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  • U.S. uses napalm gas in Fallujah - Witnesses
    30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The U.S. military is secretly using banned napalm gas and other outlawed weapons against civilians in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, eyewitnesses reported.
    Residents in Fallujah reported that innocent civilians have been killed by napalm attacks, a poisonous cocktail of polystyrene and jet fuel which makes the human body melt.
    Since the U.S. offensive started in Fallujah earlier this month, there have been reports of “melted” bodies which proves that the napalm gas had been used. (…)

  • Lords of the flies
    30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Hakim Mirzoev
    Together with Americans the flies invaded the city. They are millions. The whole city seems to be under their power. The flies cover the corpses. The older is corpse, the more flies are upon it. First they cover a corpse as by some strange rash. Then they begin to swarm upon it, and then a gray moving shroud covers the corpse. Flies swarm upon some ruins as gray monstrous shadows. The stench is awful.
    The flies are everywhere. In the hospital wards, operating rooms, (…)

  • 6,635 bodies in Baghdad mortuary: counting cost of crime and chaos
    30 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Anthony Loyd
    SHOT, stabbed, blown up,burnt: the bodies of Iraqis killed in Baghdad lie piled in overcrowded refrigerators at the city’s central mortuary, their ever-increasing number overwhelming both staff and storage space in a wave that marks the city’s descent into a Hobbesian world of crime and brutality.
    “Our morgue was designed to cope with between five and ten bodies a day,” explained Kais Hassan, the harrassed statistician whose job it is to record the capital’s suspicious (…)

  • Turk lawmaker says US in Iraq worse than Hitler
    29 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Gareth Jones
    ANKARA (Reuters) - The head of Turkey’s parliamentary human rights group has accused Washington of genocide in Iraq and behaving worse than Adolf Hitler, in remarks underscoring the depth of opposition in Turkey to U.S. policy in the region.
    The United Sates embassy said the comments were potentially damaging to Turkish-U.S. relations.
    "The occupation has turned into barbarism," Friday’s Yeni Safak newspaper quoted Mehmet Elkatmis, head of parliament’s human rights (…)

  • 25,000 US Casualties in Iraq; 9% of Troops Put in Hospital or Killed
    29 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Juan Cole
    Over 2000 Iraqis Killed in Fallujah
    CBS has elicited from the Pentagon the real figure of US casualties in Iraq, which is more like 25,000. That number includes the 1230 or so killed and the 9300 classified as "wounded in battle," but also 17,000 classified as non-combat sick or injured, of whom 80 percent do not return to their units in Iraq. Although some of the 17,000 are victims of disease, some unspecified number have actually been injured as a result of being in a (…)

  • Pull Welcome Mat for ’War Criminal’ Bush?
    29 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Vancouver legal experts join movement to rule the U.S. president a violator of Geneva and U.N. conventions.
    By Judith Ince
    TheTyee.ca When George W. Bush visits Canada this week, he’s sure to get an earful from demonstrators who see him more as a "war crimes president" than a "war president." While activists prepare to put down their unwelcome mats, lawyers have been sharpening arguments to hold the president accountable for his actions in Iraq and Afghanistan. But amid the flurry (…)

  • Falluja’s Health Damage
    29 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by MILES SCHUMAN
    While the North American news media have focused on the military triumph of US Marines in Falluja, little attention has been paid to reports that US armed forces killed scores of patients in an attack on a Falluja health center and have deprived civilians of medical care, food and water.
    Although the US military has dismissed accounts of the health center bombing as "unsubstantiated," in fact they are credible and come from multiple sources. Dr. Sami al-Jumaili described (…)

  • ’Unusual Weapons’ Used in Fallujah
    29 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Dahr Jamail
    BAGHDAD, The U.S. military has used poison gas and other non-conventional weapons against civilians in Fallujah, eyewitnesses report.
    ”Poisonous gases have been used in Fallujah,” 35-year-old trader from Fallujah Abu Hammad told IPS. ”They used everything — tanks, artillery, infantry, poison gas. Fallujah has been bombed to the ground.”
    Hammad is from the Julan district of Fallujah where some of the heaviest fighting occurred. Other residents of that area report the use (…)

  • Iran Commander Says US Dead Now Over 10,000
    29 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    IRGC Commander - US, Israel Not In Position To Attack Iran TEHRAN (IRNA) - Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Rahim Safavi said on Wednesday that the US and Israel are not in a position to launch a military attack on Iran. He told a press conference on the sidelines of a large military exercise of one hundred thousand Basij (volunteer forces) that it would be foolish if the US opted for military confrontation with Iran. "The US has been trapped in (…)

  • WILLIS/ENLOE: The Coming Wars With Iran And North Korea
    29 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By David B. Willis and Walter W. Enloe
    The news from Washington this past week had eerie echoes of the lead-up to the war in Iraq. Now that George Bush has been re-elected President what might we anticipate as future scenarios? If the doctrine of pre-emption is followed the next conflict is likely to go nuclear.
    One plausible scenario is that the Neocons will stop at nothing to bring the other members of the Axis of Evil to their knees. There has already been considerable talk along (…)