MEDIA ADVISORY
January 23, 2002
Contacts: Brian Becker, Larry Holmes -- 212-633-6646
Feb 2 Protesters Against World Economic Forum Say: "WE WILL DEFEND OUR RIGHT TO PROTEST"
Announcing First Anti-Globalization Protests Since Sept. 11
PRESS CONFERENCE
Who:
Ramsey Clark, former U.S. Attorney General and one of the attorneys who have filed a lawsuit in federal court demanding that Guantanamo POWs be accorded the legal protections of the Geneva Conventions
James Creedon, NYC Paramedic who worked at Ground Zero
Larry Holmes, International Action Center
Ismael Guadalupe, Committee for the Rescue & Development of Vieques
Macrina Cardenas, Mexico Solidarity Network
Brian Becker, Co-Director, International Action Center
Nadia Ahmed, Students for International Peace & Justice
Sarah Sloan, Student Organizer for A.N.S.W.E.R.
Debbie Daniels, M.D., Doctors for Global Health
Ray LaForest, DC 1707, New York Labor Against the War
Elijah Crane, Student Organizer for International Action Center
Gail Walker, IFCO/Pastors for Peace
Facilitator: Teresa Gutierrez, International A.N.S.W.E.R.
REPORT FROM IRAQ: U.S. DROPS BOMBS EVERY DAY
By Brian Becker
Mosul, Iraq
06/09/2002
URL :
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section=A3ABBD&object_id=15163
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REPORT FROM IRAQ: U.S. DROPS BOMBS EVERY DAY
A trip through Iraq in blistering late-August heat makes it crystal clear that the Bush administration is already waging a "pre-war" war that includes bombings almost on a daily basis.
By Brian Becker Mosul, Iraq
06-09-2002
Designed to degrade Iraq's potential for air defense and to monitor its military response to air assaults, these bombings are taking a toll. People are getting killed and wounded regularly, but you would never know it if your source of information is the Western mass media.
This writer went to Iraq on Aug. 25 as part of a fact- finding anti-war delegation led by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. The delegation flew into Iraq's "no- fly zones" in the north and south of the country for five days. In those five days, the U.S. bombed Iraq on five separate occasions.
True to form, the U.S. media said almost nothing about these daily bombings. Each day after we returned from the site of the latest bombing we would check the web sites of the Western media. Nary a peep about the lawless aggression waged from the skies by U.S. warplanes. Instead, the U.S. media focused its coverage on "why Saddam Hussein is such a great threat to world peace."
BOMBS DROP EVERY DAY
On Aug. 25, U.S. planes bombed Basra, the second-largest city in Iraq. Eight people died on the spot and 10 more were wounded. When we arrived in Basra on Aug. 27, we learned that one of the seriously injured had also died from his wounds.
http://www.lai-aib.org/lai/article_lai.phtml?section=A3ABBD&object_id=15163