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Bloodshed, Fear And a Deadly Ambush 07.06.2003 Robert Fisk http://www.iraqwar.ru/iraq-read_article.php?articleId=8400&lang=en =============================================== Iraq on the Capitalist Frontier Los Angeles Times http://tinyurl.com/dw2v Inside the marble-tiled lobby of the Hotel Ekal, investors carrying sidearms are negotiating business deals. A mile or so away, two brothers are installing one of this capital's first Internet cafes. Above the entrance to the House of Elegant Bodies, a poster of a pumped-up Arnold Schwarzenegger lures potential U.S. patrons. The reconstruction gold rush has begun. While the Pentagon-run Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance gradually gets a grip on Iraq's postwar needs eight weeks after Baghdad fell to allied forces, the private side of rebuilding is proceeding at breakneck speed — without much in the way of government involvement, official supervision or international approval. ...[..] ====================================================== Baghdad University Under U.S. Siege http://www.islamonline.org/English/News/2003-05/27/article14.shtml Coming back to their classes once again after a long vacation imposed by the U.S.-led war, thousands of students and professors of Baghdad University were disgruntled to see U.S. troops and tanks occupying the campus, while other soldiers shut some university gates before them. The university, in effect, was more of a military camp than an educational institution with barbed wires and barracks surrounding it.... _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk