'Liberated' city where looters run wild and
death stalks the streets
Article about lawlessness and looting in Nasiriyah, the
largest city in Iraq to have been 'liberated' by US forces - 'If this is
an example of how the war will unfold in other cities throughout Iraq, it
does not bode well'
( Independent )
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See also this BBC article on the
botched aid effort in Umm Qasr, and this blog
entry from Wednesday
Geoff Hoon, Robert Fisk and reporting the
truth
Leader defending The Independent's veteran war correspondent
Robert Fisk against an attack in
Parliament by the UK Defence
Secretary over the bombing of a marketplace in Baghdad last
week - 'Yesterday's innuendo against this newspaper and our correspondent
was a miserable attempt to brush aside unwelcome truths. This is no way
to reassure a doubtful British public that the Government genuinely wants
to minimise civilian casualties, rather than simply the reporting of
them' ( Independent )
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See this transcript of Hoon's main
comments, this transcript of his
earlier exchange with Kevin Hughes, this
transcript of his subsequent exchange
with Glenda Jackson, this Independent
coverage, and this blog
entry from Wednesday
US military admits 'suspicious' powder is
explosive
'American officials have admitted that the thousands of boxes
of white powder they seized north of Baghdad are explosives. The US
military and various media outlets had suggested that they may have made
the first discovery of chemical weapons in Iraq'
( AP via
Ananova )
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See also this Nation article from
1990, about 'fifty kilos of cocaine', found in Manuel Noriega's house
during the US invasion of Panama, that turned out to be tamale flour.
Plus �a change ...
False witness
Analysis of disinformation spread by the coalition and
overeager media since the beginning of the conflict in Iraq ( David Leigh
via Guardian )
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See also the Guardian's War Watch, an
ongoing log of 'claims and counter claims made during the media war over
Iraq', and this blog entry from last
month
