US forces are locked in fierce battle against insurgents in the Iraqi city of Falluja. People from the city have been giving the BBC their account of what’s been going on.
Hamid Flewa, lawyer and Falluja resident:
We heard a lot overnight [on Wednesday] and the bombing intensified at dawn. [Wednesday’s] onslaught affected most districts in the city.
There are bodies strewn in the streets and most families were forced to bury the dead in their gardens. I can see lines of bodies (...)
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Voices from Falluja
12 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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Falluja facing humanitarian crisis
12 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
22 commentsFighting in Falluja has created a humanitarian disaster in which innocent people are dying because medical help cannot reach them, aid workers in Iraq have said.
In one case, a pregnant woman and her child died in a refugee camp west of the city after the mother unexpectedly aborted and no doctors were on hand, Firdus al-Ubadi, an official from the Iraqi Red Crescent Society, told Reuters on Wednesday.
In another case, a young boy died from a snake bite that would normally have been (...) -
Crushing Fallujah Will Not End the Iraq War
12 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentLikely to Prove as Disappointing to US as the Capture of Saddam
By PATRICK COCKBURN
The belligerent trumpetings of the US Marines bode ill for Fallujah. Sgt Major Carlton W Kent, the senior enlisted marine in Iraq, told troops that the battle would be no different from Iwo Jima. In an analogy the Pentagon may not relish, he recalled the Tet offensive in Vietnam in 1968 and added: "This is another Hue city."
American voters last week never seemed to take on board the extent of the US (...) -
Falluja’s defiance of a new empire
11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsIt is Bush and Blair, not the Iraqi resistance, who fear free elections
by Sami Ramadani
George Bush and Tony Blair have apparently concluded that they can crush the Iraqi people’s will to resist occupation and legitimise a puppet regime next January by occupying Falluja. Maybe they imagine they can emulate the British forces that terrorised Iraqi Kurdistan in the 1920s by obliterating recalcitrant villages.
The US generals will no doubt deliver Falluja to Bush and Blair after (...) -
The truth is that Yasser Arafat died years ago
11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
He married the Revolution. And in the end he became a little dictator, falsely promising democracy by Robert Fisk
Yet again, Yasser Arafat is dying. We thought he’d been killed back in 1982 when the Israeli air force flew around Beirut attacking apartment blocks and homes they thought he was visiting. Their bombs tore to pieces hundreds of innocent Lebanese civilians but Arafat was never there. Then we thought he’d died in a plane crash in the Libyan desert — but it was the pilot who (...) -
How to withdraw from Iraq without losing our shirts — and our social security too!
11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsBy Jane Stillwater Let’s see. Bush invaded Iraq shortly after Saddam Hussein changed over from the dollar to the Euro. If the purpose of the war on Iraq was to keep the dollar strong, Bush has been defeated already — no matter how many Iraqis he kills. Bush is like one of those gunfighters in the Old West who swaggers into town to rob the bank and steal the land. But apparently Bush didn’t count on the local ranchers, townspeople and school marms organizing (...)
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Top U.S. Marine in Iraq Calls for Massacre in Fallujah
11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
17 commentsTake Action: Stand with the people of Fallujah
The U.S. has surrounded the sealed off City of Fallujah and is preparing to launch the complete destruction of the city. They have told the people that any traffic on the street is now subject to attack and any males between the ages of 15 and 55 who go outside will automatically be killed by the U.S. soldiers. The U.S. is terrorizing and bombing the citizens of Fallujah every night, recently targeting and fully destroying its emergency (...) -
A march of 2,000 people took place last night, in San Francisco...
11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsDear friends:
A march of 2,000 people took place last night, in San Francisco, against the genocidal attack on Fallujah, and in solidarity with 4,000 hotel workers who are locked out of their jobs by major hotel chains.
The action was sponsored by International ANSWER and endorsed by the San Francisco Labor Council, and all other anti-war groups.
Very militant, the marchers were in support of Iraqi people’s resistance and for US out of Iraq immediately.
Another ANSWER action, in (...) -
Whose Heads Have Turned Away? Comment regarding: The Final Solution (Endlösung) for Fallujah and Ram
11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
7 commentsWhose Heads Have Turned Away?
Comment regarding: The Final Solution (Endlösung) for Fallujah and Ramadi By Yamin Zakaria ,Al-Jazeerah, November 7, 2004....
Excerpts for background: “The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human” ............Aldous Huxley "...While modern propaganda techniques were developed by Adolf Hitler and his spin master Joseph Gobbels, it is now the likes of CNN, Fox TV and mainstream (...) -
Yasser Arafat "Abu Ammar" dead at 75
11 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsYasser Arafat, who triumphantly forced his people’s plight into the world spotlight but failed to achieve his lifelong quest for Palestinian statehood, died Thursday at age 75.
He was, to the end, a man of many mysteries and paradoxes - terrorist, statesman, autocrat and peacemaker.
Palestinian Cabinet minister Saeb Erekat confirmed to The Associated Press that Arafat had died. The Palestinian leader spent his final days in a coma at a French military hospital outside Paris.
Tayeb (...)