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Dahr Jamail: The Streets of Baghdad We had our daily car bomb today when a suicide bomber drove his car into a US patrol as it passed near the Yarmouk police station. Several Iraqis were killed, with no report yet on US casualties. I felt the rumble even though I was on a street far away from the blast-at least 5 miles distant....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 10:13am PST
The Failure of the Corporate Media's Coverage in Iraq As the situation in Iraq continues to grow more bloody by the day, we hear an address by Columbia University professor Mahmood Mamdani discussing the corporate media's coverage of Iraq and the U.S. assault on Fallujah....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 10:05am PST
Head of US-funded Iraqi TV resigns, condemns Washington's grip on money BAGHDAD, Nov 18 (AFP) - The head of Iraq's US-funded television network resigned Thursday, claiming he had no control over the channel's management and that the budget was being wasted on buying costly foreign programs while salaries were not being paid....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 8:50am PST
Iran's supreme leader denounces "infidel crimes" in Fallujah TEHRAN - Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday denounced what he said were crimes committed by "infidels" in the shattered Iraq city of Fallujah and called on the Muslim world to protest.
"The massacre of civilians, women and children by the thousands, the execution of wounded, the destruction of homes, mosques and other places of prayer... makes every Muslim restless," Khamenei said in a statement read out on state television....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 8:43am PST
Fears grow for Falluja citizens The Red Cross says it has serious concerns about the plight of civilians in the Iraqi city of Falluja.
It has called for an independent assessment of conditions in Falluja, where there is still no electricity or tap water....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 8:40am PST
US 'exaggerated' foreign fighters in Iraq Washington has exaggerated the number of foreign fighters in Iraq in order to justify the recent assault on Falluja, an official Syrian daily said on Thursday....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 8:39am PST
US Forces Using Iraqi Children as Human Shields Resistance field commander saw American troops use women and children as human shields atop their tanks....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 7:31am PST
David Rovics: Four New Songs Four "new" (from April) David Rovics Songs, one about Falluja...
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 1:41am PST
Citibank bombed in Argentina A series of blasts have shaken three banks in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, killing one man and injuring another....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 12:15am PST
Settlers Burn Palestinian Olive Groves At approximately 8:00AM, Palestinians and international human rights activists attempted to enter Palestinian-owned land in Awarta, South East of Nablus, in order to harvest the olives.
Illegal settlers from Itamar Settlement are being protected by the Israeli Army as they burn an unknown number of Palestinian olive trees. Palestinians refused to sell their olives to the settlers, who then began to burn the trees in retaliation....
Posted: Wed, Nov 17, 2004 11:03pm PST
Israel probes soldiers' misconduct The Israeli army has launched an inquiry into allegations that soldiers posed for photographs alongside bodies of several Palestinians killed in the occupied territories....
Posted: Wed, Nov 17, 2004 11:00pm PST
Israeli tank kills Egyptian soldiers Three Egyptian soldiers have been killed by an Israeli tank crew on the border between occupied Gaza and Egypt.
Aljazeera's correspondent in Ram Allah reported on Thursday that all three soldiers had been on their side of the border near the Rafah border crossing....
Posted: Wed, Nov 17, 2004 10:58pm PST
Men age 15-55 were not allowed to leave Fallujah Before the recent assault on Fallujah, women, but not men ages 15-55, were allowed to leave as civilians. Media from the conflict has shown that all men killed and wounded are described as insurgents, and there is much evidence that most men encountered by soldiers were considered to be insurgents, which gave adult men no possibility of being considered in the civilian category....
Posted: Wed, Nov 17, 2004 10:56pm PST
Unlikely Challenge in Shiite Province Resistance in Maysan to rule by outsiders poses problems for British troops and underscores uncertainty over Iraq's future as a viable state....
Posted: Wed, Nov 17, 2004 9:37pm PST
Q & A With A Fallujan The Americans are saying that they are "liberating Fallujah" from the "insurgents." What are the Fallujan civilians feelings towards the resistance fighters? Are most of the fighters from Fallujah?...
Posted: Wed, Nov 17, 2004 9:15pm PST
Fallujah Destroyed: They came, they saw, they slaughtered “WE HAVE liberated the city of Fallujah,” crowed General John Abizaid of US Central Command last Sunday.
Fallujah, a city of 300,000 people, had been cut off from the world for six days, and subjected to a massive bombardment and invasion.
It was clear as reports started to filter out that this was not a “liberated” city but a devastated one....
Posted: Wed, Nov 17, 2004 7:14pm PST
Police clash with protesters outside U.S. Embassy during Greek anti-war rally 
Police fired tear gas at demonstrators who hurled rocks and bottles at the U.S. Embassy in Athens on Wednesday during a rally against the war in Iraq.
Dozens of youths wearing scarves and crash helmets clashed with riot police. At least 25 were detained, police said. There were no immediate reports of injuries.
A downtown branch of Citibank was damaged by a firebomb, while protesters set fire to trash bins near the embassy. Two other Greek banks sustained damage.
The rioters, who als...
Posted: Wed, Nov 17, 2004 7:00pm PST
US forces detain Al-Arabiya television correspondent in Falluja Reporters Without Borders has called on US forces in Falluja to release the correspondent for Al-Arabiya satellite television, Abdel Kader Al-Saadi, whom they arrested in the town on 11 November....
Posted: Wed, Nov 17, 2004 5:51pm PST
Falluja In Pictures 
Pictures from Fallujah that probably won't be on your television....
Posted: Wed, Nov 17, 2004 5:28pm PST
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