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US Military 'Shooting of Injured Man' Caught on TV
The US military is investigating television footage tonight which appeared to show a Marine in Fallujah shoot dead an injured man.
Pictures shown on TV networks showed a man slumped on the floor of a mosque, where rebels had earlier been shooting at US troops. When the troops realised the man was not dead, one opened fire, hitting him in the head at close range.
The wounded man was half-sitting against the wall, wearing an orange headscarf.
Before the troops entered the mosque, one i...
Posted: Mon, Nov 15, 2004 5:10pm 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
Police Terrorizing Indymedia.nl
On Friday November 12th at about 21.00h, the DNS-provider of Indymedia Netherlands received a writ of execution from the Haaglanden Police, demanding information on the person that posted a threat to politician Geert Wilders on the website of Indymedia.nl. The provider has to submit this information within 48 hours, that is by Sunday at 21.00h. Thus preventing the DNS-provider from seeking legal advice....
Posted: Mon, Nov 15, 2004 9:44am 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
Imperialist France Destroys an African Air Force
During those first demonstrations against the war on Iraq, when some marchers sported "Chirac for President!" and "Vive la France" placards, I thought all the Francophilia naïve. France is, after all, an imperialist country, and while a midget in comparison with the U.S. juggernaut, it has some 33,000 troops stationed at bases in the Caribbean, Polynesia, East and West Africa, the Indian Ocean and elsewhere. In recent history as a NATO member, it has routinely joined with ...
Posted: Mon, Nov 15, 2004 7:28am PST
Rules of War Broken in Falluja Assault -Amnesty International
LONDON (Reuters) - The rules of war protecting civilians and wounded combatants have been broken by both sides in the week-long assault on the Iraqi city of Falluja, the human rights group Amnesty International said on Monday....
Posted: Mon, Nov 15, 2004 6:56am PST
Crimes in Iraq: Pray for Fallujah
“Listen, listen, the warplanes,” Abu Mohammed cried. I could hear the planes over the phone. “They are over us, over the house, almost 10 meters away.” Tonight is the last night of Ramadan, and tomorrow is the first day of the Islamic feast `Eid Al-Fitr. Abu Mohammed is currently in Al-Amiriyah neighborhood in Baghdad, with his family, and 4 other families who fled Fallujah a few months ago....
Posted: Mon, Nov 15, 2004 6:53am PST
US shells Falluja, turns back aid convoy
Fresh fighting has broken out in the Iraqi city of Falluja after US forces attacked suspected resistance targets with air strikes, artillery and mortar rounds and an aid convoy was forced to turn back....
Posted: Mon, Nov 15, 2004 6:50am PST
Iraqi Doctor tells of hospital nightmare
"We were kicked out by the (Iraqi National Guard); even the Americans weren't as harsh as them," said Farhan Khalaf, 58, who had been at Fallujah General Hospital when it was seized.
"They were roughing up patients and tying up the doctors, hitting them in some instances,"he added. "They stole whatever valuables they could get their hands on, including money and cell phones. This is unacceptable. How could they do this against their own people?"...
Posted: Mon, Nov 15, 2004 6:48am PST
Mosul revolt spreads to town near Syria
BAGHDAD Pitched battles have erupted between insurgents and U.S. and Iraqi forces in the northern city of Mosul, with the revolt spreading to Tal Afar, a town near the Syrian border, prompting residents to flee and U.S. armored vehicles to encircle it.
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Posted: Mon, Nov 15, 2004 6:40am PST
Clashes in Baquba, Ramadi
xplosions and gunfire have broken out in Baquba, with the US headquarters in the Iraqi city coming under attack by mortar fire....
Posted: Mon, Nov 15, 2004 6:33am PST
A Venezuelan Chavista in Oakland (audio/mpeg 2.2MB)
12 minute 24kbps MP3 in Spanish....
Posted: Mon, Nov 15, 2004 4:13am PST
FREE MARWAN BARGHOUTI! DEMAND HIS RELEASE, SAFETY AND PROTECTION!
Palestinian Freedom fighter Marwan Barghouti is Arafat’s probable popular successor. Fatah Secretary-General (since 1994) and a key figure in both the first Intifada and the present Intifadat al-Aqsa, Marwan sits in an Israeli jail, sentenced last June 6 and serving five life sentences plus 40 years. Israeli and international progressives should raise two demands now loud and clear: for Barghouti’s immediate release from prison and for the protection of his safety wherever he is. There is a ...
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 11:32pm PST
US Occupation Depriving Resistance Cities of Water and Power
excerpts from an interesting COUNTERPUNCH article (and, again, where is MoveON.org in regard to this atrocity, cat got it's tongue?)...
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 11:01pm PST
Bodies litter streets in rubble of Falluja
Reports from within Falluja yesterday said bodies lay in the streets, homes and mosques were destroyed, and power and telephone lines were down...."Our situation is very hard," said one resident contacted by telephone in the central Hay al Dubat neighbourhood. "We don't have food or water. My seven children all have severe diarrhoea.
"One of my sons was wounded by shrapnel last night and he's bleeding, but I can't do anything to help him."
The man, who gave his name...
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 9:48pm PST
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