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RUMSFELD: VICTORY CLOSE, BUT MORE WILL DIE:
Wed Apr 9 21:46:35 2003
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Liberty can not be preserved without general knowledge among people."
(August 1765) John Adams

THE IMPERIAL MOMENT ARRIVES: For many Iraqis, released from decades of oppression, how could there not be something euphoric in this moment, whatever the state of their homes and their country, however it was brought to them? For them, however, post-liberation tristesse is likely to come soon enough.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2820.htm

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RUMSFELD: VICTORY CLOSE, BUT MORE WILL DIE: Rumsfeld warned of more battles to come; a large swath of land in central Iraq north of Baghdad through Tikrit and up to Mosul is not yet under U.S. control.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2821.htm

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U.S. OFFICIAL: IRAQ A LESSON FOR OTHERS
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2818.htm

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ON TO DAMASCUS? Tony Blair and Colin Powell have assured the Muslim world the United States does not intend to attack Syria. But did the British prime minister or U.S. secretary of state clear their statements with Richard Perle?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2814.htm

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CONGRESS WARNS SYRIA AND ACCUSES RUSSIA OF THREATENING "AMERICAN LIVES" Tom Lantos, accuses Russian and Syria of actions in support of Iraq and states that they directly threaten American lives and defend terrorists.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2817.htm

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CHENEY CHIDES NAYSAYERS; BOLTON WARNS IRAN, NORTH KOREA, SYRIA
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2815.htm

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U.S. DECLARES BAGHDAD NOW FREE: American units sweep through city. Jubilant crowds swarmed into Baghdad streets, dancing, looting, defacing images of Saddam Hussein.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/battle/la-iraq-040903leadall_lat.story

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20 SCHOOL CHILDREN INJURED IN BOMB BLAST NEAR JENIN: Radical Jewish Group Claims Responsibility for W. Bank Blast
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2812.htm

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SADDAM'S RULE COLLAPSES; LOOTERS RAMPAGE
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=2534661

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IRAQIS ASK 'WHO'S IN CHARGE?' OF BAGHDAD
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=focusIraqNews&storyID=2533221

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AMERICA FACES ISRAEL SCENARIO: This vicious cycle of increasing isolation and militarism, the Israel Scenario, is exactly where America is headed.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2809.htm

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WATCH WOOLSEY: Woolsey has long believed that Washington has a mission to use its overwhelming military power and its democratic ideals to transform the Arab world. And he has pushed for war with Iraq as hard as anyone, even before the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2810.htm

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REPUBLICANS WANT TERROR LAW MADE PERMANENT: Congressional Republicans are maneuvering to make permanent the sweeping antiterrorism powers granted to federal law enforcement agents after the attacks of Sept. 11.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2813.htm

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LEST WE FORGET: "He knows that we are waging this war for a better peace, that we are fighting for the happiness of people who have so often been oppressed by their governments."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2816.htm

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US-BACKED MILITIA TERRORISES TOWN
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2806.htm

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US BOMBS AFGHAN CIVILANS, 11 DEAD: The US military in Afghanistan says it has killed 11 Afghan civilians by mistake in an air attack.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/2931297.stm

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MANIPULATIONS OF A PENTAGON MOUTHPIECE: `Key messages' replace the truth.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2807.htm

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HOW CAN THIS BE A JUST WAR?: American Christians don't have the luxury of ignoring the question of whether America should have attacked Iraq.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2811.htm

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ROBERT FISK: WERE THESE DEATHS MISHAP, OR MURDER? Attacks don't reflect well on the U.S.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2808.htm

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SHORTAGE OF POWER AND WATER IN BAGHDAD HOSPITALS
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2805.htm

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SADDAM SURVIVED ATTACK ON BUILDING SAY BRITISH INTELLIGENCE SOURCES
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2803.htm

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PETER ARNETT: BOMBS BLAST HOMES INSTEAD OF SADDAM: WHEN I heard the story Saddam may have been bombed I knew it had to be wrong intelligence. It had to be rubbish.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2804.htm

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ROBERT FISK: THE DOGS WERE YELPING. THEY KNEW BOMBS WERE ON THE WAY: While American fighter-bombers criss-crossed the sky, while the ground shook to the sound of exploding ordnance, while the American tanks now stood above the Tigris, vast areas of Baghdad – astonishing when you consider the American claim to be "in the heart" of the city – remain under Saddam Hussein's control.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2801.htm

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CHINA STEPS UP PREPARATION FOR U.S. CONFLICT: America's war in Iraq seen as precursor to Asia conquest.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31931

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U.K. FORCES COMMITTED MASS KILLING IN UMM QASR: IRAQIS
http://www.islam-online.net/english/news/2003-04/08/article20.shtml

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WAS 'CHEMICAL ALI' KILLED? U.S. HOPEFUL BUT UNSURE
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=676&ncid=676&e=5&u=/usatoday/20030408/ts_usatoday/5045309

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MURDOCH'S WAR ON TRUTH IN WAR REPORTING
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/04/07/1049567619708.html

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ACCURACY OF BATTLEFIELD NEWS OFTEN HAZY
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=676&ncid=676&e=6&u=/usatoday/20030408/ts_usatoday/5045311

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RUSSIAN GENERAL: US - UK INVASION FORCE CASUALTY REPORTS INACCURATE: The U.S.-British coalition has actually lost more than 340 and about 500 have been wounded," he said.

KILLING A CHILD: 'I DID WHAT I HAD TO DO' He unloaded machinegun fire and the boy, whom he puts at about 10 years old, fell dead on a garbage-strewn stretch of waste land at Karbala.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2800.htm

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