By Peggy Gish

Along the entrance to the Women’s Will organization, Maxine Nash and I saw banners saying, “the Occupation Kills Your Sons, Don’t Buy from the Occupiers,” “Boycott the Invaders,” and “Iraqi Mothers United Against Sectarian Fighting.” Inside the meeting room another more colorful banner said, “No Peace Without Justice.”

We walked into a teach-in, already in process. Hana Ibrahim, coordinator of Women’s Will and Dr Balkiss, member of the board, (two middle aged Muslim women) alternatively spoke to about 18 women and five men about one way Iraqis could resist the U.S. occupation.

Death squads vs. democracy

by Justin Raimondo
from AntiWar.com

Panic is setting in at the Pentagon. Ever bolder and ever widening, the Iraqi insurgency grows in firepower and tactical sophistication, as well as in sheer numbers, while the architects of what appears to be a looming stalemate are scrambling to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat with what is being called the “El Salvador Option.” Newsweek magazine set off a furor the other day with the revelation that top Pentagon officials are engaged in a furious debate over whether to unleash El Salvador-style “death squads” in Iraq. Presumably composed of Kurdish peshmergas and Shi’ite militia, these American-trained -and-funded Orcs would go after not only the predominantly Sunni insurgents, but also civilians who allow them to operate without turning them in to the occupation authorities. As one anonymous death squad enthusiast opined to Michael Hirsh and John Barry of Newsweek:

“The Sunni population is paying no price for the support it is giving to the terrorists. From their point of view, it is cost-free. We have to change that equation.”

By Dahr Jamail

The morgues at the hospitals of Baghdad are filling to capacity. At Yarmouk Hospital in central Baghdad, the three freezers reek of decaying bodies, despite the temperature.

The smell rushes out at us as the doors are opened. I’ve smelled the burning bodies on the funeral pires in Nepal…but this is different. This smell… how do I describe it? But it never leaves me, long after we leave the hospital later.

Warning: very graphic photos