![]() ![]() Jim Quilty, ‘Documentaries Expose Awful Reality of Iraq’s Demise’, Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon), 28 March 2003, Factiva Document dstar00020030328dz3s000gp and Gethin Chamberlain, ‘Aid Mission Proves a Hard Battle’, The Scotsman, 28 March 2003, available from. Carol Morello, ‘Baghdad’s Needs Extend to Zoo Residents: Troops, Conservationists Struggle to Reverse Neglect and Thievery’, Washington Post, 30 April 2003, A19. Ian Fisher, ‘Zookeepers’ New Task: Getting Animals Back’, New York Times,, A20. (Nico Price, ‘US Administrator Setting up Shop’, Cincinnati Post, A1, 21 April 2003, Associated Press Factiva Document CINP000020030422dz4l00022) A convoy of food arrived over the weekend for the malnourished animals at the Baghdad Zoo. Trying to head off food shortages, the US military opened a warehouse to UN aid shipments and stockpiled flour. General Jay Garner said his priority was to restore basic services such as water and electricity as soon as possible-a task he said would take intense work … In Baghdad, stores were open and the streets crowded as residents swept up debris. Landing at Baghdad airport from Kuwait, retired Lt. For example, in April, when Garner arrived in Baghdad as the first American post‐war administrator: Ruki Sayid, ‘The Forgotten Victims of War’, The Mirror, 16 June 2003, 37, Factiva Document dmirr00020030616dz6g0004o. Zoos’, Hilary Mayell for National Geographic News, 18 April 2003, available from. See, for example, ‘Baghdad Zoo Animals to Get Help from U.S. Petersburg Times, 1 June 2003, available from. See, for example, ‘Dogs and (Big) Cats Living Together’, St. ‘Hanging on to Heritage’, The Middle East, no. The zoo has since been restored, with donations of new animals, but the few survivors were permanently traumatised. It is worth noting here that Kuwait’s zoo was ravaged during Iraq’s occupation of the country in 1991 troops occupied the zoo, and 95% of the animals died through starvation or being shot and eaten. Aday et al., ‘As Goes the Statue, so Goes the War’. Bellamy, ‘Motives, Outcomes, Intent and the Legitimacy of Humanitarian Intervention’, 217. Bellamy, ‘International Law and the War with Iraq’. ![]() See also the The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States (Washington: GPO, 2004), available from or The Downing Street Memo site ( Also pertinent is ‘Al Qaeda–Hussein Link is Dismissed’, Washington Post, 17 June 2004, available from ‘Hussein Link to 9/11 Lingers in Many Minds’, Washington Post, 6 September 2003, available from ‘Powell Says Iraq WMD Speech Blot on his Record’, 9 September 2005, available from. Heinze, ‘Humanitarian Intervention and the War in Iraq’. that it was carefully staged, appearing ‘like a video game about warfare’ (110). Marc Augé comments in The War of Dreams upon the media coverage of the first Gulf War, i.e. Lewis et al., Shoot First and Ask Questions Later Mirzoeff, Watching Babylon Schulman, ‘State of the Art’. I am also indebted to Sarah May, who also undertook the endeavour of searching out stories, and was extremely diligent in sharing her archive. See Roth, ‘Getting Away with Torture’, or ‘The Abu Ghraib Files’, available from or Human Rights Watch. ![]() Iraq War timeline: BBC News, available from and. See also: ‘The Final Word is Hooray! Remembering the Iraq War’s Pollyanna Pundits’, from the Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting weblog, 15 March 2006, available from. ‘Bush Makes Historic Speech aboard Warship’, CNN,, available from. Feldman, ‘The Physics and Metaphysics of Caging’, 167. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |