7
Palestinians, Including
Child, Killed in Israeli
F-16 Air Strike
Palestine Media Center,
April 9, 2003
IOF Defend Strike, Hamas
Vows Revenge -- April
9, 2003 - As the world remained
pre-occupied with the US-British
war on Iraq, an Israeli
F-16 Tuesday launched a
rocket attack on a densely-populated
civilian area, killing seven
Palestinians, including
one child, and injuring
at least 50 others, in a
bid to commit an extra-judicial
assassination of a Hamas
member.
IOF
Kills Five Civilians in
Gaza, Assaults Four Journalists
in Hebron
International Press Center,
April 9, 2003
BEIT HANOON, Palestine,
April 9, 2003, (IPC)--Israeli
occupation forces (IOF)
shot dead Wednesday five
Palestinian civilians and
wounded 13 others in the
northern Gaza Strip city
of Beit Hanoun....In the
city of Hebron, four Palestinian
journalists were beaten
and wounded by armed Jewish
settlers and Israeli soldiers.
29
Palestinian students wounded
in school blast
Middle East Online, April
9, 2003
Four of injured are in serious
condition in blast in school
south of Jenin claimed Right-wing
Jewish group. -- JENIN,
West Bank - An explosion
in a Palestinian school
in the northern West Bank
wounded 29 school children
on Wednesday, Palestinian
security officials said.
Abu
Mazen seeks two week extension
to form cabinet
Jerusalem Post, April 9,
2003
The Palestinian prime minister-designate,
Mahmoud Abbas ran into obstacles
from Yasser Arafat in trying
to put together a new cabinet
and asked for a two week
extension to complete the
job.
PA
cabinet wrangle might delay
launch of `road map' plan
Haaretz, April 9, 2003
In a dispute that could
hold up the launch of the
U.S.-backed "road map" for
a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict, Palestinian Authority
Chairman Yasser Arafat and
his loyalists were putting
up stiff resistance to the
incoming Palestinian prime
minister's attempts to overhaul
the PA cabinet, Palestinian
officials and Western diplomatic
sources said yesterday.
PNA
Condemns Bombing of Palestinian
Embassy in Baghdad
Palestine Media Center,
April 8, 2003
“No other embassies
were targeted by bombing,
which proves that the targeting
of the Palestinian embassy
was premeditated and not
an accident,” he added.
-- The Palestine National
Authority (PNA) condemned
the “aggression”
launched by US fighter jets
on the Palestinian embassy
in the Iraqi capital Baghdad
on Monday.
Al-Shawamri’s
home demolished for the
4th time
LAW Society, April 8, 2003
Israeli authorities have
recently stepped up demolition
of Palestinian homes in
east Jerusalem. On Monday
morning, April 7, 2003,
Israeli forces knocked down
10 apartments in al-Isawiyi,
east Jerusalem.
Assassination
in Salfeet
Palestine Monitor, April
8, 2003
Israeli troops yesterday
raised the level of violence
in the West Bank and Gaza
Strip. According to Palestinian
security sources, yesterday
afternoon Israeli Special
Forces, dressed in women’s
clothes entered the Palestinian
town of Salfeet. Upon reaching
the center of town they
opened fire on 23 year old
Badr Abdel Raouf Yassin,
killing him.
Lapid
names Arab to Supreme Court
Haaretz, April 9, 2003
Haifa District Court Judge
Salim Joubran was appointed
yesterday to serve as an
acting Supreme Court justice
until the end of the year.
Joubran, 56, was first appointed
to the bench in 1982 as
a Haifa Magistrate's Court
judge. He was appointed
to the city's District Court
in 1993.
Fischer
meets Arafat in Ramallah,
consults with Abu Mazen
Haaretz, April 9, 2003
German Foreign Minister
Joschke Fischer eased the
diplomatic siege on Yasser
Arafat on Wednesday, meeting
the Palestinian Authority
Chairman in his Ramallah
office, Israel Radio reported.
Sharon
government freezes Palestinian
families’ reunion
Palestinian Information
Center, April 8, 2003
Occupied Jerusalem - The
“Israeli” interior
ministry was preparing a
temporary draft law enabling
the government to proceed
with its decision of May
2002 that froze Palestinian
families’ reunion
requests.
Israel
Interrogators Practices
Sexual Harassment Against
Palestinian Prisoners
International Press Center,
April 9, 2003
BETHLEHEM, Palestine, April
9, 2003 (IPC+Al-Ayyam Daily)--
An 18-years old Palestinian
detainee, his name was undisclosed,
imprisoned in the Israeli
detention camp of Kfar
Etsion, near Bethlehem,
was exposed on March 30,
2003, to sexual harassment
by the Israeli soldiers,
Palestinian Prisoners Club
(PPC) revealed Tuesday.
Jordan
To Pump Iraqi Oil To Israel:
Report
Islam Online, April 9, 2003
TEL AVIV, April 9 (IslamOnline.net
& News Agencies) - Israel
and Jordan will hold meetings
about the possibility of
restarting an oil pipeline
from Iraq to Israel via
Jordan that was closed 55
years ago, an Israeli National
Infrastructure Ministry
source claimed Wednesday,
April 9.
Jordanian
FM denies reports on restarting
Iraq oil pipeline
Haaretz, April 9, 2003
Jordanian Foreign Minister
Marwan Muasher denied reports
on Wednesday that his country
is considering reopening
an oil pipeline from Iraq
to Israel via Jordan, Israel
Radio reported.
Israel
plays down president's push
for 'road map' to end conflict
The Guardian, April 9, 2003
Arafat clashes with Palestinian
PM over cabinet -- President
Bush expressed an unusual
enthusiasm for addressing
the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict yesterday by pledging
to expend the same energy
on settling it as Tony Blair
put into Northern Ireland.
Israeli officials attempted
to play down Mr Bush's promise,
and an observation that
he believes "substantial
progress" can be made towards
peace, by saying he only
expresses such views under
pressure from Mr Blair.
No
renewed efforts to head
off Thursday's general strike
Haaretz, April 9, 2003
As of Wednesday afternoon
there were no renewed efforts
on the part of the Finance
Ministry and the Histadrut
Labor Federation to head
off Thursday’s planned
general strike.
Israel
Warplanes Attack Civilian
Neighborhood in Gaza, Eight
Killed, 30 Injured
Palestine Chronicle, April
8, 2003
GAZA CITY (IAP News): At
least eight Palestinians
were killed and as many
as 30 others were injured
Tuesday evening when two
Israeli F-16 fighter planes
bombed a densely populated
residential area in the
heart of Gaza.
Seven
killed and scores wounded
in yet another Israeli extra
judicial execution in Gaza
LAW Society, April 9, 2003
On Tuesday evening, April
8, 2003, Israeli troops
committed yet another extra
judicial execution in Gaza
city. The Israeli execution
targeted Sa’ad al-Arabeed;
seven people were killed
in the Israeli operation
including al-Arabeed and
his aid. Scores of Palestinian
civilians were wounded in
the Israeli onslaught including
eight in critical condition.
IAF
kills five, wounds 50 in
Gaza attack
Haaretz, April 9, 2003
Palestinian sources reported
that at least one child
was killed in the attack.
-- Israel Air Force helicopter
gunships fired missiles
at a car in Gaza City after
sundown yesterday, killing
five people and wounding
around 50.
Three
shot dead as thousands protest
at Israeli air strike
The Independent, April 10,
2003
Clashes between Israeli
troops and Palestinians
in the Gaza Strip killed
at least three people yesterday,
including a boy aged 16,
as thousands poured into
the streets to mourn seven
killed in a missile strike.
Three
Palestinians shot dead in
Gaza Strip; Settler group
claims bomb attack at Palestinian
school
Al-Bawaba, April 9, 2003
Israeli tanks and troops
raided northern Gaza on
Wednesday, shooting dead
three men in clashes after
Palestinian gunners attacked
by mortars and rockets settlements
and an Israeli town.
3
Palestinians Killed, 7 Wounded
By Israeli Gunfire
Islam Online, April 9, 2003
GAZA CITY, April 9 (IslamOnline.net
& News Agencies) –
Few hours after Israeli
F-15 and Apache helicopters
killed seven Palestinians
in a residential area in
Gaza City, Israeli occupation
forces gunned down three
Palestinians and wounded
several others in the northern
Gaza Strip town of Beit
Hanun on Wednesday, April
9.
27
Palestinian Children Injured
in a Blast by a Jewish Extremist
Group
International Press Center,
April 9, 2003
JENIN, Palestine, March
9, 2003, IPC -- An extreme
right-wing Jewish group
called "Revenge of the Infants"
claimed responsibility for
a blast that ripped through
a Palestinian high school
in the Jenin-area West Bank
village of Jaba'a Wednesday,
injuring at least 27 Palestinian
teenagers, three of them
seriously.
IDF
raids Gaza, killing 3, after
gunners hit Sderot
Haaretz, April 9, 2003
Clashes between IDF troops
and Palestinians killed
at least three people on
Wednesday in the Gaza Strip,
including a 16-year-old
boy, after Palestinian gunners
attacked settlements and
a Negev border town in escalation
sparked by the Tuesday IAF
assassination of a senior
Hamas military commander.
Gaza
Clashes Leave 3 Palestinians
Dead
The Guardian, April 9, 2003
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP)
- Clashes between Israeli
troops and Palestinians
on Wednesday killed at least
three people, including
a 16-year-old boy, as thousands
poured into the streets
to mourn seven killed in
a missile strike the night
before.
Explosion
hits Palestinian school
BBC, April 9, 2003
An explosion in a Palestinian
high school in the northern
West Bank has left at least
15 teenagers injured, some
seriously, Palestinian sources
have said. The incident,
in the West Bank village
of Jaba'a, near Jenin, comes
as at least one man was
shot dead following a raid
by the Israeli army into
the town of Beit Hanoun
in the northern Gaza Strip.
Report:
Jewish group claims Jenin
blast
Jerusalem Post, April 9,
2003
The bomb was apparently
Israeli-made and had Hebrew
lettering on it, media reports
said. -- A Jewish group
called "Nikmat Olelim,"
which is Hebrew for "Revenge
of the Infants", claimed
responsibility for an explosion
at a Palestinian school
that wounded 29 teens on
Wednesday, Israel Radio
reports.
Police
doubt claim Jews bombed
Palestinian high school
Haaretz, April 9, 2003
Israeli police and security
figures maintain there is
no evidence indicating a
Jewish extremist group was
responsible for the bombing
of a Palestinian school
in the northern West Bank
Wednesday.
Arafat,
Fischer Meet in Besieged
Headquarters
Palestine Media Center,
April 9, 2003
President Yasser Arafat
received the German Foreign
Minister Joschka Fischer
in his besieged headquarters
in the Israeli reoccupied
West Bank city of Ramallah,
despite Israeli opposition
to the encounter.
How
soon will Iraq sign peace
treaty with Israel?
Al-Bawaba, March 27, 2003
A prominent Iraqi opposition
leader has reportedly visited
Israel secretly to explore
the future Iraqi - Israeli
relations after the US led
war against Iraq is over
and the Iraqi president
Saddm Hussein is ousted.
Israelis
face West Bank charges
BBC, April 9, 2003
Israeli soldiers are rarely
prosecuted -- The Israeli
army has charged an officer
and a soldier in incidents
where Palestinian civilians
were killed. Indictments
on such charges are rare
despite quite a number of
Palestinian civilian deaths
in the past two-and-a-half
years of conflict.
Analysis:
Gearing up for the 'road
map'
BBC, April 9, 2003
Both the Israelis and Palestinians
are gearing up for the moment
when attention shifts from
Iraq back to them. From
an Israeli point of view
this involves efforts to
change the terms of the
much vaunted "road map"
to peace, from a Palestinian
point of view it involves
making the most of a bad
deal.
An
attempt to assassinate Patriarch
Erineos
Come And See, April 5, 2003
A Palestinian arrested by
the Palestinian Authority
says he received a large
amount of money by a Metropolite
inside the Patriarchate
of Jerusalem to assassinate
Patriarch Erineos.
U.S.
had veto power over possible
Israeli retaliation
Haaretz, April 9, 2003
The United States and Israel
agreed just eight days before
the outbreak of the Iraq
war that if Israel were
hit by an Iraqi missile
with an unconventional warhead
and wanted to retaliate,
Washington could veto any
action that it believed
would present a "clear and
present danger" to coalition
troops, diplomatic sources
said.
ISM
Update of 7 April 2003:
Rafah, Rachel Corrie
International Solidarity
Movement, April 7, 2003
1. Rafah: The Battle of
Tel Zorab, 2. Rachel Corrie
Appeal (for US Supporters)
The
voice of right-wing American
Jewry
Haaretz, April 9, 2003
NEW YORK - At a Jewish event
in Detroit last Sunday Morton
Klein received an enthusiastic
welcome of the kind reserved
for an American politician
who has wound up a primary
with an impressive victory.
"It's amazing," Klein told
his audience, "that in both
the American administration
and the Israeli government
there are those who relate
to Holocaust denier Abu
Mazen as a serious negotiation
partner."
Hizbullah
guerrillas fire on Israeli
jets in southern Lebanon
Jerusalem Post, April 9,
2003
Israeli warplanes flew over
southern Lebanon Wednesday,
drawing fire from Hizbullah
guerrillas, Lebanese security
officials said. Two Israeli
jet fighters violated Lebanon's
airspace over areas in the
eastern sector in southern
Lebanon, the officials in
the south said.
An
unholy alliance with the
Christian right
Come And See, April 7, 2003
Evangalical Christians are
generating the spiritual
energy fueling George Bush's
war on global terrorism.
According to a poll, 63
percent of American Jewry
supports active involvement
by the U.S. administration
in the peace process. Akiva
Eldar, one of Israel's leading
columnists, explains why
"With Christian friends
like these, the right-wing
government in Israel does
not need Jewish friends
to rebuff political initiatives
like the road map".
A
faithful witness in Israel
Come And See, April 8, 2003
It is a strange thing
for a non-Jewish, American
Christian girl to grow up
in Israel, and even stranger
for her to melt so well
into the fabric of Israeli
society. An Israeli church
elder writes about Abigail
Lytle, the 14 year old girl
that was killed in the Haifa
blast a month ago.
Occupation
Chronicle Events in Palestine
April 9, 2003
Palestine Media Center,
April 9, 2003
Israeli Occupation Forces
(IOF) killed seven Palestinians
in an air strike, which
targeted a residential neighborhood
in the heart of Gaza city.
IOF also killed three citizens
after invading Beit Hanoun
town in the northern Gaza
Strip. Child Among 7 Palestinians
Killed in Gaza Air Strike
/ IOF Invade Beit Hanon,
Kill 3 Palestinians / Boy
Dies of Wounds in Gaza /
Explosion in Jenin School:
Several Students Wounded
Israeli
Policymaking Influence Rising
In U.S.
Islam Online, April 9, 2003
WASHINGTON, April 9 (IslamOline.net)
– U.S. President George
Bush’s nomination
of Daniel Pipes, an outspoken
critic of Islam, for a seat
on the board of directors
of the United Stated Institute
of Peace (USIP) has provoked
an outcry among American
Muslims.
Statistics
for the Palestinian Intifada,
28 September, 2000 -
3 April, 2003
Palestine Monitor, April
8, 2003
Palestinian
village mourns fallen journalist
killed by American missile
in Baghdad
Islamic Association of Palestine,
April 9, 2003
Yasouf (West Bank): 9 April,
2003 (IAP News): Grief has
engulfed the village of
Yasouf, 30 miles south west
of Nablus, following news
of the death of village
son, journalist Tariq Ayyoub,
in Baghdad yesterday.
Gov't
announces procedures to
repeal Article 150
Jordan Times, April 9, 2003
AMMAN (JT) — The government
has begun legal procedures
to repeal controversial
Article 150 of the Penal
Code, introduced in the
absence of any authorised
media monitoring institutions...“The
government is working on
enhancing the freedom of
the press and removing any
constraints, particularly
when the media is witnessing
such a period of technological
development,” the
minister continued.
Iraq
War News
Fury
at US as attacks kill three
journalists
The Guardian, April 9, 2003
Al-Jazeera quits Iraq as
Americans accused over deaths
-- The Arab satellite television
channel al-Jazeera is to
pull its reporters out of
Iraq after one of them was
killed during a US air raid
on Baghdad.
French
TV Footage Reveals US Hit
on Hotel ‘Deliberate’
Palestine Media Center,
April 9, 2003
International Outcry at
US Targeting Journalists
-- April 9, 2003 - A French
television has revealed
footage of a US strike on
a hotel, which killed two
journalists and injured
several others in the Iraqi
capital yesterday, showing
an American tank targeting
the hotel housing all foreign
and Arab media and waiting
at least two minutes before
firing.
Surgeons
using headache pills instead
of anaesthetic
The Independent, April 9,
2003
At Al-Kindi hospital in
Baghdad yesterday, stocks
of painkillers had run so
low that surgeons were operating
on patients anaesthetised
with headache pills. At
the Medical City hospital
complex, which has 650 beds,
overflowing wards were without
electricity or water.
Red
Cross halts work in Baghdad
BBC, April 9, 2003
The ICRC has urged all soldiers
to grant its vehicles safe
passage -- The International
Red Cross has suspended
its operations in Baghdad,
saying the situation is
too dangerous to continue.
The International Committee
of the Red Cross (ICRC)
took the decision after
a Canadian employee went
missing when the car he
was travelling in was hit
by gunfire.
Iraq
Humanitarian Crisis Verging
on Catastrophe
Common Dreams/Baltimore
Sun, April 9, 2003
Ill-supplied nation faces
'a huge problem like you
have never seen' -- KUWAIT
CITY -- With Iraqi hospitals
full of wounded and water
shortages made evident by
people in southern Iraq
drinking from drainage ditches,
humanitarian aid workers
are warning that the worst
for civilians could be yet
to come. Hundreds of thousands
of gallons of water are
needed in the south of Iraq,
from the port city of Umm
Qasr, where water is beginning
to trickle in, to the chaotic
city of Basra, where it
is not. If the electricity
needed for purifying water
in the north remains cut,
the problems for people
in Baghdad and its environs
could become even more severe.
Separatism
May Complicate Iraq Rebuild
The Guardian, April 9, 2003
WASHINGTON (AP) - Northern
Iraq is awash with oil and
people who see themselves
less as Iraqis than as Kurds.
American officials say those
could be thorny issues as
they try to help Iraqis
fashion a post-Saddam order.
Coalition
Holds 7,300 Iraqi Prisoners
The Guardian, April 9, 2003
WASHINGTON (AP) - American
led-forces are holding 7,300
Iraqi prisoners and building
a detention facility in
the southern Iraqi city
of Umm Qasr that eventually
could hold some 24,000,
defense officials said Wednesday.
A tent city is being constructed
in Umm Qasr with the plan
of housing 15 to 20 men
in each tent, Army Capt.
John Della Jacono said.
British
intelligence: Saddam escaped
US bomb attack
Al-Bawaba, April 9, 2003
British intelligence officials
believed Saddam Hussein
had escaped US bomb attack
on a building where the
Iraqi leader was thought
to be meeting with his top
aides. According to them,
he may have left minutes
before the strike on the
restaurant in the al-Mansour
district of Baghdad.
Bombs
Blast Homes Instead of Saddam
Daily Mirror, April 9, 2003
By Peter Arnett -- They
go after Saddam and hit
several families. -- WHEN
I heard the story Saddam
may have been bombed I knew
it had to be wrong intelligence.
It had to be rubbish. Clearly
if he was hurt, or had been
buried, there would have
been security all over the
place and no one would have
got near it. When I arrived
at the scene I found no
security at all.
CIA
Pushed Iraqi Opposition
Out of Southern Town
Arab News, April 9, 2003
WASHINGTON, 9 April 2003
— A local militia
opposed to Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein took control
of the southeastern city
of Amara on Sunday but a
CIA officer told them to
withdrew under threat of
bombing, opposition officials
said yesterday.
US
Forces Threaten to Shoot
at Kuwaiti TV Reporter
Arab News, April 9, 2003
KUWAIT CITY, 9 April 2003
— US forces threatened
to shoot at Kuwaiti Television
reporter Salman Al-Otaibi
and his crew, who were preparing
a report on the situation
of civilians in southern
Iraq, Asharq Al-Awsat reported
yesterday.
Iraq
- the most dangerous war
for journalists
The Guardian, April 9, 2003
The war in Iraq is the worst
ever for journalists and
could spell the end of the
"independent witnessing
of war", veteran war reporters
and experts have claimed.
Is
this the end?
The Guardian, April 9, 2003
There's looting and celebration
in Baghdad, but the battle
may not yet be over -- Chaos
and jubilation broke out
in Baghdad this morning
amid signs that Saddam Hussein's
regime has lost control
of the city. Television
showed scenes of citizens
attacking images of the
Iraqi leader, while others
cheerfully made off with
whatever they could grab
from shops and other buildings.
US:
Saddam era is over
The Guardian, April 9, 2003
The US military today said
that Saddam Hussein's regime
is over as jubilant Iraqis
greeted American troops
mopping up fading resistance
in Baghdad. Looting broke
out unhindered in the Iraqi
capital, and the US say
the country's citizens have
reached the "tipping point"
at which they have realised
that the regime is coming
to an end.
UK
and France push for UN Iraq
role
The Guardian, April 9, 2003
The foreign secretary, Jack
Straw, and his French counterpart,
Dominique de Villepin, today
stressed their agreement
over the need for urgent
international involvement
in rebuilding Iraq. However,
Javier Solana, the EU's
high representative for
common foreign and security
policy, today insisted that
the UN's role had to extend
beyond humanitarian issues.
US
marines liberate Baghdad
as Saddam's regime crumbles
The Independent, April 9,
2003
Jubilant Iraqis celebrated
liberation today as triumphant
US tanks and soldiers poured
into the heart of Baghdad.
Civilians and Allied soldiers
mingled freely after Saddam
Hussein's regime melted
away overnight.
Megawati
Raps US for ‘Law of
the Jungle’ in Iraq
Arab News, April 8, 2003
JAKARTA, 8 April 2003 —
Indonesian President Megawati
Sukarnoputri yesterday denounced
the United States and its
allies in thinly veiled
criticism for practicing
the “law of the jungle”
by attacking Iraq in defiance
of the United Nations. Megawati
lamented that humanitarian
values, which are taught
by Islam, were being increasingly
ignored.
Tikrit
may witness last stand
BBC, April 9, 2003
With the focus of the war
in Iraq now mainly on Baghdad,
little attention is being
paid to Saddam Hussein's
home town of Tikrit, 160
kilometres (100 miles) to
the north. Some observers
think it could be there,
rather than in Baghdad,
that Saddam Hussein or members
of his family might choose
to make their last stand.
Kurdish,
U.S. Forces Seize N. Iraq
Target
The Guardian, April 9, 2003
MAQLOUB, Iraq (AP) - U.S.
special operations troops
and Kurdish peshmerga fighters
seized a strategic mountaintop
in northern Iraq early Wednesday,
eliminating a crucial air
defense installation near
the government-held city
of Mosul.
Telling
War's Deadly Story at Just
Enough Distance
Common Dreams/New York Times,
April 7, 2003
In the darkness of a conference
room at Time magazine last
Friday, a war of terrible
and beautiful images unfurled
on a screen: the steely-eyed
marine taking aim, the awe-struck
Iraqi pointing to bombers
in the sky, the bloodied
head of a dead Iraqi with
an American soldier standing
tall in the background.
The last image was an appalling
but vivid representation
of American dominance in
a very violent week. But
Stephen J. Koepp, deputy
managing editor of Time,
dismissed the photograph
as a candidate for the issue
to be published today. "You
want a little picture with
your blood," Mr. Koepp said.
U.S.
Plans for Iraq Tribunals
"A Mistake"
Common Dreams, April 8,
2003
International Tribunal Needed
-- NEW YORK - April 8 -
Iraqis responsible for past
crimes should be prosecuted
before an international
tribunal, not the U.S.-sponsored,
Iraqi-led judicial process
outlined at the Pentagon
today, Human Rights Watch
said.
Pentagon
Policy Makes Iraqi Civilian
Lives Expendable in Their
Own Liberation, Say Greens
Common Dreams/Green Party,
April 8, 2003
Green Party Antiwar Activists
Call Bush Complicit in the
Murder of Civilians -- WASHINGTON
- April 8 - "The Pentagon's
invasion strategy is resulting
in numerous and unconscionable
casualties among Iraqi civilians,"
said Ben Manski, Wisconsin
Green and co-chair of the
Green Party of the United
States. "These deaths reveal
that the real goal of the
U.S. and U.K. is the invasion
and occupation of Iraq,
not liberation."
IraqWar.ru
Report
IraqWar.ru
April 8, 2003, 1613hrs MSK
(GMT +4 DST), Moscow - This
morning battles in Baghdad
resumed. The US marine units
at 7am managed to
break to the right bank
of the Diyala near Al-Jassir,
and at 8am advanced to the
left bank of the Tigris
in the Bessaf district,
on the junction of streets
Abu-Nuvas and Al-Rashid.
Currently up to one battalion
have got over the bridges
opposite to the Ministry
of Information and TV center
and are now assaulting those
buildings.
IraqWar.ru
- Final Report
April 8, 2003, 1846hrs MSK
(GMT +4 DST), Moscow - Events
of the last 2 days have
made further work of Ramzaj
group in its current format
impossible. With the embassy
personnel and journalists
having left Iraq and most
of Iraqi information services
evacuated from Baghdad,
analysis of the situation
in Baghdad and Iraq as a
whole becomes ineffective....Apart
from that, our actions meet
increasing opposition from
the official quarts and
in fact are turning into
confrontation the outcome
of which is not difficult
to forecast. Therefore we
have to discontinue our
work and thank everybody
for taking part in the project.
American
shot in Jordan only slightly
injured; bullet missed
Jerusalem Post, April 9,
2003
An American working for
the US Embassy in Jordan
was shot at and slightly
wounded, the embassy said
Wednesday. Jordanian officials
said they were investigating
but could not confirm there
had been a shooting.
Security
Council Would Decide UN
Role in Post-War Iraq: Spokesman
Palestine Chronicle, April
8, 2003
UNITED NATIONS - Reacting
to statements by the leaders
of the United Kingdom and
United States today that
the United Nations would
play a "vital role" in post-war
Iraq, a UN spokesman welcomed
such suggestions but stressed
that any potential involvement
of the world body could
come only at the direction
of the Security Council.
Republicans
Want Terror Law Made Permanent
New York Times, April 9,
2003
WASHINGTON, April 8 —
Working with the Bush administration,
Congressional Republicans
are maneuvering to make
permanent the sweeping antiterrorism
powers granted to federal
law enforcement agents after
the attacks of Sept. 11,
2001, officials said today.
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