On Mon, 3 May 2004 06:11:04 -0700 (PDT), Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am willing to make a bet that no report of this, or > anything like it, will show up in the supposedly > "independent" news sources that you two rely on. Yes, I like the internet you can get the reports from all sides. That was an interesting report from a Green Zone. The soccer field is somewhere in neighborhood 76 on this map. You can �blow this up (a bad choice of words) about 8 times and still get detail. http://www.humanitarianinfo.org/iraq/maps/280a%20A4%20Baghdad%20districts%20neighbourh%20300dpi.pdf I try to balance Green zone reports with reports from the Red Zones. For example, this report translates Arab news reports:of the "Iraqi resistance against the American aggressors". Even less likely �to appear on the news. US Marine reacts with hysterical joy when retreating from al-Fallujah. Iraqi police at one location were surprised when they took over a position from retreating Americans to find one US Marine crying and shouting hysterically for joy at the opportunity to leave the defiant city of al-Fallujah. �The incident provoked laughter and derision from the policemen, according to the correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam. Mafkarat al-Islam's correspondent in al-Fallujah writes that eyewitnesses among the residents of al-Fallujah now returning to the city over an-Nu'aymi crossing point report that the US occupation troops were allowing them to cross on condition that they give the Americans cigarettes and food. US troops take cigarettes, food from returning refugees from al-Fallujah. Returnees told the same story Friday at 2:00 and then again at 4:00 local time after the guard at the crossing had changed. �With the Iraqi Resistance wrecking havoc with US supplies, the occupation soldiers have been experiencing shortages. http://www.albasrah.net/moqawama/english/0504/iraqiresistancereport_010504.htm But let's not go that far from mainstream news. �This seems more important than opening a soccer field, but I can't think of anything that isn't, and it is from the conservative AP news wire: U.S. officials have for months publicly promoted the notion that foreign fighters and terrorists are playing a major role in the anti-American insurgency in Fallujah and the rest of Iraq. By blaming foreigners, U.S. authorities hope to quash the idea that Iraqis are rising up against military occupation and frame the conflict as part of the wider war on terror. However, foreigners play a tiny role in Iraq's insurgency, many military experts say. In Fallujah, U.S. military leaders say around 90 percent of the 1,000 or more fighters battling the Marines are Iraqis. To date, there have been no confirmed U.S. captures of foreign fighters in Fallujah although a handful of suspects have been arrested. Those who have spent time inside Fallujah have described a city consumed with the fight fathers and sons fighting for the local mujahedeen and wives and daughters cooking and caring for the wounded. http://www.boston.com/dailynews/124/world/BAGHDAD_Iraq_AP_U_S_officials_:.shtml Since the Fallujah battle started I could look up several "independent journalists" reports who went in and out. �Bush is a uniter, he unified Sunni and Shiites to rush supplies to Fallujah to support the resistance or try to evacuate the women and children (too late for over 250 of them). The Arab reports of marines blockading the hospital and snipers eliminating the drivers of ambulances had lost this war even before the photos of the reintroduction of Saddam prison atrocities under the Americans and the Brits. Maybe we can stage a farewell soccer game as we declare victory and leave. http://elemming2.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
