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British Get Tough in Basra
http://english.aljazeera.net/topics...7&parent_id=258
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The British Press Association reported that the British troops and Iraqi police will patrol jointly at first, and then the Iraqis will patrol slightly ahead of the British units. Finally, the Iraqis will patrol alone, and the British will set up positions so they can react if needed.
This news may increase confidence, but Al Jazeera has already had confirmed reports that those Iraqis attempting to police have themselves been attacked, and in some instances have had to take shelter in British armoured personnel carriers. These attacks may continue if many of the police are associated with the Baath Party. |
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SlowwHand
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of The Cooler
Sep 1999
time: 23:27
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U.S., Iraqis Begin Joint Baghdad Patrols
1 hour, 42 minutes ago
By HAMZA HENDAWI, Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq - With looting already easing in Baghdad on Monday, Iraqis and U.S. troops began jointly patrolling the streets to quell the lawlessness that has engulfed the capital since the collapse of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s regime, the American military said.
Iraqis started accompanying troops late Sunday or early Monday, said Navy Capt. Frank Thorp, a U.S. Central Command spokesman. In addition, Iraqis have also launched neighborhood watch programs and Iraqi civil leaders are emerging to maintain order, he said.
"We're beginning to see a downward trend in looting," he said.
On Monday morning, several hundred Iraqi police officers in plainclothes and uniform reported to the Iraqi police academy in response to a coalition call for Iraqis to take part in joint patrols to restore order. The officers registered upon entering the academy, as Marine sentries watched
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...war_baghdad_598
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gsmoove23
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Baghdad Residents Begin a Long Climb to an Ordered City
Mon Apr 14, 9:02 AM ET
By JOHN F. BURNS The New York Times
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...red
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But even as some Iraqis sought to heal the city's wounds, others, fired by anger and revenge, broke through to the little that was left of untouched government buildings after four days of continuous looting. Among other buildings afire or still smoldering in eastern Baghdad today were the city hall, the Agriculture Ministry and so thoroughly burned that heat still radiated 50 paces from its front doors the National Library. Not far from the National Museum of Iraq, which was looted on Thursday and Friday with the loss of almost all of its store of 170,000 artifacts, the library was considered another of the repositories of an Iraqi civilization dating back at least 7,000 years.
By tonight, virtually nothing was left of the library and its tens of thousands of old manuscripts and books, and of archives like Iraqi newspapers tracing the country's turbulent history from the era of Ottoman rule through to Mr. Hussein. Reading rooms and the stacks where the collections were stored were reduced to smoking vistas of blackened rubble.
Across the street, a lone American tank roared out of the monumental gates of the Defense Ministry, untouched by the looters presumably because they knew that the ministry, at least, would be under close guard by American troops.
Almost as much as the civilian casualties from American bombs and tanks, the destruction of the museum and the library has ignited passions against American troops, for their failure to intervene. How far these passions offset the widespread jubilation at the toppling of Mr. Hussein is impossible to tell, in part because of the differing views within the population. Along looters, many but not all of them from the impoverished underclass, and especially from the slums of Saddam City, the end of Mr. Hussein's government appears to have been greeted as an absolute good.
But a different view emerges among Baghdad's professionals. Many of them managed to elude the worst brutalities of Mr. Hussein, either because they were members of the Baath Party, or were Sunni Muslims, or because, as doctors, lawyers, engineers and university teachers, they made themselves useful to the government and offered few challenges to its survival. Among those people, the common view in recent days has been the one expressed by protesters who gathered in the heat outside the Palestine Hotel today, shouting abuse at the marines: that the cure has proven worse than the disease that having many of the city's principal institutions laid to waste by looters has been too high a price for freedom.
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Maryland, USA
Jan 1970
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http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast...labs/index.html
Monday, April 14, 2003 Posted: 5:40 PM EDT (2140 GMT)
KARBALA, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. troops have found 11 mobile laboratories buried south of Baghdad that are capable of biological and chemical uses, a U.S. general said Monday.
There were no chemical or biological weapons with the containerized labs, which measure 20 feet square. But soldiers recovered "about 1,000 pounds" of documents from inside the labs, and the United States will examine those papers further, said Brig. Gen. Benjamin Freakley of the Army's 101st Airborne Division.
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Troops found the mobile laboratories near a weapons plant outside Karbala, about 50 miles south of Baghdad. Though buried, they appeared to contain about $1 million worth of equipment and were "clearly marked so they could be found again," Freakley said.
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In February, U.N. weapons inspectors "found nothing untoward" at an ammunition filling plant close to where the troops have found the mobile labs, a U.N. inspection team spokesman said Monday.
Inspectors visited the site -- referred to as the Karbala Ammunition Filling Plant -- on February 23.
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Promethus
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Battle Creek, Michigan
Jan 2002
time: 00:27
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Planner of Achille Lauro Hijacking Is Reported Captured
By DAVID STOUT
WASHINGTON, April 15 — The Palestinian guerrilla leader who masterminded the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro, in which a New York City man was slain, was reported today to be in American custody in Iraq.
The guerrilla leader, Abu Abbas, is being held in Baghdad, CNN reported. The network said he had been captured by United States forces in Iraq, although in recent years he has hardly been reclusive.
Mr. Abbas, also known as Muhammad Abbas, is the leader of the Palestinian Liberation Front. The group hijacked the liner in the eastern Mediterranean and, on Oct. 7, 1985, executed Leon Klinghoffer, 69, in front of his wife, Marilyn.
The shooting of Mr. Klinghoffer, who was disabled, was met with wide revulsion.
Mr. Abbas, who is in his mid-50's, had been living in Baghdad under the protection of President Saddam Hussein. The ouster of Mr. Hussein's government by America-led military forces, may have effectively deprived Mr. Abbas of his shelter.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/15/i.../15CND-ABU.html
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European Leaders May Help Stabilize Iraq
By ROBERT WIELAARD Associated Press Writer
published 08:58 AM - APRIL 16, 2003 Eastern Time
Several European leaders suggested Wednesday they may quickly send peacekeeping troops to help stabilize Iraq, while U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan sought to sort out his organization's postwar role.
"There is a desperate need for stabilization forces in Iraq, here and now," Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said. "We cannot wait for a U.N. resolution."
He and the leaders of the Netherlands and Spain _ three backers of the U.S.-led war _ said Iraq needed to be stabilized quickly. At separate briefings, Fogh Rasmussen and Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said that their governments were considering sending troops but that it was to early to say when.
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In the former Soviet state of Belarus, meanwhile, President Alexander Lukashenko, a pariah in the West for his crackdown on political opponents and news media, criticized the war in Iraq and said his country wouldn't be intimidated by Washington.
He said Belarus has weapons that can reach "a significant distance" outside its borders. Lukashenko, who pursued close ties with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, said Belarus should develop closer military cooperation with Russia.
http://www.rr.com/v5/2/news/frame/0...p~1~9000_392166
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SlowwHand
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of The Cooler
Sep 1999
time: 23:27
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Russia against lifting UN sanctions on Iraq
Thu Apr 17, 8:16 AM ET
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia will not support a US proposal to lift UN sanctions on Iraq if UN inspectors do not confirm the country has no weapons of mass destruction, a Russian foreign ministry official said.
"Regime change in Baghdad is not a condition for lifting economic sanctions on Iraq," the official told the Interfax news agency on condition of anonymity.
"There is a UN Security Council resolution for this, which clearly stipulates the disarmament of Iraq -- something international inspectors must decide," he said, adding that Russia supported the return of UN inspectors.
US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) said Wednesday he would soon propose a UN resolution ending the 12-year-old crippling economic sanctions, which put an embargo on the trade of Iraqi oil.
Russia -- a fierce opponent to the US-led war that earlier cast doubt on US accusations that Iraq possessed biological, chemical or nuclear weapons -- fears opening the floodgates of Iraqi oil could hurt its own economy, which is heavily reliant on oil exports.
It has called for the United Nations (news - web sites) to play a central role in the reconstruction of post-war Iraq, also fearing lucrative contracts could end up in the hands of the US-led coalition that ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (news - web sites).
Dmitry Rogozin, head of parliament's foreign affairs committee, said the US announcement that it favored lifting sanctions less than one week after the fall of Baghdad and Saddam's regime seemed "wrong" and "mercenary."
"We should determine just what the United State is after -- something seem wrong, the approach is too mercenary," he was quoted by Interfax as saying.
"Today the United Nations controls practically nothing in Iraq, so the sanctions will actually be lifted not from Russian companies -- which should be working in the region -- but from Americans, who will be given the juciest parts of the Iraqi oil industry," he said.
The United Nations imposed sweeping sanctions on Iraq after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in August 1990. They included a ban on all trade with Iraq, an embargo on its oil exports and an arms embargo.
Bush also called for an end to the UN-administered "oil-for-food" program, which since 1996 has enabled Iraq to export limited amounts of oil and use the revenues to buy basic humanitarian supplies.
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SlowwHand
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of The Cooler
Sep 1999
time: 23:27
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Statements of Support
Forty-three countries which have offered various levels of support for Operation Iraqi Freedom are willing to be publicly named as members of the coalition, U.S. defense officials said March 20. Some countries prefer to remain anonymous, but that number becomes smaller every day as more countries publicly join the coaliton.
Publicly listed coalition members include: Afghanistan, Albania, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Colombia, Czech Repbulic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Eritreat, Estonia, Ethiopia, Georgia, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan (post conflict), Kuwait, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Mongolia, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Rwanda, Singapore, Slovakia, Solomon Islands, Spain, Turkey, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan.
http://defendamerica.mil/iraq/worldviews041703.html
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Québec City
Nov 2002
time: 00:27
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Robert Fisk - The Independant UK
17 april 2003
Here news about Bagdad and I see just before that 3000 Iranian army have crossed the Iraqi border... I will search the news for that
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...Now here's another question the Iraqis are asking - and to which I cannot provide an answer. On 8 April, three weeks into the invasion, the Americans dropped four 2,000lb bombs on the Baghdad residential area of Mansur. They claimed they thought Saddam was hiding there. They knew they would kill civilians because it was not, as one Centcom mandarin said, a "risk free venture" (sic). So they dropped their bombs and killed 14 civilians in Mansur, most of them members of a Christian family.
The Americans said they couldn't be sure they had killed Saddam until they could carry out forensic tests at the site. But this turns out to have been a lie. I went there two days ago. Not a single US or British official had bothered to visit the bomb craters. Indeed, when I arrived, there was a putrefying smell and families pulled the remains of a baby from the rubble.
No American officers have apologised for this appalling killing. And I can promise them that the baby I saw being placed under a sheet of black plastic was very definitely not Saddam Hussein. Had they bothered to look at this place - as they claimed they would - they would at least have found the baby. Now the craters are a place of pilgrimage for the people of Baghdad.
Then there's the fires that have consumed every one of the city's ministries - save, of course, for the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Oil - as well as UN offices, embassies and shopping malls. I have counted a total of 35 ministries now gutted by fire and the number goes on rising.
....Because there is also something dangerous - and deeply disturbing - about the crowds setting light to the buildings of Baghdad, including the great libraries and state archives. For they are not looters. The looters come first. The arsonists turn up later, often in blue-and-white buses. I followed one after its passengers had set the Ministry of Trade on fire and it sped out of town....
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The Independent UK
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/041903E.shtml
http://argument.independent.co.uk/c...sp?story=397925
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Bosh
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Taehan Mingook
Jan 1970
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http://www.spacewar.com/2003/030418122117.z2ppxoki.html
Cleric slams US presence in sermon at Shiite holy site
KARBALA, Iraq (AFP) Apr 18, 2003
The cleric at one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines denounced the presence of US troops in the country during Friday prayers, saying it amounted to imperialism by "unbelievers."
"We reject this foreign occupation, which is a new imperialism. We don't want it anymore," Sheikh Kaazem al-Abahadi al-Nasari told thousands of worshipers at the mausoleum of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Mohamed who is revered by Shiites.
"We don't need the Americans. They're here to control our oil. They're unbelievers, but as for us, we have the power of faith," he said.
Friday prayers resumed at the sacred site in Karbala last week after being banned for nearly a year under president Saddam Hussein. The ousted regime included no Shiites in senior leadership positions, even though the sect makes up more than 60 percent of Iraq's population.
Tens of thousands of worshippers were expected in Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) southwest of Baghdad in the coming days to mark the death of Hussein in battle in the year 680.
The commemoration, which will culminate Tuesday, will also provide an opportunity for the Shiites to flex their new political muscle.
In his sermon Friday, Sheikh Nasari denounced "these politicians who are coming back to Iraq supported by the Americans and the British, who given the opportunity would only obey American orders."
He also called for Shiites to stand united behind the Hawza, the Shiite religious school in another holy city, Najaf, about 100 kilometers (60 miles) to the south.
"Yes, yes, yes to the union (of Shiites)! Yes, yes, yes to the Hawza!" chanted the imam, with the worshippers repeating his words.
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Promethus
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Battle Creek, Michigan
Jan 2002
time: 00:27
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Army Hospital Is a Haven for Wounded or Ill Iraqis
Mr. Thijeel is one of 13 Iraqis, including 4 wounded prisoners, being treated at the tented hospital in the desert, about 20 miles south of Baghdad. The hospital, less than three weeks old, will soon turn into the largest Army hospital in Iraq, a well-lighted and remarkably clean 42-bed facility on the sand.
The hospital was set up not only for emergency battlefield surgery, but also to deal with health issues involving cardiology, obstetrical and gynecological problems, orthopedics, blood disorders, even transplants and other medical services for soldiers in the field.
But the war was over quickly. So the hospital, like every other United States military hospital in Baghdad, is treating mostly noncombat-related illnesses and injuries involving American soldiers. The bulk of the patients are Iraqis with war wounds.
Few questions are asked of the Iraqis once they are taken to the hospital (sometimes by American soldiers after families plead with them). Often families bring Iraqis to the Americans after Iraqi hospitals have botched a patient's surgery and postoperative care, leaving the wounded seriously infected and even close to death.
Colonel Pritchett, an assured and low-key health-care administrator from Buffalo who has served in the Army for 24 years, said it was often impossible to determine who caused an injury, and the Americans did not really care. A war wound is a war wound.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/21/i...ial/21HOSP.html
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