Actual U.S. Body Count

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People's Daily (Renmin Ribao / Renmin Wang), Peking (11/8/2003):

100 Days after the War on Iraq
- Lots of Problems still left -
(مائة أيام بعد الحرب للعراق (جريدة رسمية في الصين


From May 1, when U.S. president Bush declared the end of all essential fight-
ing in Iraq on board of the aircraft carrier "Lincoln", until August 8, its 
now altogether 100 days. That very day, when Bush was going to have a holiday
on (his) farm in Texas, he told a choice of journalists in an interview that
allied troops, stationed in Iraq, are "slowly but reliably" going to establish
stability in Iraq. This should be of an extreme importance to the open fight
against terrorism. To those journalists who asked whether the occupation of 
Iraq by U.S. troops needed to be sustained for long, Bush replied: In order 
to reach victory in the open fight against terrorism, (we) have to remain 
for a long, long time. And he expressed "grief" towards those U.S. soldiers 
that are losing their lives in succession.
..........
There's a comment which puts it that way: Even if the war on Iraq probably 
has ended, according to the definition of "war" in military science, all that 
people can see and hear from "post war" Iraq, has something of a continued 
rising of the smoke of gunpowder that is lingering everywhere. The British 
"Independent" estimates that a guerilla war is going to develop when surprise 
attacks are being launched against U.S. "occupation forces". As to post war 
reconstruction (we have to keep in mind): Owing to the fact that it was the 
U.S. who began putting the United Nations at the outside (of the conflict), 
while political forces in the U.S.A. were emerging that did not imagine any 
difficulties to come, it is beyond doubt that both, the aspects of time and 
of monetary funds, are likely to exceed the original plannings. Such, the U.S.
have to digest the bitter fruit, grown on unilateralism, and still have a long 
way to go.


Translation of an excerpt from the Chinese text by Wolfgang Wiesner.

	   						 	                Burning Tyres in a Street of Basra







WASHINGTON POST (12/8/2003):
Headline: "In Basra, Worst May Be Ahead"
An uneasy calm returned to Basra on Monday 
after two days of unrest, but residents still
express anger over shortages of gasoline and 
electricity and the skyrocketing black-market 
prices that have accompanied them.


AL-JAZEERA (17/8/2003):
Resistance group announcing a concentration
of attacks directed against occupation troops.
حركة عراقية تتوعد بتكثيف الهجمات ضد الاحتلال





"حركة المقاومة الإسلامية الوطنية العراقية" The National Islamic Resistance Movement of Iraq (photo: Al-Jazeera)

	

Islamic Terrorism in Iraq

Sun Bin: "The Art of War"

King Wei asked, "Is there a way to attack an enemy ten times our strength ?"
"Yes, there is," answered Sun Bin, "and that is to attack when he is
not expecting you and when he is unprepared."

Sun Bin had been the military advisor of King Wei
who ruled the state of Qi during the Period of the
Warring States (475-221 B.C.) in imperial China

Further Notes on Iraq:

14/12/2003: Saddam finally caught - War will continue !

اعتقال الرئيس المحلوع صدام حسين و سيستمر الحرب

EL MUNDO, Spanish daily (5/10/2003):

Excerpts from an interview with Egyptian president Mubarak, published by the reputed French daily LE MONDE, Paris.
(English translation published by AL-JAZEERA):

Mubarak: Arabs hate U.S. more than ever
الرئيس المصري حسني مبارك: العرب المبغض للاميركيين
	
Arabs in the Middle East hate the United States more than ever following the invasion of Iraq and Israel's 
assassination of two Hamas leaders, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said in comments published Tuesday. 
"There exists today a hatred of Americans never equalled in the region," he told the newspaper Le Monde 
in a reference to the Middle East. 
"In the beginning some people thought the Americans were helping them. There was no hatred towards 
Americans. After what happened in Iraq, there is an unprecedented hatred and the Americans know it," 
said Mubarak, regarded as one of the Middle Eastern leaders relatively sympathetic to the United States. 
He said the first cause of terrorism was injustice. "Look at what is happening in Palestine and in Iraq. 
Where there is pressure and injustice there are terrorism and attacks," he said. 
"It is despair that pushes some people to commit attacks against some American interest or other. Despair 
and a feeling of injustice are not going to confine themselves to our region," Mubarak said. "American 
and Israeli interests are not safe, not only in our region but in other parts of the world, in Europe, in 
America, anywhere in the world." Mubarak also accused the United States of having helped create fundamen-
talist Islamist movements to fight the influence of the former Soviet Union. 
"It is dangerous to exploit religion. They used Islam against communism. And today they say Islam is a 
danger. You should not meddle with the faith and beliefs of people."