Wednesday, March 26, 2003 :::
 

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,922723,00.html
Jubilation turns to hate as aid arrives
Burhan Wazir in Zubayr, Iraq
Thursday March 27, 2003
The Guardian

"The young man wearing the brown shawl summed it up succinctly: "We want you to go back home. We do not want your American and British aid," he said, his eyes flashing with anger . . .
. . .
". . . Tomorrow, they will undoubtedly try again to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi civilians. And presumably tomorrow, they will encounter yet more resentment."

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Scorecard for the War
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/26/opinion/26FRIE.html?pagewanted=print&position=top

New York Times
March 26, 2003

Scorecard for the War
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

How will we know if we are winning in Iraq? Here are six things I am watching for:

1) Have we occupied Baghdad — without leveling the whole city?

2) Have we killed, captured or expelled Saddam?

(3) Have we been able to explain why some Iraqi forces are putting up such a fierce fight? . . . It is not at all unusual for Arabs to detest both their own dictator and a foreign occupier.

(4) Have we won this war and preserved the territorial integrity of Iraq?

5) Has an authentic Iraqi liberal nationalist emerged from the U.S. occupation to lead the country?

(6) Is the Iraqi state that emerges from this war accepted as legitimate by Iraq's Arab and Muslim neighbors?

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-war-protests26mar26,1,5375452.story

Protesters Rally in Syria, Libya, Jordan
DAMASCUS, Syria
Schools, universities and government institutions closed in Damascus while an estimated 500,000 people protested.

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http://www.jewishjournal.com/home/preview.php?id=10255 Among the nation’s 1.4 million servicemen and women on active military duty, 3,083 are Jewish, according to the U.S. Department of Defense.


http://www.ceip.org/files/nonprolif/templates/Publications.asp?p=8&PublicationID=1214Origins of Regime Change in Iraq
Proliferation Brief, Volume 6, Number 5
Wednesday, March 19, 2003

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Links to Likud
In 1996, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and David Wurmser, now administration officials, joined in a report to the newly elected Likud government in Israel calling for "a clean break" with the policies of negotiating with the Palestinians and trading land for peace. They said "Israel can shape its strategic environment…by weakening, containing and even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq…Iraq's future could affect the strategic balance in the Middle East profoundly." They called for "reestablishing the principle of preemption."

In 1998, 18 prominent conservatives wrote a letter to President Clinton urging him to "aim at the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime from power." Most of these experts are now officials in the administration, including Elliot Abrams, Richard Armitage, John Bolton, Paula Dobriansky, Zalmay Khalilzad, Richard Perle, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz.

The Power of Planning
In 2000, the Project for the New American Century, which is chaired by William Kristol and includes Robert Kagan as a director, issued a report, "Rebuilding America's Defenses." The Project had organized the 1998 letter to Clinton and the 2000 report seems to have become a blueprint for the administration's foreign and defense policies. The report noted, "The U.S. has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in the Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hu

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href="http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,7496,922264,00.html">MediaGuardian.co.uk | New media | Guardian
Al-Jazeera websites forced off air

http://www.english.aljazeera.net/

Al-Jazeera websites 'hit by hackers'
Dominic Timms
Wednesday March 26, 2003
The English-language and Arabic websites of Qatar-based broadcaster al-Jazeera were forced down this morning after a spate of suspected hacker attacks



last night.

Neither aljazeera.net, which gets the most hits of any Arabic website in the world, nor english.aljazeera.net, which launched on Monday, were available this morning after suspected attacks crashed both sites.

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Tuesday, March 25, 2003 :::
 

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25577-2003Mar25.html

Al-Jazeera Site Experiences Hack Attack

http://english.aljazeera.net

Hackers attacked the Web site of Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera on Tuesday, rendering it intermittently unavailable, the site's host said.

The newly launched English-language page, which went live Monday and posted images of the corpses of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, was hardest hit in a bombardment of data packets known as a denial-of-service attack.




(TechNews.com)

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"Pentagon: Iraqi Forces Engaged in 'Deadly Deception,' CNN, March 25, 2003
"First Stop, Iraq," Time, March 25, 2003
"Coalition Tackles Saddam Guards," BBC News, March 25, 2003

"U.S. Under Pressure to Find Banned Weapons," USA Today, March 25, 2003
"The Wraps Come Off Bush's Colonialist Agenda," Los Angeles Times Op-Ed by Robert Scheer, March 25, 2003
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Regime Change in the Middle East
Key Documents on the Administration's Plans for Regime Change

Excerpts from 1992 Draft "Defense Planning Guidance," A policy statement on America's mission in the post-Cold War era drafted under Paul Wolfowitz, then-under secretary of defense for policy. 1992
"A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" In a memo to then-Irsaeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and others present a bold new strategy for Israel that focuses on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq. July 1996
Letter to President Clinton on Iraq Conservative thinkers, many of whom became senior officials in the . . .

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Monday, March 24, 2003 :::
 

http://www.latimes.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=la%2Dwar%2Darcheology24mar24§ion=%2Fnews%2Fnationworld%2Firaq%2Finside
Los Angeles Times:

A Plea for Treasures of Civilization A Plea for Treasures of Civilization

Archeologists list thousands of sites in Iraq that they hope can be protected from war.

By Thomas H. Maugh II
Times Staff Writer

March 24, 2003

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Sunday, March 23, 2003 :::
 

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/23/international/worldspecial/23PREE.html?pagewanted=print&position=top

New York Times
March 23, 2003

Pre-emption: Idea With a Lineage Whose Time Has Come
By STEVEN R. WEISMAN

" . . . the debate about how to neutralize the threat from Iran and North Korea — the other two nations in the "axis of evil" cited by Mr. Bush — would begin even before the fighting in Iraq ended."

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