DN: Up to 110 Dead, One of the Bloodiest Days of U.S. Occupation *

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Democracy Now

TODAY'S SHOW: Monday, September 13

* Up to 110 Dead in Iraq in One of the Bloodiest Days of U.S. Occupation *

As many as 110 people were killed in Iraq yesterday and over 200 wounded
in one of the bloodiest days of the occupation in months. We go to
Baghdad, the scene of some of the weekend's worst casualties, to speak
with journalist Patrick Cockburn of the London Independent.

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http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/13/1428237

AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to Patrick Cockburn of The Independent newspaper. He's in Baghdad. Welcome to Democracy Now!, Patrick. Patrick, welcome to Democracy Now!.

PATRICK COCKBURN: Hello, can you hear me?

AMY GOODMAN: We can -- we can hear you a bit. If could you speak right into the phone. Can you tell us what has happened this weekend.

PATRICK COCKBURN: Well, as you said, this has been a very bloody weekend, and it's with people being killed all over Iraq, and right in the center of Baghdad. Yesterday in the Haifa Street, which is only a few hundred yards from the so-called Green Zone, which is the headquarters of the American interim Iraqi government headquarters, 13 people were killed, including a television -- Arab television correspondent was actually killed on-air when a U.S. -- two us helicopters fired rockets into a crowd. There is an air of violence throughout the whole city and indeed throughout the whole country.

AMY GOODMAN: Patrick, can you describe in more detail what happened with the crowd that was gathered around the Bradley vehicle, the U.S. soldiers already evacuated from it. Why did the U.S. attack by helicopter, and what exactly happened with the people, including the al-Arabiya journalist?

PATRICK COCKBURN: I think this has been misreported somewhat, going by people I have talked to who were wounded in the attack and have come from the area. What seems to have happened was this. This is a he very tough area, Sunni-Moslem, very much against the occupation, around 8 in the morning, a U.S. Bradley fighting vehicle was hit by a bomb and six U.S. Soldiers were wounded, not very badly --

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ALSO:
* Iraqi Activist Yanar Mohammed - "U.S. Troops Have To Leave Now And We
Will Take Care Of Iraq" *

As fighting rages across occupied Iraq, we speak with Iraqi women's
activist Yanar Mohammed. She is the director of the Organization of
Women's Freedom (OWFI), a group that works to stop the atrocities
against Iraqi women and defend their rights and is editor in chief of
the newspaper Equality in Iraq.

Listen/Watch/Read
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/09/13/1428243

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1. Nothing To See Here - Scott Peterson

trail is back in session.

Seriously, this was a eye opening episode today - so many pictures were shown that we will NEVER see on whore-shows

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2. kick

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3. GOODMAN: And the al Arabiya journalist?

AMY GOODMAN:And the al Arabiya journalist Yes. And the al Arabiya journalist, actually being filmed with his report by the Reuters cameraman?

PATRICK COCKBURN: Yes. He had been going to work, the Arabiya correspondent, and saw that there was some turmoil and got out of his car. Obviously, he was not wearing a flak jacket and he was just about to beginning his report when the rocket landed and struck him in the back and killed him pretty well instantly. But I have talked to many of the other people in the hospital, who were just people going to work. People who don’t even necessarily come from that area, but use that -- walk down that street in the center of Baghdad to get to their work.
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