IRAQ FOR SALE – exclusive report by Greg Palast for BBC Newsnight First Broadcast 19 March 2004 WATCH THE REPORT BROADCAST TRANSCRIPT: “THE ARRIVAL” GENERAL JAY GARNER, Former chief of Iraq occupation authority, arriving by plane. I’ve got about 220 people on this aeroplane with me,…
By David Leigh – The Guardian UK
[London] Jay Garner, the US general abruptly dismissed as Iraq’s first occupation administrator after a month in the job, says he fell out with the Bush circle [after he called for swift and] free elections and rejected an imposed programme of privatisation.
The Forgotten Soldiers of Operation “Iraqi Freedom” By Natasha Saulnier
His name’s Maurice. He’s 26 years old with a face like an angel and a computerized prosthesis where his left leg used to be. His name’s Victor and he still seems like a boy. His cherubic face, set against blond hair, is plagued by an unanswerable question every time his restless eyes inadvertently fall on the stump: “Why?” His name’s Steve and you couldn’t imagine a more All-American soldier — that is to say if he hadn’t lost his right arm.
Former Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein was taken into custody yesterday at approximately 8:30pm Baghdad time. Various television executives, White House spin doctors and propaganda experts at the Pentagon are at this time wrestling with the question of whether to claim PFC Jessica Lynch seized the ex-potentate or that Saddam surrendered after close hand-to-hand combat with current Iraqi strongman Paul Bremer III.
