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almarst2003 - 10:50am Mar 31, 2003 EST (# 10835 of 10839)

Arnett - http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030331/ap_on_re_mi_ea/war_arnett_2

The first Bush administration was unhappy with Arnett's reporting in 1991 for CNN, suggesting he had become a conveyor of propaganda.

He was denounced for his reporting about an allied bombing of a baby milk factory in Baghdad that the military said was a biological weapons plant. The American military responded vigorously to the suggestion it had targeted a civilian facility, but Arnett stood by his reporting that the plant's sole purpose was to make baby formula.

NBC, in a statement Sunday, praised Arnett's "outstanding" reporting from Iraq and said he was trying nothing more than to give an analytical response to an interviewer's questions.

In the interview, Arnett said his Iraqi friends tell him there is a growing sense of nationalism and resistance to what the United States and Britain are doing.

WHAT? THEY STILL DON'T LOVE US? LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT OUR TAGET LIST THEN.

almarst2003 - 10:58am Mar 31, 2003 EST (# 10836 of 10839)

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Twenty people, including 11 children, were killed when a nighttime missile attack struck a farm near Baghdad, relatives told AFP.

Another 10 people were wounded, according to relatives who survived the Saturday night assault, which destroyed three homes in the Al-Janabiin suburb on the southeastern edge of Baghdad.

They said the dead also included seven women and two men belonging to five families.

The two relatives were the only residents to escape unharmed from the ruins of the homes, according to an AFP journalist on the scene.

Civilian casualities in Baghdad and its outskirts have mounted since the war's outbreak on March 20.

The US-led coalition has relentlessly bombed the southern rim of the city, where elite Republican Guard units are believed to be guarding the approach to President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s seat of power.

The witnesses in Al-Janabiin, who showed an AFP journalist the debris from the attack, said a missile struck the farm leaving a trail of destruction over a wide area.

AFP journalists have witnessed five such incidents in which civilians were the primary victims of a coalition strike, reporting at least 70 dead and dozens of wounded.

Iraqi officials have said hundreds of civilians have been killed and wounded since the start of the war.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=1514&e=15&u=/afp/20030331/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_war_baghdad_farm_toll_030331143102

WILL SEE IF AN WHEN BLAIR RESIGNES. FOR THE SAKE OF THE FUTURE OF HIS PARTY AND NATION - HE MUST.

almarst2003 - 01:57pm Mar 31, 2003 EST (# 10837 of 10839)

"Why? Why?" a doctor demanded of them. "Why did you Americans bomb our children's hospital?" - http://electroniciraq.net/news/490.shtml

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