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Civilians Targeted In Iraq - Jo Wilding
Iraqbodycount
Iraqis return to fight
Analysis of the Bush Budget
Al Jazeera T.V. Displays Pictures of Wounded Americans
Clara Sinclair: 82-year old protestor Wounded by DC Police
Peace Activists Continue to Speak out Against the War
Give Peace a Chance Exhibit Yale University
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Any hopes of a joyful liberation of a grateful Iraq by US
and British armies are evaporating fast in the Euphrates valley
as a sense of bitterness, germinated from blood spilled and
humiliations endured, begins to grow in the hearts of invaded
and invader alike.
Attempts by US marines to take bridges over the river Euphrates,
have become bogged down in casualties and troops taken prisoner.
The marines, in turn, have responded harshly.
A surgical assistant at the Saddam hospital in Nassiriya,
interviewed at a marine check point outside the city, said
that on Sunday, half an hour after two dead marines were brought
into the hospital, US aircraft dropped what he described as
three or four cluster bombs on civilian areas, killing 10
and wounding 200.
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Story: Civilians Targeted In Iraq - Jo Wilding
Jo Wilding is a law student and human rights observer in
central Baghdad who is documenting the war. Wilding sent an
e-mail back to the U.S. describing the scene yesterday at
the Al-Kindi Hospital. Her email quoted the experiences of
people in Baghdad living through the war. A woman she met
in the hospital said, “We are farmers, we are farmers,”
the woman kept repeating through her rage and grief and incomprehension
while the orderlies mopped the blood from the floor, picked
up the rags of clothing torn and then cut from the body. Rasha,
a 19 year old college student and she was wounded in the head
and arm. Someone asked her what she wanted to do when she
graduated. Through a translator she said. “Bush has
killed all my dreams. How should I think of the future?”
Peace Watch spoke with Jo Wilding this morning from Baghdad.
Tape: Jo Wilding, a British law student in Baghdad to document
civilian casualties.
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Story: Iraqbodycount
Reports on the number of US military casualties in Iraq
have filled the news, but very little has been reported on
Iraqi civilian casualties. The Iraq Body County Project is
a team working to change that. They are documenting the number
of Iraqi civilian casualties and posting their findings on
their web site www.iraqibodycount.org. Earlier today we spoke
with one member of the project Marc Herold, associate professor
of Economics at the University of New Hampshire.
Tape: Marc Herold, associate professor of Economics at the
University of New Hampshire
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Story: Iraqis return to fight
Reports on the number of U.S. military casualties in Iraq
have filled the news, but very little has been reported on
Iraqi civilian casualties. The Iraq Body Count Project is
a team working to change that. They are documenting the number
of Iraqi civilian casualties and posting their findings on
their website- www.iraqbodycount.org
Earlier today we spoke with one member of the project, Marc
Herold, associate professor of Economics at the University
of New Hampshire.
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Story: Analysis of the Bush Budget
Today President Bush asked Congress for almost 75 Billion
Dollars over the next several months to fund the war with
Iraq and anti-terrorism matters at home and abroad. He spoke
at the Pentagon earlier today
Tape: George W. Bush
Tape: Pacifica National Affairs Correspondent Larry Bensky
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Story: Al Jazeera T.V. Displays Pictures of Wounded
Americans
Television footage run by Al Jazeera TV has created a storm
of controversy. The decision to display the dean or injured
bodies of US soldiers has offended many Americans and the
Bush administration say it’s a violation of the Geneva
Accord and threatened that those responsible for mistreatment
of American POWs would be treated as war criminals. To day
PeaceWatch spoke with Hassan Ibrahim a journalist with the
Al Jazeera new network.
Tape: Hassan Ibrahim, a senior program producer for Al Jazeera
Television in Doha, Qatar
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Story: Clara Sinclair : 82-year old protestor Wounded
by DC Police
Clara Sinclair is not your typical 83-year old. She’s
a longtime peace activist who continues to voice her opposition
to war. She has taken part in demonstrations against the war
in Iraq. While participating in an act of civil disobedience,
Sinclair says she was assaulted by a DC police officer and
spent 12 days in the hospital as a result of the attack. But,
as bombs fall on Baghdad she holds out hope that there can
be peace. Today she spoke to PeaceWatch about her experiences.
Tape: Clara Sinclair, peace activist and Quaker
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Story: Peace Activists Continue to Speak out Against
the War
In San Francisco, over 120 activists were arrested yesterday
at the headquarters of the Carlyle Group investment firm,
the FBA has announced it is opening a new emergency command
post to deal with possible incidents of domestic terrorism
while the war is underway. Activists charged that he FBI is
also increasing its surveillance of peace organizing efforts.
Over the past several weeks, peace activists across the country
have taken part in massive rallies, demonstrations and vigils
to express their opposition the US-led war with Iraq. We now
present a sampling of some of the recent actions.
Tape:
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Story: Give Peace a Chance Exhibit Yale University
A look back at 75 years of anti-war activism, especially
during the Vietnam War, is providing valuable reminders for
those who lived through that time, and valuable lessons for
today's young activists. The exhibit, called Give Peace a
Chance, is on view at Yale University's Stirling Memorial
Library. It's based in part on the recently catalogued papers
of former Yale chaplain, the Rev. William Sloan Coffin. Melinda
Tuhus reports from New Haven, Connecticut...
Tape: Rev. William Sloan Coffin, former Yale chaplain
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