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WAR BABY
LITTLE Saja Nasaralla is expected to die in the next few days as a result of Allied bombing in Iraq. But the tiny baby girl - who was born only three days ago - will not be a victim of the military attacks threatened by Britain and the United States in the coming weeks. Rather, Iraqi doctors say, she will be killed by the depleted uranium shells used in the last Gulf War, 12 years ago.
 

Human shield in dash for safety
FRIGHTENED British members of Iraq's human shield have fled Baghdad amid fears that they were about to be taken hostage. Former college lecturer Dave Howarth, from Lincoln, claimed he and fellow human shields were willing to die helping protect Iraq from Allied bombs. Now it is understood the former Big Issue seller left Baghdad on Saturday night in a taxi, heading for the Jordanian border.
 
A rocket in a university library...
Academics and students from the West Bank and Gaza are accusing the Israeli government of destroying the Palestinian education system by preventing them from attending universities and schools. The claim was made to a British delegation of lecturers and undergraduates to the occupied territories, whose members have spoken unanimously in favour of a boycott of Israeli academic institutions.
 
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Building a picture of Baghdad When you travel to capital your country has promised to destroy you would expect hostility - to be spat at in the street. You imagine a people cowed by the threat of a massive military machine pounding buildings, bridges and streets with desistating power. Nothing could be futhter from the truth.
 
 
 

 

 
 

 

  

  



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