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Advocates: Haitians deserve refuge After upheaval and storms, their home is in no shape to welcome them back. But U.S. officials say they can't stay here....
Posted: Tue, Nov 16, 2004 6:27pm PST
NATO invites Israel to joint exercises BRUSSELS - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has suggested that the Israel Defense Forces, for the first time, take part in multinational military exercises and participate in anti-terror activities such as patrols in the eastern Mediterranean Sea....
Posted: Tue, Nov 16, 2004 5:31pm PST
800 Civilians Feared Dead in Fallujah Speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of U.S. military reprisal, a high-ranking official with the Red Cross in Baghdad told IPS that ”at least 800 civilians” have been killed in Fallujah so far....
Posted: Tue, Nov 16, 2004 4:05pm PST
Hamas not to run in Palestinian election Hamas will not participate in January's election to replace Yasir Arafat as head of the Palestinian Authority, the movement's leader in the Gaza Strip has said.
"The presidential election is illegal," Mahmud Zahhar told reporters as he entered talks with the new head of the Palestine Liberation Organisation Mahmud Abbas....
Posted: Tue, Nov 16, 2004 4:04pm PST
UN seeks probe into Falluja war crimes Top United Nations human rights official Louise Arbour has called for an investigation of alleged abuses in Falluja including disproportionate use of force and the targeting of civilians.
Those responsible for any violations – US-led forces, Iraqi government troops or fighters - should be brought to justice, the former UN war crimes prosecutor said in a statement on Tuesday....
Posted: Tue, Nov 16, 2004 4:03pm PST
Iraq north oil exports sharply cut by attacks Flows through Iraq's northern oil export pipeline have fallen to 200,000 barrels per day after a series of sabotage attacks and could remain below capacity for over a month, an oil official said on Tuesday.
Iraq was pumping about 500,000 bpd through the northern pipeline to Turkey's Ceyhan port this month but that fell to about 300,000 bpd when oil was diverted for domestic use after attacks on the domestic network.
Sabotage attacks on five oil wells and a pumping station over the past ...
Posted: Tue, Nov 16, 2004 4:01pm PST
US Army to punish soldiers who refused Iraq orders WASHINGTON: US Army investigators recommended disciplinary action against about two dozen reservists who refused orders to deliver fuel along a dangerous convoy route in Iraq, officials said on Tuesday....
Posted: Tue, Nov 16, 2004 3:56pm PST
Children pay price for US Falluja offensive Ala Barham slumps in his hospital bed and stares blankly into the air in front of him.
Twelve years old and still deeply in shock, he can barely speak.
Ala's family had fled the Iraqi city of Falluja before last Monday's all-out offensive began. He was happily playing with his brother in the garden of their uncle's house in a village outside the city. Then the rocket hit....
Posted: Tue, Nov 16, 2004 8:29am PST
Concealing the Truth about Fallujah Concealing the truth was the reason behind banning images of what is taking place in Fallujah. The media siege was added to the city's siege, in order to leave the town to its tragic destiny, in the absence of a witness. It is not enough that the war is vicious and tragic, but also, concealing its brutality is required by an American resolution, which was legalized by the same Iraqi interim government that lacks legislation. What is important is not killing the Iraqis, but rather securing the...
Posted: Tue, Nov 16, 2004 8:28am PST
US forces arrest Iraq's deputy parliament speaker BAGHDAD, Nov. 16 (Xinhuanet) - US forces arrested on Tuesday the deputy head of Iraq's interim parliament and a high-ranking member of a Sunni political party after a dawn raid on his Baghdad home, spokesman from his party said.
Naseer Ayaef, a senior member of the Iraqi Islamic Party, was arrested in his home in the western Jamiah neighborhood despite he enjoys immunity as the deputy speaker of the national council (parliament), said the spokesman Iyad al-Samarrai.
Al-Samarrai ...
Posted: Tue, Nov 16, 2004 8:21am PST
Rumsfeld:"Rule of Iraq assassins must end" River:"I couldn't agree more,Get out Ameri Every time I see Allawi on tv talking about his regrets about 'having to attack Falloojeh' I get so angry I could scream. He's talking to the outside world, not to us. We watch him talk and feel furious and frustrated with our new tyrant. We are hearing about complete families being killed under the rain of bombs being dropped by American forces. So what happens when Mosul turns into another Falloojeh? Will they also bomb it to the ground? I heard a report where they mentioned that Zarqawi '...
Posted: Tue, Nov 16, 2004 2:07am PST
'This one's faking he's dead'
'This one's faking he's dead'..'He's dead now' The US Marine Corps launched an investigation into possible war crimes last night after video footage taken inside a mosque in Fallujah apparently showed a Marine shooting dead an unarmed Iraqi insurgent who had been taken prisoner.
The footage showed several Marines with a group of prisoners who were either lying on the floor or propped against a wall of the bombed-out building. One Marine can be heard declaring that one of the prisoners was faking his injuries.
"He's fucking faki...
Posted: Mon, Nov 15, 2004 6:57pm PST
11/16 Fighting spreads to more towns as Falluja operation continues US troops called in air strikes on the Iraqi city of Baquba yesterday as they fought gun battles in the street with crowds of insurgents.
Fallout from the week-long assault on the city of Falluja spread in several towns across the country. As well as the fighting in Baquba, a mixed Sunni and Shia town north of Baghdad, there were clashes in Baghdad, Ramadi, Buhriz, Mosul and Suwayra....
Posted: Mon, Nov 15, 2004 5:32pm PST
Fallujah: Murder Made Respectable Iraq is under martial law, complete with curfews and press restrictions. A report in the prestigious Lancet says100 , 000Iraqi civilians have been killed since the start of the invasion. Unemployment is running at 70 percent, kidnappings and beheadings are rife, while the breakdown in security has driven every international aid agency out of the country.
But never mind, Fallujah — a town of300 , 000souls of which many have already met their Maker — has finally been pacified. That’ll teach ...
Posted: Mon, Nov 15, 2004 5:17pm PST
Dogs Eating Bodies in the Streets of Fallujah The horrendous humanitarian disaster of Fallujah drags on as the US military continues to refuse the entry of an Iraqi Red Crescent (IRC) convoy of relief supplies. The Red Crescent has appealed to the UN to intervene, but no such luck, nor does the military relent.
IP’s, who are under U.S. control, have looted Fallujah General Hospital.
The military stopped the Red Crescent at the gates of the city and are not allowing them in. They allowed some bodies to be buried, but others are bein...
Posted: Mon, Nov 15, 2004 5:14pm PST
Aid convoy still barred from 'starving' Falluja An aid convoy has been forced to turn back from the beleaguered city of Falluja as more evidence emerged of a mounting humanitarian crisis on the eighth day of a US offensive to crush resistance forces.
The convoy from Iraq's Red Crescent withdrew from a hospital on the edge of Falluja on Monday after failing to get permission to deliver supplies to residents inside the city, a spokeswoman said....
Posted: Mon, Nov 15, 2004 4:58pm PST
Haiti PM orders arrest warrant against Aristide good line in this that could also apply to U.S.demonization of Aristide: "Latortue and other Haitian officials have publicly accused Aristide of corruption, but no charges have been filed and no evidence made public against the former Roman Catholic priest, who remains hugely popular among many of Haiti's poorest citizens."...
Posted: Mon, Nov 15, 2004 4:36pm PST
20 Doctors and dozens of civilians killed in US bombing of Fallujah clinic on November 9 Amnesty International saw fit to print exactly one sentence concerning this war crime in a report it released....
Posted: Mon, Nov 15, 2004 4:32pm PST
CAIR Says Civilians in Fallujah Must Receive Aid+War Crimes Probe The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) also called for an independent probe of allegations by Amnesty International (AI) and human rights experts that both sides in the recent fighting have violated the rules of war....
Posted: Mon, Nov 15, 2004 9:53am PST
KOREA. General Strike, Cops are Hunting Activists Since yesterday's declaration of the general strike, the government is reacting with repression. Today migrant workers in Seoul are exactly ONE year in sit-in strike!...
Posted: Mon, Nov 15, 2004 9:29am PST
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