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Update from the ISM on Activities and Detention 1. "The Waiting Room" UK activist arrested Sunday, in Kufr Thulth,
Salfit region remains in detention; Report from the detention center
2. The Meaning of Sumud, Budrus, November 1, 2004-11-09...
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 9:24am PST
America failing test of history as offensive compared to terror tactics of pariah states Muslim fundamentalist insurgents seeking to topple the government are holed up in a conservative city with little sympathy for secularism or pluralism. They raise the banner of Islam, and they call on the rest of the country to rise up and expel the oppressors. The government reacts by massing forces around the city. It demanded that the militants surrender or the city give them up. If not, the city would be destroyed. Fallujah this week? Yes, but it was also the Syrian city of Hama in the sp...
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 9:08am PST
'Watching tragedy engulf my city' US and Iraqi forces are locked in desperate street battles against insurgents in the Iraqi city of Falluja. The BBC News website spoke by phone to Fadhil Badrani, a journalist in Falluja who reports for the BBC World Service in Arabic....
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 9:05am PST
U.S. Forces Face Fierce Resistance in Largest Offensive Since Invasion The U.S. assault on the Iraqi city of Fallujah has entered its second day. Thousands of U.S. forces inside the Sunni city are engaged in some of the fiercest urban warfare seen to date in Iraq. We go to Baghdad to speak with Dahr Jamail, of the few independent reporters in Iraq and we speak with California State University professor As'ad AbuKhalil....
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 9:01am PST
House-to-house warfare in Fallujah Insurgents have chosen mobility to counter far superior US artillery and missiles in battle of Fallujah....
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 8:59am PST
“What About Fallujah Evacuees?” Iraqis Wonder BAGHDAD, November 9 (IslamOnline.net) - More than300 . 000people had to evacuate Fallujah under the intensive US air raids that kept rocking the bastion of resistance for long weeks and months, culminating in the all-out onslaught that was unleashed Monday, November9 .
What has become of those displaced civilians? Amid worrying silence from the US-picked Iraqi interim government -- apparently more concerned about crushing those who are still inside Fallujah -- their fate remains catastroph...
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 8:57am PST
Rebels Kill 45 in Attacks in Iraq's Baquba BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) - Insurgent attacks and clashes killed 45 people in the Iraqi city of Baquba on Tuesday, a hospital morgue official said.
Guerrillas attacked three police stations and a river bridge in the city, 40 miles northeast of Baghdad, and fought gunbattles with Iraqi police and National Guards....
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 8:54am PST
Arafat 'has hours to live': May Already Be Dead PARIS/MALTA, (di-ve news)--November 09, 2004 - 1650CET--World-wide news agencies have lately reported that according to unnamed Palestinian officials, Palestinian Leader Yasser Arafat, ?has only hours to live'.
Officials at the hospital near Paris where he is being treated have earlier said that Arafat's condition had worsened and his coma had deepened.
Doctors have still not explained the reasons for his illness while Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei visited his bedside but left ...
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 8:50am PST
Hospital hit as fighting rages in Falluja Warplanes have bombed a government clinic in the centre of Falluja as US ground forces engaged in pitched battles with fighters defending the city.
Residents said the one-storey Popular Clinic which had been receiving wounded anti-US fighters and civilians was hit overnight as US-led forces pressed into the city....
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 8:44am PST
Western journalists quit Falluja Only a handful of independent journalists remain in Falluja after the Sunday Times' Hala Jaber left ahead of the assault by American and Iraqi forces....
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 8:42am PST
Fallujah: 'A lot are dying' Fallujah - The battle to reclaim the rebel enclave of Fallujah, launched by Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi on Monday evening, spread out through neighbourhoods and alleyways from the north towards the centre as marines knocked down walls, barged into houses or crouched outside....
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 8:40am PST
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
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