Female Fedayeen

The Bush administration, U.S. soldiers, and the mostly-male media have little or no knowledge of what Iraqi women think about the invasion of their country. The views of some of these modern, educated, outspoken Iraqi women may come as a big surprise.
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Iraqis Vow Revenge as Hatred of US Grows

Hatred of the Americans is boiling on the streets of Fallujah, where Iraqis lobbed grenades into the US military compound yesterday, wounding seven and damaging vehicles.
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Iraqi rage grows after Fallujah massacre

Nearly a week after troops from the 82nd Airborne Division randomly opened fire on a crowd of demonstrators here, prompting the US military to announce an inquiry, commanders have yet to speak to the doctors who counted the bodies.
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U.S. Miscalculates in Iraq

Watching the Shiite Muslims marching through Karbala and Baghdad last week brought back uncomfortable memories. It was Iran in 1979 and 1980; Jimmy Carter was president, and the insufferable Walter Cronkite was counting off the number of days Americans were being held prisoner in the U.S. embassy in Tehran.
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Shia clergy push for Islamist state
Majority sect builds up power base and ridicules western 'liberty'

New Zealand warns on 'law of the jungle'

One of Tony Blair's closest foreign political allies has warned Britain and America that they may live to regret unleashing the "law of the jungle" in international relations when China becomes the dominant world power later this century.
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Americans split over marine's 'war crimes'

A US marine under investigation for war crimes, after he told his local newspaper that he had executed an Iraqi soldier, has become a cause célèbre in his home town, Las Vegas, and has announced his intention to become a policeman.

Navy criminal investigators are questioning gunnery sergeant Gus Covarrubias, about his actions in a battle outside Baghdad's defence ministry on April 8.

Meanwhile, another battle rages in Las Vegas newspaper letter pages and internet chatrooms over whether he is a hero or a criminal.

"Gunny" Covarrubias, now back in Las Vegas recovering from concussion from the battle, told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that he had tracked down two Iraqi soldiers he believed had fired a grenade at his unit, shooting one in the back of the head and another as he tried to escape.

He described his actions as meting out "justice". The Pen tagon disagrees. "If this story is true, then clearly it would be violation of the law of war," Captain Shawn Turner, a marine spokesman said.
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Why should we have our future decided by others? What we won in Iraq

When you look at Iraq today, it's clear that we've walked into a situation only President Bush's most ardent defenders would describe as positive.
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