OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM': SOME HUMANITARIAN REFLECTIONS

Abstract

"War in Iraq", "War in the Gulf', "It's all Bombardment", "Civilian Death Toll in Iraq Increases ", " Baghdad F i nal l y Falls", etc , were some of the showy press headlines during the second Gulf War in 2003. Not even the ethnic based maga­ zines were left behind in this war-clouded event. The same period also wit­ nessed the rising numbers of electronic gadget users in the manner of keep i ng abreast with the events in Iraq. The cyberspace was not left behind in this orgy event and many times it made efforts to provide its consumers with the informa­ tion on the wa r . Everywhere it was just war in Iraq; people in the streets of Nairobi, Kampala, Kuala Lumpur, London, etc , could only think about or be heard talking about one thing during this time: the War in the Gulf. Press reports from the conflict area would also be saturated with warfare issues and many times they would publish information about the grenade-propelled rockets being used by the Iraqi soldiers, Iraqi combatants using r uses and perfidy to ambush their enemies and the US-led forces dropping the dreadful cluster bombs of the Rockeye type full of hundreds or thousands of bomblets.