Ali Fadhil, the Iraqi who made the documentary about the US assault on Fallujah shown last week on Channel 4, has delayed leaving Britain so that he can speak at the Stop the War Coalition student teach-in on 2 February. For more details of the teach-in see page 10.
GEORGE BUSH and Tony Blair say the elections scheduled for the end of this month will bring democracy to Iraq. But the democracy they are talking about is the rule of the occupiers under the cover of an elected Iraqi assembly.
AS MANY as 19 Iraqi civilians were killed by US forces in just two incidents at the weekend. To the world’s media they remain nameless and faceless—another statistic in the mounting death toll of the occupation.
"I think the people who are trying to do this are totally ignorant, or incompetent, or both."Najmaldin Karim president of the Washington Kurdish Institute on the confusion surrounding postal votes for Iraqi Americans.
US injuries pass the 10,000 mark
US TROOPS now have a one in 11 casualty rate in Iraq, with the number of US soldiers who have suffered injuries passing the 10,000 mark this week.
The feud between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown supposedly symbolises a historic clash of principles. Some union leaders and charities are pinning their hopes on the outcome. The feud is symptomatic of the crises that have beset New Labour’s inner core since it took us into the disastrous war on Iraq. But as for principled differences, there are none.
THE US army is facing desertion and recruitment failures as the disaster in Iraq bites into troop morale. Over 5,000 US soldiers have deserted since the war began.
WHAT WITH the bloody chaos being wreaked in Iraq by a re-elected Bush administration, the global scene is already pretty grim. But it could get a lot worse if the dollar crisis predicted by many commentators really gets going.
