Updated April 7, 2003
	WAR IN IRAQ Filed March 25, 2003 By the editors of IraqJournal.org On March 20, 2003 at approximately 5:35 am local time, U.S, bombs fell on Baghdad, Iraq. This has been followed by days of severe bombing in Baghdad and other cities, and the incursion of U.S. and British ground forces in Iraq. It has also been followed by huge protests in cities and towns across the United States and around the globe. There are currently no IraqJournal team members in Baghdad. When new material becomes available, it will be posted here immediately. We encourage visitors to this site to check out the other websites with more up -to-date information. Many are listed in the right column of this page. Some sources of independent reports directly from Baghdad include the Iraq Peace Team website, Jo Wilding's On-line Diary, the Electronic Iraq news site, and a "blog" or weblog written by "salam pax" a young man apparently from Baghdad. In addition, the website IraqBodyCount.net is attempting to keep a running count of all civilian casualties since January of this year. 4 Click here for messages from three Iraq Peace Team members   Dozens of Iraqi dead after cluster bomb attack in Hilla from "DemocracyNow!"   April 4, 2003 Depleted Uranium Munitions - A Weapon of Mass Destruction   Mar. 30, 2003 Live From Baghdad, What You Won’t Hear on the Networks: An Ordinary Iraqi Speaks Out from "DemocracyNow!"   Mar. 26, 2003 Live From Iraq, an Un-Embedded Journalist: Robert Fisk from "DemocracyNow!"   Mar. 25, 2003 Inside Baghdad from "The Nation" magazine   Mar. 20, 2003 The Ghosts of Safwan: A Report from the Iraq/Kuwait Border   Feb.27, 2003 Report from Basra: 'No Choice Left for Us Except Facing the War'   Feb.23, 2003 Baghdad Stages Military Parades as Local Gun Sales Rise   Feb.18, 2003 Iraq Risks 'Another Gulf of Tonkin' in Basra   Feb.17, 2003 International Activists, Iraqis Protest Bush in Large Marches in Baghdad   Feb.15, 2003 Iraq Listens to the Presentation by Hans Blix at UN Security Council   Feb.14, 2003 Letter from Iraq From The Nation magazine, March 2003   Feb.13, 2003 Papal Envoy in Baghdad: `We Pray For Peace In Iraq'   Feb.13, 2003 Activists In Baghdad Protest Future Attacks   Feb.12, 2003 Mohammed El Baradei and Hans Blix address reporters   Feb.11, 2003 Iraq Responds to Colin Powell's Presentation   Feb.6, 2003 FOX NEWS: 'The Network America Trusts' (to pay 'Saddam')   Feb.1, 2003 The Iraq Report the CIA Won't Inspect   Dec.14, 2002 "Oil Is Our Damnation" From The Progressive Magazine, Dec. 2002   Dec.4, 2002 No Fly Zones: Washington's Undeclared War on "Saddam's Victims"   Dec 2, 2002 Saddam, Rumsfeld, & the Golden Spurs - An Interview of Jeremy Scahill by David Ross. From Z Magazine, Nov. 2002   Nov.30, 2002 UN Weapons Inspection Team Arrives in Baghdad   Nov.18, 2002 Iraq Accepts UN Resolution With "No Conditions"   Nov.13, 2002 Iraqi Parliament Rejects Washington's UN Resolution, Says Country Is Preparing For War   Nov.12, 2002 Head Of Iraqi Parliament: National Assembly Poised To Reject Washington's UN Resolution   Nov.11, 2002 Trading With The Enemy: Corporations Say They Will Continue To Do Business With Iraq   Nov.11, 2002 Iraq Anticipates Vote in UN Security Council   Nov.4, 2002 Report From Basra: Iraq's Oil Belt Prepares For War   Nov.3, 2002 Iraqi Artist Mohammed Ghani   Oct.30, 2002 "Bush Has No Kuwait" Says Iraqi Official   Oct 29, 2002 "It's All About the Oil"   Oct.28, 2002 Activists Rally for Peace - In Baghdad   Oct.26, 2002 Views of the Amnesty - Here and There   Oct.24, 2002 American Gifts to Saddam MIA in Baghdad   Oct.23, 2002 A Day That Shook Iraq: Saddam Grants “Complete And Final Amnesty” To All Prisoners   Oct.20, 2002 Saddam Hussein Sworn In For Another Seven Year Term Of Office   Oct.18, 2002 Former Iraqi Ambassador on U.N. Resolutions   Oct.17, 2002 Bush’s Iraq Resolution Written ‘Not To Be Implemented’   Oct.17, 2002 Tikrit Votes "Yes" For Saddam Hussein   Oct.16, 2002 Iraq Holds Presidential Referendum   Oct.15, 2002 Bush Corleone: “Saddam Hussein Sleeps With The Fishes”   Oct.15, 2002 Iraqi Legislator Says Referendum On Saddam Will Be ‘More Democratic’ Than Last U.S. Elections   Oct.14, 2002 Top Iraqi Lawmaker: ‘Our People Will Not Turn The Other Cheek’   Oct.13, 2002 British Labor MP George Galloway Warns of Dangers of Iraq Invasion   Oct.11, 2002 Iraq Opens Alleged "Weapons of Mass Destruction" Site to the Media   Oct.10, 2002 The Road To Baghdad   Oct.7, 2002 Iraq Preparing for ‘Street Fighting’   Oct.7, 2002 US Drops Leaflets, and Bombs   Oct.7, 2002 You can make a donation to help support this website by following the PayPal link to the right, or send an e-mail to: donate@iraqjournal.org Jeremy Scahill and Jacquie Soohen conducting interviews in Iraq, October, 2002. Photo by Nathan Mauger. As the Bush administration threatens a massive attack on Iraq, many within the corporate media have chosen to become cheerleaders for the war cause. The words "we" and "us" and "our forces" are used so frequently by major corporate media personalities that it has become difficult to figure out if it is the Bush Administration or the media that are gearing up to bomb Iraq. With Washington on the verge of seeking to destroy an already devastated country, a group of independent journalists and activists - working together with Democracy Now!, the nationally distributed community radio and television program - are breaking ranks with the war chorus. Coordinated by Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill and videographer Jacqueline Soohen on the ground in Baghdad, IraqJournal provides a forum for the distribution of independent information and views from Iraq. IraqJournal.org is made possible through the donated labor of folks at community radio station WORT in Madison, Wisconsin. Website Editor: Norman Stockwell Website design: Josh Musick Who are we? IraqJournal team bios. Question or comments? Email the webmaster.     Audio and video files available on IraqJournal.org can be viewed with the following players: The following audio-only players are also supported: You are one of visitors to this site since October 1, 2002.		Democracy Now! is a nationwide, daily, independent radio and TV news hour pioneering the largest public media collaboration in the country.   Video Journal A collection of videos from Iraq, filmed and edited by filmmakerJacquie Soohen, available in multiple formats.   Other Faces of Iraq: An album of photos by photographer Thorne Anderson, together with photojournalist Farah Laith, videographer Jacquie Soohen, and photographer Nathan Mauger. 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