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  • Falluja women, children in mass grave
    23 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Residents of a village neighbouring Falluja have told Aljazeera that they helped bury the bodies of 73 women and children who were burnt to death by a US bombing attack.
    "We buried them here, but we could not identify them because they were charred by the use of napalm bombs used by the Americans," said one resident of Saqlawiya in footage aired on Aljazeera on Sunday.
    There have been no reports of the US military using napalm in Falluja and no independent verification of the claims. (…)

  • The War Culture
    23 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Manuel Valenzuela
    Demonstrably flying away from the fraternity of nations has not been achieved solely by the crimes and ineptitude of the worst president in living memory. Rather, this phenomenon has lingered in the American conscious for the last fifty years, evolving slowly but surely thanks to a rapidly evolving Pax Americana and its exponentially growing exploitation of the world’s remaining natural and human resources that continues to increase at unprecedented rates. This truth (…)

  • Militant groups control 60 percent of Fallujah : witnesses
    22 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Militant groups in battle-torn Fallujah have controlled 60 percent of the central Iraqi city and surrounded dozens of US Marines in Jolan district,witnesses said Sunday.
    "Defenders of the city are controlling 60 percent of the city and they are encircling dozens of US soldiers in Jolan neighborhood," eyewitnesses who managed to sneak out of the city told Xinhua.
    Residents of Fallujah said the southern part of Fallujah, whichis still under control of the militant groups, (…)

  • Open Letter to Devil Dogs of the 3.1
    22 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Kevin Sites
    To Devil Dogs of the 3.1:
    Since the shooting in the Mosque, I’ve been haunted that I have not been able to tell you directly what I saw or explain the process by which the world came to see it as well. As you know, I’m not some war zone tourist with a camera who doesn’t understand that ugly things happen in combat. I’ve spent most of the last five years covering global conflict. But I have never in my career been a ’gotcha’ reporter — hoping for people to commit (…)

  • Israeli PM Sharon considered staging military coup in 1967
    21 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has acknowledged he considered a military coup as the only way to force Israel into war against Egypt in 1967, in a military review published on Tuesday.
    The army has been widely reported to have exerted fierce pressure on the government to declare what has become known as the Six-Day War, but that Sharon or any other generals contemplated a military putsch comes as a revelation.
    In a first-hand account published in the defence ministry’s Maarakhot review, (…)

  • The Triumph of Liberalism
    20 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Dave Stratman
    The electoral campaign has finally crawled to its dreary and foreseeable end: the victory of George W. Bush, anti-"red state" hysteria and despair among Kerry supporters, and the effective end of the antiwar movement.
    Those millions of Americans appalled at the continuing carnage in Iraq must step back from the electoral debacle and draw the right lessons from it, beginning by examining the role of the Democratic Party and the liberal agenda in the antiwar movement. (…)

  • Open letter to the Australian Labor Party : Troops out now!
    20 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    John Howard’s Liberal-National Coalition government sent Australian troops to join the illegal US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq. Until recently, Labor’s policy was to bring the troops home by Christmas. But after the election, and to the dismay of many, the ALP leadership seems to be retreating from this policy arguing, among other things, that it isn’t practical.
    Abandoning the troops home call would signal a retreat from the biggest moral and political issue of our time.
    We, the (…)

  • Agent Orange Victims Sue Monsanto
    19 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Tom Fawthrop
    Vietnamese victims seek justice in New York court
    Tran Anh Kiet’s feet, hands and limbs are twisted and deformed. He is 21 years old, but trapped inside a body that appears to belong to a 15 year old with a mental age of around six. He has to be spoon-fed and writhes often in evident frustration. All his attempts at speech are confined to plaintive and pitiful grunts.
    In Kiet’s small community in Cu Chi district, about 45 kilometers from Ho Chi Minh city, south Vietnam, (…)

  • Only the Dead Have Seen the End of War
    19 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Manuel Valenzuela
    Hell is this Thing Called War
    To be in war is to be in hell on Earth, captured by lunacy and bewilderment, panic, fear and unmatched levels of stress invading your body. Bullets whizzing by, helicopters flying low, machine gunning anything that moves, fighter jets roaring overhead, explosions everywhere, 500 pound bombs flattening entire city blocks, cluster bombs maiming and killing, the tremors of the ground rattling your conscious, concrete flying everywhere, (…)

  • Forces: U.S. & Coalition/Casualties
    19 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There have been 1,363 coalition deaths, 1,217 Americans, 74 Britons, seven Bulgarians, one Dane, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Hungarian, 19 Italians, one Latvian, 13 Poles, one Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and nine Ukrainians in the war in Iraq as of November 18, 2004. (Graphical breakdown of casualties).
    The list below is the names of the soldiers, Marines, airmen, sailors and Coast Guardsmen whose families have been notified of their deaths by each country’s (…)