Just a little wartime cheer: Civilians flee Basra as paramilitaries brace for last stand
Civilians fleeing Iraq’s main southern city of Basra said increasingly desperate Iraqi fighters were preparing for a last stand against a swelling force of British troops and tanks being readied to fight their way in.
Many of the hundreds streaming out of [...]
From Dean Esmay, Ken Joseph tells what he learned from asking actual Iraqis about the war:
“We are not afraid of the American bombing. They will bomb carefully and not purposely target the people. What we are afraid of is Saddam Hussein and what he and the Baath Party will do when the war begins. But [...]
Command Post notes:
U.S. Controls Terror Camp in Iraq
WASHINGTON – American forces are searching a terrorist compound in northeastern Iraq (news – web sites) that was probably the site where militants made a biological toxin, traces of which were later found by police in London, the Pentagon (news – web sites)’s top general said Sunday.
U.S. [...]
Here is a good example of the fierce resistance encountered by the imperialist American war machine on its way to Baghdad:
CENTRAL IRAQ (AFP) – Iraqi civilians fleeing heavy fighting have stunned and delighted hungry US marines in central Iraq (news – web sites) by giving them food, as guerrilla attacks continue to disrupt coalition supply [...]
In the Sydney Morning Herald, we read:
Al-Qaeda fighting with Iraqis, British claim
March 28 2003, 9:41 AM
Near Basra, Iraq: British military interrogators claim captured Iraqi soldiers have told them that al-Qaeda terrorists are fighting on the side of Saddam Hussein’s forces against allied troops near Basra.
At least a dozen members of Osama bin Laden’s network [...]
In the comments of Ibidem, a crisp summary of Liberation Theology and the oppressed people of Iraq:
While liberation theology does not encourage violence, it acknowledges the right of people to defend themselves against murderous repression. Uprisings by Kurds and Shi’ites in 1987-89 and in 1991 were put down in large-scale massacres, sometimes with chemical weapons. [...]
London’s Daily Mirror is staunchly pro-Saddam, but they do publish Christopher Hitchens’ attempts to shock their readers back to their senses. The latest:
I feel disgust for those who blame this week’s deaths on the intervention and not on its sole target: Saddam Hussein.
A few days ago, a US Navy SEAL team allowed its whole attack [...]
Now the Iraqi government’s official website, http://www.uruklink.net is off the air, too. It was redirected to http://www.itshappening.com/index_three.html for a while, and now it’s just plain dead.
Hackers have found a good way to use their time, and my theory that engineers support the liberation of Iraq is further supported.
Meanwhile, scripter Mark Pilgrim publishes a Doonesbury cartoon [...]
Al-Jazeera Web Site Knocked Off-Line
The new English-language Web site of controversial Qatar-based satellite news channel Al-Jazeera was knocked off-line Tuesday by what may have been a denial-of-service attack.
Breaks your heart, doesn’t it?
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Republicans in Sacramento want to pass a resolution supporting the troops and the commander in chief, but recalcitrant Democrats would rather score points:
The initial Democratic response to Plescia’s call for a resolution came from Lou Correa, D-Anaheim, and Nicole Parra, D-Hanford, whose alternative made no mention at all of the president, instead honoring the efforts [...]
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