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WITHOUT PREJUDICE

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN

While the armed invasion is now part of history the human suffering should never be ignored nor5

forgotten.

We must hold those responsible, including John Howard and his fellow politicians legally

accountable for what the inflicted upon Iraq and Afghanistan.

Also we should hold accountable what I consider was to treasonous conduct of the High Court of

Australia as to deny to accept my application to challenge the constitutional validity of the10

deployment of Australian Troops into Iraq, before it happened. I consider it very serious for any

court let alone the High Court of Australia to deny a citizen constitutional rights. In my view they

were serving their political masters ignoring the human suffering that would eventuate.I see to draw you attention to this email and understand/comprehend that often what is presented

is sanitised to serve certain political purposes.15

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ALI Ismaeel Abbas, 12,20ALI Ismaeel Abbas, 12, was fast asleep when war shattered his life.

A missile obliterated his home and most of his family, leaving him orphaned, badly burned - and blowingoff both his arms.With tears running down his face he asked: "Can you help get my arms back? Do you think the doctorscan get me another pair of hands? If I don't get a pair of hands I will commit suicide.25"I wanted to be an army officer when I grow up but not any more. Now I want to be a doctor - but how canI? I don't have hands."

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Lying in a Baghdad hospital, an improvised metal cage over his chest to stop his burned flesh touchingthe bedclothes, he said: "It was midnight when the missile fell on us. My father, my mother and my brotherdied. My mother was five months pregnant."Our neighbours pulled me out and brought me here unconscious."Our house was just a poor shack. Why did they want to bomb us?"5He did not know the area where he lived was surrounded by military installations.

Hospital staff were overwhelmed by the sharp rise in casualties since US troops moved on

Baghdad and intensified the aerial assault. TRAGEDY: Ali was left orphaned and terribly injured in bombing raid

Ambulances rushed in with victims, many carried in bedsheets after running out of stretchers.10Doctors struggled to find them beds. Staff had no time to clean the blood from trolleys. Patients' screamsand parents' cries echoed across the wards.With many staff unable to get there due to the bombing, doctors worked round the clock performingsurgery, taking blood, giving injections and ferrying wounded.Dr Osama Saleh al-Duleimi, an orthopaedic surgeon and assistant director at Kindi, said they were15overloaded and suffering shortages of anaesthetics and painkillers.The Red Cross has been touring hospitals with first aid and surgery kits. Spokesman Roland Huguenin-Benjamin said: "They were overwhelmed by sheer numbers - during fierce bombardment they received upto 100 casualties an hour."Doctors who treated victims of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war and the 1991 Gulf War were taken aback by the20injuries. Dr Duleimi, 48, said: "This is the worst I've seen in the number of casualties and fatal wounds."This is a disaster because they're attacking civilians."

Dr Sadek al-Mukhtar said: "In the previous battles the weapons seemed merely disabling. Now they'remuch more lethal.

"Before the war I did not regard America as my enemy. Now I do. War should be against the25

military. America is killing civilians."

QUOTE 29-1-2003 EMAIL Exhibit 001

Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 16:25:51 +1030

From: Alenka & Ron Co <[email protected]>30

Subject: If you really think we should go to war - read this

To: [email protected]

No apologies from me - this is too important to sweeten with politeness - this is what going to35

war is really about!

Ron

Does Tony Blair Have Any Idea What The Flies Are Like That Feed Off The Dead?40

By Robert Fisk

The Independent45

1-26-3

LONDON, 26 January 2003 - On the road to Basra, ITV was filming wild dogs as they tore at

the corpses of the Iraqi dead. Every few seconds a ravenous beast would rip off a decaying arm50

and make off with it over the desert in front of us, dead fingers trailing through the sand, the

remains of the burned military sleeve flapping in the wind.
















"Just for the record," the cameraman said to me. Of course. Because ITV would never show such

footage. The things we see - the filth and obscenity of corpses - cannot be shown. First because it

is not "appropriate" to depict such reality on breakfast-time TV. Second because, if what we saw

was shown on television, no one would ever again agree to support a war.5

That of course was in 1991. The "highway of death," they called it - there was actually a parallel

and much worse "highway of death" 10 miles to the east, courtesy of the US Air Force and the

RAF, but no one turned up to film it - and the only true picture of the horrors we saw was the

photograph of the shriveled, carbonized Iraqi soldier in his truck.10

This was an iconic illustration of a kind because it did represent what we

had seen, when it was eventually published.

For Iraqi casualties to appear on television during that Gulf War -

there was another one between 1980 and 1988, and a third is in the offing -

it was necessary for them to have died with care, to have fallen15

romantically on their backs, one hand over a ruined face. Like those World War I paintings of the

British dead on the Somme, Iraqis had to die benignly and without obvious wounds, without any

kind of squalor, without a trace of shit or mucus or congealed blood, if they wanted to make it on

to the morning news programs.20

I rage at this contrivance. At Qaa in 1996, when the Israelis had shelled Lebanese refugees at the

UN compound for 17 minutes, killing 106 civilians, more than half of them children, I came

across a young woman holding in her arms a middle-aged man. He was dead. "My father, my

father," she kept crying, cradling his face. One of his arms and one of his legs was missing - the

Israelis used proximity shells which cause amputation wounds - but when that scene reached25

television screens in Europe and America, the camera was close up on the girl and the dead

man's face. The amputations were not to be seen. The cause of death had been erased in the

interests of good taste. It was as if the old man had died of tiredness, just turned his head upon

his daughter's shoulder to die in peace.

30Today, when I listen to the threats of US President George W. Bush against Iraq and the shrill

moralistic warnings of British Prime Minister Tony Blair, I wonder what they know of this

terrible reality. Does George, who declined to serve his county in Vietnam, have any idea what

these corpses smell like? Does Tony have the slightest conception of what the flies are like, the

big bluebottles that feed on the dead, and then come to settle on our faces and our notepads?35

Soldiers know. I remember one British officer asking to use the BBC's satellite phone just after

the liberation of

Kuwait in 1991. He was talking to his family in England and I watched him carefully. "I have

seen some terrible things," he said. And then he broke down, weeping and shaking and holding

the phone dangling in his hand over the transmission set. Did his family have the slightest idea40

what he was talking about? They would not have understood by watching television.

Thus can we face the prospect of war. Our glorious, patriotic population - albeit only about 20

percent in support of this particular Iraqi folly - has been protected from the realities of violent

death. But I am much struck by the number of letters in my postbag from veterans of World War45

II, men and women, all against this new Iraqi war, with an inalienable memory of torn limbs and

suffering.
















I remember once a wounded man in Iran, a piece of steel in his forehead, howling like an animal

- which is, of course, what we all are - before he died; and the Palestinian boy who simply

collapsed in front of me when an Israeli soldier shot him dead, quite deliberately, coldly,

murderously, for throwing a stone; and the Israeli with a chair leg sticking out of her stomach

outside the Sbarro pizzeria in Jerusalem after a Palestinian5

bomber had decided to execute the families inside; and the heaps of Iraqi dead at the Battle of

Dezful in the Iran-Iraq war; and the young man showing me the thick black trail of his daughter's

blood outside Algiers where armed men had cut her throat.

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But George Bush and Tony Blair and Dick Cheney and Jack Straw and all the other little

warriors who are bamboozling us into war will not have to think of these vile images. For them

it's about surgical strikes, collateral damage and all the other examples of war's linguistic

mendacity.

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We are going to have a just war; we are going to liberate the people of Iraq - some of whom we

will obviously kill - and we are going to give them democracy and protect their oil wealth and

stage war crimes trials and we are going to be ever so moral, and we are going to watch our

defense "experts" on TV with their bloodless sandpits and their awesome knowledge of weaponswhich rip off heads20

Come to think of it, I recall the head of an Albanian refugee, chopped neatly off when the

Americans, ever so accidentally, bombed a refugee convoy in Kosovo in 1999 which they

thought was a Serb military unit. His head lay in the long grass, bearded, eyes open, severed as if

by a Tudor executioner. Months later, I learned his name and talked to the girl who was hit by25

the severed head during the US air strike and who laid the head reverently in the grass where I

found it. NATO, of course, did not apologize to the family. Nor to the girl. No one says sorry

after war.

No one acknowledges the truth of it. No one shows you what we see. Which is how our leadersand our betters persuade us - still - to go to war.30

Ron Co

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