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Bracing for 'Primordial Combat'
Vernon Loeb Washington Post October 31, 2002
FORT POLK, La. -- Just seven months ago, Capt. Glenn Kozelka and his men from the Army's 10th Mountain Division fought al Qaeda terrorists in the mountains of Afghanistan. But last week, as he commanded a furious mock assault on the U.S. military's most sophisticated urban training ground, he began to understand why Army doctrine describes city fighting as "primordial combat."
The Rights of 'Enemy Combatants'
The New York Times October 29, 2002
Yasser Esam Hamdi, an American citizen captured in Afghanistan, has been held since April in a naval brig, without formal charges or access to a lawyer. The Bush administration told a federal appeals court in Virginia yesterday that as an "enemy combatant,'' he is entitled to neither. The administration's position would give the president sweeping powers to strip citizens of their rights and hold them indefinitely. It is unconstitutional, and the appeals court should reject it.
Bush's Lies and Simple Truths
A few weeks ago Jim McDermott, a courageous congressman from Washington state, traveled to Baghdad in pursuit of peace and was sharply criticized, particularly for his comment that George Bush "might mislead" the American public to build support for an attack on Iraq. He got only one thing wrong -- the "might."
Robert Jensen Public Rally, Austin TX October 28, 2002
October 26, 2002
Sounds Fishy, Mr. President
John MacArthur Toronto Star October 28, 2002
To Drum Up Rage Against Iraq, Bush Senior and Junior Have Been Known to Tell Tall Tales
The Usual Suspects—and Beyond
Esther Kaplan The Village Voice October 28, 2002
WASHINGTON, D.C.—It’s true, the longshoremen’s drill team, with its sharp black uniforms and tightly rehearsed moves, did attract attention, as did the tuneful warbling of Rochester’s Raging Grannies. And the paparazzi couldn’t help but trail Rockers Against the War, a gaggle of glam rock retro-protesters from New York City who pranced with stylish profanity in platform shoes, boas, and glitter. But Saturday’s D.C. march against war on Iraq, likely the largest antiwar protest here since the Viet Nam era, was not really an assembly of unions and community groups, of mosques, churches, and campuses—it was not a march of contingents at all. Rather, it was a sprawling mass of 100,000 individuals, families, and batches of friends who, to paraphrase Spike Lee, just got on the bus.
Thousands March On D.C. in Protest Impending War
Maggie Frank Cornell Daily Sun October 28, 2002
With Jesse Jackson and Susan Sarandon in attendance among others, tens of thousands of people from all over the country converged on Washington, D.C. Saturday to protest President Bush's proposal to conduct a pre-emptive strike against Iraq. 196 Ithaca residents and Cornell University and Ithaca College students were also in attendance, thanks to a bus trip sponsored in part by an anonymous donor.
100,000 Rally, March Against War in Iraq
Monte Reel and Manny Fernandez Washington Post October 27, 2002
Tens of thousands of people marched in peaceful protest of any military strike against Iraq yesterday afternoon, in an antiwar demonstration that organizers and police suggested was likely Washington's largest since the Vietnam era.
Infighting among U.S. intelligence agencies fuels dispute over Iraq
Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay Aberdeen News.com October 25, 2002
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon and the CIA are waging a bitter feud over secret intelligence that is being used to shape U.S. policy toward Iraq, according to current and former U.S. officials.
France says US text on Iraq could permit strike
Reuters October 25, 2002
BRUSSELS, Oct 25 (Reuters) - France said on Friday a U.S. draft resolution on disarming Iraq contains ambiguous language that could allow military action and vowed to pursue a revision of the text at the United Nations, along with China and Russia.
Organizers Aim for Loud Protest of War in Iraq
Monte Reel Washington Post October 25, 2002
Demonstrators who take to the streets of Washington tomorrow will try to make a point that hinges not so much on what they say -- their message opposing war in Iraq isn't likely to surprise anyone -- but instead on how they say it.
Why Iraq is not really all about oil
MARCUS GEE The Globe and Mail October 25, 2002
There's a clever e-mail flitting around about George W. Bush, Iraq and oil. It inserts the logos of various oil companies into a made-up speech by Mr. Bush:
Iraq expels CNN staff
Albawaba.com October 25, 2002
The Iraqi government said Thursday it is expelling CNN's Baghdad bureau chief, Jane Arraf, along with other foreign journalists and is enacting tough visa restrictions for admitting foreign journalists in the future.
U.S. Refines Plan for War in Cities
ERIC SCHMITT and THOM SHANKER The New York Times October 23, 2002
WASHINGTON — The American military is training furiously and polishing a
plan for attacking Baghdad that calls for isolating the city and then taking
control of it by seizing or destroying Saddam Hussein's pillars of power —
but avoiding house-to-house combat in its hostile streets.
Headquarters Elements to Deploy to Central Command
Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service October 23, 2002
WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2002 -- Headquarters elements of the Army's V Corps and the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force will deploy to the U.S. Central Command area of operations in the near future, spokesmen of the commands said Oct. 18.
GAO: Pentagon has misplaced 250,000 defective suits
WORLD TRIBUNE.COM October 23, 2002
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has misplaced defective suits meant to protect troops against biological and chemical weapons, according to a congressional report. As a result the defective suits could be distributed by mistake to U.S. forces deployed against Iraq.
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