April 4: Latest News from Iraq

by Lee Siu Hin Saturday, Apr. 05, 2003 at 1:52 AM
siuhin@aol.com

By: PeaceNoWar.net URL: http://www.PeaceNoWar.net ***Latest Estimated Iraqi Civilian Causalities: 547-733 people (According from IraqBodyCount.net) Also, check: http://www.peacenowar.net/Iraq/News/April%204%2003--Casualities.htm

Nearly two weeks after the U.S.-led air campaign began with daily raids on Baghdad, the Iraqi capital maintains the appearance of a functioning city despite damage to dozens of sites. With Iraqi causalities at least 500-700 up-to-date, the Anglo-American 'liberators' are getting more and more brutal, Red Cross workers saw the bodies of dozens of people - including women and children - at a town south of Baghdad where Iraqi officials claim U.S. helicopters attacked a residential neighborhood, the International Red Cross reported Wednesday.

Robert Fisk says: So it's a "truly remarkable achievement'', is it? General Tommy Franks says so. Everything is going "according to plan'', according to the British. So
it's an achievement that the British still have not "liberated" Basra. It is
"according to plan" that the Iraqis should be able to launch a scud missile
from the Faw peninsula - supposedly under "British control" for more than a
week. It is an achievement, truly remarkable of course, that the Americans
lose an Apache helicopter to the gun of an Iraqi peasant, spend four days
trying to cross the river bridges at Nasiriyah and are then confronted by
their first suicide bomber at Najaf.


***Latest Situtation in Baghdad: http://www.peacenowar.net/Iraq/News/April%204%2003--Baghdad.htm


****Protests!!!!
Stand Up! Get Up! Fight for Peace and Justice!

"We are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you."
- Michael Moore, on his 3/23 Oscar Award Speech

SATURDAY, APRIL 12:
NATIONAL MARCH on WASHINGTON
STOP THE WAR ON IRAQ!
-Gather at 12 noon-March on the White House-
Called by International ANSWER


****More News from Iraq****

The "Shock and Awe" Photo Gallery [updated daily]
http://www.marchforjustice.com/id191.htm

Wall of Shame [photos]
http://whatreallyhappened.com/wallofshame/

Rain of Terror on Baghdad [photos]
http://lmno4p.org/images/war/!baghdad_day_10.html

More than 280 Iraqis ''dismembered'' from explosions, fighting: ICRC
http://www.deepikaglobal.com/latestnews.asp?ncode=574

280 'dismembered' by bombs
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraq/0,6119,2-10-1460_1342460,00.html

In Iraqi hospitals, child war casualties mount
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03552657.htm

Horror of infant corpses shocks Red Cross
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=79&art_id=vn20030402055637437C641977&set_id=1

Missile kills eight Iraqi civilians in Baghdad
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=5006

U.S., Britain under fire for using cluster bombs
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03344293.htm

Larger field hospital is being built at Rota
http://www.stripes.osd.mil/article.asp?section=104&article=14280

US Uses Cluster Bombs
Military Criticized for Type of Ordnance
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0402-07.htm

The Proof: Marketplace Deaths Were Caused by a US Missile
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0402-02.htm

Children Killed and Maimed in Cluster Bomb Attack on Town
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0402-06.htm

U.S. Aircraft Pound Baghdad Maternity Hospital
http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2003-04/02/article12.shtml

U.S. raid damages Baghdad hospital
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/4151983.htm

Witnesses Say U.S. Bombs Hit Iraqi Hospital
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0402-10.htm

Pelosi: 'Thousands' of U.S. Soldiers Will Die in Iraq
http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/4/3/105836

Iraq War Spawns New Arab Nationalist Mood, Pride
http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=focusIraqNews&storyID=2502398

U.S. Using Controversial Cluster Bombs In Iraq
http://www.news4jax.com/sh/news/stories/nat-news-208748520030403-080424.html

Jordan's King Condemns Civilian Deaths, Red Cross "Shocked"
http://www.jihadunspun.com/intheatre_internal.php?article=50185&list=/home.php&

Cluster bombs' legacy could linger
http://www.theolympian.com/home/news/20030403/frontpage/35295.shtml

Hundreds in Iraqi town's hospital
Wards filled with many civilians, some apparently the victims of cluster bombs
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/04/03/MN307348.DTL

Red Cross slams 'horrific' hospital attack
http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/01031610.htm

A Disaster Unfolding in Iraq
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0328-12.htm

US marines pay high toll on road to Baghdad
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/03/29/wtroop29.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/03/29/ixnewstop.html

Pictures of casualties raise Arab anger
http://iafrica.com/news/us_terror/225286.htm

Red Cross finds dozens of corpses after U.S. attack on Hillah
http://www.canada.com/national/features/iraq/story.html?id=2BC56E52-F8DB-492C-8540-C32C3AE1E904

Christian Peacemaker Teams
http://www.prairienet.org/cpt/

Jo Wilding's Iraq Diary
http://www.bristolfoe.org.uk/wildfire/iraq/index.htm

Images Of Iraqi Civilian Deaths Fuel Antiwar Feeling In Arab World
http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2003/04/03042003115012.asp

US Troops Kill Eight Iraqi Civilians at Roadblocks
http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20030401_68.html

Religious leaders say war in Iraq foments anger in Afghanistan
http://www.insidevc.com/vcs/international/article/0,1375,VCS_124_1861081,00.html

American onslaught kills 33 civilians
http://thedaily.washington.edu/news.lasso?-database=DailyWeb.fp5&-layout=List&-response=newspage.lasso&-recordID=33140&-search&-Token.Count=5

U.S. Massacres 55 Civilians In Baghdad Marketplace
http://www.islamonline.net/english/News/2003-03/28/article03.shtml

U.S. Army Black Hawk Helicopter Shot Down
http://www.michigansthumb.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2292&dept_id=476798&newsid=7591611&PAG=461&rfi=9

'The US war planners misjudged Iraqi forces'
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_226883,00120003.htm

Gruesome toll grows as army grinds to a halt
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/29/1048653903996.html

Bodies of 500 US, UK soldiers lying in Jacobabad
http://www.paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=20101

Bay of Pigs Meets Black Hawk Down
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2003/033003a.html

British fury at 'cowboy' US pilot's deadly error
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/31/1048962677977.html

'The Yank opened up. He had absolutely no regard for human life.
He was a cowboy out on a jolly'
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5944-629644,00.html

Three British soldiers sent home after protesting at civilian deaths
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,926135,00.html

US forces' use of depleted uranium weapons is 'illegal'
http://www.sundayherald.com/32522

Pentagon Keeps Return of Iraqi War Dead from Media
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=focusIraqNews&storyID=2469377

US admits '8,000 Iraqis captured' claim was false
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_764618.html

'You've Just Killed a Family Because You Didn't Fire a Warning Shot Soon
Enough'
http://truthout.org/docs_03/040303A.shtml

Al-Jazeera tells the truth about war
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,924469,00.html

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