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Hidden tragedies in helpless city Mohammed Abboud said he watched his nine-year-old son bleed to death at their Falluja home yesterday, unable to take him to hospital as fighting raged in the streets and bombs rained down.
"My son got shrapnel in his stomach when our house was hit at dawn, but we couldn't take him for treatment," said Mr Abboud, a teacher....
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 9:46pm PST
The focus is Falluja but attacks continue throughout the country Baquba: Thirty-two people were injured in raids on three police stations
Baghdad: A US soldier was killed in a firefight with insurgents as a curfew was imposed for the first time in a year
Kirkuk: Three killed in suicide blast at oil pumping station
Falluja: An extremist group yesterday urged attacks across Iraq in revenge for the assault on the city...
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 9:45pm PST
Coke...The Pause That Kills!!! 
As you read this article, the Coca-Cola company is using para-military goon squads to kidnap, torture, and kill union organizers at their plants in Columbia, South America....
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 7:35pm PST
In pictures: inside Falluja November 9 2004: Guardian columnist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad is one of the few journalists inside Falluja. We present a selection of his photographs from the battleground Iraqi city....
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 3:47pm PST
Palestinians to continue struggle Palestinian Authority officials and opposition leaders have vowed to safeguard national unity in the wake of leader Yasir Arafat's death. Seeking to cope with the absence of the man who was at the helm of the Palestinian national struggle for nearly 40 years, leaders of the mainstream Fatah movement, which Arafat founded and led until his death, undertook not to allow his passing to impact the movement's ability to keep up the struggle against Israeli occupation....
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 3:45pm PST
Palestinian leaders choose Muqataa as Arafat burial site ven before an official announcement of Yasser Arafat's death, Israeli and Palestinian officials held talks over where he would be buried, while Washington said it was willing to work with whatever leaders Palestinians choose in the event of the president's demise.
A senior Palestinian official said a deal was reached between Israelis and Palestinians on funeral arrangements.
"Senior Palestinian and Israeli officials have reached an agreement in principle on the arrangements to be m...
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 3:43pm PST
Israel blocks care for Arab-Israeli baby By Agence France Presse (AFP)
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
JERUSALEM: Israeli authorities are withholding treatment of a critically ill baby born to an Arab-Israeli father and Palestinian mother, over doubts about the baby's paternity, an international rights group charged Tuesday....
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 3:42pm PST
Sunni party quits interim government Iraq's official Sunni Muslim political party has quit the US-backed government in protest over the assault on Falluja.
A spokesman for the Islamic Party, Iyad Samarai, said top party officials had met earlier in the day with Prime Minister Iyad Allawi to demand he stop the Falluja offensive and try to negotiate a peaceful settlement with fighters there....
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 3:38pm PST
Thirteen US soldiers killed in Iraq Ten US soldiers have been killed in Falluja with three other US military personnel killed in other parts of Iraq, according to the US military.
About a dozen US troops have been killed so far in the offensive against the Iraqi city of Falluja, US Lieutenant General Thomas Metz said on Tuesday without giving a precise toll....
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 3:37pm PST
'Scores of civilians' killed in Falluja 
Muhammad Abbud said he watched his nine-year-old son bleed to death at their Falluja home, unable to take him to hospital as fighting raged in the streets and bombs rained down on the Iraqi city.
In the midst of a US onslaught and hemmed in by a round-the-clock curfew, he said he had little choice but to bury his eldest son, Ghaith, in the garden....
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 3:31pm PST
Ashcroft and Evans resign from Bush Cabinet WASHINGTON - Attorney General John Ashcroft and Commerce Secretary Don Evans resigned Tuesday, the first members of President Bush's Cabinet to leave as he headed from re-election into his second term.
The resignations were announced by White House press secretary Scott McClellan, who said Bush had accepted the decisions of both secretaries....
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 3:29pm PST
Hello from Occupied Palestine Sarah Olson is an independent reporter travelling through and reporting in occupied Palestine. She is particularly concerned with the role of women in the resistence, and has been sending reports home to friends and family. She has agreed to have them reposted on various lists and websites - please forward on if you receive this!...
Posted: Tue, Nov 9, 2004 12:05pm PST
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
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