Feel Hopeless 4/30/03 - US Fears Ethnic Wars in Iraq 4/29/03 - Cholera: Nassiriya 4/23/03 - Cholera and Typhoid: Baghdad 4/23/03 - Cholera: Basra 4/23/03 - Cholera: Hilla 4/23/03 - Patients Suffer as Basra Hospitals Lack Drugs 4/22/03 - No Liberation in Iraqi Hospitals 4/21/03 - Weary Iraq Counts Human Cost of War 4/20/03 - Baghdad Hospitals: 'Hundreds Are Dying Who Should Not Die' 4/21/03 - Toxic Iraq 4/16/03 - 'Precision Warfare' Breaks Down in Counting Dead 4/18/03 - Basra: Three Weeks On, and Still No Water 4/14/03 - Iraq's Growing Medical Crisis 4/12/03 - Operation Iraqi Chaos 4/12/03 - Oil Income Won't Cover Costs of Rebuilding Shattered Economy 4/12/03 - Red Cross: Baghdad Medical System Collapsing 4/11/03 - Liberation, Occupation, or Anarchy? 4/11/03 - Is This Freedom, Ask Iraqis as Chaos Reigns 4/11/03 - In Baghdad Operating Rooms, Aspirin is Anaesthetic 4/9/03 - Lack of Fresh Water Threatens Hospitals Swamped by Casualties 4/8/03 - Iraqi Says He Stalks and Kills Ba'ath Party Men – 12 Under His Belt So Far 5/1/03 - Ten Killed in Clashes Between Arabs and Kurds in Kirkuk 5/20/03 - Shi'ites Angry as US Lets Kurds Keep Weapons 5/24/03 - Victims of the Peace Decide Americans Are Worse Than Saddam 5/23/03 - Death Squads Track Down Fleeing Ba'ath Party Members 5/21/03 - Arabs and Kurds Clash in Kirkuk, 5 Killed 5/18/03 - Ethnic Battles Threaten Northern Iraq 5/21/03 - The Cruel Logic of Iraq's New Ethnic Cleansers 5/21/03 - Ten Killed in Clashes Between Arabs and Kurds in Kirkuk 5/20/03 - Aid Officials Overwhelmed by Chaos and Violence in Iraq 5/12/03 - Disorder Deepens in Liberated Baghdad 5/12/03 - Basra: Where Life is Upside Down 5/3/03 - Red Cross: Baghdad Medical System Collapsing 4/11/03 - Iraq's Ailing Health System Near Collapse 5/8/03 - Liberation, One Month On: Chaos, Cholera, and Killings in Broad Daylight 5/9/03 - Cholera Threat in Basra 5/10/03 - Aid Officials Overwhelmed by Chaos and Violence in Iraq 5/12/03 - US Postwar Effort on Brink of Fiasco 5/20/03 - Gangs Rule Baghdad as US Loses Control 5/25/03 - In the Streets of Baghdad, It's Open Season for Revenge 5/24/03 - On the Streets of Baghdad, There are No Heroes or Villains – Only Victims 5/24/03 - US to Evict Homeless Iraqis From Public Buildings  5/27/03 - It May Once Have Been the Cradle of Humanity, but It's Far From Eden Today 5/30/03 - After Crushing Sanctions, Iraqi Industry Can't Compete with Imports 6/3/03 - Iraqis Struggle to Survive Postwar Chaos 6/4/03 - Water Damage: Cholera Rampages in Iraq 6/4/03 - 'Occupiers Are Failing Desperate City' 6/1/03 - More Property Disputes Popping Up in Iraq 6/5/03 - Iraqis Alarmed by Rising Tribal Power Under US 6/5/03 - Iraq Heading for Summer of Diarrhoea 6/5/03 - In Iraq, Stability is MIA 6/5/03 - Rapes and Abductions Increase in Baghdad 6/7/03 - US Policies Lead to Dire Straits for Some in Iraq 6/10/03 - An Iraqi's Story of Death and Loss 6/10/03 - Displaced and Despised: Baghdad's Palestinian and Syrian Inhabitants 6/13/03 - Kurds and Displaced Arabs Compete for Land 6/13/03 - Economists: US Occupation Leaves 10 Million Iraqis Jobless 6/12/03 - Arabic-Speaking Persians in Limbo in Iraq 6/11/03 - Official: Iraq Stabilization Proves Tough 6/11/03 - Brits Enter Iraqi Govt Chaos 6/16/03 - Top Iraqi Leader: US Has Three Weeks to Avoid Chaos 6/16/03 - As US Fans Out in Iraq, Violence and Death on the Rise 6/14/03 - British Official: Iraq Rebuilding is in Chaos 6/17/03 - Just Another Day in Baghdad 6/19/03 - 'We're Becoming Like the Palestinians' 6/19/03 - Invasion Leaves Iraq’s Date Palms Fruitless 6/18/03 - One in five Iraqis suffers from chronic poverty: Survey WFP 6/19/03 - Cholera in Iraq (WHO) Update 3 6/19/03 - In Iraq, Neither Peace Nor Freedom Prevail 6/22/03 - UN: Thousands of Palestinians Evicted from Homes in Iraq 6/24/03 - Iraq is facing two deadly threats : AIDS and SARS 6/23/03 -

 

SPECIAL REPORT: WATER UNDER SIEGE IN IRAQ: US/UK Military Forces Risk Committing War Crimes by Depriving Civilians of Safe Water A new report by the Center for Economic and Social Rights april 2003

The Structural Disaster in Iraq 6/23/03 -

 

LOOTED URANIUM & THE USE OF DEPLETED URANIUM BY US/UK FORCES

 

IS THE DESTRUCTION OF HOSPITALS AND PUBLIC HEALTH RECORDS A COVER UP OF "DEPLETED" URANIUM HEALTH IMPACTS IN IRAQ? Philippa Winkler 25/04/03 - US rejects Iraq DU clean-up 14/04/03 - Should war become obsolete (Jo Baker) Article about the use of depleted uranium 07/03/03 - International Physicians Warn Use of Nuclear Bunker Busters in Iraq Could Result in Thousands of Radiation Victims 03/2003 - Scherrer: DU and the Liberation of Iraq 4/13/03 - Death By Slow Burn - How America Nukes Its Own Troops  4/16/03 - Civilians Face Health Risk From Latest Use of Depleted Uranium 4/18/03 - Iraqi Civilians Face Massive DU Crisis - British Soldiers to be Tested for Depleted Uranium Exposure 4/26/03 - Aftermath: Cleaning Up the Mess - 4/29/03 - U.S. Colonel Admits 500 Tons of D.U. Were Used in Iraq 05/05/03 - Is Iraq Contaminated? 5/16/03 - Remains of Toxic Bullets Litter Iraq 5/15/03 - Radiation is 1,000 Times the Normal Levels Where US Troops Used Depleted Uranium Shells in Baghdad 20/5/2003 - How Harmful Is Depleted Uranium? 5/25/03 - Iraqi Doctors Worry About Use of Uranium 5/24/03 - US Team to Check Reported Radiation Cases Near Iraqi Facility 5/17/03 - UK 'Gulf War Syndrome' Soldiers Threaten Legal Action 5/27/03 - The Trail of a Bullet: DU Use in Iraq 5/29/03 - Leukemia Peril of the 'Iraqi Chernobyl' 5/29/03 - Iraqi's Uranium Poisoning Symptoms Will Show in Three Months 5/29/03 - Nuclear Nightmare in Iraq 5/29/03 - Study Links '91 Gulf War Vets and Birth Defects 6/4/03 - Court Finds for British Gulf Syndrome Vet 6/13/03 - UN Team Returns to Check Baghdad Nuclear Site 6/7/03 - Barrels Looted at Nuclear Site Raise Fears for Iraqi Villagers 6/8/03 - Japanese Peace Activists to Probe Iraq DU Contamination 6/19/03 - Depleted Uranium: Weapon of Mass Deception 6/20/03 - UN Team Secures Uranium From an Iraqi Research Center 6/21/03 - Greenpeace Finds 'Frightening' Radioactivity in Iraqi Villages 6/24/03 - Greenpeace Finds Iraqi Hot Uranium Canister, Delivers to US Forces 6/24/03 - Australian Troops Show Uranium Sickness Signs 6/23/03 - Iraqis Curse, Suffer from, DU Contamination 6/22/03 - Deadly waste returned to US forces 6/24/03 - Iraq: US military radiation expert backs Greenpeace 6/25/03 - IAEA: Nuclear Find Indicates Iraq Did Not Restart Program 6/26/03 -

 

US/UK FORCES USE FORBIDDEN CLUSTER BOMBS

 

European Parliament resolution on the harmful effects of unexploded ordnance (landmines and cluster submunitions) and depleted uranium ammunition 10/02/2003 - British Army Fired Over 2,000 Cluster Munitions in Iraq 4/25/03 - Children are Main Victims of Cluster Bombs 4/20/03 -  Cluster Bomb Injures 4 Soldiers, Iraqi Girl 4/19/03 - US Under Fire for Use of Cluster Bombs in Iraq 5/15/03 - US, Britain Under Fire for Using Cluster Bombs 4/3/03 - The weapons of American Terrorists: cluster bombsHRW Documents on Cluster Bombs - A Just War? So Why are Cluster Bombs Being Used? 4/4/03 - US Drops New High-Tech Cluster Bombs in Iraq 4/3/03 - The Evil of Cluster Bombs 4/9/03 - Rights Group: US, UK Fail to Warn Iraqis About Cluster Bombs 5/4/03 - Iraq Body Count: Cluster Bombs Killed at Least 200 Civilians 5/7/03 - Iraq War Legacy: Cluster Bombs, Wounded Civilians 4/28/03 - Victims of the Day Cluster Bombs Rained on Babylon 4/3/03 - Cluster Bombs Were Used in Iraq's Urban Areas 5/29/03 - 240,000 Cluster Bombs Were Dropped on Iraq 6/3/03 - The Cluster Bombs That Litter Iraq 6/1/03 - Landmines and cluster bombs litter the map of Iraq 6/13/03 - Unexploded Cluster Bombs Blanket Iraqi Cities 6/18/03 - US, UK Try to Gut UN Deal on Cleaning Up Cluster Bombs 6/26/03 -

 

US/UK FORCES USE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

 

Another first for the Bush regime? Combining biological and economic warfare - May 3, 2003 - Rumsfeld: U.S. Used New Missile in Iraq 14/05/2003 - The Mother of all Bombs – how the US plans to pulverise Iraq - Paul Rodgers 07/03/2003 - Biological warfare and the people of Iraq august 2003 -

 

WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION OR WEAPONS OF MASS DECEPTION?

 

Former Intelligence Experts Want Inquiry Into CIA's 'Monstrous Fiasco' on WMD 4/30/03 - Straw: Iraq May Not Have WMD 4/29/03 - British Official: Finding Banned Weapons is Irrelevant 4/26/03 - Blair: Weapons Doubters Will 'Eat Their Words' 4/30/03 - Top Iraqi Prisoners All Denying Saddam Had WMD 4/29/03 -Still No Signs of Iraqi's WMDs 4/26/03 - Bush Says Iraqi Weapons May Be Destroyed 4/24/03 - More Than Half of Iraq's Weapons Sites Searched – Still No Results 4/23/03 - What, No Smoking Gun? 4/23/03 - Where Have All the WMD-Hunters Gone? 4/23/03 - Growing Evidence of Deception Over WMD Claims 4/20/03 - UK Gov't May Block Inquiry Into Misleading Public on Iraqi Arms 4/21/03 - Fake Documents and Exaggeration 4/20/03 - Another Scientist Surrenders to US, Says No Iraqi WMDs 4/18/03 - US Faces Repercussions if Weapons Are Not Found 4/18/03 - US Digs, Searches in Vain for Iraqi Chemical Weapons 4/17/03 - Why Have No WMDs Been Found in Iraq? 4/17/03 - WMD: Lost in the Rubble? 4/15/03 - Suspected Chemical Warhead Found, Follow-Up Tests Negative 4/12/03 - Saddam's Science Advisor Surrenders, Insists Iraq Has No WMDs 4/12/03 -  British Admiral: Banned Arms Claims Were Exaggerated 4/13/03 - 'Smoking Gun' Site Has Pesticide, Not Nerve Gas 4/8/03 - UK Official Admits Iraq May Have No WMDs 4/5/03 - Now is the Moment of Truth on Weapons of Mass Destruction 4/9/03 - Rice Takes a U-Turn on Iraq WMD Claims 5/1/03 - Doubts Grow About Iraq 'Smoking Gun' 5/2/03 - Iraqis Still Deny Banned Weapons 5/3/03- Iraq's Weapons of Mass Distraction? 5/4/03 - More False Leads, but No Smoking Gun 5/4/03 - More False Leads, but No Smoking Gun 5/4/03 - CIA Agents: America's Weapons Evidence Is Neoconservative Trickery 5/7/03 - David Letterman's Top Ten Bush Excuses For Not Finding WMDs 5/7/03 - US Weapons Team Ends Its Search With No Discovery 5/12/03 - Hunt for Banned Weapons Dries Up 5/13/03 - US Increasingly Under Fire for Failure to Find Iraqi Weapons 5/12/03 - Bush Officials Change Tune on Iraqi Weapons 5/14/03 - Iraqi Scientists: Saddam Had No Illegal Weapons Program 5/14/03 - WMDs for the Taking? 5/16/03 - Bush Merely 'Embarrassed' Over Lack of WMDs 5/16/03 - Odyssey of Frustration: In Search for Weapons, US Finds Vacuum Cleaners 5/18/03 - Blix 'Starting to Suspect' Iraq Had No WMD Before War 5/23/03 - US Experts 'Find' Already Known Nuclear Material in Iraq 5/4/03 - Frustrated, US Arms Team to Leave Iraq 5/11/03 - So, Mr. Straw, Why Did We Go to War? 5/15/03 - Finding the evidence 5/25/03 - Senate Democrats Question Whether Bush 'Hyped' Iraq Threat 5/26/03 - Unease Grows in Washington Over Fruitless Weapons Search 5/27/03 - Rumsfeld: Iraq May Have Destroyed Weapons Before War 5/27/03 - Rumsfeld's New Line on 'Missing' Iraqi Arms 5/29/03 - British Outrage as Rumsfeld Admits WMDs May Not Exist 5/29/03 - Two Clean Trucks – The Evidence So Far 5/29/03 - History Adds to Doubt on Iraqi Arms 5/29/03 - Saddam's WMD: From Definitely to Possibly 5/29/03 - Wolfowitz: Iraqi Weapons Only One Reason for War 5/28/03 - Inquiry Into UK's Saddam Arms Dossier 5/29/03 - Weapons of Mass Destruction: Who Said What When 5/29/03 - Wolfowitz: WMD Was Just a Convenient Excuse for War 5/30/03 - Europeans Shocked Over US's Playing Down of Lack of WMD 5/30/03 - Trailers Were More Likely Hydrogen Gas Production Units 5/29/03 - Top Democrat: WMD 'Greatest Intelligence Hoax of All Time' 5/31/03 - US/UK 'Experts': Rocket Motors Evidence of Iraq's Banned Missile Program 6/4/03 - Blix Found No Evidence of WMD in Iraq 6/4/03 - 87 'WMD' Sites Checked – All Clear 6/4/03 - Bush and Blair Under Fire Over WMD 6/3/03 - Weapons of Mass Disappearance 6/1/03 - Bush's WMD Proof is Trailer Trash 6/3/03 - Bush: Forget WMD, Focus on Rebuilding 6/1/03 - Recycling Discredited Evidence 6/1/03 - How the Allies Conjured Up WMD Evidence 6/1/03 - CIA Analysts Say Cheney Pressured Them to Alter Reports 6/6/03 - The Niger Connection: Tony Blair, Forged Documents and the Case for War 6/5/03 - Author Says Blair Doctored Second Dossier 6/5/03 - Did Hardliners Fabricate WMD 'Evidence'? 6/5/03 - Recycling pretexts for war 6/05/03 - Admit Your Lies, Ritter Tells Bush, Blair 6/6/03 - German UN Inspector: Evidence of Iraq WMD Was 'Big Bluff' 6/6/03 - Secret DIA Report Questioned Iraqi Weapons Claims 6/6/03 - Bliar? 6/5/03 - Pentagon Was 'Unable to Pinpoint' Iraqi WMDs 6/7/03 - Iraqi WMDs: The Riddle of the Sands 6/7/03 - Intelligence Historian Says CIA 'Buckled' on Iraq 6/6/03 - Top Iraqi Intel Officer: Weapons Teams Will Find Only Oil 6/9/03 - New Leak Casts Fresh Doubt on US Weapons Claims 6/8/03 - Truth Is the First Casualty. Is Credibility the Second? 6/8/03 - Saddam's Trucks Were for Balloons, Not Germs 6/8/03 - US Slows Hunt for Iraqi WMD 6/9/03 - WMD Quotes Before and After the Invasion 6/8/03 - Missing: Iraq WMD, American Credibility 6/8/03 - The Arms Hunt: Were They Weapons of Self-Delusion? 6/8/03 - Wheels Fall Off the 'Mobile Labs' as Doubts Grow Over Evidence 6/8/03 - Australia's Top Intel Agency: WMDs Not Motive for War 6/10/03 - UK Home Secretary: Iraq Arms Dossier Was Error 6/9/03 - Kristol: Bush Made Misstatements on Iraq WMDs 6/8/03 - Blair's Office Ordered Offensive Against Intel Services, Media 6/8/03 - Spies Threaten Blair with 'Smoking Gun' of Intimidation Over Iraq 6/8/03 - Mobile Lies 6/10/03 - Blix: I Was Smeared by the Pentagon 6/11/03 - Security Watchdog Attacks Blair Over Iraq Intelligence 6/11/03 - Blix Goes Ballastic at the 'Bastards' From the White House 6/12/03 - Blix: I Was Smeared by the Pentagon 6/11/03 - CIA Exposes New Lie in Blair's Dossier 6/13/03 - Blair's Media Chief Says WMD Plagiarism 'Minor Error' 6/13/03 - CIA Rejects Blame for Bush's Iraq Uranium Claim 6/12/03 - Secret US Army Unit Found No WMDs in Iraq 6/13/03 - Covert Unit, in Iraq Since Before War Began, Hunted in Vain for WMD 6/13/03 - CIA: We Did Tell the White House About Niger Uranium 6/13/03 - Former Saddam Aide Says WMD Claims 'All a Lie' 6/12/03 - The Dog Ate My WMDs 6/13/03 - Report Finds Mobile Labs Not for Germ Warfare 6/15/03 - Iraqi Mobile Labs Nothing to Do With Germ Warfare, Report Finds 6/15/03 - CIA Exposes New Lie in Blair's Iraq Dossier 6/14/03 - CIA Replaces Failed Pentagon Teams in WMD Hunt 6/18/03 - Nonsmoking Smoking Guns 6/16/03 - DIA in 2002: 'No Reliable Info' Iraq Has Chemical Weapons 6/16/03 - British Company Sold Iraq Its 'Bio-Lab' Trailers 6/16/03 - US Doubted Iraq Would Use Gas 6/18/03 - Sen. Levin: CIA Deliberately Misled UN Arms Inspectors 6/18/03 - White House Dismisses Questions on WMD Proof in Iraq 6/18/03 - Exposed: Blair, Iraq and the Great Deception 6/18/03 - Short on Blair Campaign for War: Shocking, Shoddy and Shameful 6/18/03 - Cook Attacks 'Striking Absence of Evidence' 6/18/03 - Short: I Was Briefed on Blair's Secret War Pact with Bush 6/18/03 - MI6 Told Ministers Iraq Was No Threat 6/17/03 - The Garbage Intelligence That Helped to Unleash a War 6/21/03 - WMD: The Stories They Told 6/20/03 - Blix 'Amazed' by US WMD Claims 6/20/03 - Former CIA Chief Blasts Bush 6/19/03 - Depleted Uranium: Weapon of Mass Deception 6/20/03 - The Truth About the Lies: Interview with Phyllis Bennis 6/19/03 - The U.S. Big Lie 6/19/03 - US Finds Iraqi Documents With 'WMD Info' 6/21/03 - Bush Blames Failure to Find WMDs on Looters 6/22/03 - US Has Iraqi-Type Trailers – They Produce Hydrogen for Balloons 6/21/03 - Pentagon Whistleblower Reveals CIA/ DoD Fiascos 6/20/03 - Telling Science Fiction From Science Fact in Iraq 6/25/03 - Embarrassed CIA Removes WMD Trailer Report 6/24/03 - Saddam's Scientists Still Insist WMD Destroyed 6/24/03 - Rumsfeld: We Will Find Iraq WMD Evidence 6/24/03 - Straw: Iraq Dossier Was 'Embarrassing' 6/24/03 - Blix: The Longer WMD 'Missing', the More Likely Iraq Destroyed Them in 1991 6/24/03 - Spanish Govt Distorted Intelligence Before Iraq War 6/23/03 - Nominee to Head CentCom Perplexed About Lack of WMD 6/25/03 - Rumsfeld Says All Reports Pointed to WMD 6/25/03 - Expert Said to Tell Legislators He Was Pressed to Distort Some WMD Evidence 6/25/03 - BBC Clashes with Blair Aide Over Iraq Intelligence 6/26/03 - Blair Defends Dossier, Independent Pulls It Apart 6/26/03 -

Anthrax useless as it was produced over 12 years ago 28/01/2003 - US Supplied Anthrax to Iraq 6/22/03 - Classified Report Casts Doubt on Iraq-al-Qaeda Connection 6/22/03 - Secret German Records Cast Doubt on the Saddam-al-Qaeda Connection 6/26/03 -

 

THE MASSACRE IN FALLUJAH

 

Massacre at Fallujah (article & pictures) 30 april 2003 - US Troops Fire on Unarmed Iraqis 05/05/2003 - Eyewitness: A Child Threw His Shoe, and Soldiers Opened Fire 5/1/03 - 'Sooner or Later, US Killers, We Will Kick You Out' 5/2/03 - Iraqi Rage Grows After Fallujah Massacre 5/4/03 - U.S. troops kill more unarmed protesters 5/08/03 - Fallujah Still Tense One Month After Civilian Massacres 5/15/03 - US Troops Kill Two More Iraqi Civilians in Fallujah 5/22/03 - Iraqi City Can't Stomach US Presence 5/24/03 - US Provocations Give Momentum To Falluja Resistance 5/28/03 - Fallouja Was Not the Prize US Troops Expected 6/3/03 - New Attack in Falluja Leaves US Soldier Dead, Seven Wounded 6/5/03 - Iraqis Rip Down Police Station in Fallujah 6/7/03 - In Fallujah, Misery and Despair Add to Hatred of US Troops 6/6/03 - In Fallujah, Bloodshed, Fear And a Deadly Ambush 6/9/03 - Iraqis Rip Down Police Station in Fallujah 6/7/03 - Fallujah Seethes with Anti-American Anger 6/11/03 - Fallujah Resistance Tests American Resolve 6/12/03 - Rights Group: US Troops Used Excessive Force at Fallujah Protest 6/18/03 -US Troops Attacked at Fallujah Power Station 6/24/03 -

 

Red Cross Denied Access to PoWs 5/25/03

 

THE LOOTING OF IRAQI CULTURAL HERITAGE

 

US accused of plans to loot Iraqi antiques 07/04/2003 - Stories and facts behind the looting of the Archeological Museum in Baghdad 10/04/2003 USA encouraged plundering 11/04/2003 - The violent obliteration of art and memory (article in Yale Daily News 15 april 2003) - The 2003 Iraq War & Archaeology (website maintained by Francis Deblauwe, Ph.D., an independent scholar, native of Belgium, located in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.) - Looters, Arsonists Destroy Ancient Library Archive 4/15/03 - Baghdad museum rapedExperts: Looters Had Keys to Iraqi Vaults 4/17/03 - Expert Thieves Pillaged Iraqi Museums 4/17/03 - The looting of Baghdad's museum and library 4/19/03 - Lost Treasures From Iraq 4/23/03 - Fox News Engineer Charged With Smuggling Looted Iraqi Items 4/23/03 - Crimes Against Culture Are Remembered Forever 4/22/03 - Grieve for the Loss of Iraq's Historical Soul 4/21/03 - US Army Was Told to Protect Looted Museum 4/20/03 - An Ancient City Mourns the Death of Memories 4/18/03 - Did Baghdad's Antiquity Thieves Steal-to-Order? 4/17/03 - Looted Iraqi Paintings Seized by Jordanian Customs 4/18/03 - Art Collectors Drove the Plundering of Iraq's Antiquities 4/20/03 - Bush Appointees Resign Over Iraqi Looting 4/17/03 - A Civilization Torn to Pieces 4/13/03 - A Heritage Under Siege 4/10/03 - Pilagers Strip 7,000 Years of Mesopotamian Treasure 4/13/03 - Has Anyone in US Read the History of Iraq? 4/13/03 - Baghdad Archeological Museum Looted 4/12/03 - US Art Dealer Lobby Could Loot Iraqi Heritage 4/10/03 - US Troops Accused of Letting Looters Smuggle Iraqi Antiquities 4/30/03 - Art Dealers May Have 'Ordered' Looting 4/29/03 - Looting of Iraqi museum was long planned 5/01/03 - US: Organized Gangs Were Involved in Looting of Baghdad Museum 5/7/03 - Thousands of Iraqi Artifacts Found 5/7/03 - Loss of Iraqi Antiquities Estimates Called 'Gross Exaggeration' 5/17/03 - Aid Workers Say US Troops Vandalized Ancient City 5/18/03 - Plundering of Museums in Baghdad - 08/05/2003 - UNESCO affirms loss of 1,000 archeological pieces from Baghdad museum 20/5/2003 - UN Lengthens List of Looted Art in Iraq 5/24/03 - Iraq's Lost Antiquities – Who's to Blame? 5/22/03 - The Looters Knew What They Wanted' 5/24/03 - Looting of Ancient Sites Continues Despite Pleas to US Troops for Help 5/27/03 - Most of Missing Iraqi Antiquities Found in Secret Vault 6/7/03 - What Really Happened at the Baghdad Museum? 6/19/03 - New Iraq Inventory: Looters Stole 6,000 Artifacts 6/21/03 -

 

MORE LOOTING

 

Hospital Looters Stealing Incubators and Drugs 4/12/03 - Fisk: Pillage 4/12/03 - How And Why US Encouraged Looting In Iraq 4/16/03 - BBC: US Troops Encouraged Iraqi Looters 5/6/03 - Looters at Iraqi Nuclear Site Terrify Residents 5/8/03 - Scientists: Looted Nuke Material Could Sicken Iraqis 5/7/03 - US: 20% of Iraq's Nuclear Material Missing 5/21/03 - ElBaradei Warns of Iraq Nuclear Emergency 5/19/03 - Dangerous Loot South of Baghdad: Iraqis Sick from Radiation 5/22/03 - Iraq's free fall 23/05/03 - UN Atomic Agency Wants to Investigate Looting at Iraqi Nuke Site 5/5/03 - US Blames Looting for Derailing Plan to Restore Iraq 5/19/03 - US Forces Shoot Looter in Iraq 5/15/03 - UN: Iraqi Nuclear Looting Could Result in 'Dirty Bomb' 5/14/03 - Seven Iraqi Nuclear Sites Looted 5/10/03 - To Restore Peace, US Hires Iraqi Looters 5/9/03 - Iraqi Police Beg for Guns to Fight Looting 5/8/03 - Thieves Loot Home for Abandoned Iraqi Children 4/25/03 - Baghdad: Looting and Arson Still Rife in a City of Suspicion 4/20/03 - Dangerous Viruses Lost to Looters in Iraq 4/18/03 - 15 Baghdad Banks Robbed, US Troops Shoot the Good Guys 4/19/03 - Cockburn: Looting's Roots 4/14/03 -  Muslims Save Baghdad's Jewish Community Center from Looters 4/14/03 - Looters Rule Until Nothing Left to Steal 4/13/03 - Looters Swarm Into New Areas of Baghdad 4/12/03 - Looting, Chaos Bring UN Aid to a Halt 4/12/03 - Troops Watch as Baghdad Ransacked 4/12/03 - Rumsfeld: Looting is Transition to Freedom 4/11/03 - People of Baghdad Guard Hospitals From Looters 4/12/03 - The Hell That Was Once a Hospital 4/12/03 - Looting is what this war is all about 4/24/03 - Hospital Looters Stealing Incubators and Drugs 4/12/03 - Saddam' Rule Collapsing in Baghdad, Looters Rampage 4/9/03 - As Brits Take Over Basra, Looters Strip Schools and Stores 4/7/03 - Iraqis Loot Basra As British Take Control 4/7/03 - Nuclear Team to Assess Scale of Looting 5/28/03 - Looting Leaves Iraq's Oil Industry in Ruins 6/10/03 - A Fertile Crescent for Looting 6/12/03 - BBC and Guardian cover up US role in Iraq looting 6/14/03

 

US/UK FORCES DELIBERATELY TARGET JOURNALISTS AND INDEPENDENT PRESS

 

Fisk: Does the US Military Want To Kill Journalists 4/09/03 - Dead Journalists and Cheering Actors (War toll: journalists killed, missing and held in Iraq) 10/04/2003 - Closing Down the Press. Did the US Murder Journalists? By ROBERT FISK April 29, 2003 - Israeli, Portuguese Journalists Claim Mistreatment by US Forces in Iraq 3/30/03 - Seven Italian Journalists Missing Near Basra 3/28/03 - Unfriendly Fire Hits War Correspondents 4/2/03 - Missile Hits Al-Jazeera Office in Baghdad 4/7/03 - Iraq – The Most Dangerous War for Journalists 4/9/03 - As More Correspondents Die, Media Rethink Their Positions 4/9/03 - Iraqi TV Bombed Off the Air Again 4/2/03 - Western Media Hotel in Baghdad Hit by Tank, 1 Dead, Several Hurt 4/8/03 - Dark Day for Journalists in Iraq 4/9/03 - Is the US Military Trying to Take Out Journalists? 4/9/03 - Killing of Journalists in Iraq Provokes Outcry 4/8/03 - 11 Journalists Die in 21 Days of War 4/8/03 - Watchdog Group: Journalist Deaths in Baghdad Hotel Avoidable 5/27/03 - American Account of Killing of 2 Journalists Is Disputed 5/28/03 - Pressure Grows Over US Killing of Journalists 6/7/03 - New Reports Implicate Soldiers in Death of Journalists 6/10/03 - Turning the tanks on the reporters 6/19/03 -

 

CORRUPT JOURNALISM, LIES & US CENSORSHIP

 

The Incredible Multiplying Stories of Finds by Lucky Journalists 28/04/2003 - Something deeply corrupt is consuming journalism. A war so one-sided it was hardly a war was reported like a Formula One race, as the teams sped to the chequered flag in Baghdad. John Pilger 25 Apr 2003 - Missteps by Press Color Iraqi Perceptions 4/29/03 - Harper's Publisher Accuses Media of Aiding US War Propaganda 5/1/03 - Arnove: Propaganda Machine Pro-war Propaganda Machine Media Becomes Branch of War Effort 20/03/2003 - Schechter: War Coverage If you watch American television, it feels like New Year's eve with clocks counting down the minutes before the big ball drops in Times Square 19/03/2003 - The Television War 5/25/03 - NBC Newswoman Lashes Out at Own Network on 'Glorious' War Coverage 4/28/03 - US Cracks Down on Journalists' Taking Souvenirs Out of Iraq 4/24/03 - War, Media, Propaganda and Language: Coalition of the Killing 4/13/03 - Hour of Media Shame 4/11/03 - Embedded, Enthusiastic and Un-Encumbered by Truth 4/9/03 - How 'Embedded' Reporters Are Handling the War 4/2/03 - America's Propaganda War 4/6/03 - Saddam or No Saddam, Iraqi Press Will Always Have Censors 6/12/03 - Censorship Of The Press A Familiar Story For Iraqi's 6/11/03 - Schechter: Calling For A Media Crimes Tribunal 5/31/03 - Galloway Wins Apology from Christian Science Monitor 6/20/03 - Galloway Papers Deemed Forgeries 6/20/03 - Galloway Says He's Victim of Conspiracy 6/20/03 - In Volatile Iraq, US Curbs Press 6/19/03 - NY Times Reporter Accused of Spreading Pentagon Propaganda 6/22/03 - America Brings Democracy: Censor Now, Vote Later 6/22/03 - Pentagon sent man at the heart of a ‘fake documents’ scandal to Iraq 6/19/03 - Embedded Reporter's Role in Army Unit's Actions Questioned by Military 6/25/03 -

Manufacturing history 10/04/2003 - More Manufacturing history 18/04/2003

Media lies: How a 4am Raid Netted Qusay a $1 Billion Prize 5/7/03 - Iraq bank manager: Thieves, not Qusay 5/6/03

The Truth About Pvt. Jessica 5/15/03 - Saving Private Lynch Story Flawed 5/15/03 - BBC Expose of Jessica Lynch Rescue Sunday Night 5/24/03 - US POW Rescue Was 'Stage-Managed' 5/17/03 - What's the Real Story of Lynch's Rescue? 5/29/03 - Special Ops in Fresh Spin Over Lynch's Rescue 6/9/03 - Casualty Of Truth 6/9/03 - Saving Jessica: 'Truth Was a Stretchable Fabric' 6/21/03 -

Media Alert: A CounterPunch Special Investigation - The Kenneth Joseph "human shield" story 12/04/2003

 

THE RECONSTRUCTION OF IRAQ. WHO BENEFITS?

 

The Destruction Of Iraq Is Good For Business 4/15/03 - Defense CEOs Are Big Winners of Iraq War 4/30/03 - Inquiries on Iraq Project Deluge Bechtel 4/24/03 - New Iraq Soon Open for Commerce 4/22/03 - Privatizing Iraq 4/17/03 - UK Gov't May Block Inquiry Into Misleading Public on Iraqi Arms 4/21/03 - Huge Deal to Rebuild Handed to Old Friend 4/19/03 - Jobs for the Boys: the Reconstruction Billions 4/15/03 - Scandal-Hit US Firm Wins Key Contracts 4/13/03 - Firms That Gave to Bush Get Contracts 4/13/03 - US Firms Gets Contracts to Build Schools, Government 4/12/03 - Pentagon Says Halliburton Could Make $7 Billion in Iraq Deal 4/11/03 - Rumsfeld, Bechtel & Iraq 4/10/03 - Rumsfeld: Bush Will Control Money to Reconstruct Iraq 4/8/03 - No Business Like War Business 4/3/03 - US Arms Dealer To Run Iraq's Reconstruction 3/30/03 - Halliburton's Axis of Influence 3/29/03 - Bechtel Corp. Beats Out Halliburton in Running to Rebuild Iraq 3/29/03 - After Perle, Halliburton Loses a Sweetheart Deal 3/28/03 - Contracts Doled Out to Rebuild Iraq Are Questioned 3/28/03 -Gulf Widens Between Allies on Postwar Contracts 3/29/03 - Do you want to know who the Americans running Iraq really are? 14/05/2003 - Who Benefits? Lifting the Sanctions on Iraq 23/05/03 - Bechtel Warns Other Companies of Iraq Chaos 5/23/03 - British Firms Fight for Piece of the Iraq Action 5/23/03 - To the Victors Go the Spoils of Reconstruction 5/23/03 -  Bechtel Drums Up War Business 5/22/03 -  Companies Are Eager to Land Iraq Deals 5/21/03 - Bechtel tied to bin Ladens 05/05/03 - Scandal-hit US firm wins key contracts 13/04/03 - Haliburton, Bechtel & the Spoils of War - US contracts come under scrutiny 23/05/03 - Well-Connected and Wealthy: Bechtel Wins from Saddam's Demise 5/24/03 - Halliburton Cash Registers Ring in Iraq 5/2/03 - DC Company Gets Deal to Run Iraq Airports 5/5/03 - Halliburton Contract Larger Than Previously Known 5/7/03 - Perle Told Investors They Could Profit from War 5/7/03 - A Grab-Bag of Iraqi Resources for White House Corporate Cronies 5/8/03 - Halliburton's Bill Mounts, Little Going to Iraqis 5/9/03 - Reconstruction? Not So Fast: US Officials Ground an Entrepreneur in Iraq 5/15/03 - Big Telecom Deal in Iraq Fuels Controversy 5/18/03 - Hopeful Firms Line Up for Work in Iraq 5/22/03 - Bechtel Warns Other Companies of Iraq Chaos 5/23/03 - Army Gives Halliburton Over $425M in Work 5/29/03 - Bechtel Getting Flak Over Iraq 6/6/03 - Army Backtracks on Halliburton Contract 6/13/03 - Global Firms Scramble for Iraq Work 6/12/03 - Halliburton Doubles Price Tag for Iraq Oil Work 6/14/03 - Bechtel Lands Billion-Dollar Military Contract 6/18/03 - It's a Bechtel World 6/18/03 - Thefts Plague Iraq Contractors' Efforts 6/20/03 - Halliburton Contracts in Iraq Exceed $800 Million 6/21/03 - US Contractor Sees Growing Hostility in Iraq 6/24/03 - Policing of Iraq to Stay US Job 6/22/03 - Many Officials Say Military Can't Rebuild Iraq 6/25/03 - Secretive Carlyle Group Gives Capitalism a Bad Name 6/26/03 - US Awards $48 Million Contract to Vinnell Corp to Train Iraqi Army 6/26/03 -

 

IT'S ABOUT OIL

 

Lucas Cathérine: Olie-dollar vs olie-euro 16/04/2003 - Washington & Big Oil vs. the world 2/06/03 - Iraqis Anxiously Await Decisions About the Oil Industry 4/28/03 - US Shell Executive to Oversee Iraqi Oil Industry 4/27/03 - Iraqi-Born Billionaire Has Stake in Bank That Holds Oil-for-Food Funds 4/30/03 - US Heads for New UN Tiff Over Control of Iraqi Oil 4/28/03 - End of the War in Iraq Begins a New Oil Order 4/24/03 - US, Other Powers Jockeying for Share of Iraqi Oil Bonanza 4/18/03 - Q&A: Who Will Control Iraq's Oil? 4/17/03 - US 'Cares More About Iraqi Oil Than Its People' 4/17/03 - Coalition 'Focused on Oilfields' 4/16/03 - Iraq to Resume Oil Exports Within Months – but Who Signs the Contracts? 4/10/03 - US Is Banking on Iraq Oil to Finance Reconstruction 4/10/03 - Who Will Control Iraq's Oil? 4/9/03 - Battle Over Who Can Sell Iraq's Oil 4/7/03 - U.S., U.K. Waged War on Iraq Because of Oil, Blair Adviser Says 01/05/2003 - Nielson: "US wants to appropriate Iraq's oil" 09/05/2003 - A Beginner's Guide to Iraqi Oil 5/4/03 - Who Controls The Oil In Iraq? 5/1/03 - US Plans to Keep Control of Iraq Oil for Years 5/20/03 - UN Resolution Voids Existing Iraq Oil Supply Contracts 5/22/03 - US, Britain Want Power to Spend Iraq Oil Money 5/8/03 - For Baghdad, an American Oilman 5/13/03 - US Document: Pentagon's Oil Wars Policy 5/20/03 - Iraq Oil to Flow When UN Sanctions End 5/22/03 - France Balks at US Control of Iraqi Oil Revenue 5/14/03 - Iraq Will Control Its Oil, Iraqi Official Asserts 5/26/03 - Iraq to Cancel Oil Deals With Russia and China 5/25/03 - Oil Sales Begin After Sanctions Are Lifted 5/28/03 - Interim Iraq Oil Chief to Seek Investors 5/30/03 - Oil Giants Line Up at Iraqi Pump 5/30/03 - Future Iraq Oil Sales May Be Pawned to Banks 5/31/03 - Wolfowitz: Iraq War Was About Oil 6/4/03 - Iraqis Protest Over Oil Jobs for Asians 6/9/03 - Northern Iraq Pipeline Bombed to Keep Oil from Turkey 6/13/03 - Iraqi Oil Awarded to a Variety of Nations' Companies 6/13/03 - Bypassing Oil Dearth, US Finds Funds for Iraq 6/11/03 - Putin Insists on Oil Interests in Iraq 6/22/03 - US Begins Exporting Iraqi Oil 6/23/03 - ChevronTexaco Gets Contract for Iraq Oil 6/25/03 -

 

UN SANCTIONS LIFTED UNDER US PRESSURE

 

US Wants to Shut Down UN Controls on Iraq's Oil 4/25/03 - US May Unilaterally Lift Iraq Sanctions 5/6/03 - US Sanctions Move Likely to Be Accepted by UN 5/9/03 - Mahajan: Don't Lift The Sanctions Yet. 5/9/03 - US Presses for UN Vote This Week on Allied Control of Iraq 5/21/03 - US Offers Concessions for Dropping Iraq Sanctions 5/21/03 - Behind Washington's demand to life sanctions 5/15/03 - In New UN Resolution, Iraqis Would Get Greater Authority to Govern 5/20/03 - Russia Blocks Vote on UN Resolution on Iraq 5/21/03 - UN Security Council Lifts Sanctions, Gives US Control of Iraq 5/22/03 - Bush tells UN: Iraq is ours 5/22/03 - Iraqis Suspect US Motive Behind Sanctions Move 5/22/03 - Text of UN Resolution on Iraq 5/22/03 - Behind the UN Vote on Iraq 5/22/03 - Mixed Reaction Among Iraqis to End of Sanctions 5/22/03 - Sanctions Are Lifted, but Few Celebrate 5/23/03 - Mixed Reaction Among Iraqis to End of Sanctions 5/22/03 - UN Opposition to US Resolution on Iraq Melts Away 5/22/03 - Little Relief Expected from Removal of Sanctions 5/24/03 - Kurds Oppose UN Resolution's Provision on Oil Funds 5/24/03 - Baghdadis Indifferent to End of UN Sanctions 5/23/03 - U.S. wins resolution to legally enslave Iraq june 5/2003 - Iraq Oil for Food Will Cost UN $100M to Shut Down 6/17/03 - What Future for the UN Charter System of War Prevention? 6/23/03 -

 

WHAT ABOUT THE IRAQI WOMEN?

 

Iraqi Women Out of the Picture 5/17/03 - Find a role for women in rebuilding Iraq - 15/5/2003 - Iraqi Women Fear Loss of Freedom 5/3/03 - Iraqi Women Wary of New Upheavals 5/5/03 - Report: Women, Children Bear Brunt of War 5/6/03 - Iraqi Women Losing Freedoms 5/24/03 - Iraqi Career Women Ponder a Future Under Shi'ite Rule 5/25/03 - Baghdad Women Shrouded in Fear 5/26/03 - Iraqi Women 'Forced to Veil' 6/14/03 - Soldiers Frisking Women Alarms Iraqis 6/18/03 - In War's Wake, No Further Combat Roles Seen for Women 6/23/03 -

 

IRAQI RESISTANCE NEWS

 

Iraqis Besiege Garner With Demonstrations and Doubts 4/29/03 - Keep Out of Town Hall, Kut Tells US Troops 4/25/03 - Shi'ite Pilgrims Threaten Jihad Against American Forces 4/23/03 - Report: US Must Expect Low-Intensity Conflict In Iraq 4/23/03 - Brits Fire Own Choice for Basra's Mayor Following Riots 4/19/03 - 20,000 Protesters Call for 'Army of Occupation' to Quit Iraq 4/19/03 - 200,000 Iraqis Protest US Occupation 4/19/03 - Sunnis, Shi'ites Unite Against US Occupation 4/18/03 - Iraqis Turn Anger Toward US 4/16/03 - Anti-US Protests Intensifying in Iraq 4/16/03 - Iraqi Islamic Party Forms Front To Resist Occupation 4/1/03 - As Bush Declares War Over, More Anti-US Protesters Are Killed by American Troops 5/1/03 - Grenade Injures Seven US Soldiers Following Shooting of Protesters 5/1/03 - Iraqis continue to show spirit of resistance 5/1/03 - Eyewitness: A Child Threw His Shoe, and Soldiers Opened Fire 5/1/03 - 'Sooner or Later, US Killers, We Will Kick You Out' 5/2/03 - 'No to America! Yes to Islam! 5/3/03 - Bloodshed and Bullets Fuel Rising Hatred of Americans 5/4/03 - Many Withdraw in Protest From Mosul Poll Before Vote 5/5/03 - Associated Press Puts Violent Words in Iraqi Protesters' Mouths 5/7/03 - Hostility Toward US Troops Is Running High in Baghdad 5/7/03 - US Soldier Shot and Killed in Baghdad 5/8/03 - Two American Soldiers Shot and Killed in Baghdad 5/8/03 - Death Shadows US Troops in Iraq 5/10/03 - Fear of Baghdad Unrest Prompts a Halt in Sending Troops Home 5/15/03 - Shi'ite Clerics Urge Massive Anti-US Protest 5/19/03 - US Troops Still Face 'Several Tens of Thousands' of Iraqi Fighters 5/22/03 - Anti-US Sentiment Festers in Iraq as Order and Calm Prove Elusive 5/24/03 - US May Have Little Time for Iraq Rebuilding Before Iraqis Rise Up 4/24/03 - Four Dead, Six Wounded in Iraq as US Troops Come Under Attack 5/26/03 - Guerrilla violence flares in Iraq, US forces catch Baath party leaders 5/26/03 - New Iraq Attack Leaves 2 US Soldiers Dead, 9 Wounded 5/27/03 - Demobilized Iraq Officers Threaten Attacks on US Forces 5/26/03 - UN Chief Warns of Anti-American Backlash in Iraq 5/27/03 - After Iraq War, A Formidable Shi'ite Bloc Emerges 5/27/03 - More Attacks Raise Worries of Violent Resistance in Iraq 5/28/03 - Attack on Troops in Iraq Shows Postwar Danger for US 5/28/03 - Iraqi Attacks on US: Isolated Acts? 5/29/03 - US Commander Signals New Military Push in Iraq 5/29/03 - Nine More US Troops Wounded in Iraq Unrest 5/28/03 - US to Keep Larger Iraq Force as Trouble Persists 5/29/03 - Riot Chases US Troops Out of Iraqi Town 5/29/03 - Iraqi Group Formed to Resist Coalition 5/29/03 - GIs in a Desert Town Face Rising Iraqi Hostility 5/30/03 - Their Pride Insulted, Angry Locals Take Their Revenge on US Troops 5/31/03 - Fighting Continues in Saddam's Heartland 5/31/03 - US Prepares Battle Force to Wipe Out Hardline Iraqi Resistance 6/3/03 - The Troops Are Afraid to Go Out at Night 6/2/03 - Thousands of Angry Iraqis Demand Right to Rule Themselves 6/3/03 - Iraqi Resistance Steps Up Attacks on US Troops 6/2/03 - US Says Its Planes Are Being Attacked in Iraq 6/1/03 - Basra Protests Against British Leader 6/1/03 - Sacked Iraqi Troops Threaten to Attack US Forces 6/2/03 - US Troops Surround Sunni Strongholds as Resistance Grows 6/5/03 - Tikrit Attack Kills US Soldier, Wounds Four 6/7/03 - 2,000 March in Basra: 'No to Tony Blair, No to Satan' 6/7/03 - US Troops Put on a Show of Force in a Stronghold of Resistance 6/8/03 - US Troops Attacked Again in Central Iraq 6/6/03 - Another Attack in Central Iraq Kills Another US Soldier 6/6/03 - Iraqis Prefer to Remain Armed 6/7/03 - US Soldiers Face Growing Resistance in Iraq 6/10/03 - US Soldier Killed in NW Iraq Attack 6/9/03 - Official: Iraq Stabilization Proves Tough 6/11/03 - GIs in Iraqi City Are Stalked by Faceless Enemies at Night 6/11/03 - Iraq Toll Grows as Attacks on Troops Get Smarter 6/11/03 - Ex-Iraqi Army Soldiers Try to Storm Govt Building in Mosul 6/13/03 - Resistance to Occupation Is Growing in Iraq 6/13/03 - Iraqis Protest US Soldiers Entering a Mosque 6/13/03 - Iraqis Buying and Hoarding Guns, Grenades 6/13/03 - Iraqis Shoot Down US Apache Helicopter 6/12/03 - US troops nab about 400 Iraqi suspects 6/12/03 - US Account of Raid Revised: 7 Killed, Not 27 6/15/03 - US Purge Aims to Eliminate Iraqi Resistance 6/15/03 - Iraqi Vehicle Accident Leaves US Soldier Dead, 8 Injured 6/14/03 - 5 US Soldiers Injured on Streets of Mosul 6/14/03 - Attack Toll Repels Small Town in Iraq 6/14/03 - Two US Soldiers Die in Accidents in Iraq 6/13/03 - US Anti-Guerrilla Campaign Draws Iraqi Ire 6/16/03 - US Says Foreigners Aiding Iraqi Fighters 6/15/03 - Iraqi Leader Asks US to Stop Military Sweeps 6/15/03 - US Forces Storm Flashpoint Iraqi Town 6/15/03 - Bloodiest Fighting in Iraq For Weeks 6/14/03 - 113 Said Killed This Week in US Bid to Crush Iraqi Resistance 6/14/03 - US Soldier Drowns in Iraqi Lake 6/14/03 - US Attack Threatens to Creates Thousands of New Iraqi Enemies 6/13/03 - Iraqi Villagers Enraged and Baffled at US Show of Force 6/15/03 - Pentagon Sees 'No Unified Iraqi Resistance' 6/15/03 - Iraqi Mortar Attack Hits US Military Compound 6/15/03 - Insurgents Target US Forces in Iraq 6/15/03 - Victory is Elusive in Iraq 6/14/03 - U.S. Cracks Down On Iraqi Resistance, Resentment High 6/12/03 - Military Vehicles Stoned as Anger Mounts in Basra 6/17/03 - Massive US Operation to Uproot Iraqi Resistance Yields Nearly Nil 6/16/03 - US Troops Open Fire on Iraqi Protesters, 2 Killed 6/18/03 - US Soldier Is Killed in a Drive-By Baghdad Attack 6/18/03 - Leaflets: Saddam Loyalists Ally with Islamists 6/17/03 - Iraq Clampdown Detains Scores, Nets Few Arms 6/17/03 - Hit-and-Runs Plague Troops in Iraq 6/19/03 - Iraqis Say US Using Ba'athists as Scapegoat 6/19/03 - Pentagon Admits Iraq Guerrilla War 6/18/03 - Rising US Death Toll In Iraq Spurs Concern Inside Administration 6/20/03 -  Mortar Hits Coalition Office in Iraq 6/19/03 - US Worried About Mounting Casualties in Iraq 6/18/03 - Imams in Iraq Preach Anti-US Sermons 6/20/03 - Spate of Anti-US Attacks in Iraq 6/20/03 - Counter-revolution & resistance in Iraq 5/15/03 - US Says Foreign Fighters Add to Resistance in Iraq 6/22/03 - Unknown Iraqi Group Vows to Kill US Soldiers 6/22/03 - 2,000 Iraqi Shi'ites Protest US Presence 6/21/03 - US Troops Smash Open Homes to Hunt Iraqi Militants 6/21/03 - Iraq Attacks Rattle White House 6/20/03 - Bush Blames Saddam Loyalists for Soldiers' Deaths 6/22/03 - Thieves and Saboteurs Disrupt Electrical Services in Iraq 6/21/03 - Iraqi Oil Pipeline Blown Up 6/22/03 - Powerless Iraqis Rail Against Ignorant, Air-Conditioned US Occupation Force 6/22/03 - US Troops Conduct 90 Raids, Capture 540 in Past Week in Iraq 6/21/03 - Attacks on US Troops Prove US Strategy Is Not a Success 6/20/03 - UK Troops Killed by Civilians After Weapons Search 6/25/03 - Honeymoon Over for British in Basra 6/25/03 - Power Out in Baghdad for More Than 24 Hours 6/25/03 - As Fatalities in Iraq Rise, Will Support Wane? 6/25/03 - 12-Year-Old Iraqi Girl Latest Recruit in Guerrilla Fight Against US 6/24/03 - Iraqi Resistance Spreads South, Gets Bolder 6/25/03 - A Town with a Reputation for Violence, but Brits Walked Right In 6/25/03 - Over 50 US Troops Killed in Iraq Since War's 'End' 6/25/03 - US, British Forces Under Fire in Iraq 6/25/03 - Attacks on Brits Could Change Tactics 6/24/03 - Power Moves May Be Uniting Hard-Liners in Iraq and Iran 6/24/03 - Labor MPs Fear Iraq Occupation Backlash After British Troops Killed 6/25/03 - Guerrilla Attacks on Rise in Iraq 6/24/03 - 6 British Troops Killed in Iraq 6/24/03 - US Says Sunni Insurgents Target Iraqi Infrastructure 6/24/03 - Hard Times Ahead For US Army 6/23/03 - Dangerous Encounters with US Troops 6/23/03 - US Soldier Killed In Iraq Grenade Attack 6/22/03 - Iraq's Summer War 6/22/03 - Pipeline Blast Sabotage on Day Iraqi Oil Exports Were to Resume 6/23/03 - Iraqi Fighters: 'We Will Send Them Back the Bodies of Their Soldiers' 6/22/03 - Resistance to U.S. Forces 6/20/03 - It Began with Kids Throwing Rocks 6/26/03 - Fears of Iraqi Warfare Grow as Six Britons Die 6/25/03 - US Marine Killed in Iraq Ambush Rescue 6/26/03 - A Search for Patterns as Iraq Unrest Spreads 6/26/03 - Guerrillas Hold Ace in Post-War Iraq 6/26/03 - Attackers Ratchet Up Ambushes Against US Led Forces 6/26/03 - New Iraq Ambushes on US Troops Kill 4 6/26/03 - 2 US Soldiers Killed, 2 Abducted, 8 Wounded as Attacks Escalate 6/27/03 - Attacks Against US Troops Escalate: 4 Dead, 2 Abducted 6/26/03 - Marsh Arabs Threaten to Resist 'Army of Occupation' 6/27/03 - Iraqi Youths Arrested for Insulting US Soldiers 6/26/03 - US Soldier: Iraq Raids Are 'Ugly Business' 6/26/03 - What Happened in Majar? A Local Account 6/26/03 -

RESISTANCE REPORTS

 

Iraqi Resistance Report I: April 2/03 - Report II: April 3/03 - Report III: April 5/03 - Report IV: April 6/03 - Report V: April 10/03 - Report VI: April 24/03 - Report VII: April 26/03 - Report VIII: April 29/03 - Report IX: April 30/03 - Report X: May 5/03 - Report XI: May 14/03 - Report XII: May 28/03 - Report XIII: May 30/03 - Report XIV: June 5/03 - Report XV: June 11/03 - Report XVI: June 13/03 - Report XVII - June 14/03 - Report XVIII - July 02/03 - Report XIX - October 06/03 - Report XX - october 08/03 - Report XXI - october 11/03 - Report XXII - october 17/03 -

 

Statement of the Workers Party Belgium: Resistance, alongside the Iraqi people! - Aan de kant van het Iraakse volk, verzet! - Aux côtés du peuple irakien, résistons! Nadine Rosa-Rosso, Secretary-General of the Workers' Party of Belgium 18/03/2003

 

THE KURDS

 

Only Kurds to Keep Heavy Weapons 5/24/03 - Shi'ites Angry as US Lets Kurds Keep Weapons 5/24/03 - Ethnic Battles Threaten Northern Iraq 5/21/03 - Arabs and Kurds Clash in Kirkuk, 5 Killed 5/18/03 - Americans Try to Quell Arab-Kurd Flare-Up 5/20/03 - Kurds Go It Alone With International Oil Deals 5/18/03 - Kurdish Resistance Fighters Now Have Nothing to Resist 5/12/03 - Americans Accused of Turning Blind Eye to Killings by Kurds 4/23/03 - Freedom of the Press – Kurdish Style 4/23/03 - Arabs Flee Bloody Revenge of the Kurds 4/20/03 - On the Plains, Kurds and Arabs Clash in the Most Dangerous Flashpoint of All 4/15/03 - Kurds Driving Arabs From Northern Iraqi Villages 4/14/03 - Kurds Blamed for Chaos in Mosul 4/13/03 - Chaos as Mosul Falls to Kurds 4/11/03 - Who Are the Kurds? 4/11/03 - After Saddam, Kurds Want Right of Return to Kirkuk 4/3/03 - Kurdish Revolt Paralysed Without US Troops 4/3/03 - Kurds are squeezed by oil politics 4/03/03 - Kurdish Businessmen Bring In a Taste of the West 5/26/03 - Few Kurds Want to Be Part of Iraq 5/26/03 - Kurdish Region to Lose Billions in Phaseout of Oil-for-Food Program 5/26/03 - Iraqi Kurdish Leader Calls for UN Help in Establishing Democracy 6/21/03 - Northern Iraq, for Some, a Land of No Return 6/24/03 - Kurds Grow Impatient with Iraq Disorder 6/26/03 -

 

WHY WAS DR. HUDA AMASH ARRESTED?

 

Top Iraqi Woman Scientist Taken Into Custody 5/5/03 - Syria Helped US Catch 'Mrs. Anthrax' 5/8/03 - the real story behind the arrest of Dr. Huda Saleh Mehdi Amash 08/05/2003 - Jailed for Exposing Costs of Sanctions & War? 08/05/2003 - Amash (MIZZOU Graduate - Mrs. Anthrax) should be freed, publisher says 05/15/2003 - Colleagues jarred by Amash’s image 03/29/2003 -

 

PLAYING CARD DECK FOR US REGIME CHANGE

 

Playing Card Deck Shows Way to U.S. Regime Change 25/04/03 - Fate of Wanted Pack 'May Never Be Known' 4/21/03 -  Animation: Bush = Nazi

 

GENERAL INFORMATION

 

Why America needs war by Jacques R. Pauwels 2003-04-18 Het Amerika van George W. Bush: zonder oorlog gaat het niet meer Summary of US Plan for Iraq 5/3/03 - Mumia on Iraq war 5/01/03 - Behind The Scenes Of The Iraq War 4/17/03 - What Is the War Going to Cost Us? 5/2/03 - US Struggles in Political Quicksand of Iraq 5/5/03 - Survey: World Support for US at New Low 6/3/03 - Occupiers Want Curbs on Iraq's Free Media 6/5/03 - Aid Workers Under Siege in the Wild, Wild East 6/7/03 - Iraq: Eight Weeks On 6/7/03 - Ruled by Rumors in Iraq 6/5/03 - Bush Continues to Insist on Iraq-al-Qaeda Link 6/10/03 - CIA Had Doubts on Iraq Link to al-Qaeda 6/10/03 - Top al-Qaeda Captives Deny Working With Baghdad 6/9/03 - US Forced to Print Saddam Banknotes 6/9/03 - Evictions of Palestinians from Baghdad Homes Continue 6/9/03 - How to Stop America 6/9/03 - TRUTH ALERT: Why we overthrew Iraqi Regime 6/11/03 - Charities at Odds With Pentagon Over Iraq Aid 6/14/03 - Chomsky: Does The USA Intend To Dominate The Whole World By Force? 6/02/03 - International BBC Poll Shows Disapproval of Iraq War 6/16/03 - Bremer: The Final Word on Iraq's Future 6/18/03 - U.S. seeks to codify its colonial rule of Iraq 5/22/03 - U.S. 'Authority' in Iraq continues to unravel 5/29/03 - Occupation Regime Installed in Iraq: Does a Parachute Democracy Loom? Hans Von Sponeck 5/29/03 - US Ex-Diplomat Criticizes Postwar Iraq Plan 6/26/03 - Top Pentagon Nominee: US Intelligence on Iraq 'Perplexingly Incomplete' 6/26/03 -

Mohammed Hassan, Afrikaans-Arabisch marxist: "In Irak staan de Amerikanen voor een haast onoplosbaar probleem" - "The problems the US is facing in Iraq are almost unsolvable."  - «Les USA face à un problème quasi insoluble en Irak» 28/03/2003

Irak en Syrië vormen het hart van het Arabisch nationalismeDéfendre l'Irak et la Syrie, coeur du nationalisme arabe  7/4/2003

UN: War Cost May Reach $1 Trillion 4/18/03
Interview with Denis Halliday 07/04/2003.
Draaiboek voor de interventie in Irak. Erik Suy, emeritus professor internationaal recht aan de KU Leuven en voormalig adjunct-secretaris-generaal van de VN in een opinie in de Morgen van 28/12/2002
Noam Chomsky: Deep Concerns  At this grim moment, we can do nothing to stop the ongoing invasion.  But that does not mean that the task is over for people who have some concern for justice, freedom, and human rights. Far from it 20/03/2003
Humanitaire actie in Irak: medische neutraliteit of solidariteit? Action humanitaire en Irak : neutralité médicale ou solidarité ? - Dr Bert De Belder, coördinator Geneeskunde Voor de Derde Wereld 07/03/03
Former U.S. attorney-general Ramsey Clark met with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein last Sunday. 01/03/03
Gulf War Vet Admits Setting Oil Well Fires Under UN Command 02/2003
NGO condemns further politicisation of 'oil for food' 05/12/2002
Tony Benn interviews SADDAM HUSSEIN 4/02/2003
Reports Blix and El Baradei contradict Powell and Blair 14/02/2003
30 Million March Against War 15/02/2003
A statement opposing the US war against Iraq / Anti-oorlogsmanifest van Chinese intellectuelen  10/02/2003
Joint Statement of Communist, Workers' and Left Parties (E) - (Français) 26/01/2003
Sanctions and the "Moral Case" for War MERIP briefing by Per Oskar Klevnäs, CASI's research officer 05/03/2003
„Human Shields“ in Iraq have political task - Discussions whether to protect civilian or strategic targets 06/03/2003
Shalom/Albert: Reject Defeatism The onset of war does not negate the unprecedented antiwar activism in recent weeks and months, nor does it provide reason to diminish our efforts. Quite the contrary 20/03/2003
Street: Challenge Hierarchy Making Connections. Confronting Hierarchy At Home And Abroad 19/03/2003
Stober: Inspectors Angry Nuclear Inspectors Reportedly Angry Checking False U.s. Leads Wasted Time, Source Says 19/03/2003
Uniting For Peace Russian Duma, Many Others, Call For Un "uniting For Peace" PROPOSAL FOR AN EMERGENCY GENERAL ASSEMBLY SESSION EVOKING THE "UNITING FOR PEACE RESOLUTION"  20/03/2003 
UN tries to halt staff protest against attack Kofi Annan's office has barred UN staff from open opposition to the war in Iraq 20/03/2003