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Jailed - for showing dislike of US invaders
Sydney Morning Herald - May 31 2004

Hundreds of Iraqi prisoners were held in Abu Ghraib prison for long periods even though there was no evidence that they posed a security threat to US forces, a US Army report says.
'Wedding video' contradicts US denials
London Guardian | May 24 2004

A videotape emerged today apparently showing the wedding party in Iraq that survivors say was attacked by US warplanes last week in raids that killed up to 45 people.
Iraqi Taken to Prison Camp For 'Not Showing His Papers at Checkpoint'
BBC | May 7 2004

One of the Iraqi men who says he was photographed in degrading poses by American prison guards in Abu Ghraib jail is unemployed father-of-five Haydar Sabbar Abed. He told his story to the BBC Arabic Service.
Limbaugh on Torturing Iraqis: U.S Guards Were Just "Having a Good Time"
Media Matters/Paul Joseph Watson | Updated May 7 2004

Hours before President George W. Bush announced plans to address the Arab world to condemn the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. military personnel at the Abu Ghraib prison, Rush Limbaugh justified the U.S. guards' mistreatment of the Iraqis, stating that they were just "having a good time," and that their actions served as an "emotional release."
Iraqi Taxi Driver Who Stole Wood Gets His Vehicle Crushed by US Troops
Prison Planet.tv | May 2 2004

Another example of how 'freedom' is spreading through Iraq after its 'liberation'. These Iraqis should count themselves lucky that they weren't tortured, urinated on, or made to perform homosexual acts.
INFOWARS EXTENSIVE ARCHIVE DOCUMENTS THE ABU GHRAIB TORTURE SCANDAL
US detaining 10,000 Iraqis
Al-Jazeera | March 7 2004

More than 10,000 Iraqi men and boys are being kept in jail by their US occupiers, with the youngest captive being just 11 years old.
U.S. looks into new national ID system for Iraqis
Reuters - 01/29/04

The U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq is looking into the creation of a new, computerized national identity card system there, defense and other sources said on Wednesday.
So Much For Democracy: US Restricts Iraqis Right To Protest
Islam Online - 01/05/04

U.S. occupation authorities in Iraq have imposed strict restrictions on the right of the Iraqi people to demonstrate, particularly in the capital Baghdad, in what Iraqi political analysts described as the real face of sugar-coated democracy clichés.
US torture the innocent while real culprits of Saddam's regime go free
London Guardian - 01/01/04

The families of senior Iraqis captured by the US since the fall of Saddam complained last night that their relatives had been wrongly identified as important members of the regime and that some had been tortured while in custody.
US forces accused of Iraq 'massacre'

The US army came under renewed pressure on Wednesday over its conduct in a battle at the weekend in the central Iraqi town of Samarra, as Iran's senior religious leader accused the American forces of "a savage massacre" in which 54 locals were reportedly killed.
Raid On Arab TV Network Hardly A Democratic Move: Dictators Should Be Only Ones Shutting Down Media Broadcasts

The raid by the U.S.-appointed Iraqi officials on an Arab television network bureau in Baghdad and the ban on its broadcasts hardly fits my idea of how to spread democracy in the Middle East.
U.S.'s 'Iron Hammer' code name 1st used by Nazis

The U.S. military's code name for a crackdown on resistance in Iraq was also used by the Nazis for an aborted operation to damage the Soviet power grid during World War Two.
Shocking images shame US forces

A series of shocking pictures revealing US soldiers tying up Iraqi women and children in their own home has provoked international outrage. The occupying forces have now come under renewed fire for their treatment of ordinary Iraqis as shown in the pictures published today by Aljazeera.net.
Iraqi bound and gagged for protest

US occupation soldiers handcuffed and firmly wrapped masking tape around an Iraqi man's mouth as they arrested him for speaking out against occupation troops.
Up to 15,000 people killed in invasion, claims thinktank

As many as 15,000 Iraqis were killed in the first days of America's invasion and occupation of Iraq, a study produced by an independent US thinktank said yesterday. Up to 4,300 of the dead were civilian noncombatants.
U.S. Raids in Saddam's Hometown Leave Iraqis Angry

U.S. troops lost the hearts and minds of some Iraqis on Tuesday in aggressive pre-dawn house raids in the hometown of Saddam Hussein, blowing open gates, kicking down doors and shoving faces in the dirt.
Robert Fisk: “What is Happening Is An Absolute Slaughter Every Night of Iraqi People”

“If you count the Najaf dead as typical of just two or three other major cities, and if you add on the daily Baghdad death toll and multiply by seven, almost 1,000 Iraqi civilians are being killed every week - and that may well be a conservative figure.”
US recruiting former Saddam agents to battle old boss

The US-led coalition has hired former intelligence agents of Saddam Hussein as it seeks to get tough in the battle against foreign Islamists and loyalists of the ousted dictator, a pro-US faction said.
Skull & Bones Flag Flies With U.S. Troops in Iraq
Christopher Bollyn | April 28 2004

With the Skull & Bones pirate banner flying over U.S. forces engaged in an illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq, it should come as no surprise that nothing but lies comes from the Pentagon.
Iraqi elections cancelled by U.S.

U.S. military commanders have ordered a halt to local elections and self-rule in provincial cities and towns across Iraq, choosing instead to install their own hand-picked mayors and administrators, many of whom are former Iraqi military leaders. The decision to deny Iraqis a direct role in selecting municipal governments is creating anger.
US scraps power to Iraqis plan

In a major shift, United States-led occupation authorities have abandoned the idea of letting a national conference of Iraqis select an interim government, instead opting for a plan that gives the US a more direct role in choosing the country's leaders.
US to 'appoint' new Iraq govt: Officials

United States has scrapped plans for setting up a democratically-elected national conference in Iraq, officials said. Instead, it now plans to "appoint" a 25 to 30-member council, which will "advise" occupation officials on political and economic issue.
First post-Saddam elections cancelled by British

British forces in the Iraqi port of Umm Qasr yesterday cancelled what would have been the first democratic elections in post-war Iraq.
Families live in fear of midnight call by US patrols

In recent weeks there have been increasing reports of Iraqi men, women and even children being dragged from their homes at night by American patrols, or snatched off the streets and taken, hooded and manacled, to prison camps around the capital.
US troops kill two Iraqi protesters

A US soldier has fired into a crowd of Iraqi protesters outside the headquarters of the US-led administration in Baghdad, killing two people. The shooting occurred when a US military convoy passed through a crowd led by up to 2000 former Iraqi soldiers who were protesting at their having been sacked by the new US administration.
American troops shoot children in Iraqi demo

United States soldiers shot back at anti-American protesters, hitting at least seven, including three young boys, after being fired on in a town near Baghdad. A local hospital director said 13 people were killed.
Protesters decry launch of 'model' local council

British occupation forces in Basra have tried to put a new local governing council in place, but thousands of residents who were angry that it was handpicked by the British poured into Basra's streets in protest.
US tries limited elections in Mosul

In a pattern likely to be repeated across Iraq, the members of the interim council will be chosen by an electorate of about 200 prominent local leaders, and ordinary citizens will not have a vote.
Troops fire on protesters: report

US troops opened fire on a crowd hostile to the new pro-US governor in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul today, killing at least 10 people and injuring as many as 100, witnesses and doctors said.
US troops accused of carnage

United States troops opened fire on a crowd hostile to the new pro-American governor in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul yesterday, killing at least 10 people and injuring as many as 100, witnesses and doctors said.
US condemned over Iraq rights

A leading human rights group has criticised US treatment of detainees in Iraq, as the UN opened a workshop focusing on abuses committed by the regime of Saddam Hussein.
2 Iraqis killed as gunfire erupts at another protest

U.S. soldiers shot dead two Iraqis during a protest Wednesday, one day after 13 Iraqis were killed by U.S. gunfire at a demonstration here.
Iraqis protest against US occupation

Anti-US sentiment has flared in Iraq following prayers attended by hundreds of thousands of Iraqis.
US bans media from protests

US forces yesterday tried to stop the media from covering a third day of anti-American protests by Iraqis outside a hotel housing a US operations base, according to a reporter at the scene.
US troops 'shoot civilians'

American soldiers in Iraq today make the astonishing admission that they regularly kill civilians.
Iraqis march against U.S. occupation

About 10,000 Shiite Muslims marched through Baghdad Monday in the largest anti-American protest since the war ended.
U.S. troops accused of shooting more Iraqis in northern city of Mosul

U.S. Marines traded more gunfire with residents of Iraq's third-largest city Wednesday, marking the second straight day of violence in a place that may be a bellwether for the newly occupied country.
Witnesses Say U.S. Troops Shoot Dead Iraqi Man

A 56-year-old Iraqi man was shot dead on Friday by U.S. troops after a U.S. army patrol shoved his car onto the pavement, Iraqi witnesses said.
6 Iraqis Dead In Gas Station Fire, Witnesses Accuse U.S.

At least six Iraqis were killed Thursday, May 1, in a fire at a gas station in central Baghdad, which some witnesses said was ignited by American firing.
US gunfire kills three teens at wedding

US soldiers opened fire on a festive wedding parade earlier this week, killing three teenagers and wounding seven others after the celebrants fired weapons in the air.
Anti-American anger as soldiers search homes

Authorities are trying to keep a lid on things, but in the Iraqi town of Heet it's all too much.
U-S military tells Iraqis to turn in all guns or face arrest

The U-S military is now telling Iraqis they cannot own or sell guns. Any Iraqi who does faces arrest, according to a new radio spot running in the country.
US troops arrest Iraq teenager for insulting them -- "as a warning to others"
Child drug abuse on the rise in Iraq

Some of the drugs were looted from hospitals and found their way onto the streets. Others have come from outside the country, and are more readily available after the collapse of law and order.
Marines to impose Baghdad curfew

The regiment planned to enforce a dusk-to-dawn curfew today in the area it patrols in eastern Baghdad.
Adviser to Bush quits over looting

The head of a US panel on cultural property has resigned in protest at the failure of American forces to prevent the looting of the Iraqi National Museum.
Exposed: Are These US Marines Looting Or Fixing Saddam's Door?
ITV journalists 'killed by US troops'
London Guardian | March 23 2004

Two ITV journalists who went missing in the attack in which veteran reporter Terry Lloyd died were killed by US troops, according to new witness reports.
The Rise of a New Dictatorship in Iraq

The forcible shutting down of the Al-Arabiya news channel in Baghdad is the first act of a new dictatorship shedding its teeth in the increasingly undemocratic Iraq.
Recipe For Terror: Assassinated Reuters Camaraman Uncovered Evidence of Mass US Casualties in Iraq

"Mazen told me by phone few days before his death that he discovered a mass grave dug by U.S. troops to conceal the bodies of their fellow comrades killed in Iraqi resistance attacks," Nazmi said.
Freed Iranians accuse US of torture

Two Iranian journalists with state-run television who were freed by US forces in Iraq after four months of detention have charged they were subjected to "severe torture" while in American custody.
Iran angry at U.S. arrest of journalists

Iran is increasingly angry with the continued detention by the United States of two Iranian journalists arrested while filming an Iraqi checkpoint.
What were they trying to hide? Journalists detained after US military look for photographers of bombing incident

In a fresh attack on reporters covering the occupation of Iraq, two agency journalists were locked up by Iraqi police for several hours on Sunday.
Lloyd killed by US helicopter fire, claims Iraqi

Almost six months after the journalist died, a rescuer has come forward to say he picked him up at the scene of the initial ambush and was taking him to hospital when they came under fire from a US helicopter.
Pentagon Threatens to Kill Independent Reporters in Iraq

" I was told by a senior officer in the Pentagon, that if television signals out of... Baghdad, for example-- were detected by any planes ...electronic media... mediums, of the military above Baghdad... they'd be fired down on. Even if they were journalists ..'
Audio of Kate Adie interview with Irish radio station
US troops 'crazy' in killing of cameraman

Journalists who were with a Reuters news cameraman shot dead by US troops while filming outside a Baghdad prison yesterday accused the soldiers of behaving in a "crazy" and negligent fashion.
Reuters Cameraman Killed For Filming U.S. Graves: Brother

The brother of Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana said he was deliberately murdered for discovering mass graves of U.S. troops killed in Iraqi resistance attacks.
Pressure grows over US killing of journalists

On April 8, two journalists were killed in Baghdad. By this date, only weeks into the conflict, the death toll for journalists in Iraq was an alarming 10, more than double the total killed in the entirety of the first Gulf War in 1991.
Report Says U.S. Did Target Media Outlets In Gulf War II

A newly released report notes that during the coalition air assault on Iraq, Central Command “authorized” bombing strikes against “media facilities” in which a number of journalists were killed and employed weapons that human rights groups want banned.
US deliberately targeted journalists: Pak mediamen

Pakistan's media organizations and journalists on Wednesday alleged the US had deliberately targeted a group of newsmen for objective reporting of the events, taking place in Iraq.
Hotel hit 'deliberate': French TV

Footage filmed by France 3 television of a strike on a hotel which killed two journalists in Baghdad today shows a US tank targeting the journalists' hotel and waiting at least two minutes before firing. The French TV channel had positioned two cameras in two rooms facing the bridge.
Reuters Journalist Killed by U.S. Tank Hit on Hotel

A Reuters journalist was killed and three were wounded in Baghdad on Tuesday when a U.S. tank fired a shell at the media hotel where they were working.
Tank captain admits firing on media hotel

A US army captain has admitted that an Abrams tank under his command fired on the Palestine hotel in Baghdad, killing two journalists, but said he had not been told that the hotel was home to the international press.
Marines search media's Baghdad hotel

Teams of U.S. Marines looked "for unauthorized weapons" and people "not friendly to the United States" in a search Tuesday at a Baghdad hotel that is a home base for many journalists, a military source told CNN's Michael Holmes.
Journalists Are Victims Of War Story

At least one journalist died, another was wounded and three others went missing Saturday in Iraq.
Allied forces might have killed British journalist

A veteran British war correspondent, missing in southern Iraq along with a cameraman and their translator, were presumed dead after being hit by "friendly fire" from allied tanks, according to a newspaper report yesterday.
Troops fire on press vehicle

US soldiers today fired on a car belonging to the American news agency Associated Press, an Agence France-Presse reporter at the scene said.
Al-Jazeera cameraman killed in US raid

An al-Jazeera cameraman has died and another of the Arabic-language news channel's journalists is missing after a coalition bombing raid hit its Baghdad office this morning.
Iraq TV raid may break Geneva Convention

The head of the world's biggest journalists' organisation says a U.S. bomb and missile attack on Iraqi television was an attempt at censorship and may have breached the Geneva Conventions.
Journalists die in US attacks

Tareq Ayub, a correspondent for the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera satellite television station, died of his injuries after a US missile strike on the station's Baghdad offices, the Arabic news channel reported.
Killing of journalists by Americans intentional

Italian daily La Estempa said on Wednesday the killings of journalists in Baghdad by the Americans was deliberate.
Boston Globe Reporter Killed in Iraq

Elizabeth Neuffer, an award-winning reporter for The Boston Globe, died in a car accident in Iraq while on assignment covering the aftermath of the war, the newspaper said.
Media Casualties in Iraq Since the Outbreak of the War

A Reuters cameraman, a Spanish television photographer and an Al-Jazeera TV channel reporter were killed on Tuesday in the latest US bombing of Baghdad, bringing to at least 12 the total number of media casualties since the US-led war on Iraq began on March 20.
Pentagon expels CSM reporter from Iraq for allegedly revealing location

A reporter for The Christian Science Monitor has been ordered out of Iraq after the Pentagon said he revealed the location of a Marine unit during a television interview.
Weapon or camera? US troops can't seem to tell

Three journalists were killed in Baghdad in two separate attacks by US troops yesterday, prompting an outcry about the Americans' judgment.
US troops 'abused' journalists

US troops in southern Iraq detained and beat up two public RTP television journalists from Portugal travelling in the company of two Israeli colleagues after accusing the four of spying, the RTP news director said today.
US Paid Off Army Leaders

Many of Saddam's top military henchmen were secretly paid off and air-lifted to safe havens by US special forces as Baghdad fell. Iraqi troops around Baghdad had slipped away before the US advance, dumping huge caches of arms in the streets behind them.
Iran continues to raise secret deal claim

An Iranian news agency close to top conservative military figures attributed the fall of Baghdad to a secret tripartite agreement between Saddam Hussain, Russia and the U.S.
Sources: Russia might have helped top Iraqi officials get out of Iraq

Al Bawaba has learnt from various sources that Russia might have helped top Iraqi officials get out of Iraq as part of a Russian diplomatic convoy that left Baghdad Sunday.
The Baghdad deal

Much of the world was surprised. After the spirited resistance in the south of Iraq, how could Baghdad possibly have fallen in only two days?
Iraqi Commander Swears He Saw USAF Fly Saddam Out Of Baghdad

Film will soon be made public of an Iraqi Army officer describing how he saw a US Air Force transport fly Saddam Hussein out of Baghdad. The explosive eyewitness testimony was shot by independent filmmaker Patrick Dillon, who recently returned from a risky one-man odyssey in Iraq.
US paper apologises for WMD reports
AFP | May 26 2004

The New York Times has admitted that information it published about Iraq's purported weapons of mass destruction programme was not supported.
Australian government advisor sacked after refusing to write WMD media propaganda
Herald Sun | April 11 2004

A SENIOR Defence adviser has been sacked after refusing to write media briefings that supported claims that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
Revealed: how MI6 sold the Iraq war
London Times - 12/28/03

THE Secret Intelligence Service has run an operation to gain public support for sanctions and the use of military force in Iraq. The government yesterday confirmed that MI6 had organised Operation Mass Appeal, a campaign to plant stories in the media about Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction.
Jessica Lynch disputes army account of dramatic rescue

In her first public statements since her rescue in Iraq, Jessica Lynch criticized the military for exaggerating accounts of her rescue and recasting her ordeal as a patriotic fable.
Just a Coincidence? Four of Jessica Lynch's Rescuers Have Died Mysteriously

Eerily enough, four of Pfc. Lynch's rescuers and colleagues have met an early demise.
Many soldiers, same letter: Newspapers around U.S. get identical missives from Iraq

Letters from hometown soldiers describing their successes rebuilding Iraq have been appearing in newspapers across the country as U.S. public opinion on the mission sours. And all the letters are the same.
Amanpour: CNN practiced self-censorship