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April 7, 2003 - 2:29pm -- Uncle Fluffy
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In the Streets

Um and Uh writes "This from the People's Law Collective:
http://nycplc.mahost.org/updates.htm

We have reports of 107 people arrested at the Carlyle Group. These include folks who
were simply swept-off the sidewalk by cops and undercovers and were not
participating in civil disobedience.

As of 1 pm we have information that they were all taken to 1 Police Plaza - follow
the link above for a map to 1 Police Plaza.

To support the arrestees at 1 PP you should plan to go there around 5 - 6 pm.
Usually folks get released from the back of 1 PP, at the end of Park Row. Go to PLC
website for release and support rally updates."

April 4, 2003 - 11:53am -- jim
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John Fisk writes:

SADDAM HUSSEIN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT - So where are

the Americans? I

prowled the empty departure lounges, mooched through

the abandoned

customs department, chatted to the seven armed militia

guards, met the

airport director and stood beside the runways where

two dust-covered Iraqi

Airways passenger jets -- an old 727 and an even more

elderly Antonov --

stood forlornly on the runway not far from an equally

decrepit military

helicopter.

April 2, 2003 - 10:30am -- hydrarchist
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Health

Louis Lingg writes:

"The New York Daily News has posted a story about the US Army's effort to jumpstart a free-market economy in Iraq.

By RICHARD SISK

DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

UMM QASR, Iraq - The U.S. military came up with a solution yesterday for the penniless people of this port town begging for water: Sell it.

April 1, 2003 - 10:20am -- hydrarchist
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nolympics writes:

Israelis trained US troops in Jenin-style urban warfare
The Independent( London)

By Justin Huggler in Amman

29 March 2003

The American military has been asking the Israeli army for advice on
fighting inside cities, and studying fighting in the West Bank city of Jenin
last April, unnamed United States and Israeli sources have confirmed.
Reports that US troops trained with Israeli forces for street-to-street
fighting have been denied. If the US army believes the road to Baghdad lies
through Jenin, there is reason for Iraqi civilians to be concerned.

March 31, 2003 - 2:17am -- Stenglander
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Culture

Anonymous Comrade writes: Found this story at www.delawareonline.com/:

New military mortuary being built

Dover Air Force Base facility will be state-of-the-art and larger

By BETH MILLER Staff reporter 03/29/2003

Construction should be completed by June at Dover Air Force Base's new $20 million mortuary, and Army Corps of Engineers officials led a tour through the facility Friday to reveal some of the enhancements it will provide for the military's largest such operation.

As they steered guests through what will be hospital-quality radiology units, autopsy and embalming facilities, workers at the old Charles C. Carson Center for Mortuary Affairs nearby were preparing to receive more remains from the war in Iraq.

March 28, 2003 - 10:50am -- hydrarchist
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In the Streets

Anonymous Comrade writes:

The pie-throwing flan-archists of the Biotic Baking Brigade have struck
again, this time targeting a corporate media reporter responsible for spewing
misinformation about the massive anti-war protests in San Francisco.

March 26, 2003 - 9:16pm -- jim
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Mainstream Media

Anonymous Comrade writes

"Bush Backer Sponsoring Pro-War Rallies"


Oliver Burkeman in Washington, The Guardian

Wednesday March 26, 2003




They look like spontaneous expressions of pro-war sentiment, "patriotic rallies" drawing crowds of tens of thousands across the American heartland.



In a counterpoint to anti-war demonstrations, supporters of war in Iraq have

descended on cities from Fort Wayne to Cleveland, and Atlanta to

Philadelphia. They wave flags, messages of support for the troops - and also

banners attacking liberals, excoriating the UN, and in one case, advising:

"Bomb France Now."



But many of the rallies, it turns out, have been organised and paid for by

Clear Channel Inc - the country's largest radio conglomerate, owning 1,200

stations - which is not only reporting on the war at the same time, but

whose close links with President Bush stretch back to his earliest,

much-criticised financial dealings as governor of Texas. The company has

paid advertising costs and for the hire of musicians for the rallies.

March 26, 2003 - 4:08pm -- jim
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Mainstream Media

hydrarchist writes:

"Live From Iraq, an Un-Embedded Journalist:

Robert Fisk on Washington's 'Quagmire' in Iraq, Civilian Deaths and the Fallacy of Bush's 'War of Liberation' "


By Robert Fisk, Amy Goodman and Jeremy Scahill

http://www.democracynow.org/fisk.htm


NOTE: THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT


DEMOCRACY NOW! MARCH 25, 2003

Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! Host: Set the scene for us in Baghdad right now.


Robert Fisk, The Independent: Well, it?s been a relatively?relatively being the word?quiet night, there?s been quite a lot of explosions about an hour ago. There have obviously been an awful lot of missiles arriving on some target, but I would say it was about 4 or 5 miles away. You can hear the change in air pressure and you can hear this long, low rumble like drums or like someone banging on a drum deep beneath the ground, but quite a ways away. There have only been 2 or 3 explosions near the center of the city, which is where I am, in the last 12 hours. So, I suppose you could say that, comparatively, to anyone living in central Baghdad, it?s been a quiet night.

March 24, 2003 - 8:58pm -- Uncle Fluffy
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The State

lazosubverto writes:

"Anglo-American Lies Exposed"

Robert Fisk in Baghdad -- 24 March 2003, The Independent

So far, the Anglo-American armies are handing their propaganda to the Iraqis on a plate. First, on Saturday, we were told -- courtesy of the BBC -- that Umm Qasr, the tiny Iraqi seaport on the Gulf, had "fallen". Why cities have to "fall" on the BBC is a mystery to me; the phrase comes from the Middle Ages when city walls literally collapsed under siege. Then we were told -- again on the BBC -- that Nassariyah had been captured. Then its "embedded" correspondent informed us -- and here my old journalistic suspicions were alerted -- that it had been "secured". "Embedded" reporters are those traveling with the American or British forces -- and who are now subject to a censorship that is willfully misleading the BBC's listeners, not just in Britain but all over the world.

March 24, 2003 - 8:11pm -- hydrarchist
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Independent Media

Ben_Meyers writes "From the web site YellowTimes.org :

Pictures of U.S. POWs and Iraqi civilian casualties [on the Yellow Times web site] have been censored by our hosting provider. Therefore, we cannot show these pictures. They
also forced us to remove pictures of Iraqi casualties.


Our site was shut down for an hour until we removed the pictures. You can see the pictures at our affiliate site here:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0303/S00212 .htm


To see why we were
shut down, visit this URL: http://www.yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=1204


To explain why we decided to show these pictures early Sunday morning
before they were up elsewhere, visit this URL:
http://www.yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=1203

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