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US media and liberal establishment: accomplices in the assault on Fallujah A murderous operation is under way in Fallujah and the entire media and political establishment in the US is an accomplice in the crime. The unfolding massacre in the Iraqi city has failed to elicit an outcry, or even significant questioning of the assault, from these circles.
No editorialist at a major newspaper or television news commentator has even hinted at moral qualms over the American onslaught. Not one columnist at the New York Times or Washington Post thinks Fallujah worth mentio...
Posted: Sat, Nov 13, 2004 7:36pm PST
When the smoke has cleared around Fallujah, what horrors will be revealed? As the Americans move street by bloody street towards control of the insurgents' stronghold, aid agencies warn of a humanitarian catastrophe. Kim Sengupta and Raymond Whitaker report...
Posted: Sat, Nov 13, 2004 7:34pm PST
US accused of ‘torture flights’ AN executive jet is being used by the American intelligence agencies to fly terrorist suspects to countries that routinely use torture in their prisons.
The movements of the Gulfstream 5 leased by agents from the United States defence department and the CIA are detailed in confidential logs obtained by The Sunday Times which cover more than 300 flights.
Countries with poor human rights records to which the Americans have delivered prisoners include Egypt, Syria and Uzbekistan, according...
Posted: Sat, Nov 13, 2004 5:26pm PST
Civilian cost of battle for Falluja emerges The full cost of the battle of Falluja emerged last night as large numbers of wounded civilians were evacuated to hospitals in Baghdad, as insurgents stepped up retaliatory attacks in other cities.
As the first Red Crescent aid convoy was allowed into Falluja, Iraq's Health Minister, Alaa Alwan, said ambulances had begun transferring a 'significant number' of injured civilians out of the battle zone, although he did not specify how many....
Posted: Sat, Nov 13, 2004 5:22pm PST
Iraqis dispute US progress in Falluja A spokesman for Falluja resistance says US forces are at an impasse in the city, and denied the US offensive against the town had succeeded....
Posted: Sat, Nov 13, 2004 5:12pm PST
Fallujah: ‘It’s Like Hell’ BAGHDAD, 14 November 2004 — US troops yesterday prevented emergency aid from reaching the residents of Fallujah after allowing it as far as the main hospital, a spokeswoman said. Six days into a US-Iraqi offensive, the town’s trapped residents were running out of food and water and an aid worker said, “It’s like hell in Fallujah.”...
Posted: Sat, Nov 13, 2004 5:10pm PST
‘Mission accomplished’ in Fallujah but fighting continues as aid agencies warn of crisis THE United States and the Iraqi interim government have claimed “mission accomplished” in the battle for the rebel stronghold of Fallujah.
But even as the victory was declared, with estimates of 1000 insurgents killed, fighting continued inside the city yesterday as aid agencies warned of an unfolding humanitarian disaster and outbreaks of typhoid and other diseases....
Posted: Sat, Nov 13, 2004 3:32pm PST
War crime by Marines? WASHINGTON: Human rights experts said Friday that American soldiers might have committed a war crime on Thursday when they sent fleeing civilians back into Falluja....
Posted: Sat, Nov 13, 2004 2:50pm PST
Arafat's Death Casts Pall Over `Eid Al-Fitr in Palestine NABLUS, November 13 (IslamOnline.net) – A gloomy atmosphere enveloped the occupied Palestinian territories on Saturday, November13 , as Palestinians marked the start of `Eid Al-Fitr by mourning their beloved leader Yasser Arafat....
Posted: Sat, Nov 13, 2004 2:32pm PST
HAITI: A Brutal Regime Shows Its Colors CARICOM Spurns Latortue Once Again
Violence and Human Rights Abuses Escalate...
Posted: Sat, Nov 13, 2004 2:22pm PST
Spare a Little Latte for Palestinian Schoolgirls As Arab children die under US-backed Israeli occupation, they find little sympathy on either side of the congressional aisle. Case in point: Bay Area "latte liberal" Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi....
Posted: Sat, Nov 13, 2004 1:29pm PST
Juan Cole: Mosul Chaos Al-Hayat reported incidents all over the country. A US Black Hawk helicopter was downed near Taji (20 km northwest of Baghdad), hurting 3 of the 4-man crew. Another US serviceman was killed in Baghdad. 8 Iraqis were killed in Hilla and 5 in Kirkuk. In al-Hawijah near Kirkuk, 5 persons were killed and many others wounded in clashes Friday morning between US troops and armed guerrillas....
Posted: Sat, Nov 13, 2004 12:31pm PST
“Iraq is burning with wrath, anger and sadness…” Leaving the hotel is always an adventure. Last night, with a full beard and a kefir draped around my shoulders, Abut Talat wisks me out into the chaotic streets of occupied Baghdad.
As we traveled around the capital, we took side roads, winding varying routes towards our destination, never daring to take the direct, most obvious path. Aside from the obvious threat of kidnapping which is my greatest concern, we travel accepting the fact that anywhere, anytime, we could be in the wrong place...
Posted: Sat, Nov 13, 2004 12:29pm PST
US troops block aid distribution in Falluja US troops are preventing a Red Crescent convoy of emergency aid from reaching helpless residents inside Falluja on Saturday after allowing it as far as the main hospital, a spokeswoman said....
Posted: Sat, Nov 13, 2004 11:44am PST
Yasir Arafat - A Symbol of Freedom "On going US-led forces operation in Iraq, the systematic destruction of Iraq, the helpless and weaken conditions of Arab Leaders, all this made Yasir Araft disheartened and mentally and physically distressed. Yet he never compromised with the Israeli authorities."...
Posted: Sat, Nov 13, 2004 11:06am PST
Insurgents 'patrolling Iraq city' of Mosul Iraqi rebels are patrolling parts of Mosul following an upsurge of violence in the northern city, eyewitnesses say.
"They are guarding hospitals, schools and fire stations," one resident told Reuters news agency....
Posted: Sat, Nov 13, 2004 10:39am PST
Anger at Fallujah assault in Baghdad mosques Thousands of Iraqis listen to Friday sermons marked by anger, frustration at US-led assault on Fallujah....
Posted: Sat, Nov 13, 2004 10:37am PST
Eyewitness: Ghost city calls for help As US-led troops battle rebels in the Iraqi city of Falluja, aid agencies have warned that civilians are left with little food and no drinking water. The BBC News website spoke by phone to Fadhil Badrani, an Iraqi journalist and resident of Falluja who reports regularly for Reuters and the BBC World Service in Arabic.
We are publishing his and other eyewitness accounts from the city in order to provide the fullest possible range of perspectives from those who are there:...
Posted: Sat, Nov 13, 2004 10:25am PST
'Catastrophic conditions' in Falluja The six-day US-led assault on Falluja has turned catastrophic for civilians there and fuelled fighting in Iraq's northern city of Mosul.
"Conditions in Falluja are catastrophic," Firdus al-Abadi, spokeswoman for the Iraqi Red Crescent in Baghdad, said....
Posted: Sat, Nov 13, 2004 8:47am PST
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