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  • Germany and American hypocrisy
    17 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The German people have been justly criticized for their failing to do anything to stop the Holocaust, with Jews disappearing off the streets of Nazi Germany to be killed while the Germans pretended not to notice. It has been one of the mysteries of history how the most civilized people on earth could have allowed the Holocaust to happen with nary a voice of opposition or complaint.
    How does this differ from the remarkable lack of opposition in the United States to the war crimes being (…)

  • IRAQ: US launches mass slaughter in Fallujah
    17 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Doug Lorimer
    On November 8, the US military launched its long-anticipated second attempt to recapture the rebel Iraqi city of Fallujah, located 55 kilometres west of Baghdad.
    The assault - conducted by some 10,000 US troops and 500 Iraqi troops under their command, using tanks, artillery and attack helicopters - was preceded by weeks of nightly air strikes on residential buildings, restaurants and mosques. The strikes were designed to terrorise the city’s population of 340,000, (…)

  • Inside Fallujah: one family’s diary of terror
    17 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Last week the US launched a major offensive on Fallujah using heavy artillery, bulldozers and tanks. The target was insurgents, but here one family reveals the horror of being caught in the conflict
    by Dahr Jamail
    She weeps while telling the story. The abaya (tunic) she wears cannot hide the shaking of her body as waves of grief roll through her. “I cannot get the image out of my mind of her foetus being blown out of her body.”
    Muna Salim’s sister, Artica, was seven months’ pregnant (…)

  • After Arafat’s death Will the Palestinian Authority take the carrot?
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Yossi Schwartz
    Following the announcement regarding the selection of the new leader of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Abu Mazen, the government of Israel signalled a possible shift in policy toward the PA. Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said yesterday that if the new Palestinian leadership fights against terrorism, Israel would agree to conduct negotiations over a coordinated implementation of the disengagement plan. At the same time Shalom warned the new leadership of the PA that (…)

  • Few foreigners are among insurgents captured in Fallujah
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Robert Burns WASHINGTON (AP) Only a tiny percentage of the more than 1,000 insurgents detained by U.S. forces in the Iraqi city of Fallujah over the past week are foreigners, a Marine officer said Monday.
    Col. Michael Regner, operations chief for the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, said in a conference call with reporters at the Pentagon that 1,052 people had been detained at last count.
    Of that total, he said at least 1,030 were Iraqis, meaning only about 20 were foreigners.
    He (…)

  • The invisible wound
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Though high-tech body armor saves lives on the battlefield, more and more troops are suffering traumatic head injuries - Matthew B. Stannard, Chronicle Staff Writer
    Sgt. 1st Class Alec Giess clenched his eyes shut as he struggled to recall how his fellow Oregon National Guardsmen found him after a truck, swerving to avoid a suspected land mine, ejected him onto an Iraqi roadway — then rolled on top of him.
    "If my boots weren’t sticking out from under the truck, they probably wouldn’t (…)

  • A city lies in ruins, along with the lives of the wretched survivors
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Michael Georgy in Fallujah and Kim Sengupta
    After six days of intense combat against the Fallujah insurgents, US warplanes, tanks and mortars have left a shattered landscape of gutted buildings, crushed cars and charred bodies.
    A drive through the city revealed a picture of utter destruction, with concrete houses flattened, mosques in ruins, telegraph poles down, power and phone lines hanging slack and rubble and human remains littering the empty streets. The north-west Jolan (…)

  • Who Is The Real Enemy?
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Do you support your country even if what it does is evil?
    So, what does that make you?
    By John Kaminski skylax@comcast.net
    It is truly a devil of a choice. Support American soldiers murdering innocent civilians throughout Iraq and win the hollow, uneasy applause of your neighbors? Or do you secretly root for Iraqi civilians turned revolutionaries trying the defend their war-wracked country against the murderous Western invaders ... and risk being arrested for treason? (…)

  • Denial Of Water To Iraqi Cities
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Daniel O’Huiginn and Alison Klevnas
    Introduction
    Water supplies to Tall Afar, Samarra and Fallujah have been cut off during US attacks in the past two months, affecting up to 750,000 civilians. This appears to form part of a deliberate US policy of denying water to the residents of cities under attack. If so, it has been adopted without a public debate, and without consulting Coalition partners. It is a serious breach of international humanitarian law, and is deepening Iraqi (…)

  • The Defeated Whimper, Lick Their Wounds, and Scratch Their Heads...Meanwhile, Iraq is Burning
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    So What Are You Going to Do About It?
    By DONNA J. VOLATILE
    John Kerry has slithered back under the rock from whence he came but never fear he’ll be back. Like the Clinton’s, like Gore and countless other ineffectual democrats, he’ll be back, and he’ll be received very well, possibly even be rewarded for his successful exploits: destroying the third party alternative and breaking the anti-war movement with his bare hands.
    John "Help is On The Way, America", "Reporting for Duty", Kerry, (…)