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CURRENT ISSUE APRIL 14, 2003
COVER STORY: THE
IRAQIS
Trapped
At
first sight, Umm Qasr could be one of the myriad dilapidated
towns that dot coastal India. Hardly the major port that
till recently handled two-thirds of Iraq's marine exports.
Poverty stares out from most of the single-storey mud
and brick houses that line the main road. It is in stark
contrast to the spiralling high rises and sweeping avenues
of Kuwait City literally "bang" next door. Children
in worn-out clothes chase the convoys of the US-led coalition
forces
begging
for bottles of water. Unshaven men in sneakers
and ill-fitting jackets plead for cigarettes.
A fortnight after Operation Iraqi Freedom was
launched, even as a decisive assault ons Baghdad
was under way, this strategic sliver of land that
juts out into the Persian Gulf remains the only
town that the coalition forces could claim as
a "liberated zone".
Setting free-
PWG releases policemen from Andhra's Prakasham
district
Online popularity-
Website for Iraqi Information minister rocks
cyberspace
Sharjah Cup- Pakistan
thrashes Zim by 8 wickets
Iraqi Oppn leader
Chalabi- No room for US administration in
post-war Iraq
Powell- No direct
parallel between situation in Iraq and Kashmir
Rumsfeld- US,
Kurdish forces are moving into Mosul after
Iraqi surrender
Powell- US has
no list of countries planned for attack
Sea-saw- Crude
prices slide as US takes oil city of Kirkuk
International
Red Cross urges US for more security in Iraq
Bihar killing-
Activists of Ranvir Sena kill 3 of a family
As the civilian
deaths in Iraq continue to rise, so do the questions about the
war aims of Washington and London.
Jogi produces
an IB document to suggest a political witchhunt but the Vajpayee
Government says it is forged and ropes in the CBI to nail the
Chief Minister.
CURRENT ISSUE APRIL 14, 2003
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