For those who expected the US-led invasion forces in Iraq to be welcomed with open arms, events on April 15 proved to be a shock. On that day in Nasiriya, some 20,000 Shiite Muslim Iraqis protested against the US occupation of Iraq,
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On April 15, 13 Iraqi civilians were killed and 29 wounded by US troops in the northern city of Mosul. The next day, US troops shot dead a further four Iraqis and wounded 10 others. Both atrocities occurred at anti-US protests
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Despite quick proclamations of "victory" by the US media, fighting in Iraq continues. So too does the devastation of the country's fragile infrastructure and the suffering of the most vulnerable sections of Iraqi society due to a
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US warplanes dropped cluster bombs on the Iraqi town of Hilla. The deadly anti-personnel weapons are also believed to have been used in assaults on Najaf, Nasiriya and Basra by US-led invasion forces. Cluster munitions
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The British Guardian reported on April 1 that the US government is in the process of creating its own team of "weapons inspectors" to "disarm" Iraq's alleged arsenal of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). According to the Guardian's
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On March 31, soldiers from the US Army's 3rd Infantry Division stationed at a roadblock near the Iraqi towns of Najaf and Karbala opened fire on a car, killing 11 of the civilians inside. According to an embedded Washington
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The US-led invasion of Iraq has enraged people throughout the Arab nations, jeopardising regimes allied to the US. On March 21, a wave of angry mobilisations swept the Middle East and north Africa. Defying a ban on protests,
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The US rulers have been keen to portray their army's invasion of Iraq as aimed at "liberating" its people from Saddam Hussein's brutal regime. However, US propaganda appears to have had little impact on the Iraqi population. A
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US President George Bush has increasingly resorted to the claim that the aim of his regime's planned invasion of Iraq is to spread "democracy" throughout the Middle East. The worth of this claim is belied by the US record of backing
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell made headlines on March 9 when he announced that Iraq's unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program — pilotless "drones" — were the ever-elusive "smoking gun" that proved Iraq was concealing banned
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The report by Hans Blix, head of UN weapons inspections in Iraq, to the UN Security Council on March 7 was a stunning blow to the US/British/Australian coalition's "case" for war. While Blix stated that Iraq had to produce more
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A February 20 report by CBS News has revealed that United Nations weapons inspectors in Iraq consider US "intelligence" — like that presented by US Secretary of State Colin Powell to the Security Council on February 5 — to be