Thursday, April 24, 2003

-Voices in the Wilderness Banned from Palestine Hotel in Baghdad by U.S. Military

BAGHDAD - April 17 - Less than 24 hours after issuing a press release (below) highlighting the failures of the U.S. Military’s attempts to oversee humanitarian intervention in Iraq, Voices in the Wilderness was banned from meeting with the U.S. Civil Military Operations Center, or international journalists, working out of the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad (see attached picture).

Palestine Hotel, Baghdad - April 17, 2003
“NO VOICES OF WILDERNESS NGOs”

If the freedom to critique U.S. policies in Iraq regarding humanitarian issues is being curtailed already, then exactly what does this mean for building “democracy” here?

http://www.commondreams.org/news2003/0417-15.htm