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Danny Dayus
Iraqi resistance fighters early this morning carried out an audacious raid in Baghdad, from which Paul Wolfowitz, USA Deputy Defence Secretary, barely escaped with his life. Wolfowitz was staying in the heavily defended al-Rasheed hotel in the centre of the Iraqi capital, along with a number of other top-ranking USA military officials, when several co-ordinated rocket attacks were launched against the hotel, at the same time and from different parts of the area.
William Pfaff
The power of the weak lies in a people’s acceptance of suffering. The weakness of the strong is that a disproportionate use of force against the weak eventually corrupts their own society.
Shaista Aziz
A leading British aid group today attacked the USA-controlled provisional authority in Iraq, accusing it of failing to account for four billion dollars - eighty percent of the total - given by international donors for the country’s post-war reconstruction.
Lawrence Smallman
"If America does not leave,” warned Dr. al-Jumaili, “then I expect to see a huge wave of resistance approaching. The White House can deal with one death here, and two there, but very soon… much sooner than they think… it will be 10 dead soldiers here, and 20 there.”
Alistair Lyon
Guerrillas have kept up attacks on USA forces in Iraq, after an Oil Ministry source acknowledged that this week’s pipeline explosion was the most destructive carried out by saboteurs to date, providing a sobering backdrop to an international donors’ conference on Iraq that starts in Madrid on Thursday.
Jihad UnSpun
The rape of Iraq - civilisation, history, economy, homeland and future is crowned now by a shameful record of sexual torture of 4000 reported cases of rape of Muslim women in traditional Arab dress. Peasant women in their black gelabas and in their forties and fifties are forced to perform fellatio on members of uniformed cowboys under the gun. Group rapes and military orgies became the order of the day. Women are pulled out of their homes by the hair across the desert sands to host the liberating troops between their legs. Keep cheering victory!
Turkey May Decline to Send Troops
Amid rising casualties in Iraq, last week’s UN Security Council resolution was seen by the USA government as legitemation of its calls for more international troops to be sent to its aid. Turkey announced last week that it would be the first state with a Muslim population to do so. However, investigators into last week’s attack on the Turkish embassy in Baghdad suggest that the bombing may have been the work of Kurdish separatists, and now the Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Erdogan, has hinted that he may not send troops there after all.
Jim Lobe
Despite a two-week public-relations offensive designed to persuade the world and the USA public that it knows what it is doing in Iraq, the Bush administration appears increasingly at sea.
Associated Press
Iraq’s USA-led authorities are preparing for a showdown with a militant Shia Muslim cleric whose ‘illegal’ militia has fought recent gun battles with both USA troops and ‘moderate’ Shia groups, Pentagon officials said yesterday.
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