Iraq War: The human shields: She was afraid of dying, but still has no regrets |
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| Title : | Iraq War: The human shields: She was afraid of dying, but still has no regrets |
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| Creator : | Devlin, Rebekah | ||
| Source : | Advertiser, 19 April 2003, p. 13 | ||
| Date of creation : | 2003 | ||
| Format : | Newspaper | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Description : |
Article recounting the experiences of Adelaide woman Ruth Russell who went to Iraq as a human shield. During the war in Iraq, human shields came from many countries around the world and were stationed at sites important to the day-to-day life of Iraqi citizens. It was hoped that the sites would not be attacked if civilians from other nations might be harmed. |
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| Related names : | Russell, Ruth |
| Coverage year : | 2003 |
| Period : | 2001- |
| Further reading : | Australia. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Iraq: The path ahead, Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia, 2004 Blix, Hans. Disarming Iraq: the search for weapons of mass destruction, London: Bloomsbury, 2004 Fawn, Rick and Raymond Hinnebusch. The Iraq war : causes and consequences, Boulder, Colo. : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006 Keegan, John. The Iraq war, New York : A.A. Knopf, 2004 Murray, Williamson and Robert H. Scales, Jr. The Iraq war : a military history, Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003 Pax, Salam. The Baghdad blog, Melbourne, Victoria: Text Publishing, 2003 Russell, Ruth Elizabeth. Human shield in Iraq, Henley Beach, S. Aust. : Seaview Press, 2005 Why the war was wrong, Raimond Gaita (ed.); with contributions by Robert Manne ... [et al.], Melbourne, Victoria: Text Publishing, 2003 |
| Internet links : | Australian War Memorial: Australians in Iraq 2003 BBC News: See: Middle East: Country Profile: Iraq especially Timeline: Iraq BBC News: See: Middle East: Special Reports: The struggle for Iraq Department of Defence [Australia] : See: Publications, Reports & Documents: 'O' for Operations in the Middle East in 2003 Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Iraq country information Guardian (newspaper) Unlimited: Special Report 11 September 2001 Library of Congress: Minerva: September 11 Web Archive |
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