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Arundhati Roy ... now the bombs are falling

Arundhati Roy ... now the bombs are falling, incinerating and humiliating that ancient civilization

Below the links to the excellent new article by Arundhati Roy; and a chilling photo of an Iraqi prisoner comforting his small son, with an article entitled 'Civilian deaths 'unavoidable' - how very bizarre, surely civilian casualties are eminently easy to avoid ... by not starting wars perhaps?

* Mesopotamia. Babylon. The Tigris and Euphrates - how many children, in how many classrooms, over how many centuries, have hang-glided through the past, transported on the wings of these words? And now the bombs are falling, incinerating and humiliating that ancient civilization, Arundhati Roy, 2 April 2003 is at http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,927712,00.html

* Civilian deaths 'unavoidable': Pentagon - A detained Iraqi, hooded with a sandbag, comforts his four-year-old son, Globe and Mail, 1 April 2003 is at http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030401.uwarr0401/BNStory/International


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