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1:
Photo-Essay
1: Dead US Soldiers In Nasiriya
GRAPHIC IMAGES MAY DISTURB: The purpose of information sharing is to empower individuals to make informed choices. If publishing these images causes those, who would support more killing to consider their decisions, then publishing is justified.
2:
Photo-Essay
2: Tell Us Is This
Liberation?
GRAPHIC IMAGES MAY DISTURB: The purpose of information sharing is to empower individuals to make informed choices. If publishing these images causes those, who would support more killing to consider their decisions, then publishing is justified.
3:
Photo-Essay
3: USA Bombs A Baghdad
Market
GRAPHIC IMAGES MAY DISTURB: The purpose of information sharing is to empower individuals to make informed choices. If publishing these images causes those, who would support more killing to consider their decisions, then publishing is justified.Advertisement - scroll to continue reading
4:
Is
The Iraq War The Beginning Of World War
IV?
SCOOP EDITOR'S NOTE: The following report from CNN is chilling in its audacity. Ex-CIA Director James Woolsey is a Bush insider who is tipped to become the overseer of Iraq once this war is over. Here Woolsey openly talks of a much bigger war, what ...
5:
Scoop
Feedback: Death and Casualty From
Iraq
The following feedback has been received from Scoop readers in response to our decision to publish graphic pictures from Al Jazeera showing the true horror of war.
6:
Photo-Essay
1: Death and Casualty From
Iraq
Editor’s Warning: The images in this series are horrific and depict the reality of injury and death in this US-led War against Iraq. Scoop is determined that its editorial policy will continue to serve truth, accuracy and honesty and that its reportage ...
7:
Photo-Essay
3: Death and Casualty From
Iraq
Editor’s Warning: The images in this series are horrific and depict the reality of injury and death in this US-led War against Iraq. Scoop is determined that its editorial policy will continue to serve truth, accuracy and honesty and that its reportage ...
8:
Photo-Essay
2: Death and Casualty From
Iraq
Editor’s Warning: The images in this series are horrific and depict the reality of injury and death in this US-led War against Iraq. Scoop is determined that its editorial policy will continue to serve truth, accuracy and honesty and that its reportage ...
9:
Shedding
No Tears for Iraqi Civilians
'You just [expletive] killed a family because you didn't fire a warning shot soon enough!' the Washington Post quotes Captain Ronny Johnson as telling his platoon leader.
Much has been made in recent days of the controversy regarding the ethics of publishing pictures that may offend some people. However, war in of itself is offensive. It is offensive to nature, offensive to morality, and offensive to the human condition.
11:
Scoop
Feedback 1: War Images The US Wants
Censored
"You are sick and twisted. Your scoop of shit is a disgrace. This is in regards to your crapatorial... Mass Murder. Huh! Red cross says only 100 innocent civilians have died in 8 days of war. Saddam is averaging 579 people a day in times of peace."
12:
USA
Coup Link: Washington Post Notices The
Coup
A12 As election officials rush to spend billions to update the country's voting machines with electronic systems, computer scientists are mounting a challenge to the new devices, saying they are less reliable and less secure from fraud than the equipment ...
13:
Scoop
Continues To Publish Reality Of War
Images
Editorial: Scoop is determined that its editorial policy will continue to serve truth, accuracy and honesty and that its reportage of this US invasion of Iraq will not be censored nor sanitised. Let us consider why this is so.
14:
Photo-Essay
1: The Many Faces of War
Because war was so packaged as a Disney reality TV tour of Baghdad, the pictures you see here are more important than ever. Without them we would all continue to think a war fought far way has no bearing on us.
15:
Photo-Essay
2: The Many Faces of War
"Iraqis living outside who say they support this war are living in comfort and enjoying the peace and tranquillity of their homes. They have no bombs taking their children away form them or raining down on them terrifying night after night."
16:
Photo-Essay
1: Consider Whom You Bomb
Warning. These Graphic Images May Disturb: Dawn air raids pounded areas south of Baghdad on Saturday March 29, after a night in which the Information Ministry was targeted by U.S. cruise missiles and Iraqis said an attack on a market killed dozens ...
The residents of an unassuming house, tucked away in a quiet corner of a small New England college campus, have found themselves at the center of a disturbing fight for the basic right to express their opinion as Americans.
18:
Photo-Essay
2: Consider Whom You Bomb
Warning. These Graphic Images May Disturb: Dawn air raids pounded areas south of Baghdad on Saturday March 29, after a night in which the Information Ministry was targeted by U.S. cruise missiles and Iraqis said an attack on a market killed dozens ...
19:
Scoop
Feedback 2: War Images The US Wants
Censored
"I cannot believe that our country has been overtaken by thugs with no regard for others..." - "I have been genuinely shocked at the images to be found on your website. They are, as you warn us, horrific. The problem is, the people who truly need to ...
20:
Scoop
Feedback 3: War Images The US Wants
Censored
"In a time when the mainstream media, and the Murdoch media in particular, are delivering only what Bush's pupeteers Cheney, Perle, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld want them to, Scoop is one place we can escape such propoganda."
21:
Photo-Essay
1: Who Is Responsible For This
Abuse?
Why is murder acceptable in a desert land when it would be a capital offence in Texas? And tell us, within the manuals of international law, is provision made to provide justice to victims butchered by the hands of so called ‘liberators’? No?
22:
Comprehensive
coverage of the USUK
Invasion
Scoop Link: Twenty-seven people were killed and another 193 were injured in Baghdad and its suburbs on Thursday morning, Iraqi Information Minister Muhammad Sa'id al-Sahhaf told a news briefing.
23:
Satellite
Images: Iraq Bathed In A Winged
Cloud
Image taken by the NASA MODIS satellite Terra 01/28/03 07:50 UTC
24:
Scoop
Images: The Last Iraq War Looked Like
This
A few days after the end of the Gulf ground war, an American soldier inspects the carbonized bodies of Iraqi soldiers killed when their convoy of vehicles was bombed and strafed by Allied aircraft as the convoy attempted to retreat from Kuwait back ...
25:
Behind
The Veil: Women's Headscarves In
School
To a non-Muslim hijab or headscarf might mean very little, or in the other case, maybe it means too much. So much that it makes them so uncomfortable that they don’t want to see it, because they feel it makes a sort of “political statement” that religion ...
26:
Riding
The Whitewater With Ali
Smith
Photographer Dean Treml and journalist Alison Smith join New Zealand Extreme Kayaker Ben Brown and the country’s best junior paddler Toby Robertson for a rapid tour of the Central North Island’s whitewater…
27:
Photo-Essay
3: The British Invasion of
Basra
“I have heard it said that Iraq has had not months but 12 years in which to disarm, and our patience is exhausted. Yet it is over 30 years since resolution 242 called on Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories,” Robin Cook MP-UK.
28:
Large
USA Daily Links To Scoop's War
Coverage
A San Francisco Chronicle columnist writes: "True images of war available. You need a steel stomach and hardened nerves to view them, but they are, in a way, required viewing, something almost everyone should see..." The columnist then links to Scoop.
29:
Scoop
Images: Award Winning Americas Cup
Images
The two award winning photos from the Air New Zealand America's Cup Photography Awards can be viewed below. For more background on the awards see… America's Cup Photography Awards Captured
30:
Photo-Essay
2: Who Is Responsible For This
Abuse?
Why is murder acceptable in a desert land when it would be a capital offence in Texas? And tell us, within the manuals of international law, is provision made to provide justice to victims butchered by the hands of so called ‘liberators’? No?
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