Turmoil......(From the Bahrain paper)

Vol XXVII NO. 21 Saturday 10 April 2004

TURMOIL


BAGHDAD:

Bloody turmoil reigned in Iraq yesterday, the first anniversary of Saddam Hussein's fall, with Sunni and Shi'ite rebels battling US-led forces and holding three Japanese and several other foreign hostages. Fierce fighting that has convulsed the Sunni cities of Fallujah and Ramadi reached the western fringe of Baghdad, where insurgents killed nine in an attack on a US fuel convoy, and said they had seized four Italians and two Americans.A journalist saw two captive foreigners in a mosque in a village in the Abu Ghraib district. One was wounded in the shoulder. Both men were weeping.At the scene of the convoy attack, a dead foreigner lay on the road with a bloody head as an Iraqi beat him.

Teenage fighters with rocket-propelled grenades and rifles lurked on bridges or in derelict lots near the main highway leading west towards the embattled town of Fallujah.

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"America is the big devil and Britain and Blair are the lesser devils," a preacher at Baghdad's Um Al Qura mosque told an angry congregation. Reflecting a growing hostility to outsiders, one worshipper said: "When we get the order for jihad (holy war), no foreigner will be safe in Iraq."


*BAHRAIN yesterday called on all parties in Iraq to exercise self-restraint so that power could be transferred to the Iraqi people in June. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar said in a statement that Bahrain was following with deep concern the tragic developments in Iraq. He said the kingdom had a strong interest in seeing stability and security take root in the country and urged the rebuilding of Iraqi institutions to accommodate all Iraqi groups.

My God, what are we doing? AC-130 gunships strafing Fallujah ... mass graves in the stadium ... what would Bush have us become? Me, I refuse.

that we can't even perceive.

nt

If you believe that the universe tends toward balance, then America's karmic debt is beyond all imagining! :-(

They rode a bicycle to the scene, and now feel comfortable enough there to stop and change the tire? Maybe borrowing some tools from the tanker truck?

Sounds a lot more out of control than they are letting on...

Thanks

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Articles.asp?Article=78829&Sn=WORL


http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/ if you click the topj-right pic it download a pdf file.

If you look closely at the pic in this pdf file, it's hard to piece together. Could this be a photoshop?

1. I would think the heat would melt your skin.
2. 1 boy is standing there like nothing is happening.
3. The other 3 boys are almost falling, or is motion.

What's that white round thing in his hand?

military vehicles? Guarding American tax dollar paid for supplies, products, and military equipment?

Sorry, I can read everything, I don't watch much TV, I honestly don't know if this is the case!


http://theglobeandmail.com/ has a pic of an explosion I haven't seen anyone post yet.

Iraqi youths hold a U.S. military uniform near a convoy of burning fuel trucks after they were attacked in the Baghdad suburb of Abu Ghraib April 9, 2004. Insurgents attacked a U.S. convoy carrying fuel west of Baghdad on Friday, killing at least nine people, witnesses said. Photo by Akram Saleh/Reuters

..... There are so many questions about this attack. The US is saying today that 2 soldiers are unaccounted for from this convoy. Where was the Air Support? Is this what happens when you rely on mercs for "security"??

would be wearing only white t-shirt. This is just horrific!

this. But I've heard too many scholars, journalist, ex-military... say that not showing the truth let's the 'people' not really understand what war and death is. (In my opinion from most all the flag waving people I talk to, that Iraq is more like a video game to them.)

Think how many parents will thank you if these images of truth prevent their children from being murdered.

Then I was offline :(
Just saw it now :(
http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/