Dear Readers,
If there is ever to be a democracy on this Earth, it will have a totally free press.
Yesterday, we not only bombed Al Jazeera (killing a reporter), we also bombed Abu Daubi Television's offices, and the Iraqi Television station, wherever we thought that was. In the Afghanistan war, we bombed Al Jazeera, too. All these strikes except the ones on Iraqi TV were supposedly accidents.
That's a lot of "accidents", but maybe our bombs are just a lot more sloppy than we like to admit. We also killed a lot of civilians in downtown Baghdad yesterday, and irradiated the rest with Depleted Uranium, an extremely virulent carcinogen which we officially deny is even hazardous.
The dust being raised in Iraq makes for red sunsets the world over -- have you noticed?
Isn't it beautiful?
No.
Sincerely,
Russell D. Hoffman
Concerned Civilian Journalist
HQ: Carlsbad, CA, USA
(Note to military: Please don't bomb our HQ!)
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At 12:44 AM 4/8/2003 , rak0408@earthlink.net wrote:
Re: US bombing reportedly kills Jazeera cameraman
Isn't knocking out a foe's media a violation of the Geneva Conventions?
Complete stories are at www.reuters.com.
Jazeera TV Office Hit in Baghdad Air Raid
Tue April 8, 2003 02:15 AM ET
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Al-Jazeera television said on Tuesday its Baghdad office was hit by a U.S. missile during an air raid on the Iraqi
capital and that two of its staff were wounded, one seriously.
Jazeera's Baghdad correspondent Maher Abdullah said the missile strike destroyed an electricity generator and set fire to the Arab
satellite TV's office.
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Jazeera TV Says Cameraman Killed in Baghdad Raid
Tue April 8, 2003 02:39 AM ET
DOHA (Reuters) - Al-Jazeera television said one of its cameramen was killed on Tuesday in a U.S. air raid on Baghdad which set ablaze
the network's downtown office.
"We regret to inform you that our cameraman and correspondent Tarek Ayoub was killed this morning during the U.S. missile strike on
our Baghdad office," the Qatar-based channel said in a statement read out during its news bulletin.
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Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 21:46:48 +0900
Subject: BAGDHAD BABBLE
From: Richard Wilcox <rwilcox@interlink.or.jp>
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From/by: Wallace Gagne <w-s-gagne@nifty.com>
BAGDHAD BABBLE
They crossed the Tigris. They circled Baghdad. Theyıre degrading
the Republican Guard, flexing their muscles, renaming the airport.
Our guys' got M16s, F-14s, M1A1Abrams and Bradley Fighting Vehicles.
They've got AK-47s, Sovietbuilt T72s and rocket propelled grenades.
We know theyıve got enormous stocks of biochemical weapons.
Weıll find em. Smoking gun. Blister agent. Nerve agent. Told you so.
Could be mosquito repellent. It's day. It's night. It's fireballs,
mortar and small arms fire. Saddam's alive. Saddam's dead. Saddam's standing
on the corner watching all the girls go by. We're sending the Seventh
Cavalry,
the 101st Airborne, the 3rd Infantry. We've got Warthogs, Tony Blair,
Super Cobras, Strike Eagles and Tom Cats. They're hiding in tunnels,
hunkered in bunkers, hanging from the rafters. People are cheering.
People are desperate. People are funny. We're being shot at, welcomed
with open arms, cut to pieces. Here's Phil. There's Wolf. Over to Nic.
Back to Becky. They're up in the air, on the ground, down in the dumps.
It's hot. It's cold. It's hot and cold. This war's fantastic. This war's a
disaster.
Streets and markets are seething. It's Saddam.
It's Chemical Ali. It's the Chemical Brothers. We're here. We're there.
We're everywhere.
I'm trapped in a firefight, caught in a crossfire, hit by friendly fire.
He's a tyrant. He's a patriot. A genius. An idiot. Stay tuned.
Fighting's house to house, room to room, hand to mouth, toe to toe,
pillar to post, ass over tea kettle. It's just beginning. It's all over.
Open-ended. Closed captioned. Our forces are pressing north,
heading south, looking west, bowing to the east. All is calm.
All is bright. Be the first to know. The latest reports are deeply
disturbing,
highly elating, clumsy and ignorant. Thank you.
We're stuck in a quagmire. We're in the driverıs seat. We're in a quagmire
stuck in the driver's seat. He's entrenched.
She's embedded. They're encircled. The Iraqi people are full of hope,
draining
our resources, brimming with confidence, bleeding us dry.
The media is exposing the truth, hiding the facts.
It's spectacular. It's hopeless. A cakewalk. A bloodbath.
More in a moment.
Wallace Gagne
Tokyo, 04/07/03
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To: rhoffman@animatedsoftware.com
Subject: DU in 1st gulf war
hi russell
today on pacifica-berkeley an interview with an army officer and veteran of 1st gulf war (doug rocke) spoke of several thousand soldier deaths and more than 200,000 disabilities due to DU, etc.
go to: www.flashpoints.net
tom
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