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Stories from 2003-07-27

Battle-Weary Liberia Braces for More Killing

Matthew Tostevin | Reuters | July 27, 2003

"Hunching down to sprint across road junctions, ducking the ever-whistling bullets, has become a way of life for people who have no choice but to move in an often futile hunt for food and clean water." [more]

Iraq Magnet for Foreign Terrorists, General Says

Andrew Marshall | Reuters | July 27, 2003

The general, "whose troops usually blame the attacks on die-hard Saddam loyalists, said the sophistication of the raids had increased over the last 30 days." [more]

Analysis: Preemptive Strike

Bob Thompson | Washington Post | July 27, 2003

"John Brady Kiesling may have a promising future as a trivia question. But for one brief, undiplomatic moment, his resignation from the Foreign Service crystallized the opposition to the Iraq war." [more]

US Seeks New Afghan Aid Amid Criticism of Reconstruction

Vernon Loeb and Glenn Kessler | Washington Post | July 27, 2003

Funds "would go toward highway and school construction, other infrastructure initiatives, police training, beefed-up development of the Afghan national army, education projects and programs to help women enter the workforce." [more]

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This website is a tribute to Why War?, one of the nation's first and most innovative post-9/11 student antiwar organizations. Born on October 22, 2001 at Swarthmore College, we were a handful of freshmen and sophmores who vocally opposed the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. And now, seven years later, we are retiring this website as we focus our efforts on new directions. We hope that it continues to serve future activists and we remain confident that humanity is on the verge birthing a better world.