from the ANSWER Coaliation
The world has witnessed the greatest natural disaster in the lifetime of most of the people now living. The expressions of human solidarity, stretching across countries and continents, is the one bright light. But even that light is dimmed by the reports and images of growing human suffering and loss that nearly defies the imagination.
Dec 21, 2004
By Khadija Abdul Qahaar, JUS And Muhammad Abu Nasr, Free Arab Voice
At approximately 12:25pm on Saturday, resistance fighters waged an unprecedented assault on the Abu Ghraib prison camp south of Baghdad. The assault was sparked by a letter from a female prisoner named Fatima that fueled some Muslim fighters into action.
Premeditated Death and Destruction Unleashed Against a Sovereign Nation and People
by Niloufer Bhagwat
Opening statement before the Iraq tribunal hearings at Tokyo
11 Dec 2004
Honorable Judges , Prosecutors , Amici Curiae , witnesses of the satanic death and destruction of the people of Iraq , of homes and livelihood , of hospitals , schools and places of worship; concerned citizens of Japan .
By Dahr Jamail in Sadr City, Baghdad
The Sunday Herald Weblink: http://www.sundayherald.com/46543
12 December 2004
EYEWITNESS: Iraq's civilian body count may go officially undocumented but the widows and the orphans know the true extent of the toll
The Sadr City area of Baghdad is a sprawling slum of nearly three million people. Predominantly Shia and the most poverty stricken area of the capital, most residents here celebrated the fall of Saddam Hussein and his Sunni dominated Baathist regime. For it was the Shia people of Sadr, perhaps more than any other group in Baghdad, that suffered the most under his brutal regime.
