On April 27th 2004, the US flew AC-130 gunships over Fallujah firing multiple cannon rounds in one of the heaviest nights of bombing Fallujah has seen in the past few weeks. Earlier in the day, US forces killed over 60 people near Najaf as the standoff near the Shi'ite holy city moves closer to all out war. Meanwhile both Democrats and Republicans in the US refused to ask hard questions of John Negroponte, the man who will soon be running US operations in Iraq. US actions in Iraq combined with US support for Israel's policy of assassinations and statements by Bush that suggest the US now supports Israeli settlements in the West Bank, have created unprecedented hatred towards the US in the Middle East. Attacks against the US in Afghanistan are on the rise as the supposed "US war on terrorism" has lead to an attempted WMD attack on Jordan and is causing death and destruction in Indonesia, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, and Sudan.
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