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Landmine kills BBC cameraman
A BBC cameraman has been killed in northern Iraq after standing on a landmine as he climbed out of his car.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_766828.html?menu=news.wariniraq
A BBC cameraman has been killed in northern Iraq after standing on a landmine as he climbed out of his car.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_766828.html?menu=news.wariniraq
Yes they really should come out to the desert with their inferior numbers and firepower so that they can get a good hiding out in the open.
"Clearly for the "Allies", the only morally acceptable strategy the Iraqi army can pursue is to march out into the desert and be bombed by B-52s or be mowed down by machine-gun fire. Anything short of that is cheating. "
From this article in todays Guardian.
"Clearly for the "Allies", the only morally acceptable strategy the Iraqi army can pursue is to march out into the desert and be bombed by B-52s or be mowed down by machine-gun fire. Anything short of that is cheating. "
From this article in todays Guardian.
DJ Squelch
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Bajie
Registered User
Serial number of one of the missles that caused the slaughter of over 50 people in a Baghdad market place last week found, and surprise surprise its......
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=393066
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=393066
the scouser
the voice of reason!
Hail of Cluster Bombs Leaves a Trail of Death
Robert Fisk, The Independent
BABYLON, 3 April 2003 — The wounds are vicious and deep, a rash of scarlet spots on the back and thighs or face, the shards of shrapnel from the cluster bombs buried an inch or more in the flesh. The wards of the Hilla teaching hospital are proof that something illegal — something quite outside the Geneva Conventions — occurred in the villages around the city once known as Babylon.
Al Jazeera: off BBC 2202:
Al-Jazeera halts Iraq broadcasts
The station has shown Saddam Hussein speeches
The Arabic news channel al-Jazeera says it is suspending its reports from Iraq in protest after Baghdad banned two of its correspondents from working there.
The station said the Iraqi Information Ministry had barred Diyar al-Omari - an Iraqi - from reporting, and ordered correspondent Tayseer Alouni to leave the country.
The channel's editor-in-chief, Ibrahim Helal, told the BBC that the Iraqis had given no reasons for their action, which he called sudden and unjustified
Al-Jazeera says it will continue to transmit images from its offices in Baghdad, Basra and Mosul.
The station interrupted a regular broadcast to make its announcement.
They cannot dictate to us who can and cannot work
Editor-in-chief
Ibrahim Helal
Channel in the news
Its eight correspondents will remain in Iraq until the Iraqis clarify their decision, Mr Helal said, adding that it was not the first time the Iraqi authorities had tried to ban its journalists.
"We faced lots of things like that before from the Iraqi Government and from other governments in the Arab region, because this is a way they think," Mr Helal told the BBC.
"They think the can impose some conditions on al-Jazeera or they think they can change the reporters, they can put their own criteria on our work."
The Qatar-based satellite broadcaster is one of the most influential voices in the Arab world. It says it has 35 million viewers.
The US and UK have accused the station of bias and criticised it for airing pictures of dead Western troops.
Al-Jazeera's new English-language website has suffered a number of denial-of-service attacks since the war began, in which hackers flooded the site with junk messages.
Visitors were also redirected to web pages with pro-US messages or pornography.
Iraq expelled correspondents for the US cable news broadcaster CNN last week.
(edited to add rest of storyas link was fcuked up)
Robert Fisk, The Independent
BABYLON, 3 April 2003 — The wounds are vicious and deep, a rash of scarlet spots on the back and thighs or face, the shards of shrapnel from the cluster bombs buried an inch or more in the flesh. The wards of the Hilla teaching hospital are proof that something illegal — something quite outside the Geneva Conventions — occurred in the villages around the city once known as Babylon.
Al Jazeera: off BBC 2202:
Al-Jazeera halts Iraq broadcasts
The station has shown Saddam Hussein speeches
The Arabic news channel al-Jazeera says it is suspending its reports from Iraq in protest after Baghdad banned two of its correspondents from working there.
The station said the Iraqi Information Ministry had barred Diyar al-Omari - an Iraqi - from reporting, and ordered correspondent Tayseer Alouni to leave the country.
The channel's editor-in-chief, Ibrahim Helal, told the BBC that the Iraqis had given no reasons for their action, which he called sudden and unjustified
Al-Jazeera says it will continue to transmit images from its offices in Baghdad, Basra and Mosul.
The station interrupted a regular broadcast to make its announcement.
They cannot dictate to us who can and cannot work
Editor-in-chief
Ibrahim Helal
Channel in the news
Its eight correspondents will remain in Iraq until the Iraqis clarify their decision, Mr Helal said, adding that it was not the first time the Iraqi authorities had tried to ban its journalists.
"We faced lots of things like that before from the Iraqi Government and from other governments in the Arab region, because this is a way they think," Mr Helal told the BBC.
"They think the can impose some conditions on al-Jazeera or they think they can change the reporters, they can put their own criteria on our work."
The Qatar-based satellite broadcaster is one of the most influential voices in the Arab world. It says it has 35 million viewers.
The US and UK have accused the station of bias and criticised it for airing pictures of dead Western troops.
Al-Jazeera's new English-language website has suffered a number of denial-of-service attacks since the war began, in which hackers flooded the site with junk messages.
Visitors were also redirected to web pages with pro-US messages or pornography.
Iraq expelled correspondents for the US cable news broadcaster CNN last week.
(edited to add rest of storyas link was fcuked up)
I'd like to know why the fuck they're using cluster bombs when it's well known how much carnage they cause to civilians during and after the conflict. Just as bad as landmines.
From what I heard 2 days ago the US military had used up 9,000 of their reported stockpile of 48,000 precision weapons (JDAMs, cruise missiles) thus far, so it's not like they're running out of them.
PS Your link doesn't work the scouser
From what I heard 2 days ago the US military had used up 9,000 of their reported stockpile of 48,000 precision weapons (JDAMs, cruise missiles) thus far, so it's not like they're running out of them.
PS Your link doesn't work the scouser
someoneelse
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Blackhawk Shot Down in Karbala - 7 dead, 4 rescued
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-War-Helicopter-Down.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-War-Helicopter-Down.html
someoneelse
Well-Known Member
Electricity supply in Baghdad has been turned off. Who by is not known.
joe dick
hardly any animals were abused or killed
Rumsfeld Complains Syria Still Helping Iraq
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=2503871
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=2503871
USUK special forces penetrate Baghdad, while denying causing the blackout.
Airport still not secured despite earlier reports.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5944-633960,00.html
Airport still not secured despite earlier reports.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5944-633960,00.html
A reporter, standing on the tarmac of Saddam International Airport, has just said, live on Skye, that "there is no sign of any Iraqi opposition".
Well BBC News 24 has said the coalition "has begun" to take control of the airport. But sounds like they're pretty much there tbh.
Meanwhile Mr Bush delivers yet another gung-ho speech to another rapturous audience of military personnel (marines I think). Is it me or is Dubya choosing "safe" audiences? At least Blair has had the guts to debate with anti-war protestors, face to face.
Meanwhile Mr Bush delivers yet another gung-ho speech to another rapturous audience of military personnel (marines I think). Is it me or is Dubya choosing "safe" audiences? At least Blair has had the guts to debate with anti-war protestors, face to face.
British use of cluster bombs condemned
Weapons make battlefield safer, Hoon says
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,929368,00.html
Weapons make battlefield safer, Hoon says
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,929368,00.html
Why in the world would the President of the United States subject himself to a face to face debate with out of control anti-war protestors. That tiny group of active protestors (less than 1% of the population) would only make world headlines claiming ALL Americans are against the war. We all know how the left twists the truth. Al Jazeera would have a field day with footage like that.
Anyway the polls over here show the American public (most recent poll) are firmly behind Mr. Bush by 71% (conservatively).
KeyboardJockey
Clowns to the Left of me
Well you have an out of control Un-President so he should feel at home.
With your media I probably wouldn't expect anything else. Remember there is 'Lies, Damn Lies and Rupert Murdoch's Fox News.'
Unexplained powders and liquids found in tunnels under Baghdad (officially no longer Saddam) Airport.
US Commander releived of post!
ay ay, whats going on 'ere then?
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1086322,00.html
ay ay, whats going on 'ere then?
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1086322,00.html
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