-Caveat Lector- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Ian Henshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: War report and news sources
27.03.03 / United Kingdom Here is a short update on the war. The UK media have been largely taken over by war propaganda which contains an indeterminate amount of straightforward lies. This is the site with the military news from the Iraqi side, it is getting millions of hits: http://www.aeronautics.ru/news/news002/news076.htm Other sites independent of the US/UK disinformation system are: http://www.wsws.org http://www.rense.com http://www.WhatReallyHappened.com Al Jazeera, the station run by ex-BBC employees broadcasts out of pro-war Qatar, now host to the Blair/Bush attack. They show pictures banned in the US/UK media of civilian casualties and have exposed the more obvious US/UK lies. http://www.aljazeerah.info/ WAR UPDATE The Bush/Blair forces are facing fierce resistance from all Iraqis including Shias, so far the Republican Guard has hardly been engaged. The supply lines are overstretched and the possibility of a damaging Iraqi counter-attack is looming. Battles are raging all over Southern Iraq and nobody except the respective military commands has the full picture. The official casualty figures are almost certainly false, the US/UK deaths and serious injuries are probably running into the hundreds. Dozens if not scores of vehicles are lost and many hitech systems are not withstanding the desert conditions. The Iraqis have evolved tactics to overcome some of the technical US/UK superiority and there is fury from US/UK that they have acquired communications and night vision technology from the Russians which should have been banned by sanctions. The Russians have also supplied jamming technology that has apparently thrown off the GPS targeting system of some of the "smart missiles" causing them to land on civilian targets... a ruthless propaganda weapon for Saddam. As well as lying about casualties, US/UK are lying about damage to civilian targets which have probably caused hundreds of deaths and serious injuries by now. There is a complicity here with the Iraqi regime which also wishes to understate civilian casualties so as to maintain morale. The most spectacular lie was over the `insurrection` in Basra, carried as fact in all the UK newspapers except The Guardian and the Mirror where coverage has remained reasonably objective. The `insurrection` was probably concocted to distract from the real story: that the US/UK invaders are blockading the city and have interfered with water and electricity supplies, creating a massive humanitarian crisis there. Promoting this lie on BBC Radio 4 a military PR officer spent some time explaining that this was a war of liberation and went on to tell interviewer Nick Clarke that Basra would soon be `captured - I mean liberated`. If as appears the US/UK invaders are already running low on precision weaponry they may resort to indiscriminate bombardment and lie about it, as happened in the 1991 war. The pattern was repeated again in Kosovo where a war promoted by Blair to teach Milosovic a lesson caused a massive humanitarian crisis and was escalated to a criminal bombing campaign against civilian targets. At one point NATO falsified film footage to excuse an attack on a civilian train. The 1991 Iraq war ended when US pilots destroyed two large convoys fleeing Kuwait, killing tens of thousands of Iraqi military and civilians along with their Kuwaiti hostages. Then the attackers had the cover of a large coalition of complicit states. If US/UK forces conduct similar atrocities this time the war could escalate. It is now clear that Bush/Blair have made a horrendous strategic error in assuming the Iraqis won't fight, a similar error to that made by Hitler in his attack on Russia. Many Arabs are optimistic that Baghdad could prove to be Bush/Blair's Stalingrad. If Iraq holds out for long there will certainly be renewed moves against US/UK in the UN which will make it clearer than ever that the attacks are illegal. In the UK, opinion polls are claiming a swing back to support for Blair who plans to promote himself again as Mr Nice and blame all the problems on Bush. UK citizens are some of the most gullible in the world: egged on by the pro-war media, a section feel that `our` troops should be supported right or wrong once the war has started. This will not survive a military failure. The anti-war movement should concentrate on Blair as much as the war, reminding everyone that he got us into this. ### <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance—not soap-boxing—please! 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