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Wednesday, April 9, 2003
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Looting Breaks Out Near Baghdad As the Presence of the Iraqi Government Diminishes: We Talk to Afp Reporter Ezzadin Said in the Palestine Hotel
Looting has broken out in the impoverished Baghdad suburb of Saddam City as a crowd of Iraqis cheered the arrival of US troops there.
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Dissidents Arrested in Cuba in Most Widespread Political Crackdown Since the 1960s: A Debate Between the Cuban Embassy and the Wife of a Jailed Journalist
It has been described as the most widespread crackdown on political dissent in Cuba since the 1960s.
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CIA Reports Inc Leader Ahmad Chalabi Would Be Ineffective Leader to Replace Saddam Hussein: A Discussion with Lamis Andoni
The Financial Times is reporting residents of the suburb of Hay Al Ansar, on the outskirts of Najaf, were glad to be rid of Saddam Hussein’s government when US forces seized the city last week.
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US and British Forces Risk Committing War Crimes By Depriving Iraqi Civilians of Safe Water: A Look at Humanitarian Aid Demands in Post-Invasion Iraq
The current invasion of Iraq by the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia poses a grave threat to the right to water of Iraq’s 24 million inhabitants, almost half of them children under the age of 15. Anglo-American military forces have already laid siege to numerous urban centers in southern and central Iraq, disrupting electrical, water and sanitations systems that sustain millions of civilians. With the approach of summer, when temperatures in this region regularly exceed 120 degrees Fahrenheit, the likelihood of water-borne disease epidemics is alarmingly high.
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U.S. Forces Enter Palestine Hotel As Signs Indicate That Iraq Regime Has Lost Power in the Capital: We Go to Baghdad for a Live Report From May Ying Welsh
- May Ying Welsh, independent reporter in Baghdad
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