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lchic
- 08:45pm Apr 1, 2003 EST (#
10927 of 10946) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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A nothern KURD commented recently that they'd been happy
with the US assistance post 1991.
It had been a 'best' time for them when they could go about
their business peacefully.
Is there any reason why the other two latitudianal sectors
of Iraq couldn't do the same post 2003 ?
lchic
- 09:00pm Apr 1, 2003 EST (#
10928 of 10946) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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E-mail .... Rummy's not been MD-ing them has he? Wonder if
my messages were piggy-backed via baghdad ... lost or late!
almarst2003
- 09:04pm Apr 1, 2003 EST (#
10929 of 10946)
Forty-eight more civilians, including women and children,
have been killed and 310 wounded in US-British bombings around
this town south of Baghdad in the last 24 hours, a hospital
director revealed.
The deaths brought to 73 the number of Iraqi civilians who
have died under allied bombings since Monday.
Thirty-three civilians, including women and children, were
killed and 310 wounded in a coalition bombing on the southern
province of Babylon on Tuesday morning, a hospital director
said.
Murtada Abbas said the bombing targeted the Nader
residential area at the southern outskirts of the farming town
of Hilla, 80 kilometres (50 miles) south of the capital.
He was speaking at the Hilla hospital where a large number
of children lay wounded under blankets on the floor due to a
shortage of beds.
At the scene of the bombing, dozens of what seemed to be
parts of cluster bombs equipped with small parachutes
were peppered over a large area, an AFP correspondent at the
site said.
Iraqi soldiers were seen collecting the debris, which
witnesses said coalition warplanes had dropped over the
neighborhood. The soldiers poured fuel on the bombs before
setting them on fire to explode the ordnance.
Dozens of homes were destroyed in the bombing that also
killed donkeys and chickens, the correspondent said.
Fifteen members of a family were killed late Monday when
their pickup truck was blown up by a rocket from a US Apache
helicopter in the region of Haidariya near Hilla, the sole
survivor of the attack told AFP on Tuesday.
Razek al-Kazem al-Khafaji said he lost his wife, six
children, his father, his mother, his three brothers and their
wives.
Khafaji, sitting among the 15 coffins at the local
hospital, said the family was fleeing fierce fighting in
Nasiriya, further south, when they were targetted by a US
helicopter in Haidariya.
US troops admitted killing seven women and children when
they opened fire Monday on a civilian vehicle at a military
checkpoint manned by the US Army's Third Infantry Division at
Najaf, 150 kilometers (95 miles) south of Baghdad.
On Monday, eighteen civilians were also killed in coalition
bombings on Baghdad, according to Information Minister
Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf.
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/030401/1/39o1f.html
A FULL-SCALE LIBERATION
BTW. Aren't cluster bombs a war crime?
fredmoore
- 09:11pm Apr 1, 2003 EST (#
10930 of 10946)
Almarst ...
If you put your mind to it I think you could make the royal
gala celebration sound like a global tragedy.
You are gifted comrade!
lchic
- 09:14pm Apr 1, 2003 EST (#
10931 of 10946) ~~~~ It got understood and exposed
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Headers
Plan? http://www.economist.com/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
http://www.independent.co.uk/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
Stranger than fiction -- Israel spending £27,000 a month
on protection for lone settler http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=393128
(Tax payers USA foot the bill?)
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/
almarst2003
- 09:15pm Apr 1, 2003 EST (#
10932 of 10946)
Some gentelmen complain that Iraq wage a "dirty" war. Not
according to the "rules".
I can fully understand their indignation. Same thing
happend when Napoleon and later Hitler invaded Russia. And I
have learned about their indignations a long time ago.
Its happens that Elephant, if not careful and treatenes the
Sneak, dies from the Sneak's bite. The moral: Even Elephant
must think before acting. That why God gave him brains, not
just muscules.
That's must be Karma.
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