Skeptical of U.S. Media, People Turn to al-Jazeera

As a country that the government and its people arguing US invasion of Iraq, it seems making US media to be interested in covering how Indonesian people behaviour on perceiving the war in Iraq through mass media. Washington Post, this time by Ellen Nakashima, reporting Watching the war: a series on how people around the world are perceiving the war in Iraq through their local media. And yes you're right, Indonesian people prefer to choose al-Jazeera better than CNN. "I don't believe all that CNN reports", said Mirta Nugroho, 31, a PR manager.

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Letters from the soon to be dead

Some letters collected from Baghdad high schools by the Iraq Peace Team are very touching as i quoted below, so are the others. I wish their future will not end up soon :(

Al-Adamia Secondary School for Girls – Baghdad
March 10th, 2003

Under the threatening of the American government of every day, we live and continue our daily life. We go to school, to work, visiting each other, but still we have the hope of getting over this crisis. God will help us and save our country from this war. If war will arise the coming few days, I might not be able to continue writing my own diary. We don’t know what is going to happen... We might die .. and maybe we are living our last days in life.

I hope that everyone who reads my diary remember me and know that there was an Iraqi girl who had many dreams in her life, but war has destroyed all her dreams and her dreams will never come true.

Thuraya El-Kaissi, age 17