Remembering a Friend Lost to Saddam’s Terror
Iraqi soldiers were camped around us. Their machine gunners shot into fields that the day before had been filled with hundreds of Kurds fleeing the city, mostly women either carrying or leading children.
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Between Tyranny and Bombs: A Review of “Baghdad Diaries”
/in The Washington Post/by Frank SmythTry to imagine yourself or your family living in Baghdad over the past decade, enduring tyranny, privation and wars. What if your family came from the old ruling guard but the quality of your life had only eroded?
Waiting for the Anti-Saddam Revolt: Where Is It?
/in LAWeekly/by Frank SmythWhy aren’t more Iraqis rising up against President Saddam Hussein? Most likely, many remember what happened the last time they followed U.S. instructions to rise up against him.
Contra Saddam Hussein: Porque no hubo insurreccion
/in Desde El Salvador/by Frank Smyth¿Por qué los iraquíes no se sublevaron en contra de Saddam Hussein? Lo más seguro es que muchos recuerdan la última vez que lo hicieron después de seguir las instrucciones comandadas por los Estados Unidos.
Battle Cry of Freedom: A Review of Taking Liberties
/in The Washington Post/by Frank SmythBorn in Nazi Germany to Jewish parents, Aryeh Neier is America’s foremost rights advocate. Today, at 65, he runs the Open Society Institute funded by the philanthropist financier George Soros.
Iraq: Telling the Left from the Right
/in LAWeekly/by Frank SmythHOW MANY AMERICANS WHO OPPOSE THE LOOMING war know the left from the right when it comes to Iraq? The only two players on the field are not George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein.
Iraq’s Eclipsed Red Star?
/in Guerrilla News Network/by Frank SmythHow many anti-war activists like Sean Penn know their left from their right in Iraq? Or that the Iraqi Communist Party produces more detailed reports on torture under Saddam than any Western human rights group?