Oppression is not a point of view
From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Dahr Jamail | Information Clearing House | 19/11/2004 11/19/04 “ICH” — Abu Talat calls me frantic. The deafening roar of hundreds of people in a confined area yelling, “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) reverberate behind his panicked voice. “I am being held at gunpoint by American soldiers inside Abu Hanifa mosque Dahr,” he yells,
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Dahr Jamail | Information Clearing House | 17 November 2004 11/17/04 “ICH” — She lays dazed in the crowded hospital room, languidly waving her bruised arm at the flies. Her shins, shattered by bullets from US soldiers when they fired through the front door of her house, are both covered by casts. Small plastic
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) BBC News | 13 November 2004 As US-led troops battle rebels in the Iraqi city of Falluja, aid agencies have warned that civilians are left with little food and no drinking water. The BBC News website spoke by phone to Fadhil Badrani, an Iraqi journalist and resident of Falluja who reports regularly for Reuters
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) BBC News | 16 Novemebr 2004 As US forces say they have overall control of Falluja, the BBC News website spoke by phone to Fadhil Badrani, an Iraqi journalist and resident of Falluja who reports regularly for Reuters and the BBC World Service in Arabic. We are publishing his and other eyewitness accounts from
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Dahr Jamail | Information Clearing House | 15/11/2004 11/15/04 “ICH” — It never fails to get my adrenaline flowing when my hotel rumbles from a car bomb detonating in central Baghdad. Last night around 7pm the explosion occurred at a hotel compound which houses foreign contractors over near Firdos Square. Shortly there after the
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alissa J. Rubin | Concord Monitor Online | 15/11/2004 BAGHDAD, Iraq – Dr. Ahmed Ghanim’s nightmarish week began with a phone call in the operating room of a triage center in downtown Fallujah. On the line was the manager of the city’s General Hospital. Iraqi national guardsmen and U.S. Marines, the manager said, had
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Katarina Kratovac | The Guardian | 14/11/2004 BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) – In the weeks before the crushing military assault on his hometown, Bilal Hussein sent his parents and brother away from Fallujah to stay with relatives. The 33-year-old Associated Press photographer stayed behind to capture insider images during the siege of the former insurgent
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mohammed Omer | RafahToday.org | 16/10/2004 It smells unbelievably bad here. To walk down any street—if you dare to—you skirt, or sometimes unavoidably walk through, pools of blood. There are shreds of human flesh—some of them unrecognizable as human remains—all over, on rooftops, plastered to broken windows, on the street. The stench of rotting
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Farnaz Fassihi | MER- Mid East Realities | 2/10/2004 Iraq is a “disaster” that has deteriorated “into a raging barbaric guerilla war” that will haunt the United States for decades. Being a foreign correspondent in Baghdad these days is like being under virtual house arrest. Forget about the reasons that lured me to this
» Read moreFrom the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Martin Lukacs | McGill Daily | 2004 This summer, Martin Lukacs travelled to Israel and Palestine in search of answers Welcome home. Its odd to hear this as you enter a country you have never set foot in. These were the words I heard as I passed through customs at Ben-Gurion Airport and found
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