Citizens for Legitimate Government (Lori Price) has the Iraq stories Media

broadcasting folks seem to have missed. http://legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news
Citizens for Legitimate Government (The CLG Newsletter is edited by Lori Price) seems able to find a full days set of stories on Iraq , but our national broadcast media is not quite as interested in the topic, except for the occassional helicopter down stories.

Below is an excerpt from Lori's vast selection of stories for today.

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1079420299256&p=1012571727088
US military turns to Saddam Hussein's ex-officers --Following confirmation at the weekend that Iraqi soldiers had refused to fight in Falluja, General John Abizaid, the head of US forces in the Middle East, said on Monday that a number of police and Iraqi civil defence units operating in the south of the country had also failed to stand up to insurgents.

In order to try to resolve the problems in Iraqi chains of command, which US generals blamed on Monday for the refusal of several Iraqi units to fight, the coalition is turning to the former soldiers it once spurned.

"We've got to get more senior Iraqis involved, former military types involved in the security forces," Gen Abizaid said. "In the next couple of days, you'll see a large number of senior officers being appointed to key positions in the ministry of defence and in Iraqi joint staff and in Iraqi field commands. And General Sanchez and I are very much involved in the vetting and placing of these officers and I can tell you the competition for these positions have been fierce."


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4724949/

U.S. seeks help of Hussein's military --Defections, desertions in U.S.-formed army create problems --U.S. commanders in Baghdad said Monday that they would reach out to former senior members of Saddam Hussein’s disbanded army to try to stiffen Iraqi security forces who have proved disappointing against a growing insurgency.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=511006

General asks Pentagon to send 10,000 more troops --The US-led forces in Iraq have lost 70 soldiers this month and killed 10 times as many Iraqi resistance fighters in by far the bloodiest period since the end of the war, a spokesman said yesterday. Iraqi doctors say their dead are mostly civilians, the majority women and children.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4788-2004Apr12.html


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4788-2004Apr12.html (this article has since changed to a discussion of success in getting Sadr's forces to withraw from police stations) U.S. Military Seeks Additional Forces for Iraq --Commanders Disappointed With Performance of Iraqi Forces; 2 U.S. Soldiers, 7 'Contractors' Missing After Convoy Attacked --Top U.S. military commanders expressed disappointment Monday with the performance of Iraqi security forces in countering an intensifying insurgency and said they were requesting thousands of additional U.S. forces to meet the 'threat.'

http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullStory&c=StoryFT&cid=1079420281822&p=1012571727088
Abizaid seeks more combat troops for Iraq --General John Abizaid, commander of US forces in the Middle East, asks for more troops to quell the growing unrest.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1131156,00.html

Russia Considers Iraq Evacuation --Russia is considering evacuating more than 500 of its personnel from Iraq after eight of its nationals were abducted in Baghdad.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/13/politics/13MILI.html
Troops in Iraq Strain to Hold Lines of Supply --American troops in Iraq are battling insurgents to keep open vital military supply lines in and out of Baghdad.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6665399E-BEB0-4CC3-8AD5-88CF238360A6.htm
Explosion kills two Iraqi policemen --Two Iraqi policemen have been killed and three citizens seriously injured when an explosive device hit an Iraqi police patrol in the town of Baquba, north of Baghdad. The blast occurred in al-Mafriq area of central Baquba, Aljazeera's correspondent reported on Monday.

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Apr2004/n04122004_200404123.html
2 Soldiers, 7 'Contractors' Missing in Iraq --Two American soldiers and seven U.S. 'contractors' are missing following an attack on a convoy in Iraq, the top two U.S. generals in the region said today from Baghdad.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=511019
Cleric pulls back militia to avoid clash --The radical Shia cleric Muqtada Sadr yesterday pulled his militiamen out of police stations they had seized in three cities in Iraq, as part of an attempt to ease the stand-off with the US in the south.

http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,9265904%5E1702,00.html

Iraqi police defect to Sadr --Some US-trained Iraqi policemen have defected to the insurgent forces of the radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and some other Iraqi security forces have failed to fulfill their duties in recent days, the top commander of US forces in the Middle East said today.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=564&u=/nm/20040412/ts_nm/iraq_usa_sadr_dc_2
U.S. Army Says It Intends to 'Kill or Capture' Sadr --The U.S. military intends to kill or capture rebel Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr who launched an uprising this month with his militiamen clashing with occupation soldiers in several towns and cities.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=511001
'Do we look like fighters?' ask Fallujah families with their disabled, their old and their children --In an abandoned air-raid shelter in west Baghdad, people from Fallujah crouch in semi-darkness. Their voices tremble as they recall how they survived the week-long siege. Not all did. In a tent outside relatives were mourning for Mushref Mohi, aged 70, who died of exhaustion during the eight hours that his family was kept waiting at US checkpoints as they fled the city.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/04/13/2003136492
Fallujah refugees complain of US military treatment --Arrogance: Many of those who have escaped the dangerous Iraqi city during a ceasefire say that their support for the US military waned in the face of insensitivity --Brigadier-General Mark Kimmitt, the US army spokesman, talked Sunday about getting Fallujah "back under Iraqi control," as though it was in foreign hands. He accused the insurgents of using the population as "human shields." But, as the refugees tell it, the resistance is home-grown and mushrooming all the time.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D334DDD4-F26F-483F-9AE4-E08BB9E53567.htm
Falluja toll tops 600 --More than 600 Iraqis have been killed in fighting in Falluja since US occupation forces launched an offensive against resistance fighters in the town a week ago, say hospital sources. "I can say more than 600 have been killed, but the number may not be totally correct as many families have already buried their dead in their gardens", Dr Rafia Hayad al-Issawi, the director of Falluja's hospital, told Aljazeera.

http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=4/13/2004&Cat=4&Num=013
New Reports on U.S. Planting WMDs in Iraq --Fifty days after the first reports that the U.S. forces were unloading weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in southern Iraq, new reports about the movement of these weapons have been disclosed. Sources in Iraq speculate that occupation forces are using the recent unrest in Iraq to divert attention from their surreptitious shipments of WMD into the country.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/australia/story/0,12070,1190665,00.html
Australian defence adviser 'sacked for refusing to sex up WMD reports' --A former senior Australian defence adviser claimed yesterday she was edged out of her job because she refused to lie about the case for war in Iraq.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=584&e=6&u=/nm/20040412/pl_nm/iraq_usa_halliburton_dc
Halliburton's Role in Iraq -- from Meals to Oil --Texas company Halliburton, which has seven workers missing in Iraq, is the U.S. military's biggest contractor there, responsible for everything from preparing meals for U.S. troops to 'repairing' Iraq's oil infrastructure.

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