How long will it take for us to realise what we have done to Iraq, asks Robert Manne.
Last week, as the ferocious battle for Fallujah began, the neo-conservative "scholar", Robert Kagan, paid a triumphal visit to Australia. Kagan was received by the Prime Minister. An edited version of the lecture he delivered was published in five newspapers. He was interviewed, respectfully, by almost every serious public affairs program on the ABC. Unhappily there was in all this virtually no (...)
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A disaster, made in the USA
15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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Civilian cost of battle for Falluja emerges
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by Rory McCarthy in Baghdad and Peter Beaumont
The full cost of the battle of Falluja emerged last night as large numbers of wounded civilians were evacuated to hospitals in Baghdad, as insurgents stepped up retaliatory attacks in other cities.
As the first Red Crescent aid convoy was allowed into Falluja, Iraq’s Health Minister, Alaa Alwan, said ambulances had begun transferring a ’significant number’ of injured civilians out of the battle zone, although he did not specify how many. (...) -
The final battle
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Peter Beaumont says that American troops feared they would have to fight a bitter street conflict at the start of the invasion. Now civilians are paying the price in Falluja
Their story is the hardest to tell: that of the Iraqi civilians who have remained in the besieged city of Falluja. They have no embedded Western journalists to speak for them, only a few Iraqi correspondents. They cannot leave their homes because of the risk of constant sniper fire. They have no water to drink, no (...) -
When the smoke has cleared around Fallujah, what horrors will be revealed?
15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
As the Americans move street by bloody street towards control of the insurgents’ stronghold, aid agencies warn of a humanitarian catastrophe.
by Kim Sengupta and Raymond Whitaker report
Victory was being declared yesterday in the battle of Fallujah, with 1,000 rebels reported dead, hundreds more in custody and spectacular footage from embedded television crews, showing Marines charging through deserted neighbourhoods.
"It’s like those pictures from the advance into Baghdad," said one (...) -
War Crimes in Fallujah; a Gutsy Campaign Against Lantos
15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
The United States is bringing "democracy" to Iraq on the same terms that the Russians imposed its federal mandate on Chechnya, a region which has Iraq’s future written in its rubble. The advocates of intervention in Iraq, the epigones of Wolfowitz , should take a walk through Grozny, and measure against its ruins the fate of their proclaimed ambition to bring democracy to Fallujah and other cities in Iraq.
In the waning weeks of the US election campaign the (...) -
Uri Avnery : rejoice not...
15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsby Uri Avnery
“Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth, Lest the Lord see it, and it displease him.” This biblical injunction (Proverbs 24:17) is one of the most profound Jewish moral tenets. In this connection, Israel is very far from being a “Jewish State”, as it likes to define itself. The disgusting filth poured out over Yasser Arafat during the last few days in practically all the Israeli media makes one ashamed to be an Israeli.
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Arafat and Vanunu: Two Prisoners of War
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5 commentsIsrael’s move against Mordechai Vanunu, the man who exposed their nuclear secrets, couldn’t have been timed better
by Justin Raimondo
The death of Yasser Arafat overshadows the re-arrest of Mordechai Vanunu, and it was, as they say, no accident: Arafat had barely breathed his last gasp when 20 to 30 heavily armed Israeli police commandos stormed the Anglican cathedral of St. George in Jerusalem, seized Vanunu, and confiscated his computer, while their superiors absurdly yelped that he (...) -
The onslaught in Fallujah : shooting at a fly that has landed on a horse’s head
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91 comments“If your attack is going exceptionally well, it is probably an ambush.” Old military maxim
by Maarten Vanheuverswyn
On the face of it, the siege of Fallujah seems to be going relatively well for the US troops. Most of the city has been captured and according to the mass media “Operation Phantom Fury” will be finished in a couple of days. Though yesterday the US army suffered some losses, these were nothing compared to the figure of 600 insurgents killed, probably more. It is indeed (...) -
Arafat : the Dreamer Who Relied on Emotion and Failed to Protect His Own People
15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsby Robert Fisk
He was everything loyal and everything miserable about the Palestinian dream. I have a tape recording of Arafat, sitting with me on a cold, dark mountainside outside the Lebanese port of Tripoli in 1983 where the old man - he was always called the old man, long before he was elderly - was under siege by the Syrian army, another of the Arab "brothers" who wanted to lead the Palestinian cause and ended up fighting Palestinians rather than Israelis.
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Falluja resident tells of trauma
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A five-year-old Iraqi girl has arrived in Britain, having been orphaned when a US missile destroyed her family’s home in Falluja.
Ayisha Saleem was brought here six days ago by her uncle, Mohammad, who decided to leave after the 4 October attack.
The US military says it used precision strikes to take out insurgents loyal to Abu Musab al-Zaqawi.
The attack happened before it stepped up its offensive on the city last week.
Mohammad said he was dazed when he first heard of the (...)