Al-Thawry [Archives:2003/629/Press Review]

27 March 2003
Main headlines:
– Shelling the civilians in Iraq continues
– Head of YSP political office: Petroleum, aim of war on Iraq, its calculations wrong
– In protest against the war on Iraq, Yemeni Journalists Syndicate stage a sit-in
– Parliament and Shoura council refuse to lift immunity from al-Atwani and al-Mikhlafi
– Dangers await Yemen due to globalization and the war
– Sheikh al-A'bis killed, a companion injured
– Yemeni journalist's league declares solidarity with al-Wahdawi newspaper

Columnist Hashim Abdulaziz says in an article the American and British troops have succeeded by using their '' smart'' projectiles in cutting electric power and water supplies in the city of Basra in southern Iraq and the destruction of tens of houses on the heads of their inhabitants in the capital Baghdad. With such ''achievements'' and other savage acts of destruction of vital Iraq installations, the ''humanitarian'' operation that Washington and London have undertaken, has traversed a long distance on the road of ''liberating'' the people of Iraq from he remainder means of their survival after a more than of a decade of sanctions and blockade that exhausted the major constituents of their life and prosperity.
In the light of President Bush's request from the American congress to approve the allotment of an additional amount of $ 75 billion, it has become evident that the American and British ''humanitarian'' operations in Iraq, translated into the '' mother of bombs'', would '' liberate'' the Iraqi people from their very existence, especially after the past days of hostilities have toppled upside down all prospects. And this means that one of the major undeclared objectives of the ongoing war of aggression has come to surface, i.e. the control of oil fields there.
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