Post Latest Iraq War News Here - Part III

[CrONoS]

UK security sources say they do not believe Saddam Hussein is dead.
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A stray rocket, apparently fired in the war in neighbouring Iraq, killed one person in south-western Iran, the third such case since war began, reports said.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2927125.stm

[CrONoS]

Robert Fisk: The dogs were yelping. They knew bombs were on the way
The dogs always get it right. Every time they start baying, you know that the bombers are coming back. And they yelped and barked as night fell last night. And within 15 minutes, even we humans could hear the rumble of explosions from southern Baghdad

http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=395416

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[CrONoS]

'SADDAM ESCAPED ATTACK'
British intelligence officials believe Saddam Hussein escaped America's devastating bomb attack on a building where the Iraqi leader was thought to be meeting.
They say he may have left minutes before four 2,000lbs obliterated the restaurant in the al-Mansour district of Baghdad.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-12283261,00.html

[CrONoS]

U.K. Forces Committed Mass Killing In Umm Qasr: Iraqis
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The U.K. troops in the Iraqi southern port city of Umm Qasr set up mass graves in the city to cover up hard evidence of committing massacres that claimed the lives of some 200 Iraqis in the first days of the war, unleashed on March 20, eyewitnesses told IslamOnlin.net Tuesday, April 8.

http://www.islam-online.net/english/News/2003-04/08/article20.shtml

[CrONoS]

Two Different Wars!
Changing channels between al-Jazeera television and America's Fox News you might be watching completely different wars.

http://english.daralhayat.com/opinion/09-04-2003/Article-20030409-6f6bdb66-c0a8-01fc-000b-bb61c1a99cec/story.html

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[CrONoS]

PENTAGON THREATENS
TO KILL INDEPENDENT
REPORTERS IN IRAQ
The Pentagon has threatened to fire on the satellite uplink positions of independent journalists in Iraq, according to veteran BBC war correspondent, Kate Adie. In an interview with Irish radio, Ms. Adie said that questioned about the consequences of such potentially fatal actions, a senior Pentagon officer had said: "Who cares.. ..They've been warned."
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Tom McGurk: "...Kate ...sorry Kate ..just to underline that. Sorry to interrupt you. Just to explain for our listeners. Uplinks is where you have your own satellite telephone method of distributing information."
Kate Adie: " The telephones and the television signals."
Tom McGurk: " And they would be fired on? "
Kate Adie: " Yes. They would be 'targeted down,'
said the officer."
Tom McGurk: " Extraordinary ! "

http://www.gulufuture.com/news/kate_adie030310.htm

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Originally posted by cronos_qc
PENTAGON THREATENS
TO KILL INDEPENDENT
REPORTERS IN IRAQ
The Pentagon has threatened to fire on the satellite uplink positions of independent journalists in Iraq, according to veteran BBC war correspondent, Kate Adie. In an interview with Irish radio, Ms. Adie said that questioned about the consequences of such potentially fatal actions, a senior Pentagon officer had said: "Who cares.. ..They've been warned."
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Tom McGurk: "...Kate ...sorry Kate ..just to underline that. Sorry to interrupt you. Just to explain for our listeners. Uplinks is where you have your own satellite telephone method of distributing information."
Kate Adie: " The telephones and the television signals."
Tom McGurk: " And they would be fired on? "
Kate Adie: " Yes. They would be 'targeted down,'
said the officer."
Tom McGurk: " Extraordinary ! "

http://www.gulufuture.com/news/kate_adie030310.htm

That article, by the way, went up on the 10th of March.

In other Iraq war news from that site, SARS is nothing more than a psy-op to make the public more accepting of a war in Iraq..................................

Sure, I'll even link it.

[monkspider]

CNN reports shown to be fraudulent

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1035780543002&call_pageid=970599119419

America on the verge of war with Russia over Iraqi weapons?
American spy planes constantly monitoring massive troop movements.

http://english.pravda.ru/war/2003/03/24/44928.html

[The Mad Monk]

Renewed Fighting Erupts In Baghdad

BAGHDAD, April 9 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - Fighting flared up Wednesday, April 9, around the presidential palace where two U.S. tanks still held a key bridge over the Tigris river.

The Abrams tanks opened fire, artillery pounded out and automatic weapons crackled as U.S. forces moved to counter resistance from an Iraqi position blocking the eastern exit of the Al-Jumhuriya bridge, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).


U.S. troops from the 101st Airborne approach an Iraqi tank near Saddam airport

http://www.islam-online.net/english/news/2003-04/09/article01.shtml

[Ned]

"the war turned out to be difficult on account of the fact that the Russian defense industry delivered anti-tank missiles to Iraq via third countries. As it was said, the Russian defense industry also supplied Iraq with night vision devices, and unique Kolchuga anti-missile systems. The US administration determined that Russia delivered those weapons to Iraq several days before the war was launched."

From the Pravda article quoted by Monkspider. Pravda also calls for the world to unite against America.

[monkspider]

Syria now tops US list for regime change:

http://www.portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/08/wsyria08.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/04/08/ixportal.html

"Smoking Gun" WMD site in Baghdad turns out to be pesticide.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030407/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_war_wmd&cid=1514&ncid=1473

[Kyle]

"Gilligan casts doubt on source of hotel attack":

http://media.guardian.co.uk/iraqandthemedia/story/0,12823,932481,00.html

[Ned]

Al Jazeera "finally" reports on jubilation of the Iraqi people:

"The scenes in the Iraqi capital were chaotic. Jubilant Iraqis welcomed advancing US forces in Baghdad while rampaging looters attacked symbols of Saddam Hussein’s power.



Residents threw flowers at the armoured column as it swept past, just three kilometres east of the central Jumhuriyya Bridge over the Tigris river. Joy at the apparent removal of Saddam Hussein was tangible, with one man beating a canvas portrait of him with his slipper.



Crowds threw flowers at the Marines as they drove past the Martyrs' Monument, just three km (two miles) east of the central Jumhuriya Bridge over the river Tigris.



"No more Saddam Hussein," chanted one group, waving to troops as they passed. "We love you, we love you." One young man ran alongside a Marine armoured personnel carrier trying to hand over a heavy belt of ammunition. An older man made a wild kicking gesture with his foot, saying "Goodbye Saddam".



Women waved from balconies, girls threw flower petals at young Marines leaning across gun turrets. One woman held her baby aloft. Tank crews picked the flowers from the tops of their fighting machines, smelt them and grinned. Crowds of Shia men beat their chests in the streets."

http://english.aljazeera.net/topics/article.asp?cu_no=1&item_no=2246&version=1&template_id=277&parent_id=258

[Chilean President™]

Fatal error in attack against hotel in Bagdad has been verified.

Reporters who lodge in the enclosure deny version of the U.S.A. that said that the tank responded to the fire of snipers.

Dramatic images toked by the French television shows the moment in which a North American tank shoots against the Palestine Hotel, in Baghdad, where the foreign press that covers the war lodges.

In the first photography it is possible to see clearly when the tank aims in the direction of the Palestine Hotel. Two minutes later the armored vehicle open fire.

[Ned]

al Jazeera, quoting Lebanese TV, says Saddam is at Russian embassy.

http://english.aljazeera.net/topics/article.asp?cu_no=1&item_no=2209&version=1&template_id=263&parent_id=258