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Army e-mails 'express concerns' The British Army has refused to comment on e-mails reportedly sent by the Black Watch's commanding officer expressing concern at his regiment's redeployment.
The soldiers were moved from Basra in southern Iraq to an area near Baghdad, where they have suffered three deaths....
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 12:51pm PST
Eyewitness: Taking cover in Falluja US and Iraqi national guard forces have launched the long-awaited assault on the Iraqi city of Falluja. We spoke by phone to a Fadhil Badrani, a journalist in Falluja who reports for the BBC World Service in Arabic....
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 11:34am PST
U.S. Launches Fallujah Offensive FALLUJAH, Iraq, Nov 8 (MASNET & News Agencies) - U.S. Marines began intense shelling across the city of Fallujah after Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi gave the go-ahead for an all-out assault on the rebel enclave.
Thousands of U.S. Marines and Army troops punched their way on Monday into two Fallujah neighborhoods where insurgents are considered the strongest, kicking off a massive assault that seeks to put an end to half a year of insurgent control of the city, reports the Associate...
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 11:33am PST
Association of Muslim Scholars warns Iraqi forces An influential Iraqi Muslim group urged Iraqi security forces not to fight with US troops preparing to storm the beseiged city of Falluja.
"We call on the Iraqi forces, the National Guard and others
who are mostly Muslims ... to beware of making the grave mistake of invading Iraqi cities under the banner of forces who respect no religion or human rights," the Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS) said in a statement on Monday....
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 11:24am PST
Maps Of Falluja (warning very large images) 
These will take awhile to download but provide a pretty good overview of the size of the city the US is destroying....
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 10:55am PST
Fallujah and the Reality of War The assault on Fallujah has started. It is being sold as liberation of the people of Fallujah; it is being sold as a necessary step to implementing “democracy” in Iraq. These are lies.
I was in Fallujah during the siege in April, and I want to paint for you a word picture of what such an assault means....
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 9:06am PST
Fallujah Under Siege: US Begins Massive Assault as Iraq Declares Martial Law The U.S. invasion of Fallujah has begun. After weeks of daily bombings, U.S. forces have begun to move into the Sunni city seen as the center of the Iraqi resistance. We speak with independent reporters Rahul Mahajan and Lamis Andoni in Jordan....
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 9:02am PST
Battle of Falluja under way Fierce fighting is raging in Falluja after interim PM Iyad Allawi gave US-led forces the go-ahead for a full-scale attack on the besieged Iraqi city.
US warplanes staged ferocious strikes on targets in the city on Monday afternoon.
Aircraft struck about eight times in 20 minutes, sending huge plumes of smoke billowing up from the north-west of the city, where US-led forces are about to launch an offensive....
Posted: Mon, Nov 8, 2004 8:30am PST
Democracy irrigated with carnage! The so called sunni triangle has proved a thorn in the side of the American occupiers of Iraq, particularly the town of Falluja which they have been repeatedly unable to subdue. After prolonged battles earlier this year, a deal was brokered in which control of Falluja effectively passed to the people of Falluja and their representatives who have reportedly implemented aspects of Shari'ah law....
Posted: Sun, Nov 7, 2004 11:44pm PST
Crimes in Iraq: Iraq Is an All-opportunity Meat Grinder A man of about 40 walks around the corpses festooning the hospital room, which has been made into a makeshift morgue. The corpses lie silent, hapless, yet serene.
The camera zooms in on the corpses, these despicable terrorists out to destroy normalcy, civilization, order, democracy, and faith.
The first is an infant of nine months, probably a boy, as he is wrapped in white and blue infant clothes. His mouth is gaping open, as if his little body instinctively gasped for its last breath. ...
Posted: Sun, Nov 7, 2004 11:38pm PST
The Killing of Fallujah As we go to press, between 10,000 to 15,000 U.S. and Iraqi puppet forces are surrounding the city of Fallujah in central Iraq, with another 10,000 in the surrounding area, preparing for what is likely to be one of the most savage assaults on the Iraqi people since the U.S. imperialists invaded their country in March 2003....
Posted: Sun, Nov 7, 2004 11:35pm PST
Fighting breaks out in besieged Falluja Fierce fighting has erupted in the Iraqi city of Falluja in what appears to be the start of a full-scale attack on the city.
US and Iraqi troops seized the city's main hospital and two bridges, as ground fire lit up the skies....
Posted: Sun, Nov 7, 2004 11:31pm PST
Falluja: Screams will not be heard This is an information age, but it will be months before we learn the truth about the assault on Falluja...
Posted: Sun, Nov 7, 2004 5:15pm PST
Fierce fighting has erupted east and south of Falluja Fierce fighting has erupted east and south of Falluja, Aljazeera has learned, as a full-scale attack on the city seems imminent.
Large numbers of US troops have taken up positions on the outskirts of the city as they prepare for an attack on Falluja, Aljazeera reported....
Posted: Sun, Nov 7, 2004 2:19pm PST
87th Anniversary Bolshevik Revolution :::Other News::: 
Demonstrations erupted across Russia today to commemorate the 87th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Meanwhile, MPP activists have declared that Shinning Path leader Chairman Gonzalo is on trial in Callao Naval Base in Peru at this very moment....
Posted: Sun, Nov 7, 2004 12:43pm PST
Saudi Scholars Say Resistance in Iraq Is Jihad RIYADH, 7 November 2004 — Twenty-one prominent Saudi religious scholars have signed an open statement to the Iraqi people legitimizing their resistance and forbidding any cooperation or dealings with the occupied American forces....
Posted: Sun, Nov 7, 2004 11:18am PST
Protester dies under atomic train A anti-nuclear protester has died after his leg was severed by a train carrying atomic waste from France to Germany.
The 23-year-old lay down on the track as the train passed near the town of Avricourt, eastern France....
Posted: Sun, Nov 7, 2004 10:59am PST
Gang Fight in Karbala over Elections
Al-Karbala'i: Voter Registration Cards Fall Short Al-Hayat: The first victim of the electoral campaign in Iraq fell on Saturday in Karbala after a shouting match deteriorated into a knife fight between followers of Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani and the cleric, Mahmud al-Husaini. Al-Husaini, who studied with Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr (father of Muqtada), opposes participating in the elections. Ali al-Arfawi of the Husain Hospital said that the confrontation led to the killing of one of Sistani's supporters. Al-Husaini's followers had put up poster...
Posted: Sun, Nov 7, 2004 9:29am PST
Police flee station in Haiti’s third largest city after coming under fire PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti_An armed group fired on a police station in Haiti’s third largest city of Gonaives, prompting officers to flee and setting off a flurry of looting, police said.
No one was reported killed in the clash Friday night. On Saturday the police station remained empty after looters broke into the building and carried away furniture and other items, said Salomon Alfred, a reporter for Haitian broadcaster Radio Vision 2000....
Posted: Sun, Nov 7, 2004 9:22am PST
Israeli CP denounces Sharon’s Gaza plan n the same day that the Israeli parliament, or Knesset, voted 67-45 to support Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s plan for “disengagement” from the Gaza Strip, the leader of the Communist Party of Israel (CPI) denounced the plan as a maneuver to block and “bury the very idea” of an independent Palestinian state....
Posted: Sun, Nov 7, 2004 9:18am PST
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