Play It Again, Sam.
by Marc W. Herold
Departments of Economics and Women's Studies
Whittemore School of Business & Economics
University of New Hampshire
POSTED APRIL 29, 2003 --
The following pairings of images portray some of the stark similarities in the effects of the U.S. attacks upon Afghanistan and Iraq.
Similar Evidence of U.S. 'Precision' Bombing : Civilians maimed and killed
![]() Agam village near Jalalabad, November 2001 |
![]() Baghdad neighborhood, April 2003. A U.S. missile obliterated the home of Ali Abbas, 12, and most of his family, leaving him an orphan without arms. |
U.S. Troops Humiliating and Violating the Personal Space of Muslim Women
![]() in Masi Kalay village, Paktia, September 29, 2002 |
![]() in Umm Qasr in late March 2003 |
Silencing the independent media by bombing it : Al Jazeera in Kabul and Baghdad
![]() Al Jazeera's Kabul office took a direct hit in Nov. 2001. The Kabul staff had left the premises a few hours before. |
![]() Al-Jazeera's 2-storey Baghdad office took a direct hit in the morning of April 8, 2003, killing reporter, Tareq Ayoub, a 'victim of truth reporting.' Abu Dhabi TV showed Ayoub in a blanket being carried to a car. For an account of the attack, see http://argument.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?story=395412&host=6&dir=140. |
Airlifting-in the US-anointed, post-invasion puppet leaders :
![]() Karzai and his US Special Forces handlers shortly after being airlifted by U.S. helicopter from a US base in Pakistan, November 2001. Karzai was known as the Gucci guerrilla and hung out in the Holiday Inn's lounge in Islamabad. |
![]() Ahmed Chalabi [right], indicted embezzler and leader of the CIA-funded Iraqi National Congress, was recently airlifted into southern Iraq by U.S. forces. Person on left is Senator Trent Lott. |
The Occupier's Flag Flies Over Its Own 'Creations'
Whether over Kandahar International Airport [built by the U.S. in the 1950s] or the bust of Saddam Hussein [sponsored by the CIA in the 1950s]1.
![]() Kandahar Int'l Airport, December 18, 2001 |
![]() Baghdad, April 9, 2003 |
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Footnotes
1. See Richard Sale, "Exclusive: Saddam Key in Early CIA Plot," Washington Times [April 10, 2003]