Mona Baker

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Evan Wright | Village Voice | 24-30 November 2004 In April 9, 2003, the day the statue of Saddam Hussein was being toppled in Baghdad, symbolizing the promised liberation of Iraq, I was embedded with a Marine unit engaged in fierce combat about 30 miles north of the city, on the outskirts of Baquba.

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Kevin Sites | MSNBC | 22 November 2004 OPEN LETTER TO marines By Kevin Sites Correspondent NBC News Since the shooting in the mosque, I’ve been haunted that I have not been able to tell you directly what I saw or explain the process by which the world came to see it as well.

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Dahr Jamail | Information Clearing House | 19/11/2004 11/19/04 “ICH” — Abu Talat calls me frantic. The deafening roar of hundreds of people in a confined area yelling, “Allahu Akbar” (God is Greatest) reverberate behind his panicked voice. “I am being held at gunpoint by American soldiers inside Abu Hanifa mosque Dahr,” he yells,

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Dahr Jamail | Information Clearing House | 17 November 2004 11/17/04 “ICH” — She lays dazed in the crowded hospital room, languidly waving her bruised arm at the flies. Her shins, shattered by bullets from US soldiers when they fired through the front door of her house, are both covered by casts. Small plastic

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) BBC News | 13 November 2004 As US-led troops battle rebels in the Iraqi city of Falluja, aid agencies have warned that civilians are left with little food and no drinking water. The BBC News website spoke by phone to Fadhil Badrani, an Iraqi journalist and resident of Falluja who reports regularly for Reuters

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) BBC News | 16 Novemebr 2004 As US forces say they have overall control of Falluja, the BBC News website spoke by phone to Fadhil Badrani, an Iraqi journalist and resident of Falluja who reports regularly for Reuters and the BBC World Service in Arabic. We are publishing his and other eyewitness accounts from

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Dahr Jamail | Information Clearing House | 15/11/2004 11/15/04 “ICH” — It never fails to get my adrenaline flowing when my hotel rumbles from a car bomb detonating in central Baghdad. Last night around 7pm the explosion occurred at a hotel compound which houses foreign contractors over near Firdos Square. Shortly there after the

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Alissa J. Rubin | Concord Monitor Online | 15/11/2004 BAGHDAD, Iraq – Dr. Ahmed Ghanim’s nightmarish week began with a phone call in the operating room of a triage center in downtown Fallujah. On the line was the manager of the city’s General Hospital. Iraqi national guardsmen and U.S. Marines, the manager said, had

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Katarina Kratovac | The Guardian | 14/11/2004 BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) – In the weeks before the crushing military assault on his hometown, Bilal Hussein sent his parents and brother away from Fallujah to stay with relatives. The 33-year-old Associated Press photographer stayed behind to capture insider images during the siege of the former insurgent

From the www.monabaker.com archive (legacy material) Mohammed Omer | RafahToday.org | 16/10/2004 It smells unbelievably bad here. To walk down any street—if you dare to—you skirt, or sometimes unavoidably walk through, pools of blood. There are shreds of human flesh—some of them unrecognizable as human remains—all over, on rooftops, plastered to broken windows, on the street. The stench of rotting