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WARD, DDS PC HEALTH CENTERED DENTISTRY 300 COUNTRY CLUB RD., STE. 290 EUGENE, OR 97401 • (541) 686-2441 Undercovered #34: Updates on Iraq, Afghanistan. W hoever is organizing guerilla at- tacks against Americans in Iraq, recruits may be easier to find as anger grows. Iraqis say, “They can take our oil but at least they should let us have elec- tricity and water” (Independent). “We will rise up and fight the Americans. We have moved from one dictatorship to another” (Reuters). Paul Bremer, U.S. head of the oc- cupation authority, insists Baghdad has 20 hours of electricity a day, while many Iraqis sweat in 113-degree heat without refrigera- tion, air-conditioning, or lights at night to help protect them from looters (Independent). •In “a cycle of action, reaction, and counter-action,” U.S. military sweeps arrest suspected resistance fighters, and one U.S. soldier on average dies every day (Edinburgh Sunday Herald). Iraqis civilians are shot while protesting, taking care of sheep, or trying to extin- guish fires lit by American flares in their wheat fields (Guardian). U.S. soldiers kick in doors and drag men from their houses while fami- lies scream. Octogenarian Khalaf Shabib weeps, “They treated me like an animal. We are not their en- emies but they are turning us into enemies” (Taipei Times). •Many U.S. soldiers just want to go home. They expected to go when the war ended. Spread thin as peacekeepers at banks, police stations, and electrical installations, they are vulnerable targets for Iraqi rocks and guns. “Saddam isn’t in power any more. The locals want us to leave. Why are we still here?” (Washington Post). Exhausted soldiers of the 315th Infantry Division relive battle experi- ences: “You can’t distinguish between who’s trying to kill you and who’s not ... [You] con- centrate on getting through it by killing as many people as you can. Killing them first and getting home.” “At night time you think about all the people you killed ... There’s no chance to forget it, we’re still here, we’ve been here so long.” “I don’t care about Iraq one way or the other ... Saddam could still be in power and to me, it wasn’t worth leaving my family for.” One soldier has a photo of the World Trade Center hanging above his bed. “Every time I feel sorry for these people I look at that. I think, ‘They hit us at home and now, it’s our turn ...’” (London Evening Standard). •Bremer has issued a proclamation that forbids any “gatherings, pronouncements, or publications” calling for the return of the Baath party, or opposition to the American occupation (Guardian). A further edict pro- hibits media from broadcasting or publishing material that encourages civil disorder or in- cites violence against any individual or group or against coalition forces. Ni’ma Abdulrazzaq, editor of Baghdad’s As-Saah, says the restrictions resemble those under Saddam Hussein (Christian Science Monitor). •Two Iraqi trailers suspected as mobile biological weapons labs may have manufac- tured hydrogen for weather balloons, accord- ing to an intelligence official involved in the investigation. The trailers lack both traces of pathogens and equipment needed to sterilize lab materials (L.A. Times). Bush has now ex- plained that weapons of mass destruction are missing because Iraqi arms sites were looted and burned (Reuters). •On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” former General Wesley Clark said people in the White House had telephoned him on Sept. 11, 2001 and urged him to link Saddam Hussein to the terrorist attacks. Clark said he couldn’t because there was no evidence Thanks to war and lawlessness, Afghanistan has reclaimed its role as the world’s largest opium producer. (FAIR). In the “Selective Intelligence” newsletter, Seymour Hersh writes that Rumsfeld believed Iraq had numerous WMDs and close ties to Al Qaeda and ig- nored conflicting evidence (The New Yorker). •In the international report “Afghanistan: Are We Losing the Peace?” foreign policy experts urge immediate U.S. action before Afghanistan “reverts to warlord-dominated anarchy.” Experts recommend greatly ex- panding the peacekeeping force, rapidly training the Afghan army, and getting agree- ment from Afghanistan’s neighbors to stay out of the country’s internal affairs (Asia Times). Thanks to war and lawlessness, Afghanistan has reclaimed its role as the world’s largest opium producer (AP). Regional warlords who helped the U.S. win the war were rewarded with money and large territories. They have their own armies and collect their own taxes, which they do not send to Karzai’s central government. Karzai controls only Kabul. (Globe & Mail, Canada). One-third of Afghanistan is inac- cessible to U.N. agencies because of security problems (Reuters). Taliban forces have re- bounded, attacking U.S. special forces, for- eign travelers, aid workers, and especially, Afghan soldiers who work with Americans. Dozens of Afghan soldiers are killed each month. Handwritten letters left in villages at night threaten to torture and kill anyone who supports Karzai’s government. As a warning, bodies of two kidnapped Afghan border guards were returned with noses and ears chopped off and bones crushed (Christian Science Monitor). Pakistani and U.S. intelli- gence officers recently met with Taliban leaders to discuss conditions for reconcilia- tion, which might lead to a Taliban role in the Afghan government (Asia Times). ew
