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US Media ignores study which found 100,000+ Iraqis killed. Deafening silence in US & world The report's lead investigator, Les Roberts, was horrified by the "very little coverage of the report in the US media ... My intention was to have it released a couple of weeks before the election -- not to influence the election, but to have it benefit the Iraqi people. [I wanted] both candidates to pledge to save Iraqi civilians"... Roberts said he was "hopeful but not confident" that the report's findings will modify the behaviour of the occupation forces to avoid exces...
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 11:24pm PST
Fallujah has painful history at hands of British, U.S. forces FALLUJAH, Iraq: Fallujah, which is bracing for a major assault by American and Iraqi troops, is a dusty, industrial mosque-filled city that has long remained off-limits to foreigners and the military.
Known as a stronghold for rebels loyal to Iraq's most-wanted militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - if not a refuge for the one-legged Jordanian himself - Fallujah has seethed with hostility toward U.S.-led forces since the war last year....
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 9:50pm PST
British opposition to Iraq war at new high The British public's opposition to the war in Iraq has reached a record high, according to an opinion poll in the Times newspaper on Tuesday.
The survey found 57 percent thought taking military action to oust former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was wrong, compared to 31 percent who supported it....
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 9:49pm PST
Go kick some butt and make history, Vietnam-style, US troops urged America's much-vaunted assault on Falluja began with the capture of the city's hospital, which was regarded as an important strategic target.
But the operation, codename Phantom Fury, is likely to become much more complicated and much more dangerous.
Although Falluja general hospital, a small, poorly-equipped facility on the western outskirts of the city, should have been protected under the Geneva conventions, it was deemed legitimate by US commanders because they said it had been take...
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 9:34pm PST
35 US soldiers captured in Fallujah: mosques FALLUJAH, Iraq, Nov. 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Mosques in Iraq's restive city of Fallujah announced on Monday that the fighters inside the city have captured 35 US soldiers.
Loud speakers of the mosques blared out the news as US forces were trying to penetrate the rebel-held city, but the news could not be independently confirmed....
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 8:34pm PST
Families flee besieged city as residents speak of hostility to US action Iraqis fleeing Falluja ahead of the US assault yesterday described a city deserted and already badly destroyed by weeks of bombing raids.
At least 200,000 people are thought to have poured out of the city, many heading to nearby suburbs of western Baghdad where they are sheltering with relatives. Thousands more remain in Falluja to sit out the US attack....
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 7:37pm PST
Iraqi troops condemned, threatened for fighting; at least 200 desert BAGHDAD, Iraq - (KRT) - U.S. military officials said Monday that at least 200 Iraqi troops had deserted their posts in the American-led offensive on Fallujah, illustrating the predicament faced by men who are torn between orders from commanders and outrage from their countrymen....
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 4:44pm PST
Zarqawi rallies Muslims as US strikes Falluja DUBAI: A statement in the name of al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi called on Muslims today to take up arms against their US enemy as American troops mounted a massive offensive against the rebel-held Iraqi city of Falluja....
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 4:42pm PST
Army e-mails 'express concerns' The British Army has refused to comment on e-mails reportedly sent by the Black Watch's commanding officer expressing concern at his regiment's redeployment.
The soldiers were moved from Basra in southern Iraq to an area near Baghdad, where they have suffered three deaths....
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 12:51pm PST
Eyewitness: Taking cover in Falluja US and Iraqi national guard forces have launched the long-awaited assault on the Iraqi city of Falluja. We spoke by phone to a Fadhil Badrani, a journalist in Falluja who reports for the BBC World Service in Arabic....
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 11:34am PST
U.S. Launches Fallujah Offensive FALLUJAH, Iraq, Nov 8 (MASNET & News Agencies) - U.S. Marines began intense shelling across the city of Fallujah after Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi gave the go-ahead for an all-out assault on the rebel enclave.
Thousands of U.S. Marines and Army troops punched their way on Monday into two Fallujah neighborhoods where insurgents are considered the strongest, kicking off a massive assault that seeks to put an end to half a year of insurgent control of the city, reports the Associate...
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 11:33am PST
Association of Muslim Scholars warns Iraqi forces An influential Iraqi Muslim group urged Iraqi security forces not to fight with US troops preparing to storm the beseiged city of Falluja.
"We call on the Iraqi forces, the National Guard and others
who are mostly Muslims ... to beware of making the grave mistake of invading Iraqi cities under the banner of forces who respect no religion or human rights," the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS) said in a statement on Monday....
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 11:24am PST
Fallujah and the Reality of War The assault on Fallujah has started. It is being sold as liberation of the people of Fallujah; it is being sold as a necessary step to implementing “democracy” in Iraq. These are lies.
I was in Fallujah during the siege in April, and I want to paint for you a word picture of what such an assault means....
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 9:06am PST
Fallujah Under Siege: US Begins Massive Assault as Iraq Declares Martial Law The U.S. invasion of Fallujah has begun. After weeks of daily bombings, U.S. forces have begun to move into the Sunni city seen as the center of the Iraqi resistance. We speak with independent reporters Rahul Mahajan and Lamis Andoni in Jordan....
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 9:02am PST
Battle of Falluja under way Fierce fighting is raging in Falluja after interim PM Iyad Allawi gave US-led forces the go-ahead for a full-scale attack on the besieged Iraqi city.
US warplanes staged ferocious strikes on targets in the city on Monday afternoon.
Aircraft struck about eight times in 20 minutes, sending huge plumes of smoke billowing up from the north-west of the city, where US-led forces are about to launch an offensive....
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 8:30am PST
Dry Thy Tears: Failure of Kerry is NOT a Sad Event The winning strategy: the union of traditional isolationist conservatives and left radicals against the US interventions overseas, or in spiritual terms for Christ and against the double paradigm of Mammon and Zionism....
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 8:16am PST
Democracy irrigated with carnage! The so called sunni triangle has proved a thorn in the side of the American occupiers of Iraq, particularly the town of Falluja which they have been repeatedly unable to subdue. After prolonged battles earlier this year, a deal was brokered in which control of Falluja effectively passed to the people of Falluja and their representatives who have reportedly implemented aspects of Shari'ah law....
Posted: Sun, Nov 7, 2004 11:44pm PST
Crimes in Iraq: Iraq Is an All-opportunity Meat Grinder A man of about 40 walks around the corpses festooning the hospital room, which has been made into a makeshift morgue. The corpses lie silent, hapless, yet serene.
The camera zooms in on the corpses, these despicable terrorists out to destroy normalcy, civilization, order, democracy, and faith.
The first is an infant of nine months, probably a boy, as he is wrapped in white and blue infant clothes. His mouth is gaping open, as if his little body instinctively gasped for its last breath. ...
Posted: Sun, Nov 7, 2004 11:38pm PST
The Killing of Fallujah As we go to press, between 10,000 to 15,000 U.S. and Iraqi puppet forces are surrounding the city of Fallujah in central Iraq, with another 10,000 in the surrounding area, preparing for what is likely to be one of the most savage assaults on the Iraqi people since the U.S. imperialists invaded their country in March 2003....
Posted: Sun, Nov 7, 2004 11:35pm PST
Fighting breaks out in besieged Falluja Fierce fighting has erupted in the Iraqi city of Falluja in what appears to be the start of a full-scale attack on the city.
US and Iraqi troops seized the city's main hospital and two bridges, as ground fire lit up the skies....
Posted: Sun, Nov 7, 2004 11:31pm PST
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