El Mundo: Attacks in Iraq ...an expression of the wishes of the Iraqi people

Spain's Presence In Iraq Panned

AP/CBS

(AP) Criticism of Spain's mission in Iraq mounted on Monday as mourners filed past coffins holding the remains of seven intelligence agents killed in the deadliest attack on Spanish forces in Iraq.

A day after the remains of the Spaniards killed Saturday in an ambush south of Baghdad were flown into Madrid, seven separate wakes were held at a defense ministry hospital.

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Iraq Body Count -November Updates

A Look at U.S. Daily Deaths in Iraq

The Associated Press -November 22

Photo: SSG Mark Swart/ 101st Airborne Division, memorial ceremony

Nov. 22 As of Friday, Nov. 21, 424 U.S. service members have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq, according to the Department of Defense. Of those, 294 died as a result of hostile action and 130 died of non-hostile causes, the department said. The department did not provide an update Saturday.

The British military has reported 52 deaths; Italy, 17; Denmark, Spain, Ukraine and Poland have reported one each.

(AP: ) At Least 17 U.S. Troops Have Committed Suicide in Iraq; Army Seeks Answers

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Donkey Cart Missles and U.S. Exit Strategy

Les Blough writes
"THE INGENUITY OF THE IRAQI RESISTANCE FORCES, AND U.S. "EXIT STRATEGY", By Les Blough

Axis of Logic, November 21, 2003

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IRAQ, PALESTINE AND VIET NAM

The Independent (UK) reports today(1):

"Two heavily-defended hotels in Baghdad, used by US officials and journalists, came under attack today from rockets launched from a donkey cart today."

It appears the Iraqi Resistance Forces will continue to badger and attack the occupation forces for as long as the creative properties of the human mind can invent new methods. We all know that can be for a very long time. The U.S. genocide in Iraq has taken on the profile of the Israeli genocide in Palestine (2) - mass, indiscriminate destruction, and attacks on civilian populations in continued attempts to crush the human will and spirit. The city of Tikrit offers just one of many examples for this comparison of the U.S. and Israel wars. The U.S. has turned Tikrit into another West Bank and Gaza Strip: (3)

"The entrance is guarded by soldiers, protected by sand bags, concrete barricades and a machine-gun nest. Only those people with an identification card issued by the occupation authorities are allowed in or, more importantly, out." (4)

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The missing picture: Soldiers die in Iraq

Italy paid final tribute Tuesday to 19 Italians killed in Iraq-
Similar U.S. Pictures are not allowed by WH Policy

NY Times -November 19

Italy paid final tribute Tuesday to 19 Italians killed in Iraq, with a state funeral and national day of mourning that underscored how the tragedy has united a country divided by war...

...Tens of thousands of people gathered at a Roman basilica for the funeral Mass, while others lined the route three-deep and wept or clapped as the coffins passed under thousands of flags draped from windows, balconies and flagpoles.

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Operation Iron Hammer: "What is the message?"

Air Raid Sends Iraqis Message, but What Is It?

Update: Helicopters Crashed or Shot Down in Iraq (11/15)
Update: U.S. Soldier Becomes 400th Killed in Iraq (11/15)
U.S. casualties from Iraq war top 9,000 (UPI 11/14)
US-Brit war killed 55,000 Iraqi civilians (Al-Jazeera 11/12)

NY Times -November 14, 2003

BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 13 — After the start of a well-publicized offensive against Iraqi insurgents, American commanders said Thursday that they were intent on sending the rebels "a message."

But here at the site of one of the operation's primary targets, local Iraqis said they were uncertain what that message was supposed to be.

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Japan: No troops for Iraq

Japan Will Delay Troop Deployment in Iraq

ABC -Nov 13, 2003

TOKYO Nov. 13 — The time isn't right for Japan to send troops to Iraq, a government spokesman said Thursday, indicating that the deadly attack on Italian forces the day before may delay a deployment until next year.

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Tony Blair: War Crimes discussed at London School of Economics

Blair could face international court over war conduct

Guardian

Donald MacLeod

Thursday November 6, 2003

Government ministers, including Tony Blair, could potentially face international prosecution for war crimes over the conduct of the war in Iraq, the organiser of a legal debate into the conflict, said today.

International law experts will be picking over the government's legal case for going to war in Iraq and the way the occupation is being conducted at an all-day public debate on Saturday.

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Iraq Situation escalates again, Oilman shot

General Warns Iraqis Attacks Must Stop (Guardian 11/10)

Bremer Sees More Iraq Attacks, Oilman Shot

Reuters -Mon, Nov 10, 2003

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's U.S. governor Paul Bremer predicted on Monday local and foreign fighters would step up violence to stop reconstruction, and a weekend grenade attack killed another U.S. soldier south of Baghdad.

  Bremer told Britain's Times newspaper U.S.-led occupation forces would not be driven out of Iraq because the price of failure was too high for the country and for the Middle East.

"We're going to have increased attacks and increased terrorism because the terrorists can see the reconstruction dynamic is moving in our direction," Bremer said.

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Military Families Against War

Military Families Speak Out Against War

AP/Newsday -November 8, 2003, 4:14 PM EST

By T.A. BADGER

SAN ANTONIO -- Families with husbands, sons and other relatives serving in Iraq gathered in drizzling weather Saturday in this military-dependent city to voice their opposition to the way in which the U.S.-led war is being handled.

"This is how I show my support," said Candance Robison, whose husband, Army 1st Lt. Mike Robison, is serving with the 82nd Airborne Division in Fallujah, Iraq, the heart of anti-American insurgency.

"If my husband got killed and I hadn't done everything I could to bring him home, I'd never forgive myself," said Robison, 27, a mother of two from the Dallas area.

...A CNN-USA Today poll released Thursday found that 54 percent of Americans disapprove of the way President Bush is handling Iraq. The same poll in August found that 57 percent supported the president's performance.

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Armitage: Bush Admin "sobered by the problem" of increased violence

2 U.S. Paratroopers Are Killed in Iraq

AP/ABC -November 8

Insurgents killed two U.S. paratroopers and wounded another west of Baghdad on Saturday as the U.S. military unleashed a show of force in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, rocketing buildings to rubble and dropping 500-pound bombs near the site where a Black Hawk helicopter crashed.

The pre-dawn barrage came hours after the Black Hawk apparently shot down by insurgents exploded in flames in a grassy field just outside Tikrit, a hotbed of anti-American sentiment. Six Americans in the copter died, capping the bloodiest week in Iraq for U.S. forces since the fall of Baghdad.

...Meanwhile, in a setback to efforts at rebuilding in Iraq, the international Red Cross said Saturday it was temporarily closing its offices in Baghdad and the southern city of Basra because of security fears amid mounting attacks on foreigners.

Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage told reporters in Baghdad that the Bush administration was "sobered by the problem" of increased violence.

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Jessica Lynch: Military manipulated her story

Lynch: Military manipulated story

Update: Lynch slams Pentagon rescue film (09/11)
MSNBC -November 8

Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch...:
“They used me as a way to symbolize all this stuff,” she said in an excerpt from the interview, posted Friday on the network’s Web site. “It hurt in a way that people would make up stories that they had no truth about,” she said.

She also said there was no reason for her rescue from an Iraqi hospital to be filmed. “It’s wrong,” she said.

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Peacewatchers: Increased US Air Force in Scotland

Peacewatchers at USAFs witnessing warheads overhead Scotland

Indymedia.org.uk , fairfordpeacewatch.com -November 6

Since Saturday, people in the Highlands of Scotland have been witnessing large movements of US warplanes overhead. Experienced observers say the large numbers are reminiscent of those that preceded the bombing of Iraq in 1998 and military strikes on Libya in the1980's as well as the first Gulf War.

At the weekend warplanes were flying over at a rate of roughly one every 15 minutes. As well as watching them from the ground the plane spotters have also been able to overhear pilots talking by listening to their radio frequencies.

At this rate some 288 warplanes would have passed over Scotland in three days.

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Army Drops Cowardice Charge Against Interrogator

AP/Tribnet -November 6

By ROBERT WELLER

FORT CARSON, Colo. (November 6, 4:09 p.m. PST) - The Army dismissed a cowardice charge but filed another count against an Army interrogator who sought counseling after he saw the body of an Iraqi man cut in half by American fire.

Staff Sgt. Georg-Andreas Pogany was charged with dereliction of duty, according to a statement released Thursday afternoon by Fort Carson officials. A military court hearing set Friday for Pogany was canceled.

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His Name Was Evan Ashcraft

t r u t h o u t | Report

Wednesday 5 November 2003

(Editor's Note | I have received several responses to my last essay, Assassin's History. One, in particular, struck me to stillness. It was from a woman named Jane Bright, who lost her son in Iraq.

His name was Evan Ashcraft, he was 24 years old, and attached to Company A, 1st Battalion, 327th Infantry, of the 101st Airborne Division out of Kentucky. He was killed on July 24 when his convoy came under enemy fire north of Hawd, Iraq.

This is what his mother gave me. She is correct. We have had so much stolen from us with the unnecessary deaths of these fine young men and women. My heart breaks for her, and for all of the families of the lost.

If you are against this war, and yet are tired and discouraged, read of Evan Ashcraft and a life that should have been, and then get back to work.) - William Rivers Pitt

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Iraq to apply to join WTO

News.com.au -November 4

IRAQ will shortly apply for membership to the World Trade Organisation, interim trade minister Ali Allawi said today, prompting a warm response from the WTO.

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