licentious radio

Sunday, April 6, 2003
[11:44:21 AM]

Northern Iraq :: John Simpson :: 0512GMT It's a completely different war from the one in the south. It's a much more laid-back and quiet, less man-intensive war - nevertheless it's achieving quite swift gains. Northern Iraq :: John Simpson :: 0951GMT Well it's a bit of a disaster I have to say. A convoy of about eight or ten cars in northern Iraq coming up to a place which has just recently been captured. American special forces in a truck - two trucks I think - plus a very senior figure. I've counted ten or twelve bodies around us so there are Americans dead.

It was an American plane dropped the bomb right beside us - I saw it land about ten, twelve feet away I think, so close. And they hit their own people, may have hit a senior Kurdish figure, very senior, brother of the top man.

[11:16:58 AM]
"Clutches of Iraqis gathered along the streets of the city's working-class neighborhoods. Some waved tentatively, but others simply gaped at the site of Americans driving tanks along their streets. There was no jubilation, few smiles and certainly no tossing of flowers as the armoured vehicles moved through the city."

After all, how would you feel if Chinese tanks rolled down your street to "liberate" you from the Bush junta?

[10:50:34 AM]
Son of the Orwellian PATRIOT Act: the real coup de grace of the coup d'etat: alternet.org.

[10:36:06 AM]
She said, 'That's free speech.' Two plainclothes army officers said, 'Well, things are changing these days.'