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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (3918)	11/20/2003 9:51:11 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 22250

Told you so.... () Americans turn Tikrit into Iraq's own West Bank By Phil Reeves in Awja* 18 November 2003 It is the West Bank and Gaza Strip, but transported to Iraq. A town is imprisoned by razor wire. The entrance is guarded by soldiers, protected by sand bags, concrete barricades and a machine-gun nest. Only those people with an identification card issued by the occupation authorities are allowed in or, more importantly, out. "Hey, this is just like Gaza, isn't it?" a fiery-eyed young Iraqi policeman shouted at us from behind the chest-high, three-layer wire coils which separate his home from the rest of the surrounding dead-flat Iraqi landscape, Sunni Triangle heartland. "We're not happy. Not happy!" [...] news.independent.co.uk (*) The West-Bankization of Iraq: Message 19277963