Squall Update Service
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003

New material on the SQUALL site over the last few weeks has inevitabley been dominated
by the prospect of a war which was never not going to happen as far as the United States
were concerned.....
Among the precis of latest material below, check out 'Plain as a dark day'.....the
verbatim statement signed by the likes of Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and Jeb Bush
(George W's brother)| back in 1997 when they weren't at the helm of the world's largest
superpower. Unequivical.
Also recommended amongst the new material is Jo Wilding's dispatches back from the Iraqi
capital.......poignant stuff you won't get off CNN or the BBC....
On the photo front....there's a good selection of top quality images from the various
anti-war demonstrations from a range of photographers........with a new photo everyday
of this month......
So there it is.....
Not pleasant reading most of it.......but essential stuff you won't find in the
mainstream.....
The SQUALL Eds
FROM INSIDE IRAQ 16-Feb 03
In the first of her dispatches back to SQUALL, Jo Wilding describes her arrival back in
Iraq as part of a frontline group of British activists forming a ‘human shield’ against
any bombing attack.
 http://www.squall.co.uk/squall.cfm?sq=2003021601&ct=9



STOP THE WAR MARCH - London 15-Feb 03
In praise of the profusion of people, peace and pukka placard puns, Jimmy Seed sent
this bubbling communique into SQUALL straight after the biggest political demonstration
in British history…..
 http://www.squall.co.uk/squall.cfm?sq=2003021501&ct=9



FROM INSIDE IRAQ 18-Feb-03
In the second of her dispatches back from Baghdad, Jo Wilding samples an anti-war march
Iraqi-style.
 http://www.squall.co.uk/squall.cfm?sq=2003021901&ct=9



MR BLUSH AND THE BOMBS OF DEMOCRACY - Baghdad 21-Feb 03
In her third dispatch back from the Iraqi capital, Jo Wilding witnesses the preparations
under way for another bout of bombing.
 http://www.squall.co.uk/squall.cfm?sq=2003022101&ct=9



THE DOMINOE EFFECT - Baghdad 23-Feb 03
Jo Wilding sends her fourth dispatch back to SQUALL from inside Baghdad
 http://www.squall.co.uk/squall.cfm?sq=2003022401&ct=9



Human shields in Iraq
Richard Scrase
 http://www.squall.co.uk/squall.cfm?sq=2003022402&ct=7



EERIE CALM BEFORE DESERT STORM – Baghdad 25-Feb 03
In her fifth dispatch from the Iraqi capital, Jo Wilding describes life in Baghdad as
families buy up rations and coffins and porno films are all that’s on at the cinema.
 http://www.squall.co.uk/squall.cfm?sq=2003022601&ct=9



EVERYONE JUMPS WHEN IT THUNDERS – Baghdad 26-Feb-03
In her sixth dispatch back to SQUALL from inside Iraq, Jo Wilding describes a capital
city bracing itself for the big bangs, and talks to a Vietnam veteran who wants history
to stop repeating itself.
 http://www.squall.co.uk/squall.cfm?sq=2003022701&ct=9



US WAR MONGERS EYE UP ALASKA
George W Bush has made no secret of his desire to bypass Alaska’s Wilderness Protection
Status and prize it open for the oil companies. Jason Leopold reports from the US on
how a War With Iraq is now being used as his excuse to make it so.
 http://www.squall.co.uk/squall.cfm?sq=2003031101&ct=1



LIVING WITH OIL 07-March 2003
Sending back this dispatch from inside Baghdad, Jo Wilding considers the lives and
deaths of a community living next to an Iraqi oil refinery.
 http://www.squall.co.uk/squall.cfm?sq=2003031102&ct=9



AS PLAIN AS A DARK DAY
Six years ago some powerful businessmen put their name to an uninhibited statement of
intent which brazenly advocated a war on Iraq as a step towards US world domination.
Now these men are some of the highest placed politicians in George W Bush’s
administration. Below is their entire statement published by the right wing US think
tank, New American Century, in 1997.
 http://www.squall.co.uk/squall.cfm?sq=2003031103&ct=6