Iraq, overseas April 2003

Stop killing the people of Iraq

Overseas, April 2003

Jay Garner: Americans Should Beat Chests with Pride, Reuters, 30 April 2003
US Tells Iraq Oil Ministers Not to Act Without Its OK, Sabrina Tavernise, 30 April 2003
America Signs Deal with Terror Group, Tim Reid and Michael Theodoulou, 30 April 2003
General Franks may face war crimes charge - Belgium under pressure to amend law allowing case to proceed, Ian Black, 30 April 2003
BP denies seeking Iraq help from Blair, Terry Macalister, 30 April 2003
The gaping hole in Iraq - Occupation has brought social collapse, Bloody Sunday shootings and the waking of a Shi'ite giant, Jonathan Freedland, 30 April 2003
Donald Rumsfeld's address to the Iraqi people, 30 April 2003
US pulls out of Saudi Arabia to end grievance fuelling radical Islam, Rupert Cornwell, 30 April 2003
US troops open fire again on Fallujah crowd, Charles J Hanley, 30 April 2003
Where's The Pretext? Robert Jensen, 30 April 2003
Wars of Terror, Noam Chomsky, 30 April 2003
UN opens new food corridor into Iraq but dirty water threatens 'potential calamity', UN News, 29 April 2003
Iraqis agree to form government within weeks, Phil Reeves and Rupert Cornwell, 29 April 2003
'Many killed' after US soldiers fire on demonstrators, AP, 29 April 2003
Killings At Falluja - the BBC tells one side of the story, David Edwards, 29 April 2003
Grace News - Christian fundamentalists to run Iraqi TV, Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman, 28 April 2003
'Basket case' Marconi spearheads British drive for Baghdad deals, Oliver Morgan, 27 April 2003
Six die as Baghdad weapons dump is blown up, Andrew Buncombe, 27 April 2003
Revealed: How the road to war was paved with lies - Intelligence agencies accuse Bush and Blair of distorting and fabricating evidence in rush to war, Raymond Whitaker, 27 April 2003
Corporate Media and Homeland Security Move Towards Total Information Control, Peter Phillips, 26 April 2003
Would-be US looters foiled by their own incompetence, Andrew Gumbel, 26 April 2003
UN heads for new rift over Iraq role, Julian Borger, 26 April 2003
I looked into the future in Iraq, and it wore a long black veil, Fergal Keane, 26 April 2003
Did the US murder these journalists? Robert Fisk, 26 April 2003
Bush on a revenge mission, Rupert Cornwell, 26 April 2003
Anti-US Protests After Iraqi Arms Dump Carnage, Nadim Ladki, 26 April 2003
American to oversee Iraqi oil industry, David Teather, 26 April 2003
Unexploded ordnance killing dozens in north, IRIN, 25 April 2003
The building world boycott of the US - Eminent physicist refuses to review American colleagues' papers, Daniel Amit, 25 April 2003
Uranium hazard prompts cancer check on troops - MoD heeds warning from scientists despite reassurances from Hoon on radiation risk, Paul Brown, 25 April 2005
UN need not join in hunt for weapons says Hoon, Independent, 25 April 2003
Journalism is rotting away: something deeply corrupt is consuming journalism. A war so one-sided it was hardly a war was reported like a Formula One race, as the teams sped to the chequered flag in Baghdad, John Pilger, 25 April 2003
Dyke attacks American media networks for 'gung-ho' coverage of Gulf conflict, Ian Burrell, 25 April 2003
Burger philosophy to quick fix Iraq's education system, Jan Oberg, 24 April 2003
The war has not ended - in the aftermath of the Iraq conflict, the world's media have focused on the plight of Ali Ismail Abbas, who lost his arms to American bombs; but he is by no means the only victim, Phil Reeves, 24 April 2003
Mr. President - please attack Appalachia, Mike Bryan, 24 April 2003
Children held at Guantanamo Bay, Oliver Burkeman, 24 April 2003
Brutal Treatment of Young Prisoners Isn't Restricted to Iraq, Stephen Hume, 24 April 2003
Defence Secretary flies in as the British Army prepares to pull out, Donald Macintyre, 24 April 2003
Bush warns Tehran to keep out of Iraq's Shia strongholds, Rupert Cornwell, 24 April 2003
US firm wins contract to purge Saddam from schools, David Usborne, 23 April 2003
Hans Blix vs the US: 'I was undermined', David Usborne, 23 April 2003
Americans accused of turning blind eye to killings by Kurds, Kim Sengupta, 23 April 2003
An Anti-Colonial War Against The Americans May Have Already Begun - an interview with Robert Fisk, Robert Fisk and Amy Goodman, 22 April 2003
UN relief agencies report slow improvement in Iraq, but situation still 'precarious', UN News, 22 April 2003
UN aid programme identifies a further $60 million in priority deliveries for Iraq, UN News, 22 April 2003
Chalabi's men shot dead by American Marines, Phil Reeves, 22 April 2003
Blix makes case for return of UN weapons inspectors to Iraq, UN News, 22 April 2003
US wants permanent access to military bases in post-war Iraq, Donald Macintyre, 21 April 2003
UN relief agencies laud dedication of Iraqi health workers, UN News, 21 April 2003
This occupation is a disaster: the US must leave - and fast. Any gratitude for the removal of Saddam is now virtually exhausted, Jonathan Steele, 21 April 2003
Tank captain admits firing on media hotel, Giles Tremlett, 21 April 2003
Pope puts pressure on US, Owen Bowcott, 21 April 2003
How American power girds the globe with a ring of steel - new bases take Pentagon's armed presence far and wide, Ian Traynor, 21 April 2003
Hollywood revives McCarthyist climate by silencing and sacking war critics, Andrew Gumbel, 21 April 2003
Government may block inquiry into Iraqi arms, Andrew Grice, 21 April 2003
Ba'athists slip quietly back into control, Suzanne Goldenberg, 21 April 2003
The unthinkable is becoming normal. Do not forget the horror - the saving of one little boy must not be a cover for the crime of this war, John Pilger, 20 April 2003
Israel seeks pipeline for Iraqi oil - US discusses plan to pump fuel to its regional ally and solve energy headache at a stroke, Ed Vuillamy, 20 April 2003
Hans Blix steps up pressure to allow inspectors back in, Andrew Gumbel, 20 April 2003
Give us back our democracy - Americans have been cheated and lied to on matters of the gravest constitutional importance, Edward Said, 20 April 2003
Food aid reaches Baghdad but US blocks relief in north, Kim Sengupta, 20 April 2003
Bush and Blair and the Big Lie, Eric Margolis, 20 April 2003
Toward democracy - for Iraq, women are the key, Noeleen Heyzer, 19 April 2003
Republican-friendly Bechtel wins $680m Iraq contract, Andrew Gumbel, 19 April 2003
Protesters call for 'army of occupation' to quit Iraq, Kim Sengupta, 19 April 2003
A dangerous groundswell of resentment is building up on the streets of Baghdad, Fergal Keane, 19 April 2003
'They did the destroying. So why can't they get everything working again?', Kim Sengupta, 19 April 2003
$20bn for war and now a $2bn monthly bill, Rupert Cornwell, 18 April 2003
Scientists urge shell clear-up to protect civilians - Royal Society spells out dangers of depleted uranium, Paul Brown, 17 April 2003
US said to 'care more about Iraqi oil than its people', Terry Kirby, 17 April 2003
Signs of hope amid 'horrible' picture in Baghdad UN local staff say, UN News, 17 April 2003
Radical relives horror of regime's most feared prison - Shia dissident who refused to fight spent 17 years in jails that were the scene of torture, beatings and executions, Suzanne Goldenberg, 17 April 2003
Police fire tear gas in clashes with anti-war protesters, Daniel Howden, 17 April 2003
Iraqis only count if they're dancing in the street, Mark Steel, 17 April 2003
For the people on the streets, this is not liberation but a new colonial oppression - America's war of 'liberation' may be over; but Iraq's war of liberation from the Americans is just about to begin, Robert Fisk, 17 April 2003
UNICEF staff in Baghdad warn that humanitarian situation is "horrible", UNICEF, 17 April 2003
US troops accused of carnage, SMH, 16 April 2003
US bans media from protests, AFP, 16 April 2003
Hearts and Minds: Aid and reconstruction in Iraq, CASI briefing, 16 April 2003
Special analysis: Iraq has fallen; Saddam is deposed - but, after 27 days of war, little else is resolved, Independent, 16 April 2003
American soldiers fire on political rally killing at least 10 civilians, Patrick Cockburn, 16 April 2003
Would President Assad invite a cruise missile to his palace? Robert Fisk, 15 April 2003
Library books, letters and priceless documents are set ablaze in final chapter of the sacking of Baghdad, Robert Fisk, 15 April 2003
US rejects Iraq DU clean-up, Alex Kirby, 14 April 2003
Bomb before you buy - what is being planned in Iraq is not reconstruction but robbery, Naomi Klein, 14 April 2003
Saddam is airbrushed out by the city that bore his name, Robert Fisk, 14 April 2003
Cheering crowds don't make an unjust war right, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, 14 April 2003
Americans defend two untouchable ministries from the hordes of looters, Robert Fisk, 14 April 2003
Analysis: Poverty and despair behind Iraq's ethnic violence, Patrick Cockburn, 14 April 2003
Refugees to get �3,000 to go home, Peter Beaumont, 13 April 2003
Syria could be next warns Washington, Ed Vulliamy, 13 April 2003
Scandal-hit US firm wins key contracts - a US military contractor accused of human rights violations has won a multi-million-dollar contract to police post-Saddam Iraq, Antony Barnett, 13 April 2003
Peace marchers remain defiant, Euan Ferguson, 13 April 2003
Peace campaigners grieve for Iraqis, Simon O'Hagan, 13 April 2003
America targeted 14,000 sites - so where are the weapons of mass destruction? Andrew Gumbel, 13 April 2003
A civilisation torn to pieces - Baghdad is a city at war with itself, at the mercy of thieves and gunmen; and, in the city's most important museum, something truly terrible has taken place, Robert Fisk, 13 April 2003
More bloodlust than a real war, Alan Ramsey, 12 April 2003
Images of war and medical ethics - Physicians should not permit filming of their patients without consent, BMJ Editorial, 12 April 2003
Fighting 'terrorism' with torture, BMJ Editorial, 12 April 2003
Who is to blame for the collapse in morality that followed the 'liberation'? Robert Fisk, 12 April 2003
Where Now, America? Ramzi Kysia, 12 April 2003
The hell that once was a hospital, Suzanne Goldenberg, 12 April 2003
Splits over war blight efforts to fund $100bn repair operation, Rupert Cornwell, 12 April 2003
I sat on Saddam's throne and surveyed the dark chamber where terror was dispensed, Robert Fisk, 12 April 2003
Frenzy over Ali, but there are thousands of children like him, Kim Sengupta, 12 April 2003
Flames engulf the symbols of power, Robert Fisk, 12 April 2003
Children of the war - words and pictures by Dan Chung, 12 April 2003
A city in flames - A nation in chaos, Andrew Buncombe and John Lichfield, 12 April 2003
US hits stumbling block in attempts to build interim government involving Ahmed Chalabi, Rupert Cornwell, 11 April 2003
Rampaging mobs ransack the city, James Meek, Suzanne Goldenberg, Jonathan Steele, Burhan Wazir and Jamie Wilson, 11 April 2003
It may be years before the US and Britain know what they have unleashed in Iraq, Independent Editorial, 11 April 2003
Bodies line the route to the palace of fear, Suzanne Goldenberg, 11 April 2003
Baghdad: the day after - arson, anarchy, fear, hatred, hysteria, looting, revenge, savagery, suspicion and a suicide bombing, Robert Fisk, 11 April 2003
Final proof that war is about the failure of the human spirit, Robert Fisk, 10 April 2003
Crime against humanity - they have blown off the limbs of women and the scalps of children; their victims overwhelm the morgues and flood into hospitals that lack even aspirin, John Pilger, 10 April 2003
A day that began with shellfire ended with a once-oppressed people walking like giants, Robert Fisk, 10 April 2003
Red Cross suspends delivery of aid after attacks, Cahal Milmo, 10 April 2003
Knock it down, then build it back up again - it's like undertakers burning down a house, then squabbling about who gets to make the coffins, Mark Steel, 10 April 2003
Arab world dismayed at 'new colonialism', Justin Huggler, 10 April 2003
Embedded, enthusiastic and un-encumbered by truth - Torie Clarke, former Hill and Knowlton exec, manages vast Pentagon spin machine, Bill Berkowitz, 9 April 2003
Dyncorp Rent-a-Cops May Head to Post-Saddam Iraq, Pratap Chatterjee, 9 April 2003
The dogs were yelping. They knew bombs were on the way - Day 20 of America's war for the 'liberation' of Iraq was another day of fire, pain and death, Robert Fisk, 9 April 2003
Surgeons using headache pills instead of anaesthetic, Cahal Milmo and Andrew Buncombe, 9 April 2003
Press Watchdogs Protest US Killings of Journalists in Baghdad, Jim Lobe, 9 April 2003
Is there some element in the US military that wants to take out journalists? Robert Fisk, 9 April 2003
Iraq Humanitarian Crisis Verging on Catastrophe - ill-supplied nation faces 'a huge problem like you have never seen', Todd Richissin, 9 April 2003
Humanitarian crisis looms in Iraq because of breakdown of law and order, UN News, 9 April 2003
Coalition Forces Hold 7,300 Prisoners, AP, 9 April 2003
Bush and Blair try to end dispute over UN, saying it will play vital post-war role, David McKittrick and Paul Waugh, 9 April 2003
Baghdad slips into lawlessness as its defences crumble, Andrew Buncombe, 9 April 2003
Baghdad hospitals pushed to the limit - supply of drugs and water run low, Owen Bowcott, 9 April 2003
Afghanistan was not a triumph, but a warning - the US has exercised imperial power with no intention of accepting imperial responsibiities, Philip Hensher, 9 April 2003
'UN is crucial to rebuilding of Iraq' - Extracts from the Blair-Bush statement on Iraq issued after the summit, Guardian, 9 April 2003
'A picture of killing inflicted on a sprawling city - and it grew more unbearable by the minute', Suzanne Goldenberg, 9 April 2003
Gulf War Syndrome, The Sequel - 'People Are Sick Over There Already', Steven Rosenfeld, 8 April 2003
Victory is in sight, but so many enemies remain - Iraqis are exhausted by years of war and deprivation, and the US must ensure they face a brighter future, but the omens are not good, Patrick Cockburn, 8 April 2003
It seemed as if Baghdad would fall within hours, but the day was characterised by crazed normality, high farce and death, Robert Fisk, 8 April 2003
The twisted language of war that is used to justify the unjustifiable, Robert Fisk, 7 April 2003
Simpson: 'This is like a scene from hell. There are bodies all around', Independent, 7 April 2003
Hollywood's scriptwriters are already at work - the new versions of 'Bravo Two Zero' will also take account that this is a new kind of caring war, Terence Blacker, 8 April 2003
Chemical hypocrites - as it struggles to justify its invasion, the US is getting ready to use banned weapons in Iraq, George Monbiot, 8 April 2003
Amid Allied jubilation, a child lies in agony, clothes soaked in blood, Robert Fisk, 8 April 2003
UN aid agencies paint grim picture of massive relief tasks in Iraq, UN News, 7 April 2003
The Allied grip tightens on Baghdad - on the streets, grim evidence of a bloody battle, Robert Fisk, 7 April 2003
Police Attack California Anti-War Protesters, Martha Mendoza, 7 April 2003
Baghdad doctors overwhelmed by arrival of 100 patients an hour, Paul Peachey, 7 April 2003
The arms lessons that we never learn - as questions are raised over British military equipment being sold to Syria, why do the lessons of the arms to Iraq affair seem so difficult to grasp, Richard Bingley, 6 April 2003
We now glimpse the forbidden truths of the invasion of Iraq, John Pilger, 6 April 2003
We see too much. We know too much. That's our best defence, John Pilger, 6 April 2003
War Provides Cover for a Fresh Israeli Crackdown - while the world focuses on Iraq, 17 Palestinians have been killed and more than 1000 detained as Israeli forces step up 'anti-terrorism' raids, Robert Tait, 6 April 2003
US begins the process of 'regime change', Ed Vulliamy and Kamal Ahmed, 6 April 2003
US accused of hypocrisy on human rights - State Department reveals double standards in annual global assessment of government treatment of citizens, Andrew Gumbel, 6 April 2003
The Checkered Past of US Firms in the Frame - Cronies Set to Make a Killing, Oliver Morgan and Ed Vulliamy, 6 April 2003
The Battle of Baghdad - 'Ever so slowly, the suburbs were turned into battlefields', Robert Fisk, 6 April 2003
Russian diplomatic convoy attacked in Iraq, Guardian Staff and Agencies, 6 April 2003
Red Cross: Iraq Casualties Too High to Count, AP, 6 April 2003
No excuse, says US military - but no action taken against 'cowboy' pilot, Rupert Cornwell, 6 April 2003
Kurdish fighters hit in latest 'friendly fire' tragedy, AP, 6 April 2003
Disarmament in Tatters - US Undermined Arms Control System That Was Already Deadlocked, James Sterngold, 6 April 2003
Bush and Blair to discuss UN role in post-war Baghdad, Andy McSmith, 6 April 2003
Aftershock - What happens when the fighting stops? Will the war really bring peace to Iraq or will the conflict tip the Middle East into chaos? Patrick Cockburn, 6 April 2003
After the first Gulf War they vowed it would never happen again. It has. Why? Jo Dillon and Raymond Whitaker, 6 April 2003
Turning a blind eye to the war, Richard Smith, 5 April 2003
Questions remain over lack of UN role in humanitarian aid in Iraq, Sally Hargreaves, 5 April 2003
The war for truth, John Pilger, 5 April 2003
Where were the panicking crowds? Where were the food queues? Where were the empty streets? Robert Fisk, 5 April 2003
US Marines 'kill seven Iraqis after truck fails to stop', Andrew Clennell, 5 April 2003
Umm Qasr is miserable and not under control. It's like the Wild West - the cans and buckets are empty and people are desperate, Patrick Nicholson, 5 April 2003
Troops to hand out leaflets explaining Blair's plan for Iraq, Ben Russell, 5 April 2003
The toll of a war that has taken Allies to the gates of Baghdad, Independent, 5 April 2003
Saddam appears on TV ambling through streets, Robert Fisk, 5 April 2003
This is proclaimed as a just war- so why are cluster bombs being used? Indepndent, 4 April 2003
These weapons may win the war, but leave a deadly legacy, Christopher Bellamy, 4 April 2003
The ministry of mendacity strikes again, Robert Fisk, 4 April 2003
Geoff Hoon, Robert Fisk and reporting the truth, Independent, 4 April 2003
Complexities of war the minister chose to ignore, Nigel Morris and Paul Waugh, 4 April 2003
'Liberated' city where looters run wild and death stalks the streets, Andrew Buncombe, 4 April 2003
Practice to Deceive: Chaos in the Middle East is not the Bush hawks' nightmare scenario - it's their plan, Joshua Micah Marshall, 3 April 2003
Red Crescent maternity hospital damaged in attack, IFRC, 3 April 2003
Would there have been this war if there was true equality for women? Even when women get to carry out orders, that doesn't mean that they are orders women have participated in forging, Natasha Walter, 3 April 2003
Wailing children, the wounded, the dead: victims of the day cluster bombs rained on Babylon, Robert Fisk, 3 April 2003
The minute it's made up, you'll hear about it ... Ah yes, that chemical weapons factory that turned out to be an all-night petrol garage, Mark Steel, 3 April 2003
Security Council voices concern over access by Iraqis to relief supplies, UN News, 3 April 2003
Saddam's masters of concealment dig in, ready for battle, Robert Fisk, 3 April 2003
No immediate prospect for Iraq ceasefire - Kofi Annan, UN News, 3 April 2003
Poor pay with their lives in cratered suburbia, Suzanne Goldenberg, 3 April 2003
Families denounce US tank attack, George Wright and Agencies, 3 April 2003
US Probes Claims of Civilian War Deaths, Guardian, 3 April 2003
Allies 'destroy' Republican Guard force in pincer move on Baghdad, Donald Macintyre, 3 April 2003
Satellites provide vital reconnaissance, communications to war effort, Michael Woods, 2 April 2003
Baghdad hospital bombed, Simon Jeffery and Agencies, 2 April 2003
Bush Approves Use of Tear Gas in Battlefield - Weapons experts fear violation of law, Nicholas Wade and Eric Schmitt, 2 April 2003
Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates - how many children, in how many classrooms, over how many centuries, have hang-glided through the past, transported on the wings of these words? And now the bombs are falling, incinerating and humiliating that ancient civilization, Arundhati Roy, 2 April 2003
US Uses Cluster Bombs - Military Criticized for Type of Ordnance, John Donnelly and Robert Schlesinger, 2 April 2003
UK proposes Iraqi 'loya jirga' should select leaders for future, Ben Russell and Marie Woolf, 2 April 2003
The proof: marketplace deaths were caused by a US missile, Cahal Milmo, 2 April 2003
Tension between forces over the question of heavy-handedness, Terry Kirby, 2 April 2003
Read The Small Print - The Us Wants To Privatise Iraq's Oil, Jonathan Steele, 2 April 2003
Powell flies to Ankara to seek Turkish support for war effort, Stephen Castle, 2 April 2003
Polls show support for Blair depends on finding banned arms, John Curtice, 2 April 2003
Iraq is a trial run - Chomsky interviewed by Frontline, Noam Chomsky and VK Ramachandran, 2 April 2003
I am angry and ashamed to be British, Jemima Khan, 2 April 2003
Final countdown for Baghdad, Donald Macintyre and Robert Fisk, 2 April 2003
Day 13: Deadly firefights in Iraq, political skirmishes in London - and the bombs keep falling on Baghdad, Paul Vallely, 2 April 2003
Cows and armed guards on a college campus - where is the truth amid all this subterfuge? Robert Fisk, 2 April 2003
Civilian deaths occur in war - but that is no excuse for needless belligerence, Independent, 2 April 2003
Children killed and maimed in bomb attack on town, Robert Fisk and Justin Huggler, 2 April 2003
Allies are failing to win over Iraqi public senior officer admits, Donald Macintyre, 2 April 2003
'A war like none before' is turning out to be all too familiar, Christopher Bellamy, 2 April 2003
It will end in disaster - the US and British governments have dragged us into a mess that will last for years, George Monbiot, 1 April 2003
Survivors slam friendly-fire 'cowboy' - U.S. aircraft attack kills British soldier, highlights tension between coalition allies, Alan Freeman, 1 April 2003
Civilian deaths 'unavoidable': Pentagon - A detained Iraqi, hooded with a sandbag, comforts his four-year-old son, Globe and Mail, 1 April 2003
Iraq's reconstruction and the US interest, Globa and Mail Editorial, 1 April 2003
US Deal to Sell Water All Wet Critics Charge, Richard Sisk, 1 April 2003
US Military Detains, Beats and Threatens to Kill Four Foreign Journalists in Iraq, Interview with Israeli reporter Dan Scemama, 1 April 2003
US troops kill seven women and children at checkpoint, another civilian killed as troops fire on truck speeding towards another roadblock, Rupert Cornwell, 1 April 2003
The monster of Baghdad is now the hero of Arabia - this is now a nationalist war against the most obvious kind of imperial power, Robert Fisk, 1 April 2003
The damage we are doing to our relations with the Middle East could last a generation, Independent, 1 April 2003
Powell flies out with a post-war warning for Syria and Iran, Rupert Cornwell, 1 April 2003
No Way Out, George Monbiot, 1 April 2003
Militiamen may be imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Paul Waugh and Donald Macintyre, 1 April 2003
Iraq is littered with graves of Britons killed in another colonial war, Robert Fisk, 1 April 2003
If everyone falls into line, who will ask the questions that need asking? Robin Cook may have cut an odd figure, but the really odd thing was that the responses to his call for withdrawal were so deluded, Deborah Orr, 1 April 2003
Blair article seeks to allay fears of the Arab world, Marie Woolf, 1 April 2003

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