U.S. AFPAK-IRAQ bleeding SUNDAY

Clinton in Islamabad, Pakistan, full court theater heading into Tuesday’s international donors’ conference in neighboring Kabul, Afghanistan
Re-reporting, compiled and edited by Carolyn Bennett
Sunday July 18

IRAQ
Worsening in governing void
More than 40 people have died and 40 more suffered wounds when a suicide bomb exploded today in western Baghdad. The incident occurred as government-backed Sahwa fighters gathered, lined up outside a military base in the Sunni district of Radwaniya, to collect their pay. Near the Iraq’s border with Syria in the far western town Qaim, another suicide bomb exploded. Backed by the United States since 2006, Sahwa militia (or “Awakening movements”) in Iraq reportedly have been fighting al-Qaeda.

AFGHANISTAN
Worsens daily
Escalation in the war on Afghanistan has taken enormous tolls on the Afghan people ─ and (as in Iraq) the war as weighted most heavily on the children. More than a thousand civilians have died this year alone in Afghanistan. The Afghanistan Rights Monitor say recent statistics show more than 1,000 civilians died in the first six months of 2010, with over half of them dying in suicide attacks and roadside bombings. Among those killed and injured were children.


Last month was the deadliest for international troops in this nearly nine-year-old war. One hundred and three international troops including 60 Americans have died. This month (July) 54 have died of which 39 were from the United States.

• Kandahar

Taliban fighters today freed 14 inmates from a jail in western Afghanistan after staging a daring prison break. In November 2009, 13 prisoners escaped from the same prison via a tunnel. In June that year, more than 1,000 Taliban inmates escaped from Sarpoza prison in Kandahar city after an exploded suicide bomb blew open the front gates and destroyed prison walls.


Sunday’s prison break comes two days before Afghanistan is scheduled to host a major international donors’ conference to be attended by scores of foreign ministers including U.S. secretary of state Hillary Clinton.

• Kabul

Three people died and some 30 suffered wounds today when a suicide bomb exploded in central Kabul where on Tuesday more than 70 international representatives including some 40 foreign ministers are expected to meet in conference and hear the Afghan government’s plan to take over security of its country.


Afghan president Hamid Karzai is reportedly getting ready to announce an official timetable for foreign troops to leave his country. At the international donors’ conference on Tuesday in Kabul, the Afghan government is expected also to present a long-term development strategy in exchange for more aid pledges for Afghanistan; and more control over the spending of international aid.

“Despite the high-profile spin in Washington and Kabul about progress made in Afghanistan, the Afghan people have only witnessed and suffered an intensifying armed conflict over the past six months. Contrary to President Barrack Obama’s promise that the deployment of additional 30,000 US forces to the country would ‘disrupt, dismantle and defeat’ Taliban insurgents and their al-Qaeda allies in the region, the insurgency has become more resilient, multi-structured and deadly. Information and figures received, verified and analyzed by Afghanistan Rights Monitor (ARM) show about 1,074 civilian people were killed and over 1,500 were injured in armed violence and security incidents from 1 January to 30 June 2010. This shows a slight increase in the number of civilian deaths compared to the same period last year when 1,059 deaths were recorded,” writes ARM [Afghanistan Rights Monitor] Mid-Year Report Civilian Casualties of Conflict, January-June 2010 Kabul, Afghanistan, http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWFiles2010.nsf/FilesByRWDocUnidFilename/NROI-87A9PB-full_report.pdf/$File/full_report.pdf

PAKISTAN
Neighbors against neighbors
The U.S. Secretary of State is in Pakistan today and Monday reportedly promising hundreds of millions to that country and pressing its government to escalate war against [its people] armed groups in the country’s northwest ─ particularly the so-called ‘Haqqani network’ ─ supposedly the deadliest group operating in Afghanistan whose fighters often take sanctuary in Pakistan. Reports say Clinton also will press Pakistan on ‘reconciliation’ talks between anti-government fighters and the Afghan government.

Sources and notes
KABUL [Persian Kābol] is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan ─ its cultural and economic center ─ lying along the Kābul River (elevation about 5,900 feet, 1,800 meters) in the east-central part of the country. Roads connect Kabul with most other areas of Afghanistan; to the north with Uzbekistan, to the east with Pakistan [Britannica].

“Suicide bombers target Iraq militia,” July 18, 2010,
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/07/20107181483330423.html
“Afghanistan violence soars” (Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports), July 18, 2010, http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/07/2010716135511780796.html
“Taliban stage daring jail break,” July 18, 2010,
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/07/20107187115691869.html
Karzai ‘sets withdrawal timeline.’ July 18, 2010, http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/07/2010718131825950716.html
“Clinton in Pakistan for talks,” July 18, 2010, http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/07/201071842649336595.html

Same policy produces same results

U.S. in Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam; domestic neglect
Excerpted and edited from ANSWER by Carolyn Bennett

U.S. taxpayers experiencing devastating cuts in state and local budgets, layoffs of municipal workers, soaring tuition hikes in public colleges—all because of budget shortfalls—will see billions of their tax dollars go to fund the occupation of Afghanistan and pay the salaries of poor Afghans so they can shoot other poor Afghans.

This has been a classic divide-and-conquer tactic employed in foreign lands by colonial occupiers:  attempting to break up resistance united against their invasion and occupation.

The Obama administration and military brass have taken a page from the murderous Nixon-Kissinger policy announced in 1969, the ‘Vietnamization’ plan. There had been a rising tide of anti-war sentiment within the U.S. and Nixon and the Pentagon wanted the Vietnamese to kill each other in greater numbers as a way of diminishing U.S. war dead. Millions of Vietnamese died during that war. Fifty-eight thousand U.S. military personnel died. This U.S. strategy created a tsunami in human suffering and failed to alter the outcome. Vietnamese were and Afghans are unwilling to live under foreign occupation.

Al Jazeera [AFP] reporting
AFPAK South/Central Asia

July 17
Eighteen people (estimated) died today in northwest Pakistan when people armed with assault rifles opened fire on a convoy of passenger buses. The buses were passing through the village of Char Khel in the Kurram tribal agency. In the past few years, violence in Kurram has escalated. The buses in today's incident had been travelling from the border town of Parachinar to Peshawar, the main city in northwest Pakistan [“Deadly ambush in northwest Pakistan,” July 17, 2010, http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/07/201071752053757115.html].

July 14
Twelve NATO troops (estimated) died in a 48-hour period in southern Afghanistan. Four U.S. soldiers died when a bomb exploded in southern Afghanistan. Three died Tuesday along with five civilians and an Afghan police officer when a suicide bomb exploded at an Afghan police compound in Kandahar. Three other NATO troops died when an Afghan soldier, reportedly a ‘Taliban sympathizer,’ opened fire in Helmand province [“Five US soldiers die in Afghanistan,” July 14, 2010, http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/07/2010714123346449802.html]


Sources
“‘Petraeus promotes civil war in Afghanistan’ ─ Statement from Brian Becker, National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition,” Friday, July 16, 2010, A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition, http://www.answercoalition.org/ ; info@internationalanswer.org; National Office in Washington DC: 202-265-1948; Boston: 857-334-5084; New York City: 212-694-8720; Los Angeles: 213-251-1025; San Francisco: 415-821-6545; Chicago: 773-463-0311

Dead in U.S.-occupied Persia, Middle East

Edited from Al Jazeera English by Carolyn Bennett

July 14
AFGHANISTAN
Twelve NATO troops in 48 hours have died in southern Afghanistan.

July 15
IRAN
Twenty people died and more than 100 suffered wounds today when two suicide bombs exploded at a mosque in southeastern Iran.

IRAQ
Six people died and 17 suffered wounds today when a car bomb exploded on a busy commercial street in the Iraqi city of Tikrit. Reports said the explosive was meant for police. Hundreds of people have lost their lives in Iraq since the March 7 parliamentary election whose inconclusive results have not yet seated a new government.

Sources
“Five US soldiers die in Afghanistan,” July 14, 2010, http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/07/2010714123346449802.html
“Deaths in Iran mosque attack,” July 15, 2010, http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/07/201071518824599686.html
“Blast kills several in Iraqi city,” July 15, 2010, http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/07/201071510468813972.html

How many (est.) in two-theater

U.S.-led

WAR DEAD?

Casualty sites reporting

July 15, 2010 (accurate totals unknown)

• Anti-war dot com Casualties in Iraq since March 19, 2003

[U.S. war dead since the Obama inauguration January 20, 2009: 184]

Wounded 31,874-100,000

U.S. veterans with brain injuries 320,000

Suicides 18 a day

Latest update on this site July 2

http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

• Iraq Body Count figures

97,077 – 105,850

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/

• ICasualties IRAQ: 4,412 U.S., 4,730 Coalition

AFGHANISTAN: 1,184 U.S., 1,936 Coalition

http://icasualties.org/oif/

East reporting westward from U.S.'s "good" war

Compiled, edited by Carolyn Bennett
XINHUANET
WEEKEND THROUGH TUESDAY

AFGHANISTAN

Hichpuli village of Imam Sahib district
Six rebels and their commander Mullah Khalidin died Monday in an attack by security forces in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz province. This province has been the scene of increasing Taliban-led militancy since early this year.

Babaji area outside Helmand’s provincial capital Lashkar Gah
Two British soldiers died today when an Afghan soldier opened fire on the convoy of NATO-led troops in Helmand province south of Afghanistan. Tuesday’s incident comes shortly after a “mistaken air raid of NATO-led troops on Taliban hideouts left five Afghan soldiers dead and injured two others in Andar district of the southern Ghazni province.”

Kabul
Three NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldiers died today in an attack in southern Afghanistan. Americans are the majority of war dead among more than 320 (estimated) NATO soldiers who have lost their lives in the war on and occupation of Afghanistan since the start of this year.

Southern, eastern provinces
Twenty-four people among them five NATO soldiers died Saturday in Afghanistan’s southern and eastern provinces. The deaths resulted from small-arms fire, an IED (Improvised Explosive Device) strike, and an insurgent attack.

Kandahar, South Afghanistan
One civilian (estimated) died, civilian cars were destroyed on Saturday afternoon when a motorbike bomb ripped through a bazaar.

Chamkani district Paktia, Khost provinces
Thirteen civilian commuters (two Afghans and 11 Pakistanis) died, three civilians suffered injuries on Saturday when armed men opened fire on a civilian vehicle in Paktia province east of Afghanistan. The same day Taliban militants carried out a suicide car bomb attack against NATO-led troops in Ismael Khil district of the neighboring Khost province.

Shoving U.S. aggression on to Afghan villagers
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has put up “‘sharp resistance’ to a U.S. plan to assist Afghan villagers in fighting the Taliban on their own.”

The idea of recruiting villagers into local defense programs is a key part of the U.S. military strategy in Afghanistan, and Karzai’s stance poses an early challenge to U.S. military commander in Afghanistan General David Petraeus. The fear is that “such experiments could lead Afghanistan further into warlord-ism and out-of-control militias.” The Obama administration announced in December 2009 that sending an additional 30,000 soldiers would assist in an effort to regain the upper hand against a resurgent Taliban and that in mid-2011 the U.S. would begin withdrawing from Afghanistan.

News sources
“Clash leaves 6 Taliban fighters dead in N. Afghanistan,” July 13, 2020, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-07/13/c_13397616.htm
“Afghan soldier kills 2 British troopers in south Afghanistan,” July 13, 2010, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-07/13/c_13397977.htm
“3 NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan,” July 13, 2010, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-07/13/c_13397878.htm
“Militancy claims over 24 lives including 5 NATO soldiers in Afghanistan” (Abdul Haleem), July 10, 2010, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-07/10/c_13393778.htm
“Afghan president ‘resists’ U.S. village defense plan,” July 10, 2010, http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/7563543/afghan-president-resists-us-village-defence-plan/
“Armed men open fire kill 13 in E Afghanistan,” July 10, 2010, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-07/10/c_13393569.htm
Xinhuanet [domain names: xinhuanet.com, xinhua.org and news.cn, English version chinaview.cn, the online news service of Xinhua News Agency, releasing important news about China and the world around the clock without stop by relying on the agency’s worldwide information-gathering network. Xinhuanet provides news services in six languages ─ Chinese, English, Spanish, French, Russian and Arabic ─ to netizens [active participants in the online community of the Internet] in more than 200 countries and regions, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-08/31/content_6637522.htm
“Petraeus runs into resistance by Karzai : Renewed tension over initiative U.S. wants to expand...” (Joshua Partlow and Karen DeYoung, A01Post), “...the war effort in Afghanistan, Gen. David H...plan to assist Afghan villagers in fighting the Taliban on...,” July 10, 2010, http://www.washingtonpost.com/newssearch/search.html?st=afghanistan+villagers%2C+taliban&fn=&sfn=&sa=ns&cp=1&hl=true&sb=-1&sd=20100514&ed=20100713&blt=&bln=&sdt=Past+60+Days&dpp=10&scoa=&addedNav=

Southwest Asia U.S. wars’ war dead

Re-reported, compiled, edited by Carolyn Bennett

AFPAK

Northwest Pakistan
One hundred and two (estimated) people have died in double suicide bombings in northwest Pakistan. The death toll on Friday had stood at 62 people, but Saturday’s reports made the attack the deadliest since an October 2009 car bomb destroyed a market in the northwestern city of Peshawar that left 125 people dead. In recent months, “Pakistan has been hit by a wave of deadly attacks. Last week at least 42 people died in an attack on Pakistan’s most important Sufi shrine in the eastern city of Lahore.”

Afghanistan’s Kandahar
Seven (estimate) civilians and seven NATO forces died this week in the city of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan and elsewhere in the country. Cars were blazing, windows shattered; seven people suffered wounds in Saturday’s blast from explosives strapped to a parked motorcycle in Kandahar’s commercial center. The five NATO forces’ deaths happened in three separate attacks in eastern and southern Afghanistan. A sixth soldier reportedly died in an accidental explosion. All the reported dead were Americans.

NATO forces issued a statement on Saturday admitting its troops on Thursday had “‘accidently’ killed six [Afghan] civilians while battling Taliban fighters [in Paktia province south of Kabul] earlier in the week.” Saturday’s admission of killing civilians came the day after another NATO confession to “accidentally” killing “five Afghan soldiers in a botched airstrike” on the Andar district of Ghazni province “where the Afghan soldiers were launching a pre-dawn ambush against fighters.”

Hundreds of Afghan protesters took to the streets on Saturday chanting slogans against foreign forces and against Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai after U.S. troops killed two civilians and arrested three others during a Wednesday pre-dawn raid on the outskirts of the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.

Corruption in war
Afghans paid nearly $1 billion in bribes last year. Since 2006, corruption has become far more widespread. Corruption appears to be worst in Afghanistan’s justice and security agencies. Ten percent of Afghans reported paying bribes to obtain court decisions or police protection. Many of those bribes were expensive and nearly half of them cost more than 2,500 Afghanis ($55).

Thirty-eight percent of Afghans reported effect of police corruption [AFP]. Forty-two per cent said the interior ministry was the most corrupt in Afghanistan, 32 per cent said the justice ministry was most corrupt. The findings come from a study conducted by Integrity Watch Afghanistan (IWA), a Kabul-based NGO, based on interviews with 6,500 people in all but two (Paktika and Nuristan) of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces.

Integrity Watch Afghanistan’s similar survey in 2007 found the total cost of bribes was $466 million, less than half the level recorded in 2009. A January 2010 report released by the United Nations found that Afghans paid $2.5 billion in bribes in 2009 and that 59 per cent of Afghans think corruption is the biggest problem facing the country.

How many (est.) in two-theater

U.S.-led

WAR DEAD?

Casualty sites reporting

July 11, 2010 (accurate totals unknown)

• Anti-war dot com Casualties in Iraq since March 19, 2003

[U.S. war dead since the Obama inauguration January 20, 2009: 184]

Wounded 31,874-100,000

U.S. veterans with brain injuries 320,000

Suicides 18 a day

http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/

• Iraq Body Count figures

96,933 – 105,688

http://www.iraqbodycount.org/

• ICasualties IRAQ: 4,412 U.S., 4,730 Coalition

AFGHANISTAN: 1,171 U.S., 1,920 Coalition

http://icasualties.org/oif/

Sources and notes
“Pakistan death toll soars above 100,” July 10, 2010,
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/07/20107954021715355.html
“Deadly blast rocks Kandahar city,” July 10, 2010, http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/07/2010710103937406855.html
“Study says Afghan graft worsening” (Gregg Carlstrom), July 08, 2010, http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/07/201078124118415689.html

Bridging divide more vital than roots ─Angélique Kidjo

Listening to an artist joining genres of sport and music, people and world society ─ “Football is one thing that reminds us, as much as music, that we are one.”
Re-reporting, compiling, editing by Carolyn Bennett

“I sing all over the world and I am trying to show the beauty and richness of Africa to all kinds of different people,” singer Angélique Kidjo said in interview leading into the World Cup games in South Africa. “I spend all my life fighting against what the Nigerian writer Chimamanda Adichie calls the ‘danger of a single story’ of African wars and poverty.

“When traveling to South Africa for the World Cup, I saw headlines on television at the airport: ‘One of the highest crime rates in the world, Colombian team robbed in a hotel room.’ The media want to get back to that ‘single story’!

“But as soon as I landed [in South Africa], I felt the enthusiasm, joy and pride in the air. I went to the Soccer City Stadium in Johannesburg for a news conference about the World Cup Kick-off Celebration Concert. Contrary to the predictions of the Western media, the great building that looks like a giant calabash was ready in time for the opening match. Instead of making a speech at the news conference, I followed the traditions of Benin and, echoing in an empty stadium, sang a thank-you song. In concert, John Legend and I sang Curtis Mayfield’s 40-year-old classic written for African-American youth. We dedicated ‘Move on Up’ to the African youth.”

During the games, Angélique Kidjo said, “What I like about the game is that it’s unpredictable. Football is one thing that reminds us, as much as music, that we are one and we all have to work together for the same goal, which is living together within our differences and in peace. … Too much ego doesn’t do football any good: if you solo, you are weak but if we work together we all win.”

Her philosophy “about performing live,” Andrew Botsford writes in a feature article before Kidjo’s June performance at Westhampton Beach [New York], “is wrapped around the basic precept that she ‘never takes the public for granted.’ She believes she has a responsibility to ‘be naked spiritually on stage, to open [her] heart.…

“‘When it comes together and the magic happens, it is beautiful. We can all forget that we are divided.’”

Angélique Kidjo (born July 14, 1960, in Quidah, Benin, on Africa’s west coast) is the daughter of an actor, dancer, and theatrical producer from whom she inherited a love of performing. Kidjo debuted on stage with her mother’s theatrical troupe. She has been performing actively since the 1980s. She has also earned credits for social and political activism and humanitarian work. Her latest album “Oyo,” released in April, features soul songs in tribute to the musical influences: Curtis Mayfield’s “Move On Up,” James Brown’s “Cold Sweat”; and a new take, “Monfe Ran,” on the Aretha Franklin version of “Baby I Love You,” performed in duet with Dianne Reeves. Angélique Kidjo calls Reeves “the greatest jazz singer in the world.”

My talent,

Angélique Kidjo says,

is more important than where I come from.

Sources and notes

Angélique Kidjo appeared in interview today with Jian Ghomeshi on the CBC’s Q program, July 8, 2010, http://www.cbc.ca/q/
“What it was like to sing at the World Cup” (Guest blogger Angélique Kidjo), June 28, 2010, http://content.usatoday.com/communities/popcandy/post/2010/06/guest-blogger-what-it-was-like-to-sing-at-the-world-cup/1
“Angélique Kidjo celebrates musical diversity” (Ashante Infantry, Entertainment Reporter), June 25, 2010, http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/music/article/827619--angelique-kidjo-celebrates-musical-diversity
“Angélique Kidjo returns to Performing Arts Center” (Andrew Botsford, the East Hampton Press and the Southampton Press), mailbag@27east.com , the Press News Group
Angélique Kidjo biography, http://www.starpulse.com/Music/Kidjo,_Angelique/Biography/

“Unreasonable Woman” unlawful, not BritP

Excerpt, re-reporting by Carolyn Bennett
“I dreamed about the harbor. Went down to the bay and nobody was there. No fishermen, no trucks, no boats. … Froggie sold the fish house and only a white slab of cement remains as a marker. The fish house next door is gone too. … The shrimp season failed again and again, and now you’ll see more FOR SALE signs on the shrimp boats than captains. …

 “I didn’t’ fight all the time. I went out on my little skiff in the mornings and contemplated the birds and the fish and the elusive porpoises. Then the corporations messed with my mind where it hurt even more:

“Seismograph boats hunting for oil and gas appeared on the bays! They strung dynamite charges hither and yonder and proceeded to blow up the bay, and when a few fish blew out of the water, more knowledgeable heads than theirs decided that they needed airboats (the equivalent of jet planes on the water) to chase the fish away from the dynamite. So five zipping airboats met me every morning with their racket, and there went our fish. The fish didn’t return to the bays for a year; the oil and gas in the bays resumed and goes on to this day. It was within this window of opportunity that the idea for An Unreasonable Woman was born. What else to do but write and starve ─ a starving writer …” Diane Wilson was writing in the epilogue of her first book.

Texas shrimper, author, activist Diane Wilson fished the bays off Texas’s Gulf Coast from the time she was eight years old. She was boat captain at the age of 24. Her environmental activism, at great personal cost, began 21 years ago. Thugs threatened her, neighbors despised her but she won some battles too; and for her work on behalf of the people and aquatic life of Seadrift, Texas, she has received many awards. Among them the National Fisherman Magazine Award, Louis Gibbs’ Environmental Lifetime Award, and Louisiana Environmental Action (LEAN) Environmental Award. In the present era of BP and partners in the Gulf of Mexico, Wilson, despite brutal suppression, insists on being a voice of resistance.

At a Senate hearing on BP and partners’ destruction of and immunity in the Gulf of Mexico disaster, Diane Wilson stood in a Senate hearing and poured syrup (not oil as reported in the corporate press) over herself to dramatize the oil spill problem and express anger with legislators’ continuing corporate collusion. Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski was standing in the way of legislation to lift the oil company’s liability cap.

Seeing elected representatives like Senator Lisa Murkowski blocking BP from being legally responsible to pay for this catastrophe, Wilson decried Murkowski’s action as an outrageous complicity “with big oil over the American people who have been so devastated by this manmade disaster.” Capitol Hill police arrested Wilson. In another action on June 17, Diane Wilson stood up during an Energy and Commerce Committee hearing featuring BP CEO Tony Hayward. This time she poured black paint over her hands and body. Before being ejected from the hearing room, she extemporaneously charged that Hayward “needs to be charged with a crime [and sent] to jail!”

Yesterday on KPFA Wilson concluded, “If these people went to jail, there’d be less of a problem.”

For her nonviolent actions, Diane Wilson has stood before the court and received indictments of two counts of unlawful conduct and another of resisting arrest. She said she faces up to two years in prison. Her jury trial is set for August 20, the four-month anniversary of oil spill.

The U.S. [in]justice system is charging Texas shrimper, author, activist Diane Wilson (not an entrenched private-public, government-corporate cabal of persons) with “unlawful conduct.”

Sources and notes
Diane Wilson appeared in a KPFA Flashpoints interview on July 6, http://www.flashpoints.net/
An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, And the Fight for Seadrift, Texas [Paperback], excerpt from Epilogue (Chelsea Green, 2006), http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1931498881/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/6/17/181658/078
www.youtube.com www.cbsnews.com
“Shrimper Shows Outrage to Oil Shill Sen. Lisa Murkowski (Diane Wilson)..., www.cbsnews.com\
http://www.squidoo.com/holy-rollers-by-diane-wilson
http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/pgs/portraits/Diane_Wilson.php
http://codepink4peace.org/blog/2010/06/diane-wilsons-statement-to-sen-murkowski/