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Discusses international aspects of the US-led coalition war against Iraq, focusing on media coverage and other issues; 4 articles. Contents: Pressed into military service: does the US military have designs on Baghdad's media? by Rohan Jayasekera; Talking dirty to America: listening to Shock Jocks is a shocking thing indeed, by Sheila MacVicar; Dodging the First Amendment: a Pentagon warlord seeks his day in a British court, by Joanne Mariner; Watching from the sidelines: Africa's reason to fear the consequences of war in Iraq, by Abdul Mohammed & Alex de Waal.

It is frequently stated that Iraq did not exist until the British Empire created it in the wake of the Great War. In the sense of a discreet nation-state entity with its current borders, this statement is accurate. However, in the wider sense of the term Iraq, observers of, publicists
for, and willing inheritors of British imperial legacies may have understated the long-standing ties which have characterized the overlapping geographic realms that currently make up the State of Iraq. Not only were the areas comprising the modern state of Iraq often united under various ancient
empires prior to the advent of Islam, but also there are signs that the Ottomans who ruled the region prior to the British in some senses treated these same areas as a loose administrative unit.