Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, holding microphone at Detroit MLK Day March on Washington Blvd. downtown, January 15, 2007. (Photo: Robert Akrawi).
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Not One Penny More for the War !
DEMONSTRAT ION
Friday – April 13 – 5 PM
Hart Plaza, Detroit (Woodward Ave. at Jefferson Ave.)
The Democrats vote to pay over a hundred billion dollars more for the war with only “suggested withdrawal dates.” Bush threatens to veto the bill for even suggesting the US get the troops out.
We need to send the message once again –
CUT ALL FUNDS FOR THE WAR – BRING THE TROOPS HOME - NOW!
Not a penny more to continue this criminal war. Not another death of Iraqis or US soldiers to profit the oil companies. Michigan’s state budget is in crisis and Detroit is closing schools. We need MONEY FOR SOCIAL PROGRAMS – NOT FOR WAR!
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MONDAY, APRIL 09, 2007
6:54 MECCA TIME, 3:54 GMT
US accused of using neutron bombs
The former commander of Iraq's Republican Guard has accused the US of using non-conventional weapons in its war against the Middle East country.
Saifeddin Fulayh Hassan Taha al-Rawi told Al Jazeera that US forces used neutron and phosphorus bombs during their assault on Baghdad airport before the April 9 capture of the Iraqi capital.
Al-Rawi is one of the most wanted associates of Saddam Hussein, the deposed Iraqi leader, still on the run.
"The enemy used neutron and phosphorus weapons against Baghdad airport... there were bodies burnt to their bones," he said.
The bombs annihilated soldiers but left the buildings and infrastructure at the airport intact, he added.
A neutron bomb is a thermonuclear weapon that produces minimal blast and heat but releases large amounts of lethal radiation that can penetrate armour and is especially destructive to human tissue.
About 2,000 elite Republican Guard troops "fought until they were martyred", according to al-Rawi.
He said the Iraqi military command was surprised by the speed of the US land offensive, expecting air bombardment to last much longer.
"We had not expected the enemy to launch its land offensive from the very first or second day.
We expected the air raids to last at least a month," he said.
"The land offensive came at the same time as the air offensive. That was a situation we did not expect," he told Al Jazeera.
Al-Rawi, who carries a $1m US bounty on his head, was also the jack of clubs on the deck of cards of 55 most wanted Iraqis distributed by the Pentagon before the invasion in 2003.
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