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Tuesday, June 10, 2003

Troops begin removing West Bank outposts: "Israeli soldiers knocked down empty mobile homes and water towers in 10 tiny West Bank settlement outposts overnight as part of a U.S.-backed peace plan, but settlers threatened resistance and Palestinians dismissed the effort as deception."

In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq



Iraqis Search for Kin in Mass Graves: "They came in a blue minibus, an unlikely fivesome brought together by an unwanted bond - Nasser Taleb and his sister Hala, two Kurdish men and a woman from the southern city of Basra, looking for clues among the dead. (AP)"

In Yahoo! News: War with Iraq



Rumsfeld suggests Saddam source of Iraqi unrest: "Saddam Hussein may be behind Iraq's continuing unrest even if he is dead, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said as US occupation authorities strugggled to stave off anarchy and rebuild the devastated land. (AFP)"

In Yahoo! News: War with Iraq



Three Iraqis Killed in Ammunition Facility Blast: "An explosion at an Iraqi ammunitionfacility has killed three Iraqis and wounded two others, theUnited States Central Command said. (Reuters)"

In Yahoo! News: War with Iraq



Bush Adamant Iraq Had Banned Weapons 'Program': "President Bush stated flatly onMonday that Iraq had a weapons of mass destruction program andrejected the idea of Washington's credibility being at stake inthe search for banned arms. (Reuters)"

In Yahoo! News: War with Iraq



Israeli settlers converge on 4 outposts: "Israeli soldiers began tearing down settlement outposts in the West Bank on Monday - an Israeli obligation under a new Mideast peace plan. Settlers threatened to turn out by the thousands to frustrate the effort and Palestinians dismissed the effort as deception."

In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq



Second Baghdad blogger active in IraqWar.info



Iraqis warned about US deaths in IraqWar.info



In the south, fresh water comes out of a truck: "It is a telling symptom of the topsy-turvy world that is postwar Iraq that the 20 litres of water Muhammad Ma'tuq is loading into the back of his truck cost 10 times as much as the 20 litres of petrol he bought on his way towards getting it. Ma'tuq does not have to pay for the water - the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) takes care of that - but its actual cost serves to illustrate its enormous importance, as well as in terms of the outbreak of cholera which has now taken hold in at least two of the southern governorates."

In Electronic Iraq



Iraqi political leaders urge UN envoy to help set up democracy: "The top United Nations official in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, continued his efforts to consult with the widest possible spectrum of Iraqi society today, meeting with a top Muslim official who asked that the world body play an independent role in helping the Iraqi people."

In Electronic Iraq



Rumsfeld: Iraq Weapons Intel Will Prove Correct: "Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld saidlate on Monday that the intelligence on Iraq was notpoliticized and the assessment that Baghdad possessed weaponsof mass destruction will ultimately prove correct. (Reuters)"

In Yahoo! News: War with Iraq


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