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lapsedmodernistI think the phrasing is really interesting in these two articles. "Iraq complains" headline prsents it as exaggerating and petulant...The final paragraph of the CNN article says that other memeber of security council “disagree” with the US point of view, which downplays the situation and makes it sound like a friendly theoretical abstract argument, rather than US being all street vigilante and above the UN law in its foreign policy.
The Russian article gets on its own soapbox, hurrying to stick it in that The Pentagon denies the attack (well, obviously they don’t now, since it’s all carefully worded and spin-doctored on CNN) and the final paragraph is some truly old-school “this is what you should think!” kind of journalism that bloomed under the Soviet regime.
oy vey.
from CNN.com
Iraq complains to U.N. over raid
Monday, December 2, 2002 Posted: 5:52 AM EST (1052 GMT)
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) -- Iraq has complained to the United Nations over a Western air raid on its southern port city of Basra and urged the world body to end U.S. and British patrols over the country.
Foreign Minister Naji Sabri, in a letter to U.N. Secretary- General Kofi Annan, described Sunday's raid as part of "barbaric terrorist aggression" against Iraq.
Iraqi officials said on Monday the bombing killed four people at oil company offices. The U.S. military insisted its planes had launched "precision-guided" weapons at Iraqi air defences and that they always took pains to avoid hitting civilians.
The United States and Britain enforce two "no-fly" zones over northern and southern Iraq.
"Until you take measures to end this barbaric terrorist aggression and lay the full responsibility for it on the governments of the United States and Britain, the Iraqi people and its army would continue to practice Iraq's legitimate right of self defence," Sabri said in the letter.
Monday's letter was the second from Sabri to Annan in two days on the no-fly zones.
In a letter on Sunday before the Basra attack, Sabri said: "The raids by American and British planes on Iraq cities and villages and the infrastructure of the Republic of Iraq...is state terrorism, wanton aggression and rude interference in Iraq's internal affairs," the letter said.
Sabri also blasted London and Washington for dropping thousands of leaflets demanding Iraqi soldiers stop firing at U.S. and British planes.
Sunday's letter lists eight raids between October 22 and November 17.
Sabri sent a similar letter to Annan and the Security Council last month.
The zones were set up after the 1991 Gulf War to protect a Kurdish enclave in the north and Shi'ite Muslims in the south from attack by President Saddam Hussein's military.
Iraq does not recognise the zones.
U.S. officials say continued firing at patrolling Western jets by Iraqi defences is a violation of a November 8 U.N. resolution aimed at ridding Iraq of any nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons. Other members of the U.N. Security Council, including Britain, disagree with that view.
from http://english.pravda.ru
16:31 2002-12-01
US Warplanes in Missile Attack on Iraqi Oil Refinery
Residents in Basra, southern Iraq, claim that US warplanes launched two missiles at an oil refinery on Sunday, killing at least eight people and injuring “around 20”. The offices of the oil-for-food programme were destroyed.
Passers-by were showered with splinters of glass as US warplanes inexplicably launched two missiles at a civilian target in Basra, a state-owned oil refinery. The eye-witness reports have not been confirmed by the Pentagon, which denies any knowledge of the incident.
Being true, this attack is a monstrous act of piracy, a criminal and murderous intrusion into the internal affairs of a sovereign nation, a violation of international law and of the rights of Iraq as a State, a heinous provocation at a time when diplomacy is the order of the day in the rest of the international community.
The Russian article gets on its own soapbox, hurrying to stick it in that The Pentagon denies the attack (well, obviously they don’t now, since it’s all carefully worded and spin-doctored on CNN) and the final paragraph is some truly old-school “this is what you should think!” kind of journalism that bloomed under the Soviet regime.
oy vey.
from CNN.com
Iraq complains to U.N. over raid
Monday, December 2, 2002 Posted: 5:52 AM EST (1052 GMT)
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (Reuters) -- Iraq has complained to the United Nations over a Western air raid on its southern port city of Basra and urged the world body to end U.S. and British patrols over the country.
Foreign Minister Naji Sabri, in a letter to U.N. Secretary- General Kofi Annan, described Sunday's raid as part of "barbaric terrorist aggression" against Iraq.
Iraqi officials said on Monday the bombing killed four people at oil company offices. The U.S. military insisted its planes had launched "precision-guided" weapons at Iraqi air defences and that they always took pains to avoid hitting civilians.
The United States and Britain enforce two "no-fly" zones over northern and southern Iraq.
"Until you take measures to end this barbaric terrorist aggression and lay the full responsibility for it on the governments of the United States and Britain, the Iraqi people and its army would continue to practice Iraq's legitimate right of self defence," Sabri said in the letter.
Monday's letter was the second from Sabri to Annan in two days on the no-fly zones.
In a letter on Sunday before the Basra attack, Sabri said: "The raids by American and British planes on Iraq cities and villages and the infrastructure of the Republic of Iraq...is state terrorism, wanton aggression and rude interference in Iraq's internal affairs," the letter said.
Sabri also blasted London and Washington for dropping thousands of leaflets demanding Iraqi soldiers stop firing at U.S. and British planes.
Sunday's letter lists eight raids between October 22 and November 17.
Sabri sent a similar letter to Annan and the Security Council last month.
The zones were set up after the 1991 Gulf War to protect a Kurdish enclave in the north and Shi'ite Muslims in the south from attack by President Saddam Hussein's military.
Iraq does not recognise the zones.
U.S. officials say continued firing at patrolling Western jets by Iraqi defences is a violation of a November 8 U.N. resolution aimed at ridding Iraq of any nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons. Other members of the U.N. Security Council, including Britain, disagree with that view.
from http://english.pravda.ru
16:31 2002-12-01
US Warplanes in Missile Attack on Iraqi Oil Refinery
Residents in Basra, southern Iraq, claim that US warplanes launched two missiles at an oil refinery on Sunday, killing at least eight people and injuring “around 20”. The offices of the oil-for-food programme were destroyed.
Passers-by were showered with splinters of glass as US warplanes inexplicably launched two missiles at a civilian target in Basra, a state-owned oil refinery. The eye-witness reports have not been confirmed by the Pentagon, which denies any knowledge of the incident.
Being true, this attack is a monstrous act of piracy, a criminal and murderous intrusion into the internal affairs of a sovereign nation, a violation of international law and of the rights of Iraq as a State, a heinous provocation at a time when diplomacy is the order of the day in the rest of the international community.
