Reply #6: Written by Jo Wilding. [View All]

[rog]

This is from Jo Wilding's blog. She is a British aid worker who was helping to get the wounded out of Fallujah. There are two followups to this article on her website. This is a must-read, and yes ... please forward this info and make as much noise as you can.

http://wildfirejo.blogspot.com

The BBC (finally) picked up on this story today and quoted heavily from her blog.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3653223.stm

Keep an eye on Fallujah and Najaf ... this is a continuing story.

See also:

Daily news and comments on the situation in post Saddam Iraq by an Iraqi dentist
http://healingiraq.blogspot.com

http://www.empirenotes.org
Rahul Mahajan is publisher of Empire Notes. He was in Fallujah recently and is currently writing and blogging from Baghdad. His latest book, “Full Spectrum Dominance: U.S. Power in Iraq and Beyond,” covers U.S. policy on Iraq, deceptions about weapons of mass destruction, the plans of the neoconservatives, and the face of the new Bush imperial policies.

His article on the forced closings of hospitals in Fallujah and Najaf is a must-read.
http://www.empirenotes.org/hospitals.html

http://www.juancole.com
Juan R. I. Cole is Professor of Modern Middle East and South Asian History at the History Department of the University of Michigan. He has written extensively about modern Islamic movements in Egypt, the Persian Gulf, and South Asia. He has given numerous media and press interviews on the War on Terrorism since September 11, 2001, as well as concerning the Iraq War in 2003. His current research focuses on two contemporary phenomena: 1) Shiite Islam in Iraq and Iran and 2) the "jihadi" or "sacred-war" strain of Muslim radicalism, including al-Qaeda and the Taliban among other groups. Cole commands Arabic, Persian and Urdu and reads some Turkish, knows both Middle Eastern and South Asian Islam, and lived in a number of places in the Muslim world for extended periods of time. He updates several times a day.

http://blog.newstandardnews.net/iraqdispatches
Dahr Jamail is Baghdad correspondent for The NewStandard. He is an Alaskan devoted to covering the untold stories from occupied Iraq.

Specifically, HIS confirmation of the hospital closings, shooting at ambulances, etc.
http://blog.newstandardnews.net/iraqdispatches/archives/000206.html

.rog.