I received this, para 3 on, overnight. One specific thing that I noticed on the BBC is that when the city of Basra is mentioned it is virtually always in the context of the need for humanitarian aid/water/food , and military spokesmen keep referring to the likelihood, and encouragement for an uprising in the city against the Saddam government.
I have yet to see any UK based media state come out with what seems to be the accurate reflection of what is happening..., that Basra is under siege by US/UK forces, that the water supplies were cut by US/UK military action, and that the full intention thereafter by US/UK is to compress the population into revolt. >Thursday 27.03.03 > >Here is a short update on the war. > The UK media have been largely taken over by war propaganda which contains an indeterminate amount of straightforward lies. This is the site with the military news from the Iraqi side, it is getting millions of hits: http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news076.htm Other sites independent of the US/UK disinformation system are: www.wsws.org http://www.rense.com WhatReallyHappened.com Al Jazeera, the station run by ex-BBC employees broadcasts out of pro-war Qatar, now host to the Blair/Bush attack. They show pictures banned in the US/UK media of civilian casualties and have exposed the more obvious US/UK lies. http://www.aljazeerah.info/ WAR UPDATE The Bush/Blair forces are facing fierce resistance from all Iraqis including Shias, so far the Republican Guard has hardly been engaged. The supply lines are overstretched and the possibility of a damaging Iraqi counter-attack is looming. Battles are raging all over Southern Iraq and nobody except the respective military commands has the full picture. The official casualty figures are almost certainly false, the US/UK deaths and serious injuries are probably running into the hundreds. Dozens if not scores of vehicles are lost and many hitech systems are not withstanding the desert conditions. The Iraqis have evolved tactics to overcome some of the technical US/UK superiority and there is fury from US/UK that they have acquired communications and night vision technology which should have been banned by sanctions. As well as lying about casualties, US/UK are lying about damage to civilian targets which have probably caused hundreds of deaths and serious injuries by now. There is a complicity here with the Iraqi regime which also wishes to understate civilian casualties so as to maintain morale. The most spectacular lie was over the `insurrection` in Basra, carried as fact in all the UK newspapers except The Guardian and the Mirror where coverage has remained reasonably objective. The `insurrection` was probably concocted to distract from the real story: that the US/UK invaders are blockading the city and have interfered with water and electricity supplies, creating a massive humanitarian crisis there. Promotinmg this lie on BBC Radio 4 a military PR officer spent some time explaining that this was a war of liberation and went on to tell interviewer Nick Clarke that Basra would soon be `captured - I mean liberated`. If as appears the US/UK invaders are already running low on precision weaponry they may resort to indiscriminate bombardment and lie about it, as happened in the 1991 war. The pattern was repeated again in Kossovo where a war promoted by Blair to teach Milosovic a lesson caused a massive humanitarian crisis and was escalated to a criminal bombing campaign against civilian targets. At one point NATO falsified film footage to excuse an attack on a civilian train. The 1991 Iraq war ended when US pilots destroyed two large convoys fleeing Kuwait, killing thousands of Iraqi military and civilians along with their Kuwaiti hostages. Then the attackers had the cover of a large coalition of complicit states. If US/UK forces conduct similar atrocities this time the war could escalate. It is now clear that Bush/Blair have made a horrendous strategic error in assuming the Iraqis won't fight, a similar error to that made by Hitler in his attack on Russia. Many arabs are optimistic that Baghdad could prove to be Bush/Blair's Stalingrad. If Iraq holds out for long there will certainly be renewed moves against US/UK in the UN which will make it clearer than ever that the attacks are illegal. In the UK, opinion polls are claiming a swing back to support for Blair who plans to promote himself again as Mr Nice and blame all the problems on Bush. UK citizens are some of the most gullible in the world: egged on by the pro-war media, a section feel that `our` troops should be supported right or wrong once the war has started. This will not survive a military failure. The anti-war movement should concentrate on Blair as much as the war, reminding everyone that he got us into this. Finally, here is a report which certainly does not fit the official story: Arab TV Crew Says Found 40 Dead US Soldiers The following appeared in the letters section of WhatReallyHappened.com 3-26-3 "Sanwa ata Mosahra reporting. A film crew from al-Minar TV, a television network of Lebanon, stumbled across the bodies of about 40 US soldiers scattered in the desert outside Maseriah. Ali Fawsua a camera man for al-Minar said "It was obvious the soldiers had been in a major battle as there was empty ammunition casing everywhere". "We searched around but could not find any dead Iraqi soldiers and must be thinking they took their dead and injured away from the battle" he added. "We called on our satellite phone to our base camp and told them what we had found and they told the Americans where we were located". "Soon some American helicopters came to us and the Americans took all our camera and recording equipment and smashed it. They told us to leave the area and say nothing of this finding". 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