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Stories from 2003-08-05

Army Stumped Over Pneumonia in Troops in Iraq, Afghanistan

Puline Jelinek | San Diego Union-Tribune | August 5, 2003

"The Army is telling troops to take precautions as it tries to figure out the cause of pneumonia cases, including two deaths, among forces in the Afghan and Iraqi campaigns." [more]

Helping Liberia Would Be No Sweat

Jesse Jackson | Chicago Sun-Times | August 5, 2003

"Salvation is at hand, but President Bush bizarrely has refused to order the U.S. forces into the country. With the UN, the regional allies and all factions of Liberians begging the United States to act, the president dithers." [more]

Israeli Army Arrests 40 ISM Members

STAFF | Agence France-Presse | August 5, 2003

"The protestors were occupying the house in Mashah, near the town of Qalqiliya, in a bid to stop the Israelis bulldozing the Palestinian owner's garden to build the fence cutting off the West Bank from Israel." [more]

Man Jailed for Linking to Bomb-Making Sites

STAFF | Associated Press | August 5, 2003

A federal judge sentenced a man to a year in prison Monday for creating an anarchist Web site with links to sites on how to build bombs. [more]

Officials Confirm Dropping Firebombs on Iraqi Troops

James W. Crawley | San Diego Union-Tribune | August 5, 2003

"American jets killed Iraqi troops with firebombs — similar to the controversial napalm used in the Vietnam War — in March and April as Marines battled toward Baghdad." [more]

Peace Activists Target War Profiteers

STAFF | Institute for Southern Studies | August 5, 2003

"Veterans for Peace, New York Labor Against the War, Global Exchange, United for Peace and Justice, Public Citizen’s Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program, and other groups have signed on to the campaign’s founding statement, as well as well-known activist authors Noam Chomsky, Jim Hightower, and Howard Zinn." [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.