The following are some examples of how the war is being portrayed by Arab or non-Western media outlets
"The infidel invaders target civilians", was the headline to an editorial in al-Thawrah newspaper, published in Baghdad on Wednesday.
"Whenever our people intensify their resistance and increase the losses of the criminal invaders on the battlefield, the invaders become meaner and viler in expressing their frustration and humiliation. This was manifested by their bombing of Iraqi cities, residential areas, and service establishments.
"So far, no full official survey of the number of civilian martyrs and injured has been announced. But it is certain that there are scores of civilian martyrs and hundreds of injured civilians, while we are still in the first days of the invasion.
"At any rate, we are not surprised by the criminal acts that are perpetrated by the lowly invaders, as they are colonialists. Colonialists never have to consider morals when torturing the peoples whose land they occupy. Moreover, we were never deceived by what the two criminals, Bush and Blair, have said about not targeting civilians. For, these were the same claims made by Bush Snr and the criminal Thatcher in 1991 about a 'clean war' and 'military surgery'. We saw what they did to us in 45 days of criminal pounding of Iraqi cities and towns and their inhabitants, service establishments, and private and public properties. Our people remember this very well."
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"Facing up to the US-British aggression against the Iraqi people, the religious scholars of the holy Al-Najaf have issued fatwas banning any form of dealing or co-operation with the invading forces," the Lebanese Hizbullah TV station reported on Thursday.
The scholars urged the Muslim peoples to stand up and support the Iraqi people against the aggressors. The fatwa, "issued by the great Ayatollah Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani, had banned supporting the American aggressors, because it was among the biggest sins and illegal matters," said the station.
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Over 500 British and US servicemen were killed on Wednesday and Thursday at the Iraqi towns of Al-Najaf and Karbala, the Iraqi ambassador to the Russian Federation, Mr Abbas Khalaf, said in Moscow, the Russian Interfax news agency reported.
"This brings the total losses of the Americans and British in this war to more than 700 killed, and that's not counting the wounded and POWs," the ambassador said. He promised that "all the troops who come to us, no matter how many of them, will be destroyed or captured".
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"The mufti and head of the Supreme Fatwa Council of the Syrian Arab Republic, Shaykh Ahmad Kaftaru, has announced that resisting the warring aggressors is an absolute obligation on every Muslim man and woman which falls on the people of Iraq, then on their next of kin, then those next to the latter, and so on as the need arises", according to Hizbullah TV.
In a statement received by al-Manar TV of Beirut, Mufti Kaftaru said all Muslims were obliged to use every means to defeat the aggression, including suicide attacks.
He urged Muslims in all parts of the world to boycott the goods of the USA, Britain and their allies.
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US and British forces have obstructed the pumping of Basra's drinking water, according to the Basra correspondent of al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based satellite TV station. In Nasiriyah, US shelling had targeted "several residential areas", he reported.
Muhammad al-Abdallah said the population and army in Basra were "confronting the aggression and trying to hit the rear lines of the US and British forces".