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World for many Baghdad residents has shrunk to inner sanctum of home
Matthew Schofield and Mohammed Alawsy Knight Ridder Newspapers October 31, 2005
Samira Kubba wakes early each day, though she's not sure why. A year ago, she would have been busy helping her husband prepare for work, shopping for her family, meeting friends, planning the celebration for breaking the daily fast after sunset during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Today, she knows she won't leave the house, except in case of emergency: a child in danger, the food supply running low. Even then, the excursion will be carried out with military precision: a timed route, covered by machine guns. She won't stop to chat with friends, she won't look in the eyes of anyone she passes, she won't stop for tea at a favorite cafe - all parts of daily life for her as little as months ago. "We do not think about how we live our days in Baghdad these days. We wonder whether we will survive them," she said. "No place outside this house is safe."
Iraqis Forced to Take in Uninvited Troops
ANTONIO CASTANEDA Associated Press October 31, 2005
The Marines call it a necessary evil — taking over houses and buildings for military use. For the Iraqis who become unwilling hosts, it can be anything from a mild inconvenience to a disruption that tears apart lives.
Psyches of Iraq's Children Caught in the Cross-Fire
Noam N. Levey LA Times October 31, 2005
Thirteen-year-old Mohammed Khalaf and his younger brother Ahmed had taken a break from their soccer game to collect candy from American soldiers when a suicide bomber turned his SUV onto the boys' narrow street. Tires screeching, the vehicle sped toward the children at the end of the block. In an instant, there was a massive explosion and 28 people were dead. Among them was Ahmed, whose body was ripped open in front of his older brother. Mohammed hasn't recovered since that terrible July morning, said his father, Ali Dalil Khalaf, putting a protective arm around the silent boy with large, searching brown eyes. "What can I tell him?" Khalaf said as he sat with his family on the concrete floor of their small living room.
Special report: Bush faces his Watergate
Andrew Buncombe The Independent October 31, 2005
Sleaze, leaks and an indictment add up to the worst presidential crisis since Nixon. And it will get worse. The White House has lost one key man but the whole chain of command may be engulfed by a scandal slowly revealing the lies that led to war.
The White House Criminal Conspiracy
Elizabeth de la Vega The Nation October 31, 2005
Legally, there are no significant differences between the investor fraud perpetrated by Enron CEO Ken Lay and the prewar intelligence fraud perpetrated by George W. Bush. Both involved persons in authority who used half-truths and recklessly false statements to manipulate people who trusted them. There is, however, a practical difference: The presidential fraud is wider in scope and far graver in its consequences than the Enron fraud. Yet thus far the public seems paralyzed.
2,000 US Troops Dead in Iraq: One Survivor Tells His Story
Ryan Parry Daily Mirror UK October 30, 2005
Brave Tomas Young saw it as his patriotic duty to join the Army three days after 9/11. Tomas, 25, wanted revenge on the terrorists who murdered nearly 2,750 people in the Twin Towers. But on his first mission in Iraq - and before he had fired a single bullet in anger - he was left paralysed from the chest down after being shot in an ambush. Now his anguish at never being able to walk again has turned to anger that he and thousands of others are being sent to fight an immoral war for George Bush. As America this week mourned its 2000th victim of the war, Tomas said: "I joined the Army to exact some sort of retribution on what happened to us, whether it be going to find Osama bin Laden or to get al-Qaeda. "I joined to get back for what happened. Nothing more, nothing less. But so far there have been 2,000 dead American soldiers and some 100,000 dead Iraqi civilians.
ANALYSIS: Iraq war appears likely to go on trial along with Libby
Marc Sandalow, San Francisco Chronicle October 30, 2005
Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald did a meticulous job Friday, in a 22-page indictment, a nine-page press release and a 75-minute news conference, of portraying Lewis "Scooter" Libby as a serial liar who recklessly mishandled national security secrets. As lawyers focus on the narrow legal question of whether Libby did everything Fitzgerald alleges, much of the nation will be focused on whether those same attributes can be used to describe the way the Bush administration led the nation to war.
Indictments put focus on neoconservatives
Bryan Bender Boston Globe October 30, 2005
The indictment and resignation of I. Lewis 'Scooter" Libby yesterday deprives the White House of one of its most influential national security thinkers, a powerful advocate for some of the Bush administration's most far-reaching foreign policy decisions since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. His pending legal battle, however, could also bring new scrutiny to the actions of the close-knit group of officials, many of them his old friends and colleagues from previous Republican administrations, who had long agitated for overthrowing Saddam Hussein and who are accused of exaggerating the threat from Iraq to achieve their goal, according to current and former government officials and specialists.
Navy Corpsman from Millers Creek dies in Iraq
Monte Mitchell Journalnow.com October 30, 2005
A Wilkes County native, who was a Navy corpsman assigned to the Marines, was killed in Iraq on Friday in a roadside bomb attack. "I can't let my Marines go without me," Chris Thompson, 25, told his father, just before shipping out on his second combat tour. "I take care of them." A corpsman - similar to a medic in the Army - goes on patrol with the Marines and tries to keep the wounded alive. Thompson was a petty officer hospitalman third class. Thompson and another member of the 2nd Marine Division, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward) were killed in the bombing near Amiriyah, 25 miles west of Baghdad.
Medic killed in Iraq had volunteered for patrol
Associated Press October 30, 2005
A Texas soldier who was killed in Iraq had volunteered to go on patrol on the day he died, his family said. Army Spc. Russell H. Nahvi, of Arlington, died Wednesday in Balad, Iraq. The 24-year-old medic had been scheduled to return from Iraq in January. "He e-mailed his sister the day he died, and he told her not to tell us that he would be going in on patrol," said his mother, Nancy Nahvi, of Arlington. "That's where it all happened" Two weeks before his death, her son told her that he was bored when confined to the base and wanted to be in the field, where he could actively help. When his friend and fellow medic went on leave, he volunteered to fill in on patrols, Nancy Nahvi said. He was participating in one such patrol when indirect enemy fire struck his vehicle. Also killed in the attack were Sgt. Arthur A. Mora Jr., 23, of Pico Rivera, Calif. and Spc. Jose E. Rosario, 20, of St. Croix, Virgin Islands. All three were assigned to the 5th Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division in Fort Stewart, Ga.
An Oregon soldier wounded in Iraq sees war's big picture
Kevin Miller Register Gaurd October 30, 2005
On July 28, 2004, rolling along in a Humvee in Taji, Iraq, just north of Baghdad, Sgt. 1st Class Phillip "Vince" Jacques of the Oregon Army National Guard came close to joining the list of the dead.
Saddam accepted UAE exile plan to avert Iraq war-TV
Reuters Reuters October 30, 2005
DUBAI, Oct 28 (Reuters) - Deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had secretly accepted a last-minute plan to go into exile to avert the 2003 Iraq war, but Arab leaders shot the proposal down, Al Arabiya television reported on Friday.
The Myth of The Pro-War, Pro-Bush Military Shattered in New Poll The shocking results from a new poll show that support among the military for President George W. Bush and his catastrophic failure in Iraq is nearly the same as the civilian population. According to the Associated Press, pollster Hunter Bacot said, "We see that those most involved in the Iraq situation, the military, are not so different from the general public after all and share the same concerns about Iraq. Conventional wisdom might suggest that the military would be more supportive of Bush in Iraq, but that simply isn't the case if you look at the numbers." Let's see if the press covers this huge development.
TIM WHITMIRE News Observer (North Carolina) October 29, 2005
We've Been Here Before
Anna Quindlen Newsweek October 29, 2005
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is a tapering wall of black granite cut into the grass of Constitution Gardens. Maya Lin envisioned a scar when she designed it, a scar on this land, which is exactly right. Maybe someday his security detail could drive George W. Bush over to take a look. He'll be able to see himself in the reflective surface. The list of names etched into the wall begins with a soldier who died in 1959 and ends with one who died in 1975. Nearly 60,000 dead are commemorated here. It is the most personal of war memorials. You can touch the cold names with your warm fingers. The president never wanted the war in Iraq to be personal. His people forbade photographs of coffins arriving home. They refused to keep track of how many Iraqis had been killed and wounded. When "Nightline" devoted a show to the faces of soldiers who had died, one conservative broadcast outlet even pulled the program from its lineup. The president wanted this to be about policy, not about people. Even that did not go well. The policy became a moving target. First there were weapons of mass destruction that were not there and direct links to the terrorists who attacked on September 11 that didn't exist. The removal of Saddam Hussein was given as the greatest good; it has been done. Then it became the amorphous goal of bringing freedom to the Iraqi people, as though liberty were flowers and we were FTD. The elections, the constitution, the rubble, the dead. Once again we were destroying the village in order to save it.
Suicide bombings higher than ever in Iraq
Associated Press October 29, 2005
In the six months since Iraq's government took office, suicide bombers have struck nearly 200 times, killing at least one-third of the more than 3,902 Iraqis slain in war-related violence since April 28, according to an Associated Press count.
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