Communiqué from the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee - General Command of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. Mexico. April of 2003. To the People of Mexico: To the Peoples of the World: Brothers and Sisters: In violation of international laws and those of reason and humanity, the governments of the United States and of Great Britain, with support from other governments of the world, have invaded Iraqi territory. The attack on Iraq is just one page in the script of terror which the power of money has prepared for the entire planet. (...) In all ways, in all places, in all languages and with all colors, we are saying: NO to the war! Democracy! Liberty! Justice! From the mountains of the Mexican Southeast. By the Clandestine Revolutionary Indigenous Committee - General Command of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos Mexico, April of 2003.

DAS INTEGRALE DOKUMENT GIBT'S HIER AUF ENGLISH UND HIER AUF SPANISCH. MARCOS BEZIEHT SICH DARIN UNTER ANDEREM AUF DEN AUFRUF "WE STAND FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE".

Er hielt heute Abend im Schauspielhaus einen Vortrag mit dem Titel "Die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika - der unverstandene Partner". Sein Vortragsmanuskript ist zu beziehen über seine e-mail Adresse. Wirklich neu oder originell war kaum etwas an seinen Ausführungen. Der Erkenntnisgewinn ist eher darin zu sehen, dass Borer sagen musste, wo er steht. Stark verkürzt: Er ist der pragmatische Realpolitiker (ein weisser Schimmel, ein Pleonasmus), der sich mit den USA, die nun mal die führende Weltmacht sind, arrangieren will. Und das am liebsten in der Rolle des guten Freundes. Aus seinem Schlusswort: Die USA haben in der Geschichte bewiesen, dass sie letztlich immer eine milde, liberale Macht waren, die sich auf ihre Grundwerte Demokratie, Menschenrechte, Rechtsstaat besinnt (...) Wer sich von Lippmann nicht überzeugen lässt, möge Trost in der Feststellung von Winston Churchill finden: 'Die Amerikaner tun immer das Richtige - nachdem sich alle anderen Wege erschöpft haben.' (after they've exhausted all the alternatives)."

Der "Ausflug" der allierten Panzer gestern in Baghdads Vorstadt soll - laut US-Angaben - 2-3'000 irakische Soldaten das Leben gekostet haben.

Transkript von John "I am bleeding through the ear" Simpsons quasi Livebericht davon, wie's so ist unter US-friendly Fire: "Well it's a bit of a disaster... I was in a convoy of eight or 10 cars in northern Iraq coming up to a place that has just recently been captured. American special forces in a truck - two trucks I think - beside them, plus a very senior figure ..." Simpson to US soldier: "Shut up. I'm broadcasting! Oh yes, I'm fine - am I bleeding." US soldier: "Yes, you've got a cut." Simpson: "I thought you were going to stop me. I think I've just got a bit of shrapnel in the leg, that's all. OK, I will - thanks a lot. That was one of the American special forces medics - I thought he was going to try to stop me reporting. I've counted 10 or 12 bodies around us. So there are Americans dead. It was an American plane that dropped the bomb right beside us - I saw it land about 10 feet, 12 feet away I think. We were so close to the damage and - it didn't damage us badly at any rate. This is just a scene from hell here. All the vehicles on fire. There are bodies burning around me, there are bodies lying around, there are bits of bodies on the ground. This is a really bad own goal by the Americans. We don't really know how many Americans are dead. There is ammunition exploding in fact from some of these cars. A very senior member of the Kurdish Republic's government who also may have been injured." TV presenter Maxine Mawhinney: "John, just to recap for the viewers, an American plane dropped a bomb on your convoy of American special forces - many dead, many injured?" Simpson: "I am sorry to be so excitable. I am bleeding through the ear and everything but that is absolutely the case. I saw this American convoy, and they bombed it. They hit their own people - they may have hit this Kurdish figure - very senior, and they've killed a lot of ordinary characters, and I am just looking at the bodies now and it is not a very pretty sight."

(AP) Kurz darauf entstandenes Bild der von Simpson beschriebenen Szene.

CBS berichtet über Al Kaida Rekrutinnen: Recent intelligence has the FBI worried that al Qaeda may be recruiting and training women to carry out terror attacks, trying to regain an element of surprise for a network thinned by arrests, officials say. (...) U.S. officials learned of an interview in mid-March in an Arabic-language newspaper in which a woman claimed al Qaeda was setting up training camps to train women to become martyrs. The woman identified herself as Umm Osama, which translates "mother of Osama." "We are building a women's structure that will carry out operations that will make the U.S. forget its own name," the woman claimed in the interview with the Asharq al-Awsat newspaper, based in London. The woman said her job was "to oversee the training of the female mujahedeen affiliated with al Qaeda and the Taliban".

WalMart, mit 1,2 Millionen (!) Angestellten weltweit, eine der grösseren Warenhausketten... nimmt per sofort Schusswaffen aus dem Sortiment in 118 Filialen in Kalifornien.

Der schottische Sunday Herald schreibt: BRITISH and American coalition forces are using depleted uranium (DU) shells in the war against Iraq and deliberately flouting a United Nations resolution which classifies the munitions as illegal weapons of mass destruction. DU contaminates land, causes ill-health and cancers among the soldiers using the weapons, the armies they target and civilians, leading to birth defects in children. Professor Doug Rokke, ex-director of the Pentagon's depleted uranium project -- a former professor of environmental science at Jacksonville University and onetime US army colonel who was tasked by the US department of defence with the post-first Gulf war depleted uranium desert clean-up -- said use of DU was a 'war crime'.

The Daily Star aus Beriut berichtet:Licensing fees and overstaffing are to blame for the radio station Voice of the People’s (VOP) inability to pay its employees, who started an open-ended strike Friday. In the last two months, employees at the station, which is largely owned by the Communist Party, only received half a month’s pay, while many are already owed more than 12 months pay spread over a period of four years, making the situation intolerable and resulting in the strike. (...) Nassereddine said the station had no general manager since Tanios Deaibes left two years ago. He said the radio station has three drivers but no cars, adding that out of the 30 employees that work in the station, only seven are in the editorial room, with the rest in top management positions.

ABC: U.S. armored vehicles drove through Baghdad on Saturday, smashing through Iraq's Republican Guard to reach at least briefly the ultimate destination of their two-week surge across southern Iraq. In one skirmish, Marines with bayonets battled Arab fighters from abroad in a marsh on Baghdad's outskirts.

Gestern berichtete infamy über den Abschuss der Mediengewerkschafterin Denise Chervet mit einem paintballähnlichen Geschoss. Mehr darüber gibts bei Pig Brother. Und natürlich beim Hersteller. pigbrother

1415 h: Lara von CBS berichtet (zusammengefasst): "I hear the sound of jets in the sky while we are speaking. Artillery battles raging on two sides. But the iraqi forces are still in control of key government buildings and installations, there is no evidence yet of US troops on the ground here. There is no mass exodus from here. Police cars are driving around and waving flags to signalise victory at the airport." Jetzt gehe sie ein paar Stunden in die Stadt. Ein spanisch sprechender Kollege bittet um Licht für seinen Beitrag. "Or do you only put lights on the girls?" Antwort: "Yes, you are too ugly anyway..."

Sehr geehrte(r) Frau / Herr Oeri, Frau / Herr Hoffmann, Gratuliere! Sie haben auch dieses Jahr wieder gewonnen! Gestern, am 4. April 2003, wurde Ihnen die Dividende aus dem Geschäftsjahr 2002 für Ihren Anteil am Pharmakonzern Roche ausbezahlt, sollte also spätestens kommenden Montag auf Ihrem Konto sein. Die genaue Höhe verraten wir hier nicht. Nur soviel: <a href=jukebox.radiox.ch target=_blank>Der Betrag liegt dieses Jahr zwischen rund Fr. 90'000'000.- und Fr. 190'000'000.-, und damit so hoch wie noch nie.