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ALMENO 800 CIVILI MORTI A FALLUJAH
Dahr Jamail, Italy.indymedia.org
Almeno 800 civili sono stati uccisi durante l'assedio di Fallujah da parte
americana, stima un operatore della Croce Rossa. Parlando sotto condizione
di anonimità per paura di rappresaglie da parte dei militari americani, un
esponente di alto grado della Croce Rossa a Baghdad ha detto all'IPS che
"almeno 800 civili" sono stati ammazzati a Fallujah sino ad ora...

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“Una guerra che gli Stati Uniti non possono vincere”
Scott Ritter, Osservatorio Iraq
...Il Presidente Bush ha dichiarato prematuramente “missione compiuta” nel
maggio 2003. Per gli americani, questo significava che le principali
operazioni di combattimento in Iraq erano finite, che avevamo vinto la
guerra. Ma per gli iracheni, significava qualcos’altro (...) Il fatto è che
il governo di Saddam Hussein non si è mai arreso, e questo è ancora assai
chiaro oggi in Iraq, sotto forma di resistenza anti-americana. Mentre in
America noi dichiaravamo vittoria, il governo di Saddam stava pianificando
la sua guerra...

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Margaret Hassan execution: Anatomy of a CIA-DIA-Mossad Counterinsurgency
operation?
Kurt Nimmo
...However, we still do not know who allegedly killed Hassan, since no
group has claimed responsibility. Of course, the corporate media and the
Bushcons want you to believe it was the Iraqi resistance. As I said when
Hassan was abducted, if the resistance killed her they are the stupidest
resistance movement in recent memory. It makes absolutely no sense for the
resistance to kill a “humanitarian worker known around the Mideast for her
concern for Iraqis—particularly during the years of U.N. sanctions, whose
effects on children she vocally denounced,” as the AP notes. It is curious
the video of Hassan’s execution surfaced at the same time allegations of
civilian mass murder, the execution of wounded prisoners, and other war
crimes in Fallujah made the rounds...

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The more things change
The more they stay the same Update
William Bowles
Coincidence? The surfacing of a videotape that allegedly shows the
execution of Margaret Hassan coming as it does fresh on the heels of the
video of the execution of a wounded Iraqi resistance fighter by US Marines
seems to be part of a pattern of diverting attention away from embarrassing
revelations for the occupiers. Could it be that the people who kidnapped
Margaret Hassan are not what they seem?...

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"We lost the real battle of Fallujah last week"
Jack Lessenberry
...We are now the bad guys. The insurgents, no matter who they are and what
they want, are morally in the right. Iraq is their country, not ours. We
have no business there. We invaded them for reasons that were either lies
or totally wrong. Remember what we were told by our president in March
2003?...

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Tuesday, 16 November 2004
Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member editorial board The
Free Arab Voice.
...Nevertheless, the heroic battle at al-Fallujah, the Baath Party said,
would be an “example to be followed in Iraq, first, and then in Palestine.”
The Baath statement said that the Battle of al-Fallujah in which the
fighters of the Baath Party were taking part in fighting formations of the
Forces of Resistance and Liberation, and under the slogans of Resista nce
and jihad, and in which the military expertise of the Army of Iraq and the
courageous Republican Guard were being used, “is a continuous and on-going
battle, one that is not isolated”...

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Marines Killed Four Wounded Iraqi Prisoners: US Reporter
IslamOnline
The US pool reporter, who broke to the world the killing of a wounded,
unarmed Iraqi prisoner by a marine, further revealed that more prisoners
were shot dead though they did not appear threatening in any way. NBC
correspondent Kevin Sites was quoted by the Associated Press Wednesday,
November 17 , as saying that US Marines killed three more unarmed and
wounded Iraqi prisoners in a Fallujah mosque Saturday, November 12...

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Slash and Burn
Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches
...She lays dazed in the crowded hospital room, languidly waving her
bruised arm at the flies. Her shins, shattered by bullets from US soldiers
when they fired through the front door of her house, are both covered by
casts. Small plastic drainage backs filled with red fluid sit upon her
abdomen, where she took shrapnel from another bullet. Fatima Harouz, 12
years old, lives in Latifiya, a city just south of Baghdad. Just three days
ago soldiers attacked her home...

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Dogs Eat Bodies Of Dead US-Slain Fallujah Children
Muhammad Abu Nasr, Free Arab Voice; Edited by JUS
...The Mujahideen leader described to the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent
the tragic situation in the demolished city “which has become unbearable
due to the large number of dead Iraqi civilians in the streets whose bodies
are being eaten by dogs.” He said that bodies of children shot dead by
American snipers yesterday or the day before as they tried to cross the
street, were being devoured by the dogs. Neither the families nor the
fighters are able to retrieve the remains of their mangled bodies because
of the American snipers are still perched atop high buildings. The
Commander described whole buildings that were totally burned with everyone
inside...

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Militants battle on in Fallujah, days after control declared
By Edward Harris, Associated Press
U.S. Marines killed seven suspected insurgents trying to swim the Euphrates
River, and militants' rockets fell on a U.S. camp on Fallujah's northern
edge Wednesday, four days after American troops occupied all of the city.
U.S. warplanes struck targets in south-central Fallujah, where most of the
remaining militants were believed holding out. At dusk, one of the largest
explosions in days rocked the city, turning the ni ght sky bright red and
radiating shockwaves far from the blast...

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Aid still urgently needed in Fallujah
Report, IRIN, 17 November 2004
"Please tell them to come back, we don't have another person to help us, we
need food and my children are sick, they have to try again," Rasha Omar, a
mother of five in Fallujah, told IRIN after finding out that the Iraqi Red
Crescent Society (IRCS) couldn't deliver food to the city. After reaching
Fallujah's main hospital on Saturday, the IRCS couldn't get to the centre
of the city to deliver food and medical supplies...

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Counterinsurgency run amok
Pepe Escobar
...The political infrastructure in Iraq controlled by the Ba'ath Party for
many decades has integrated most of the Islamic resistance groups under its
command with great efficiency. It has also managed to infiltrate and smash
the Iraqi counterinsurgency force that the Americans were trying to
assemble (...) Think of the new Iraqi resistance as small, mobile armies
striking in Baqubah, Samarra and Mosul, running away and melting into the
local population, which fully supports them. This is pure Vietminh tactics
- Saddam Hussein's officers were all keen students of the Vietnam War...

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What price innocence in the anarchy of Iraq?
Robert Fisk, The Independent
Who killed Margaret Hassan? After the grief, the astonishment, heartbreak,
anger and fury over the apparent murder of such a good and saintly woman,
that is the question that her friends - and, quite possibly, the Iraqi
insurgents - will be asking. This Anglo-Irish lady held an Iraqi passport.
She had lived in Iraq for 30 years; she had dedicated her life to the
welfare of Iraqis in need. She hated the UN sanctions and opposed the
Anglo-Amer ican invasion. So who killed Margaret Hassan?...

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INSURGENT LEADER
Says they have not yet begun to fight
ANTHONY SHADID, Los Angeles Times
U.S. and Iraqi troops entered Mosul in force Tuesday to retake streets and
police stations seized by rebels in the northern city last week, while a
leading Iraqi insurgent claimed that the fighting in Fallujah was only the
beginning of an uprising that has already roiled parts of Iraq dominated by
Sunni Muslims. "The Americans have opened the gates of hell," Abdullah
Janabi said Monday in Fallujah, a city U.S. commanders h ave said they
control after a week of often fierce fighting. "The battle of Fallujah is
the beginning of other battles"...

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Protesting US Raids, 47 Iraqi Bodies Boycott Polls
Mazen Ghazi, IOL Correspondent
...Concluding a one-day conference in the headquarters of the influential
Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars (AMS) in Baghdad’s Um Al-Qora mosque,
a plethora of bodies representing Iraq’s religious mosaic agreed that the
open-ended Fallujah offensive was an obstacle to an effective political
participation. They further said that the outcome of the election is
settled in advance for the “collaborators” with the US occupation troops. ..

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U.S. forces carry on with deadly airstrikes on Fallujah
Aljazeera.com
U.S. forces launched a series of air strikes against Iraqi fighters still
resisting in the war-torn western Iraqi city of Falluja. Sporadic gun fire
and blasts were heard in south-central parts of Fallujah as U.S. soldiers
were hunting fighters in the shattered city. In the northern Jolan
neighborhood, U.S. troops clashed with resistance who officers said had
sneaked back into the city by swimming across the Euphrates River...

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The New Mongols
Sam Hamod
There is an old prophecy among the Iraqis that says that when the Khan was
wounded, after he’d conquered Iraq, that as he went home to die that he
would return some day to once again conquer Baghdad. The Iraqis remember
this prophecy and they have sworn on the Qur’an that when he returned he
might once again burn Baghdad as did Ibn Timur (Tamerlane) but that they
would set fire to his camps wherever they found them until the Mongols had
to go home again (...) I lay the blame at the U.S. l eadership who had the
gall and immoral judgement to bring in the Mossad and the Israeli IDF and
to send commanders to Israel for further training in this brutal style of
warfare not seen since the Mongols (but then again, perhaps we did see it
in Viet Nam with Agent Orange and My Lai, etc. but not on this scale)...

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Armed group kidnaps 31 Iraqi policemen
KATARINA KRATOVAC, Associated Press Writer
An armed group kidnapped 31 Iraqi policemen who were returning training in
Jordan, authorities said Wednesday, and a suicide car bomber rammed a U.S.
convoy north of Baghdad, killing 10 people, hospital officials said. The
attacks were part of a wave of violence that has swept across Iraq's Sunni
Arab heartland during the U.S. offensive to retake the insurgent bastion of
Fallujah. The violence has made November one of the bloodiest m onths of
the Iraqi insurgency...

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Clashes kill 9, wound 15 in Ramadi
Reuters
Nine Iraqis were killed and 15 wounded on Wednesday in clashes between US
troops and insurgents in the city of Ramadi, hospital officials said. Large
numbers of gunmen fanned out in the streets on Wednesday morning and fought
with US troops who tried to move eastwards from the town centre, witnesses
said. US war planes bombed an industrial district on the eastern edge of
Ramadi, 110 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad, and insurgents attacked US
forces using rocket-propelled g renades, mortars and roadside bombs, they
said...

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US media applauds destruction of Fallujah
David Walsh
Not a single major voice has been raised in the American media against the
ongoing destruction of Fallujah. While much of the world recognizes
something horrifying has occurred, the US press does not bat an eye over
the systematic leveling of a city of 300,000 people (...) In the future,
people will ask: what did you do and say while Fallujah was being
destroyed? If readers can find major newspaper or television editorials
denouncing the murderous attack, by al l means, send them in to the WSWS.
We have searched in vain...

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Liberation Has a Body Count
Ilana Mercer, Antiwar
...Milosevic’s genocide was long ago exposed as another neocon whopper, but
this claim served admirably as a pretext for aggression. Saddam is accused
of having killed 250,000 or 500,000 or even a million of his own people
over 35 years. Evidence to back up these numbers is somewhat lacking, and
the numbers are especially suspect if they include those Iraqis that died
while engaged in insurrection against Saddam. (Over a million Americans
died because Lincoln put d own an insurrection in order to preserve the
Union. If we hold Lincoln to the same standard the neocons hold Saddam to,
then Lincoln must be universally acknowledged as one of history’s greatest
war criminals.)...

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