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[Badi Ali, Greensboro, NC reports the two
following items]
Al-Jazeerah
TV Airs Two
U.S.
Massacres: One of
Kurdish Islamists, other in
Basra
March 22: At 7 A.M. (Eastern Standard
Time), Al-Jazeerah TV showed the
results of a U.S. air attack on civilians who
could be the families of
Islamic Kurds in northeastern Iraq. It appears
that U.S. jets fired missiles
and bombs into a compound and surrounding homes
near the Sulaimaniya area.
The area is under control of the Kurdish Islamic
movement known as Ansar
al-Islam.
The result of the bombing attack was the
death of 59 Kurdish Muslim
civilians. The graphic footage aired by
Al-Jazeerah showed burned bodies,
hands torn off bodies, heads torn off bodies. The
grisly scene was horrifying
even for the hardened Al-Jazeerah reporter who
seemed about to break down.
According to Al-Jazeerah, the U.S. fired 70
missiles in this attack..
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Ed. Comment: U.S.
media
has refused to show
the Al-Jazeerah footage.
American TV channels have limited themselves to
saying that missiles have
been launched at the Al-Ansar fundamentalist
Islamists who are suspected of
links to
Al-Qaida.
CNN
Headline News showed a two
second view of the
massacre
which showed a few bodies being taken away but
did not say that they were
civilians or that the dead number 59.
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SECOND MASSACRE AIRED BY Al-JAZEERAH: 50 Killed
in U.S. Air Attack on Basra
The second massacre in Basra clearly
showed civilians killed in a U.S.
bombing raid. One photo of the killings which I
(Badi Ali) have circulated is
so horrifying that people can't bear to look at
it. It shows a two year old
child killed in the attack with his skin peeled
off (could be napalm.) . Four
members of one family were killed.
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Ed. Note: The U.S.
media
have refused to show
the Al-Jazeerah footage of
the massacre in Basra. One interesting comment
was made by the
MSNBC
reporter
(afternoon of March 22) that she had seen
Al-Jazeerah footage of people
killed in Basra but that it was "too graphic to
be shown" on MSNBC.
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Attack on Elite 101st Airborne's Command Post in
Kuwait: 16 wounded, 11
seriously
Attacker Said to be U.S. Muslim soldier
According to U.S. news reports, there was
an attack on the Brigade
headquarters of a segment of the 101st Airborne
Division stationed in Kuwait.
The attacker hurled three hand grenades and then
opened light arms fire.
Sixteen officers are reported wounded in the
attack. Of these 11 are said to
be seriously injured and have been evacuated.
The attacker is reported to be an American
Muslim soldier stationed in the
same area. He has apparently been shot in the
leg. Only one channel
(according to our viewers) showed a glimpse of
the attacker. He seemed to be
White. [After a flurry of initial reports, it
appears that the Pentagon has
decided to suppress the information pending
inquiry.]
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American and Iraqi Perceptions of the War:
Confusion Utterly Confounded.
The U.S. version is as follows:
1. After three days, the U.S. "wave of steel" has
halted about 100 miles
inside Iraq after meeting relatively more
determined Iraqi resistance.
2. The U.S. still expects Iraqis to surrender.
3. Unfortunately the "8000" Iraqi troops of the
51st Division who had been
reported to have surrendered are nowhere to be
found. Now the Pentagon says,
only its commander had surrendered, but he too
has not been shown to any of
the 400 "embedded" journalists with the U.S.
forces.
4. Umm Qasr (the tiny town on the coast) was
repeatedly reported captured by
the U.S. but by the evening of March 22 it was
clear that "pockets of
resistance" still existed there.
5. Basra was reported captured several times. By
9 pm (EST) March 22 the
media finally admitted that Basra had not been
captured but U.S. troops had
bypassed it and taken the airport.
6. Further north the U.S. has reportedly crossed
the Euphrates at one point
over an intact bridge.
7. Heavy bombing of Baghdad, Mosul and Kirkuk is
going on and it is hoped
that the Republican Guard units will surrender
after such a heavy pounding.
IRAQI PERCEPTIONS:
1. Saddam Hussain is alive and well.
2. The Information Minister came on Iraqi TV
during the heaviest bombing of
Baghdad to condemn U.S. aggression.
3. No Iraqis troops have surrendered. Those dozen
or so shown repeatedly on
U.S. TV were civilians. A few have been captured
after they ran out of
ammunition. [Our reporter says this may not be
entirely true. Small numbers
of Shiite soldiers have probably surrendered.]
4. Saddam Hussain, Tariq Aziz and others appeared
again on TV on March 22,
quite jovial in an official meeting.
5. Foreign Minister Sabri has been able to travel
out of Iraq via
Syria
to
attend an Arab meeting. This would not be
possible if the regime were falling
apart.
6. Iraq has won a diplomatic victory in that
important countries of the world
refused to accept the U.S. demand to close down
Iraqi foreign missions.
[The UN is strangely silent. It appears that Kofi
Annan is working with the
U.S. But on March 22,
Indonesia
demanded an
emergency meeting of the UN to
stop the U.S. assault.]
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2003-03-23 Sun 09:55ct