by STEVEN R. HURST
The U.S. military is investigating the videotaped fatal shooting of a wounded and apparently unarmed Iraqi prisoner by a U.S. Marine in a mosque in the former insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, a Marine spokesman said.
The dramatic footage was taken Saturday by pool correspondent Kevin Sites of NBC television, who said three other prisoners wounded a day earlier in the mosque had also apparently been shot the next day by the Marines.
The incident played out as the (...)
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U.S. to Probe Shooting of Wounded Iraqi
16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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Amnesty: Rules of war violated in Fallujah
16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
6 commentsRules of war that protect innocent civilians and combatants have been violated in the U.S-led offensive in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, the human rights group Amnesty International said on Monday.
The London-based group, which has provided evidence of what it described as breaching war rules, demanded on Monday an investigation to be launched to study all violation cases and that those responsible be brought to justice.
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The Enlightenment of Resistance
16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsby Manuel Valenzuela
Exorcising Our Demons
Into the infancy of the 21st century has humanity somehow managed to reach, despite our insatiable addiction for violence and suffering that has for millennia been both endemic and devastating, in spite of the continued tribalism, now called the nation state, that fosters competition, ignorance, fear, hatred and war among the peoples of the world, even with the hierarchical need among peoples to perpetually follow corrupt, immoral and (...) -
Violence erupts across Iraq and aid agencies warn of disaster as US declares battle of Fallujah is o
16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By Kim Sengupta in Camp Dogwood, Iraq
The United States and Iraq’s interim government claimed yesterday that the battle for Fallujah was over, with 1,000 insurgents killed and the rebel stronghold effectively pacified after six days of fighting.
But even as the victory was being declared, wide-spread violence erupted throughout the rest of the country, with parts of Mosul passing into the hands of insurgents, forcing the American military to detach and rush part of its Fallujah force (...) -
Woman facing death penalty for pot: How to help...
16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
112 commentsThis is a call for action to help save a young Australian woman’s life who is currently facing the death penalty in Bali for allegedly being caught with marijuana in a Balinese airport:
A 27 year old Australian woman named Schapelle Leigh Corby, is facing the death penalty in Bali for being caught with 4 kilos of marijuana in her luggage at an airport in Bali. Ms Corby claims the marijuana was not hers and many of her supporters believe the marijuana may have been planted in her (...) -
What did Falluja do to deserve this?
16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
27 commentsMany British people regard the battle beginning at Falluja and last week’s casualties among the Black Watch with dismay, even revulsion. They perceive an ugly predicament in Iraq growing worse by the day, and Tony Blair allowing hapless British troops to be dragged ever deeper into it. Here, they say, are the first fruits of the re-election of George W. Bush, an ignorant and dangerous man. Heaven help those shackled to his chariot wheels. The Daily Telegraph, London The U.S. forces are (...)
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US, Iraqi Forces Battle to Retake Parts of Mosul
16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
by Naseer Al-Nahr
As US troops and Iraqi security forces were battling Iraqi resistance in Fallujah yesterday, they were fighting to retake parts of Mosul in the north overrun by the Iraqi resistance.
US and Iraqi forces have been fighting for hours to recapture the Sheikh Fatih station in the city’s southwest from Iraqi resistance fighters, US Capt. Angela Bowman said.
Two US soldiers were wounded in sporadic fighting in the nearby town of Tal Afar, where Iraqi resistance fighters (...) -
Dogs Eating Bodies in the Streets of Fallujah
16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
10 commentsby Dahr Jamail
It never fails to get my adrenaline flowing when my hotel rumbles from a car bomb detonating in central Baghdad.
Last night around 7pm the explosion occurred at a hotel compound which houses foreign contractors over near Firdos Square.
Shortly there after the "Green Zone" took a sustained mortar attack which went on long enough for them to hit the blaring sirens which warn the inhabitants to take cover, long after the mortar rounds had stopped falling.
Iraq’s borders (...) -
Falluja: Smoke and corpses
16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentBBC News November 11th (just to imagine what it could be 4 days later.)..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4004873.stm
Eyewitness: Smoke and corpses US troops, backed by Iraqi forces, are locked in a fierce fight to wrest the city of Falluja from rebel control. The BBC News website spoke by phone to Fadhil Badrani, an Iraqi journalist and resident of Falluja who reports regularly for Reuters and the BBC World Service in Arabic. We are publishing his and other eyewitness (...) -
Covering Fallujah
15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsby Omar Khan November 14, 2004
The Department of Defense seems continually faced with the difficulty of waging a war upon a population while maintaining that it is doing so on behalf of that population. But it is fortunate not to face this difficulty alone. A vast literature has been developed and deployed to effectively manage and promote its excursions in language that its intellectuals can contribute to and the public can repeat.
After the US invasion of South Vietnam, one such (...)