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Politics : The Iraq War And Beyond -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BubbaFred who wrote (292)	8/1/2003 10:14:21 PM
From: BubbaFred	Respond to of 9018

Attacks on pipeline and US troops mar Iraq's three-month war anniversary Fri Aug 1, 2:01 PM ET BAGHDAD (AFP) - Saboteurs blew up a key oil pipeline in northern Iraq (news - web sites), clashes left four Iraqis dead and three US soldiers lightly wounded and yet another tape purporting to be from Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) popped up on Arab television. Polish troops joining the US-led coalition's rebuilding efforts also received a baptism of fire when five mortar bombs were launched at their base in Hilla, south of Baghdad, with the violence coming three months to the day since US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) declared the war effectively over. The pipeline fire in the northern refinery hub of Baiji, still seen raging Friday, was certain to throw off US plans to further resuscitate Iraq's massive but crippled energy sector. Only a day earlier, US officials hailed the expected reopening early this month of the country's main oil pipeline from the petroleum centre of Kirkuk to the Turkish Mediterranean terminal of Ceyhan, wrecked in a previous sabotage attack. Oil exports are supposed to provide the financial muscle needed to foot the massive bill for Iraqi reconstruction expected to run to tens of billions of dollars per year. Suspected former regime loyalists in the Fallujah area again clashed with US troops amid an escalation of anti-US violence in the region west of Baghdad seen as a haven of Saddam supporters. Four Iraqi men were killed when they assaulted a US military convoy with rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), Sergeant Keith O'Donnell told AFP at a US base in Ramadi, near Fallujah where US troops come under daily attack. "It was one of eight attacks in the last 24 hours west of Baghdad, the most extensive attacks in a while," O'Donnell said. In a separate incident, three soldiers were lightly wounded when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device near a US base, O'Donnell said. As the assaults on US forces continued unabated, so did the hunt for Iraq's most-wanted man. Finding Saddam is clearly a top priority for the United States, which has handed out retouched photographs showing the ousted strongman without a moustache, with a beard and in other possible guises. The photos were the latest indication of an increasingly concentrated search for Saddam, who US intelligence sources assume has tried to change his appearance to escape capture after four months on the run. The elusive former president has purportedly delivered a new message to the Iraqi people, with a voice said to be his popping up on Qatar's Al-Jazeera satellite TV Friday. In the audiotape supposedly recorded July 27, the speaker called on Iraqis to safeguard the properties of the state and the ousted Baath party until "things return to normal", and spoke of the need to "salvage" Iraqis who have strayed from the right path. While declaring that only resistance would end the US occupation of Iraq, the speaker said Iraqis should treat any foreign troops that "surrender" in accordance with international law and the tenets of Islam. The message, the sixth since his regime collapsed April 9, comes amid confirmation that two of his daughters, Raghad and Rana, and their nine children arrived in Amman from Syria and were being given Jordanian protection. And the young incendiary cleric, Moqtada Sadr, launched another barb against the Americans as he seeks the wrest the mantle of leadership of the country's majority Shiite population. In his Friday sermon, Sadr took the US troops to task over heavy-handed tactics in their security sweeps. Speaking to a gathering of around 100,000 faithful, Sadr asked: "Must we accept that Iraqis are humiliated and dragged helplessly along the ground by these soldiers? We demand that they be judged according to the sharia (Islamic law)." story.news.yahoo.com

To: BubbaFred who wrote (292)	8/2/2003 12:56:43 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 9018

Time to get real: d-n-i.net pbs.org Right Wing scum must be sent back to the sewers they spawned from.

To: BubbaFred who wrote (292)	8/2/2003 4:39:17 PM
From: Ed Huang	Respond to of 9018

>>If this true and confirmed in subsequent months, it really exposes not only the ulterior and ultimate motive for the invasion, and the credibility/aptitude of US and British intelligence should be questioned.<< Great deal of evidences already showed that US and British officials fabricated "proofs" about WMDs to paved the way to war(even without their intelligent departments’ approval about the “evidences” which they used to address the nation or in UN). In fact, I believe the pro-war hawks rushed to invade and take over Iraq was more likely they already knew Iraq had no WMDs and was a great easy meal to swallow. On the other hand, the other “devil” state N Korea openly declared it had nukes, but the war hawks only want negotiation. They are smart people, you know.