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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
Inside Fallujah: one family’s diary of terror
She weeps while telling the story. The abaya (tunic) she wears cannot hide the shaking of her body as waves of grief roll through her. “I cannot get the image out of my mind of her foetus being blown out of her body.”
Muna Salim’s sister, Artica, was seven months’ pregnant when two rockets from US warplanes struck her home in Fallujah on November 1. “My sister Selma and I only survived because we were staying at our neighbours’ house that night,” Muna continued, unable to reconcile her sur...
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 9:24pm PST
Poisoning Rumors Fail to Die Down
PARIS, 15 November 2004 — With the date of the Palestinian presidential election fixed for Jan.9 , one might expect it to be the hottest topic in the West Bank and Gaza. It is not. What most Palestinians are talking about with most interest is the mystery that still surrounds the cause of Yasser Arafat’s death....
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 9:21pm PST
Pictures from Fallujah -- another Jenin
It looks like another Jenin (from Palestine). Except in the case of Jenin, Zionists managed to convince the world that it was "anti-Semitic" to speak of a massacre....
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 8:47pm PST
That Arafat's death is seen as sign of optimism shows how deluded this conflict has become
The Palestinians...have to prove themselves; they - not the Israelis - have to show that they are a worthy "negotiating partner".
The Israelis, with their continued occupation, their continued illegal construction of colonies for Jews and Jews only on Arab land, their air strikes and helicopter executions and live-fire shooting at stone-throwing children, are not part of this equation. They are just innocently waiting to find a new "negotiating partner"...
It's impo...
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 7:44pm PST
A city lies in ruins, along with the lives of the wretched survivors
Another body lay stretched out on the next block, its head blown off, perhaps in one of the countless explosions which rent the city day and night for nearly a week. Some bodies were so mutilated it was impossible to tell if they were civilians or militants, male or female...Cars lay crushed in the middle of streets...The few civilians left in Fallujah talked of a city left in ruins not just by the six days of the ground assault, but the weeks of bombing that preceded the attack...The reactio...
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 6:43pm PST
Iraq vote could be delayed
Deputy PM voices doubts over January date as violence continues...
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 6:43pm PST
US denies need for Falluja aid convoy
US military chiefs said yesterday that they saw no need for the Iraqi Red Crescent to deliver aid inside Falluja because they did not think any Iraqi civilians were trapped there.
"There is no need to bring [Red Crescent] supplies in because we have supplies of our own for the people," said Colonel Mike Shupp of the marines....
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 6:40pm PST
Amnesty Lambastes Haitian 'Justice'
Amnesty International blasts U.S.-backed Latortue regime for repression of Haitian civilians...
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 6:39pm PST
HAITI: A Brutal Regime Shows Its Colors
given the well documented role of UN troops in supporting repression in Haiti (see www.haitiaction.net), it's odd that this report calls for more UN troops on the ground, but it's otherwise strong with lots of good information...
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 5:38pm PST
AFTER THE U.S. ELECTIONS: HAITI'S LIBERATION STRUGGLE ENTERS A NEW PHASE
post-Bush "victory" (give or take a few million stolen votes) analysis of limited options open to Haitian poor in face of ongoing repression from U.S.-backed coup government...
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 4:55pm PST
POLICE KILL CHILD IN NEIGHBORHOOD FORAY
police with death squad/ninja hoods to protect their identities, kill young Haitian boy as campaign of terror against civlians escalates...
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 4:45pm PST
Al-Barghuti wants top Palestinian post
Marwan al-Barghuti, a Palestinian uprising leader jailed by Israel, plans to run in upcoming presidential elections,
a person close to him said....
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 2:15pm PST
Armed with pen, pad on front line
Iraqi journalists find little refuge in no man's land...
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 1:42pm PST
AP Photographer Describes Escaping From Fallujah
``I decided to swim ... but I changed my mind after seeing U.S. helicopters firing on and killing people who tried to cross the river.''
He watched horrified as a family of five was shot dead as they tried to cross. Then, he ``helped bury a man by the river bank, with my own hands.''...
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 1:25pm PST
Heroic Fallujah
US imperialism has hit a stumbling block in Fallujah and Iraq as a whole in its drive for global hegemony and corporate control....
Posted: Sun, Nov 14, 2004 12:27pm PST