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Waxy.org: Links Miniblog: mp3act, streaming MP3 jukebox (free and Ajax-enabled, but not as feature rich as Zina; requires PHP and MySQL) (via Cosmos)
Jardine Davies' Every Other Rambling: An interesting presentation of Iraqi War fatalities. Click here . Best when your speakers are loud and set to full screen. Chirpy-chirpy chirp. Like birds falling from the sky. (via Cosmos)
[BZB's BriarPatch] Remember the Ash-Heaps of Empire: Call to Action: From the Iraqi point of view, since you can't win, the only real weapon is the demoralisation of the enemy, keeping the war going as long as possible and uniting the population against them. Mark Franchetti reported vividly last weekend on frightened marines shooting up any taxi that moved, describing the fresh-faced soldiers he had met a few days ealier turning into scared, demoralised killers - echoes again of the Vietnam era.
[Thomas Friedman is a Great Man] Behind every great ego: A former Bolton deputy says the U.S. undersecretary of state felt Jose Bustani "had to go," particularly because the Brazilian was trying to send chemical weapons inspectors to Baghdad. That might have helped defuse the crisis over alleged Iraqi weapons and undermined a U.S. rationale for war.
[Still Fighting] Saturday's Links: The insurgency has one goal: To drive Americans out of Iraq, and they are fully committed to that goal. The administration is making the mistake of believing that suicide bombers and scattered attacks are "desperate," and that's not the case.
[Lunaville.com] Lunaville BLOG: seven Iraqis were wounded when a rocket exploded in a restaurant off the capital’s central Museum square. Three of the wounded were waiters and the rest customers, according to police.
[Michaelyon.blogspot.com] Michael Yon : Online Magazine: Followers of an ancient religion, whose proponents claim it is the oldest in the world, there are thought to be about a half million Yezidis, living mostly in the area of Mosul, with smaller bands in forgotten villages scattered across Northern Iraq, Syria, Turkey and other lands. Saddam had labeled the Yezidis "Devil Worshippers," a claim I'd heard other Iraqis make, but no source offered substantiation.
[Wbur.org] Iraq War Weblog, Conflict in Iraq: Under the protection of a no-fly zone, and having negotiated an end to a civil war between two political factions, the Kurds of northern Iraq are prospering in what some observers are calling a "Golden Age." They have established civil institutions like courts and other trappings of an embryonic state, and their armed militias help keep the peace in northern Iraq. Ankara frets this experiment in Kurdish autonomy will inspire the Kurds of Turkey which account for 20% of the population.
[Roadstoiraq.com] Baghdad Dweller» Forcing Democracy in The Middle East: You can call this a preparation for the war with Iran, there were many doubts among Iraqis that Iran was really involved in the bomb when Iraqi students were peacefully demonstrating or better to say orchestrated demonstration (I really don’t remember why the demonstration was about, hope Iraqis can help me here), the bomb killed two students and the bomber killed by the police, as the official story goes, the name of the bomber was “Gullam Hussein”, the name Gullam is an Iranian name and according to Saddam’s government he was an Fayli Kurd and they are “fayli Kurds” cooperating with Iran. That was the start of forcing Fayli Kurds to emigrate.
[Historyguy.com] The History Guy: The Third Persian Gulf War (2003): On March 19, 2003, at 5:34 AM in Iraq, (6:34 PM on the U.S. West Coast), U.S. Stealth bombers and Tomahawk Cruise Missiles struck "leadership targets" in and around the Iraqi capital of Baghdad to begin the second major war between a United States-led Coalition and Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Soon thereafter, air attacks began against Iraqi targets in southern Iraq, followed by missile attacks from Iraq toward U.S. military positions in the Kuwaiti desert.
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