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3. RESISTANCE IN IRAQ CONTINUES
NPR 
was the only 
media 
outlet (on April 28) 
which reported new fighting 
in Mosul. It said 
U.S. 
forces had come under 
"heavy fire" there without 
giving details.
NEW TREND COMMENT: TV channels have reported 
some people celebrating 
President Saddam Hussain's 66th anniversary. It 
must have been quite 
widespread to have received a little coverage on 
MSNBC 
etc.
TV reported that General Garner, the U.S. 
occupation officer in charge, 
held a Karzai type of meeting in Baghdad. Outside 
the meeting were NINE U.S. 
tanks. There were U.S. troops both outside and 
inside the gathering, though 
TV wisely did not show these but only mentioned 
them in passing. [Perhaps 
these reports are not being censored carefully.]
IS SADDAM DEAD OR ALIVE?: U.S. TV says that 
according to the (captured) 
Tariq Aziz and U.S. agent Chalabi, Saddam is 
alive. New Trend treats these 
reports with great care because our TV monitors 
indicate that U.S. 
media 
is 
being used not only as a TOOL of the 
Bush 
administration but also as a source 
of intelligence moves for a variety of purposes. 
[Some reports say Tariq Aziz 
was involved in helping the U.S. in its air 
strike on Saddam, and his story, 
if he is saying it, that he had seen Saddam 
alive, might be a way of saving 
himself from being cursed by the Iraqi people.]
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: Bush stumbled on the truth. In 
a speech to Arabs in 
Dearborn, Michigan, April 28, the President 
suddenly said:
"Today Iraq has 50% fewer hospitals than in 
1990."
His advisers will probably explain to him that 
this was a blunder. He more or 
less admitted that Iraq BEFORE the Gulf war, when 
it was secure under 
Saddam's rule, had 50% more hospitals than it has 
now.
What happened in between? sanctions! [Please 
tell Mr. Bush.]
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The Muslim crowd in Dearborn was applauding Bush 
again and again. Men with 
beards and caftans, women with hijabs, getting up 
to cheer the bomber of 
Baghdad.
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SMILE: Muslim jokers say that the FBI has decided 
not to open its booth  at 
the 
ISNA 
conference this time. So many Muslims 
with beards and hijabs have 
filed applications to join the FBI that there are 
no more jobs left. The 
immigrants in this country love 
America above 
God, but Daniel Pipes thinks 
they are potential terrorists because they have 
beards and hijabs!
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