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  • US has lost control of much of Mosul, say officials
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Charles Glass in Erbil, northern Iraq
    American Marines from Falluja and Iraqi National Guard (ING) battalions from Kurdish autonomous region have deployed to Mosul to reinforce American and ING units based in the city, Kurdish and American military officials said. They said the local security forces had lost control of much of Mosul, Iraq’s third largest city with an estimated population of 1.8 million Arabs, Kurds, Turcomen and Assyrian Christians.
    US troops and Iraqi security forces (…)

  • U.S. to Probe Shooting of Wounded Iraqi
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    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 (…)

  • Amnesty: Rules of war violated in Fallujah
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    Rules 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.
    "All violations of international humanitarian law and human rights (…)

  • A sunny ’W’ seizes the moment Bush intends to further consolidate power at the White House
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Kenneth T. Walsh
    Suddenly, the West Wing is buzzing with a new sense of possibility. Reports on the assault in Fallujah (story, Page 16) have been cautiously positive. The president’s first call to Harry Reid, the new Senate Democratic leader, raised hopes that he might get more cooperation from his congressional adversaries. And the death of Yasser Arafat may provide a "new opportunity" for Middle East peace, Bush said late last week in a joint appearance with British Prime Minister (…)

  • The Enlightenment of Resistance
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by 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 (…)

  • US accused of ‘torture flights’
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Stephen Grey
    AN executive jet is being used by the American intelligence agencies to fly terrorist suspects to countries that routinely use torture in their prisons.
    The movements of the Gulfstream 5 leased by agents from the United States defence department and the CIA are detailed in confidential logs obtained by The Sunday Times which cover more than 300 flights.
    Countries with poor human rights records to which the Americans have delivered prisoners include Egypt, Syria 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 to (…)

  • What did Falluja do to deserve this?
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Many 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 (…)

  • 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 had (…)

  • Dogs Eating Bodies in the Streets of Fallujah
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by 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 (…)