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Falluja: Mujahideen Reject Ceasefire n a report in early this morning, Fallujah Mujahideen have rejected the US request for cease fire and have wiped the besieged American column on Al-Hadhrah street. After the American occupation forces made several military attempts to break the siege around their battalion that had been encircled by Mujahideen on Al-Hadhrah street for several days, they were unable to dislodge it. When those military attempts failed, they resorted to peaceful solution by requesting cease fire- using loud spea...
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 9:37pm PST
Behind the Camp David Myth Arafat didn't blindly spurn a generous offer....
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 9:32pm PST
Inside Fallujah: one family’s diary of terror She weeps while telling the story. The abaya (tunic) she wears cannot hide the shaking of her body as waves of grief roll through her. “I cannot get the image out of my mind of her foetus being blown out of her body.”
Muna Salim’s sister, Artica, was seven months’ pregnant when two rockets from US warplanes struck her home in Fallujah on November 1. “My sister Selma and I only survived because we were staying at our neighbours’ house that night,” Muna continued, unable to reconcile her sur...
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 9:24pm PST
Poisoning Rumors Fail to Die Down PARIS, 15 November 2004 — With the date of the Palestinian presidential election fixed for Jan.9 , one might expect it to be the hottest topic in the West Bank and Gaza. It is not. What most Palestinians are talking about with most interest is the mystery that still surrounds the cause of Yasser Arafat’s death....
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 9:21pm PST
That Arafat's death is seen as sign of optimism shows how deluded this conflict has become The Palestinians...have to prove themselves; they - not the Israelis - have to show that they are a worthy "negotiating partner".
The Israelis, with their continued occupation, their continued illegal construction of colonies for Jews and Jews only on Arab land, their air strikes and helicopter executions and live-fire shooting at stone-throwing children, are not part of this equation. They are just innocently waiting to find a new "negotiating partner"...
It's impo...
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 7:44pm PST
A city lies in ruins, along with the lives of the wretched survivors Another body lay stretched out on the next block, its head blown off, perhaps in one of the countless explosions which rent the city day and night for nearly a week. Some bodies were so mutilated it was impossible to tell if they were civilians or militants, male or female...Cars lay crushed in the middle of streets...The few civilians left in Fallujah talked of a city left in ruins not just by the six days of the ground assault, but the weeks of bombing that preceded the attack...The reactio...
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 6:43pm PST
Iraq vote could be delayed Deputy PM voices doubts over January date as violence continues...
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 6:43pm PST
US denies need for Falluja aid convoy US military chiefs said yesterday that they saw no need for the Iraqi Red Crescent to deliver aid inside Falluja because they did not think any Iraqi civilians were trapped there.
"There is no need to bring [Red Crescent] supplies in because we have supplies of our own for the people," said Colonel Mike Shupp of the marines....
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 6:40pm PST
Amnesty Lambastes Haitian 'Justice' Amnesty International blasts U.S.-backed Latortue regime for repression of Haitian civilians...
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 6:39pm PST
HAITI: A Brutal Regime Shows Its Colors given the well documented role of UN troops in supporting repression in Haiti (see www.haitiaction.net), it's odd that this report calls for more UN troops on the ground, but it's otherwise strong with lots of good information...
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 5:38pm PST
AFTER THE U.S. ELECTIONS: HAITI'S LIBERATION STRUGGLE ENTERS A NEW PHASE post-Bush "victory" (give or take a few million stolen votes) analysis of limited options open to Haitian poor in face of ongoing repression from U.S.-backed coup government...
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 4:55pm PST
POLICE KILL CHILD IN NEIGHBORHOOD FORAY police with death squad/ninja hoods to protect their identities, kill young Haitian boy as campaign of terror against civlians escalates...
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 4:45pm PST
Al-Barghuti wants top Palestinian post Marwan al-Barghuti, a Palestinian uprising leader jailed by Israel, plans to run in upcoming presidential elections,
a person close to him said....
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 2:15pm PST
Armed with pen, pad on front line Iraqi journalists find little refuge in no man's land...
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 1:42pm PST
AP Photographer Describes Escaping From Fallujah ``I decided to swim ... but I changed my mind after seeing U.S. helicopters firing on and killing people who tried to cross the river.''
He watched horrified as a family of five was shot dead as they tried to cross. Then, he ``helped bury a man by the river bank, with my own hands.''...
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 1:25pm PST
Abbas survives assassination attempt in Gaza City Fatah gunmen stormed a mourning tent in Gaza City on Sunday evening and opened fire to protest against the presence of the PLO's Mahmoud Abbas and former security minister Muhammed Dahlan....
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 12:57pm PST
Heroic Fallujah US imperialism has hit a stumbling block in Fallujah and Iraq as a whole in its drive for global hegemony and corporate control....
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 12:27pm PST
Iraqi Shia leaders condemn Falluja attack Baghdad's highest Shia authority has denounced the US military assault on Falluja and called on all Iraqi religious authorities to support the Iraqi people....
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 10:01am PST
Ni Bush ni Kerry, más bien todo lo contrario CUBA - La Habana, 31 oct (PL) Sin poder de decisión, pero con el convencimiento de que es un fenómeno cercano, los cubanos siguen hoy con atención el dilema de sus vecinos estadounidenses: ¿Kerry o Bush?....
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 9:57am PST
Iraqi Communist official shot down near Baghdad Baghdad, Nov 14. (AP): A prominent official of the Iraqi Communist Party was gunned down with two of his bodyguards outside of Baghdad, a party official said today.
Sadoun Mohammed was returning home from the northern city of Kirkuk when armed men ambushed his car by opening fire on it,party official Amar Abdul-Hussein said adding the incident took place on Saturday evening.
Iraq's Communist Party is part of the interim government of Prime Minister Ayad Allawi....
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 9:46am PST
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