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Who's who in post-Saddam Iraq
As the US struggles to encourage the emergence of a new Iraqi leadership to take over after a period of military rule, BBC News Online looks at some of the likely key figures.

Nizar Khazraji:
A prominent Iraqi general who defected to the West, Mr Khazraji is sometimes mentioned as a possible successor to Saddam Hussein - a leader with strong military connections who could take on the role of "strongman".
The CIA is reported to have helped him escape to the Gulf from house arrest in Denmark, where prosecutors were investigating his alleged role in gas attacks on the Iraqi Kurds.
His once close connections with the old regime may make him unacceptable to Iraqis as a whole.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2950371.stm

another strange us friend.
 
Human Rights Watch researchers spent four days in Kirkuk following the withdrawal of Iraqi forces from the city on April 10, documenting civilian deaths, forced expulsions, and other abuses committed by all ethnic groups. The researchers interviewed Arab families forcibly expelled from their homes, eyewitnesses to reprisal killings, and Kurdish and Turkoman officials. The researchers also examined hospital and morgue records.

Killings of Civilians Since April 10, at least 40 civilians have been killed in the city. Many of them appear to have died as a result of clashes between armed civilians and Ba’ath Party officials. According to forensic records, at least two died from close range single gunshot wounds to the head, and a third, whose hands were bound, bore lesions on the neck consistent with hanging.

Human Rights Watch report
 
USA soldiers shoot protestors

MOSUL, Iraq (AFP) Apr 15, 2003

At least 10 people were shot dead and scores wounded Tuesday in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul, a hospital doctor said, with witnesses alleging US troops opened fire after a crowd turned against an American-installed local governor.

"There are perhaps 100 wounded and 10 to 12 dead" following the shooting near the local government offices in a central square, Dr. Ayad al-Ramadhani said at the emergency department of the city hospital.

rest here
 
US marines storm the hotel where the press where staying the palastine hotel I think. Links maybe here www.bbc.com.

I saw it on the Spainish new last night, I think the only reason it made on to the news was because a spainish reporter got killed last week in the hotel by the yanks firing at the hotel with tanks.

Also the talks for a democratic Iraq, nearly all men, no women I take it, will be allowed under the Koran to have anything to do with the democratic transformation of Iraq. And all the blokes look well shady.
 
Originally posted by whiterose
[And in an apparent response to the US accusations, Syria is preparing to introduce a resolution at the UN Security Council on Wednesday, calling for the Middle East to be declared a "zone free of weapons of mass destruction" - a clear reference to Israel's nuclear weapons programme. ]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2951713.stm
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that is a good strategy by the Syrian president. Get UN protection and highlight the fact Israel have been developing WMD for a long time.
 
"Go away! Get out of my face!" an American soldier screamed at an Iraqi trying to push towards the wire surrounding an infantry unit in the capital yesterday. I watched the man's face suffuse with rage. "God is Great! God is Great!" the Iraqi retorted.

"Fuck you!"

happy, liberated, free iraqi. sensitive, kind, freedom-loving american soldier.

in vietnam they called them slants and gooks and sometimes somewhat respectfully as 'charlie'.
in somalia they called the indigenous population 'sammies' and 'skinnies'
in saudi arabia, commenting on the dress of women, they are known as 'bmos' (black moving objects) and 'ninja women'.

i can't wait to find out what imaginative pejorative the US military is adopting for the population of iraq.
 
i can't wait to find out what imaginative pejorative the US military is adopting for the population of iraq.
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"Rag heads" and "sand niggers" are two pejorative terms I've seen being used so far. They need to dehumanize before they kill you see.
 
Iran attacks US and braces for nuclear dispute

The Iranian president Mohammad Khatami yesterday lashed out at America for its aggressive stance, stating that Tehran would not recognise a US-installed administration in Iraq and warning Iran would support Syria were it attacked.

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The fear among some western diplomats and analysts is that the increasingly belligerent stance of Washington towards Iran and Syria may backfire and push Tehran to speed up its weapons programme. Mr Khatami yesterday made a point of rallying to Syria's side.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,938204,00.html
 
America would enter Syria to snatch Saddam


AMERICAN commanders have promised to launch a “snatch-and-shoot” raid for Saddam Hussein if they track him to a hiding place in Syria.

The proposal, which will fuel tensions between Washington and Damascus, was condemned by British military officers as a breach of international law that would add to regional instability.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5944-649637,00.html

“We respect international law,” he said. “But if it was the ace of spades, it would be different.”

'we respect international law' - except, of course, when we don't.
 
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle....CV2CCRBAELCFEY?type=worldNews&storyID=2585464



British Aid Plane Prevented from Entering Iraq
Thu April 17, 2003 12:32 PM ET
By Kate Holton
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. forces have refused a Save the Children plane permission to land in northern Iraq to deliver aid, breaching the Geneva Convention and "costing children their lives," the British aid agency said on Thursday.

Save the Children said in a statement it had been trying for more than a week to land a plane in Arbil carrying enough medical supplies to treat 40,000 people and emergency feeding kits for malnourished children.

A U.S. official told the charity no aid flights would be allowed until the area was safe but the U.N. has already declared Arbil a "safe and secure" area, the charity said.
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Originally posted by joe dick
in saudi arabia, commenting on the dress of women, they are known as 'bmos' (black moving objects) and 'ninja women'.
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While at the same time forcing female US soldiers to wear the burkha in public so as not to offend their Saudi hosts!

john x
 
SPIN:

U.S. Enlists Ex-U.N. Inspectors in Iraq Arms Hunt

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has enlisted about 10 former U.N. weapons inspectors to help search for chemical, biological and nuclear arms in Iraq (news - web sites), a Pentagon (news - web sites) official said on Thursday, as political pressure builds to find the weapons cited as a key justification for the war.

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The official did not identify the former inspectors other than to say they are Americans,

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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said U.S. forces were taking steps to avoid being accused of planting phony evidence, ...
"Now that will not stop certain countries and certain types of people from claiming inaccurately that it was planted."


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...7/ts_nm/iraq_usa_weapons_dc&cid=564&ncid=1478


i guess we can expect a find in the next couple of days. before these guys are allowed in:

White House says not yet time for inspectors to return to Iraq

CRAWFORD, TX (AFX) - It is not yet time to discuss the possible return of UN weapons inspectors to Iraq because US-led forces are still engaged in military operations there, White House spokeswoman Claire Buchan said.
"At some point, UN inspections will be an issue that needs to be addressed, but at this point, the US and coalition forces are still engaged in actions," Buchan told reporters.

http://www.iii.co.uk/shares/?type=news&articleid=4630211&action=article
 
The official did not identify the former inspectors other than to say they are Americans,
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I wonder if these are the agents the CIA infiltrated into UNSCOM and UNMOVIC.... Just a thought.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said U.S. forces were taking steps to avoid being accused of planting phony evidence, ...
"Now that will not stop certain countries and certain types of people from claiming inaccurately that it was planted."
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Looks like they are getting ready to plant the stuff any day soon from what von Rumsfeld's saying here. He's getting his retaliation in first against a sceptical world, a sure sign in my view.

And so the BIG LIE grows!
 
Bush Cultural Advisers Quit Over Iraq Museum Theft

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of a U.S. presidential panel on cultural property has resigned in protest at the failure of U.S. forces to prevent the wholesale looting of priceless treasures from Baghdad's antiquities museum.

"It didn't have to happen," Martin Sullivan said of the objects that were destroyed or stolen from the Iraqi National Museum in a wave of looting that erupted as U.S.-led forces ended President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s rule last week.

Sullivan, who chaired the President's Advisory Committee on Cultural Property for eight years, said he wrote a letter of resignation to the White House this week in part to make a statement but also because "you can't speak freely" as a special government-appointed employee ...
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entire news article
 
Pentagon says it won't withdraw Franklin Graham's invitation to speak
By Lisa Burgess, Stars and Stripes

ARLINGTON, Va. — Pentagon chaplains say they have no intention of withdrawing a Good Friday speaking invitation to a controversial Christian evangelical leader who has called Islam “wicked, violent and not of the same God.”
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Canceling the Baptist leader would be contrary to the chaplains’ mission, “which is to try to make sure everyone’s religious needs are met,” Campbell said. “What kind of a message would it send if we canceled [Graham]? That if someone objects, you can’t practice your religion?”

http://estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=14877
 
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