Posted 04 June 2003 - 05:10 PM
But this will probably be a thread about problems encountered. 
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Occupiers Propose New Media Code in Iraq Coalition officials say the code is not intended to censor the media, only to stifle intemperate speech that could incite violence and hinder efforts to build a civil society. The country is just too fragile for a journalistic free-for-all, they say. |
Posted 04 June 2003 - 05:15 PM
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| Treasury's Taylor: More Cash Headed Toward Iraq WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. Treasury official said on Wednesday another shipment of hundreds of millions in U.S. cash is headed to war-torn Iraq (news - web sites) as provisional authorities try to keep key civil service workers on the job. |
Posted 05 June 2003 - 09:13 AM
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| ''This is police work,'' says Spc. Shaun Urwiler, 26, of the 3rd Infantry Division..."We're infantry fighters. We don't do this. It's actually much more stressful than fighting a war.'' |
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| One problem that was immediately clear: Soldiers have until now mostly stayed in their vehicles. ''The 3rd I.D. was driving around in Humvees and tanks, but not making local connections,'' says Cheatham, 24. ''It was pretty obvious that some people hadn't seen U.S. soldiers in their neighborhoods because the streets were just too narrow for the vehicles.'' |
Posted 05 June 2003 - 09:26 AM
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| The coalition's new hard-line approach to root out up to 50,000 members of the former ruling Baath Party is needed to ensure Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) loyalists don't creep into the new government, officials say. But critics, including many Iraqis, say the purge is sweeping up thousands of Baathists with few ideological ties to the party or former ruler Saddam. The purge risks alienating many middle-class Iraqis and technocrats needed to rebuild the country. Worse, they say it may build resentment and hostility. |
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| While the Bush administration may prefer that a postwar American occupation of Iraq draw upon Gen. Douglas MacArthur's success in Japan after World War II, the tenure of Gen. George S. Patton as military governor of Bavaria may prove more instructive. The American military administration in Iraq will face the same dilemmas he did. |
Posted 05 June 2003 - 01:45 PM
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| "Imagine how an Iraqi man feels when he sees a foreigner touching his sister," said Qassem Hasnawi, who runs a drinks stand near the site of the attack. "We can never accept it." The US-led coalition said this week it would try to ensure that more female soldiers are available to search female civilians, but anger is already at the boil in this city over a heady mix of fact and hearsay from the street. |
Posted 07 June 2003 - 09:16 PM
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| U.S. troops have been ambushed in Iraq near Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, while U.N. experts near Baghdad have begun assessing damage at a plundered nuclear facility. The U.S. military says one soldier died and four were wounded Saturday when gunmen fired small arms and a rocket grenade at them. |
Posted 07 June 2003 - 09:22 PM
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| Kareem is terribly keen, though, not to blame the Americans. Not to blame them too much, anyway. 'You must remember how much we hated Saddam, how happy we are that he is gone. Saddam not only damaged us physically, but he damaged the ... the grain of ourselves. So much that was good and beautiful about the Iraqi people. There was no culture, no teaching, and he turned humans into animals, which is what you see in the streets of Baghdad. This is not true Iraqi people . These are people made mad by Saddam.' |
Posted 09 June 2003 - 01:09 PM
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| In an attack typifying the difficulties facing the US military since the fall of Baghdad on April 9, Iraqi gunmen pulled up to a checkpoint in Al-Qaim, by the Syrian border, and faked a medical emergency. "An undetermined number of assailants pulled up to the checkpoint in a vehicle and requested help for a sick' person in the car. Two people armed with pistols then exited the vehicle and shot dead the soldier," US Central Command (Centcom) said. The soldier was the 29th US service personnel to have died in fighting or accidents in Iraq since May 1, when US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) declared the war on Iraq effectively over, according to an AFP toll. In a further incident, US troops detained two Iraqis after coming under fire during a patrol operation in the flashpoint town of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, Centcom said. Residents told AFP that during the patrols, US troops shot dead an Iraqi gunshop owner after mistaking him for an armed assailant as he repaired a Kalashnikov outside his store. However this was not mentioned by Centcom. |
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| ... the postwar U.S. death rate, now averaging more than one soldier per day, is giving pause to military planners and could threaten public support for the years of occupation now envisioned by the Bush administration. |
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| Cultural collisions In the small town of Hit, soldiers responded to a rocket-propelled grenade attack two weeks ago by staging a house-to-house search for weapons. The raids unleashed a furor in the religiously conservative area, as men expressed outrage over soldiers' barging into homes where the women were, in the Iraqis' view, immodestly dressed. That was all it took to spark a furious attack on the local police station, where Army officials were meeting. Before it was over, two soldiers were wounded by a grenade tossed into the compound and Army reinforcements fought their way in to rescue the injured; after they left, demonstrators ravaged the abandoned compound. |
Posted 10 June 2003 - 05:58 AM
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| In a sweltering courthouse Tuesday, an Iraqi judge held the first criminal hearings in Fallujah since the war began when U.S. military police brought him three suspects... "The court welcomes the cooperation of coalition forces on the condition that they are respectful of the civil rights of the Iraqi people and will not influence the beliefs of the Iraqi people," Jawhar said, referring to the ban on trying to convert Muslims to other religions. |
Posted 10 June 2003 - 06:17 PM
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| The soldiers were attacked at a collection point for illegal weapons in the southwestern part of the Iraqi capital, Central Command said in a statement. Names of the soldiers, who were from the 2nd Brigade Combat Team of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, were withheld Tuesday until their relatives could be notified. |
Posted 11 June 2003 - 10:45 AM
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| Operation Peninsula Strike began on Monday, when soldiers launched a number of raids in northeast Balad, Iraq, along the Tigris River (search) to clear out Baath Party (search) loyalists, paramilitary groups and other deviant elements. So far, Operation Peninsula Strike has resulted in the capture of 397 suspects and the seizure of numerous weapon systems and ammunition. |
Posted 12 June 2003 - 07:40 AM
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| The helicopter's two crew members were not injured and were rescued almost immediately as coalition troops secured the crash site, according to a statement by the U.S. Central Command. |
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| "The pilot ejected safely from the single-seat aircraft and was rescued at approximately 7:30 am. He was transported to the nearest facility for medical care," the statement said. |
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| Taveau said unspecified Islamic parties had declared a jihad against U.S.-led troops controlling Iraq and there had been a "significant increase in well-organized attacks against the coalition forces, as well as Iraqi police stations." |
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| U.S. intelligence has made progress in figuring out which groups are responsible for which attacks and U.S. troops are working to dismantle them, Blount said. ... anecdotal evidence such as large amounts of cash seized during arrests of militants suggests that someone is paying them, said Sgt. Brian Thomas, a U.S. Army spokesman in Baghdad. |
Posted 13 June 2003 - 07:59 AM
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| "Our soldier is in very bad shape, full of shrapnel," Brigadier General Benjamin Freakley told AFP. A local religious figure told AFP the men were former Iraqi soldiers that were taking revenge because they had not been paid since Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s regime fell to the US and British coalition forces in early April. |
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| U.S. strategists said the military has been preparing to strike the remnants of Saddam's fighting forces since the end of the war, gathering intelligence on their whereabouts and capabilities and taunting them into action. ... A Pentagon (news - web sites) official said most of the dead were non-Iraqis, apparently among the thousands of volunteers from other Arab countries who poured into Iraq before the war and who put up the stiffest resistance to the American thrust on Baghdad. |
Posted 13 June 2003 - 03:22 PM
Posted 14 June 2003 - 09:02 AM
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| Although large parts of Iraq are relatively peaceful and U.S. military control overall is not in doubt, an amalgam of shadowy resistance forces, including unknown numbers of non-Iraqi fighters, are carrying out almost daily hit-and-run attacks against the American occupation forces. |
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| Back From War, With Stories to Tell Hospital Ship Comfort Returns to Home Port After Serving in Persian Gulf Some of the Comfort's nurses came back speaking bits and pieces of another language from treating wounded Iraqi prisoners of war. "The one word I'll never forget is, 'Aalam, Aalam,' said Cmdr. Agnes Bradley-Wright, 42, of Silver Spring. "The word means pain in Arabic, and the patients would shout it nonstop . . . almost like a chorus." "They called us 'Sistahs,' " her friend, Lt. Cmdr. C.A. Spears, said. "At first we thought they were trying to be hip, but that's what they call nurses . . . sisters." |
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