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Doctors in Falluja want the siege on the town lifted for shifting patients with serious injuries even as brutal street battles rage....

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Eight South Koreans and three Japanese were kidnapped by insurgents in Iraq, and captors armed with automatic rifles and swords threatened today to burn the Japanese alive if Tokyo did not withdraw from the U.S.-led coalition....

From correspondents in Baghdad April 8, 2004 MANY of Baghdad's Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims overnight rallied behind embattled firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr whose banned militia is facing a nationwide assault by US-led coalition forces....

Shiites, Sunnis join forces against U.S. troops...

A report commissioned by the Pentagon on the invasion of Afghanistan was turned away after it concluded there was a wide gap between how the White House represented the war and what was actually taking place. We speak with the New Yorker's Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh who says, "It's a great trifecta for this administration. In three-and-a-half years of office, we have destroyed Afghanistan, destroyed Iraq and we are in the process of destroying the UN too."...

Polish troops have killed the chief of Iraqi militants Murtada al-Mussawi, who runs the office of Moqtada al-Sadr in Karbala....

WASHINGTON, April 5 (UPI) -- Following a bloody Palm Sunday weekend in Iraq that left scores killed, including nine American soldiers, the country finds itself in its most politically precarious situation since the fall of Baghdad a year ago this Friday. When U.S. troops supported by battle tanks toppled Saddam Hussein's statue in Baghdad's Firdous Square last April 9, heralding the end of the Baath regime's dictatorship, the Pentagon planners of the Iraq war believed the worst was over. B...

Unable to win over Turkey's approval for a 2nd Front in its War of Aggression on Iraq 14 months ago, the Bushed Chickenhawk Cabal finally succeeded in creating a 2nd Front in Iraq this week. Only thing is, the 2nd Front is now in SOUTHERN Iraq, where inflamed Shiites are now in open revolt against the brutal U.S. Occupation....

cities are being sieged and bombed by missiles and tanks. Sadr, Adamiya, Kufa, Falloja, Shula and others. Civilians are being killed. The high way to Falluja is closed. News from Falluja say that bodies are lying in the streets, no ambullances, no water, no electricity. Journalists are not allowed in, cameras are smashed. They say this will go on for days. pls help. Eman...

Public Citizen Calls for Investigation of Bechtel's Failure to Provide Adequate Water Services to Iraqi Citizens...