2006_03_19_archive

Good morning

for all arab and Iraqis who are in the States now and have no access

to Arabic written websites like this one, I sent this link

see the reality on ground in Iraq, written by Iraqi simple man

http://shalashaliraqi.blogspot.com/

all my best

faiza

# posted by Faiza Al-Arji @ 9:26 PM

Hi, Attached is a 20-page report on the current situation for Iraqi

women. It's a good piece to leave with legislators, especially those

who think they have liberated Iraqi women! It's also available for

download at: http://www.womensaynotowar.org/article.php?id=803

Best

,Gael

# posted by Faiza Al-Arji @ 9:13 PM

The Daily Star newspaper has published an article about an entire

Iraqi family that was killed in a U.S. raid last Wednesday in

al-es-haqi town north of Baghdad.

Associated Press photographs showed the bodies of two men, five

children and

four other covered figures arriving at Tikrit General Hospital

accompanied by

grief-stricken relatives.

Despite the statements of the U.S military that the house contained an

Al-Qaeda suspect, Colonel Farouq Hussein of the Iraqi Police said that

the autopsies of those children and women were carried out at Tikrit

hospital and it was found that "all the victims had gunshot wounds to

the head".

The bodies, their hands bound, had been dumped in one room before

the house

was destroyed, Hussein said. Police had found spent American-issue

cartridges in