• Ärzte in Falludscha ausgesperrt US-Armee behindert Sanitäter. Unterernährung bei Kindern im Irak laut Studie seit März 2003 fast verdoppelt
• Unterschiedsloses Töten
• Falluja troops told to shoot on sight
• IRAQ: Political blowback from Fallujah begins
• Neue Panzer für Irak
• Der Wahltermin kam aus Beirut Am 30. Januar soll im Irak unter Besatzungsbedingungen gewählt werden. Heftige Kämpfe am Wochenende
• Kein Platz für die Bagdader Opposition Im ägyptischen Scharm al-Scheich begann gestern eine internationale Irak-Konferenz Übergangsregierung erhofft sich Unterstützung für Wahlen
• Iraqi Children Pay Silent Cost of Occupation: Report
• Erfolg für die CIA
• The Life and Mysterious Murder of Margaret Hassan
• Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Monday, 22 November 2004
• Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Sunday, 21 November 2004
• Palestinians Called 'Stinking Animals' on MSNBC's 'Imus', Mass Murder and Genocide Of Palestinians and Muslims Advocated by T.V. Host
• Baghdad 20/11/2004 in Pictures, http://www.alchahed.net/bag201104.htm
• American Crimes against the civilians in Al Ramadi in Pictures http://www.alchahed.net/ram211104.htm
• Assault on Falluja - Week Three Pictures http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/533D83D7-1B43-400D-8611- 63ACD674FE6E.htm
• Statement from Falluja: 5000 were killed by USA chemical weapons in Falluja - 22/11/2004 www.albasrah.net/maqalat/english/1104/statement-falluja_221104.htm

                   Ärzte in Falludscha ausgesperrt
            US-Armee behindert Sanitäter. Unterernährung

bei Kindern im Irak laut Studie seit März 2003 fast verdoppelt

Rüdiger Göbel

Auch zwei Wochen nach Beginn der US-Operation »Morgendämmerung« zur Niederschlagung des Widerstands in der irakischen Stadt Falludscha dauern die Kämpfe dort an. Die Agenturen berichteten am Montag unter Berufung auf Augenzeugen von erneuten massiven Angriffen durch USKampfflugzeuge auf die abgeriegelte Stadt westlich von Bagdad. Erneut schlugen Ärzte in der 300.000 Einwohner zählenden Stadt Alarm: Verletzte könnten nicht geborgen werden, weil Rettungswagen beschossen würden. Die Mediziner riefen laut dpa Besatzungstruppen und Widerstandsk ämpfer auf, Ambulanzen durchzulassen - obgleich bisher nur Angriffe auf Ärzte durch das US-Militär bekanntgeworden waren.

Nach dem dramatischen Bericht der britischen Medizinfachzeitung Lancet Ende Oktober, dem zufolge mehr als 100.000 Iraker an den Folgen der US-Invasion gestorben sind, berichtete nun die Washington Post, daß sich im Irak die Zahl der Kinder mit akuter Unterernährung seit Besetzung des Landes nahezu verdoppelt hat. Die US-Zeitung verweist auf eine entsprechende gemeinsame Untersuchung des irakischen Gesundheitsministeriums, des UN-Entwicklungsprogramms und des norwegischen Instituts für Angewandte Internationale Studien. Danach ist die akute Unterernährung bei Kindern unter fünf Jahren von rund vier Prozent vor Kriegsbeginn im März 2003 auf 7,7 Prozent gestiegen. Rund 400.000 irakische Kinder würden an Auszehrung und begleitenden Symptomen wie chronischem Durchfall und Eiweißmangel leiden. Der aufgrund seiner Ölvorkommen eigentlich reiche Irak weise damit ähnliche Werte auf wie das afrikanische Bürgerkriegsland Burundi und liege in der Statistik noch hinter Ländern wie Uganda und Haiti.

Nach Angaben des irakischen Gesundheitsministeriums litten irakische Kinder vor einer Generation ähnlich denen in Deutschland oder in den USA eher unter Fettleibigkeit. Unterernährung sei erst als Folge der 1990 verhängten UN-Sanktionen aufgetaucht. An dem 13 Jahre andauernden Embargo sind laut UN-Studien mehr als 1,5 Millionen Iraker gestorben, darunter mehr als 500.000 Kinder unter fünf Jahren.

Im ägyptischen Scharm Al Scheich wurde unterdessen am Montag auf Initiative der USA eine zweitägige internationale Irak-Konferenz eröffnet. Zentrales Thema dort: Wie können der Widerstand gegen die Besatzung gebrochen und die für Januar 2005 vorgesehene Wahlen realisiert werden.

junge Welt vom 23.11.2004
http://www.jungewelt.de/2004/11-23/006.php

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Unterschiedsloses Töten

22.11.2004

Ein am Montag von Al-Jazeera veröffentlichter Artikel beleuchtet eingehender die vor und während der US-Großoffensive an die USSoldaten ergangenen Befehle. Es ist offensichtlich, daß die Befehle Kriegsverbrechen in Kauf nahmen, wenn nicht sogar dazu aufforderten. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/75E3CA31-83B0-46FD-A762- 0C1157C408F9.htm

Der vor der Offensive an eine Einheit ergangene Befehl "Ihr seid Killer, keine Mörder. Ihr seid Krieger, keine Kriegsverbrecher. Überschreitet nicht diese Linie" war demnach eher ein Einzelfall.

"Der Feind kann sich als Frau kleiden, der Feind kann sich tot stellen", so ein anderer Kommandeur vor der Offensive zu seiner Einheit. "Also schießt auf alles, was sich bewegt und alles, was sich nicht bewegt."

Ein in dieser Einheit "eingebetteter" Photograph berichtete, daß diese Anweisung, die selbst schon als Befehl zur Verübung von Kriegsverbrechen bezeichnet werden kann, später noch verschärft wurde.

Nachdem die Einheit "entdeckt" hatte, daß Widerstandskämpfer Amphetamine und Adrenalin einnahmen - was gerade für US-Soldaten kaum verwunderlich sein dürfte, da dies auch im US-Militär, insbesondere der Luftwaffe, gängige Praxis ist - erging ein neuer Befehl.

"Von dem Zeitpunkt an war der sogenannte 'Doppelschlag' Vorschrift: zwei Kugeln in jeden Körper", so der Photograph, der die Einheit, in die er "eingebettet" ist, nicht identifizieren wollte.

In der Nacht vor dem Angriff erging der Befehl, daß alle Männer im Alter zwischen 15 und 50 Jahren erschossen werden könnten, wenn sie für eine "Bedrohung" gehalten wurden. Hierbei war es gleichgültig, ob sie eine Waffe bei sich trugen oder nicht. Auf Nachfrage von Untergebenen sagte ein Artillerie-Feldwebel, sie sollten alle Männer im militärfähigen Alter, die sie in den Straßen sähen, "umlegen".

Nachdem am zweiten Tag des Angriffs ein Soldat der Einheit getötet und fünf weitere verletzt wurden, wurde der Befehl ausgegeben, Häuser vor dem Betreten mit Maschinengewehren und Panzern zu beschießen, um so dort möglicherweise wartende Widerstandskämpfer zu töteten. Allerdings ist offensichtlich, daß durch diese Vorgehensweise auch Zivilisten getötet wurden.

Es sind also zahlreiche Befehle erteilt worden, auf deren Grundlage die Soldaten unterschiedslos auf alle Menschen in der Stadt schießen konnten.

Derart unterschiedslose Angriffe und der Befehl dazu sind durch die Genfer Konventionen ausdrücklich untersagt und stellen Kriegsverbrechen dar.

http://www.freace.de/artikel/200411/221104b.html

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Falluja troops told to shoot on sight

On the eve of the assault on Falluja, the US military ordered troops to shoot any male on the street between the ages of 15 and 50 if they were seen as a security threat, regardless of whether they had a weapon.

"You are killers, not murderers. You are warriors not war criminals. Don't cross that line."

Those were the words of a US officer to his men before they took part in the recent assault on the Iraqi city of Falluja.

Just days later, one US marine was in the spotlight, with questions being asked about whether he was a murderer and a war criminal.

His shooting of a wounded Iraqi, caught on tape and beamed around the world since, has raised questions about the degree of military restraint and has fanned Arab resentment.

After interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi - the Falluja campaign's staunchest supporter - voiced his concern over the incident, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) sharply criticised the "utter contempt" for humanity shown by both sides in the conflict.

The shooting occurred on 13 November during the search of a mosque. A trooper raised his rifle and shot point blank at an apparently unarmed, wounded Iraqi who was slumped against one of the walls.

The marines said the rifleman was withdrawn from combat pending the results of an investigation, but the graphic footage had already made tempers boil in the region, months after the scandal over US troops' abuse of inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison.

Not isolated

But reports from newsmen embedded with the US troops during the assault launched on 8 November suggest that the shooting may not have been an isolated incident.

Instead, it may have simply been the only one caught on camera, an illustration of the looser rules of engagement authorised for the Falluja offensive.

"The enemy can dress as a woman, the enemy can be faking to be dead," said one company commander to his marines before entering the heart of the city. "So shoot everything that moves and everything that doesn't move," he said.

The photographer embedded with this unit, which carried out some of the most dangerous missions on the frontlines of the Falluja battle, said the rules of engagement were gradually modified as the situation evolved.

"A marine was killed when a unit entered a house. They pulled out and dynamited the building, but when they moved back in, an arm stuck out from under the rubble and threw a grenade," he said.

'Double tap'

The photographer, who did not wish to identify his unit, said the fear of human bombers combined with the discovery that fighters were taking amphetamines and adrenaline prompted his platoon to take new measures.

"From that point on, the rule was the so-called 'double tap': two bullets in every body," he said.

The night before the assault began, the order came down that troops could shoot any male on the street between the ages of 15 and 50 if they were viewed as a security threat, regardless of whether they had a weapon.

When marines asked a gunnery sergeant for clarification, he told his men if they saw any military-aged males on the street "Drop 'em."

The marines had issued special rules of engagement, particularly for the Falluja operation, that emphasised anyone considered a danger could be shot.

Casualty toll

After one marine was killed and five were wounded on the second day of the assault, the military command ordered platoons to spray homes with machine-gun and tank fire before entering them, in an effort to kill members of the resistance lurking inside waiting for them.

The US military said on 14 November that more than 1200 "rebels" had been killed since the start of the operation, the largest toll in Iraq since the 2003 invasion. It said on Saturday that 54 marines and nine Iraqi soldiers were killed in the clashes.

However, no casualty toll for civilians has been made known. Hospital staff and other witnesses have reported the deaths of dozens of civilians, including children.

Although the vast majority of Falluja's residents fled the city before the onslaught, some families decided to stay behind to guard their homes and possessions, and many are feared to have been killed in the violence.

The Iraqi Red Crescent Society said on Thursday that about 150 families were still trapped inside Falluja, as the US-led operation was winding up, with troops still fighting the last pockets of resistance.

Dr Nazar al-Obaidi, a physician in Fa lluja told Aljazeera: "The situation is very bad in the city; there is no water or electricity, lack of food. Coalition and Iraqi forces are distributing bottled water to civilians but it is not enough"

"An epidemic may occur due to lack of clean water, a lot of areas are filled with stagnant water which rolled into homes, this and the lack of proper sewage system. People are suffering from diarrhoea," he added.

Civilians killed

According to The New York Times, quoting the ICRC, about 800 civilians have been killed in Falluja since the US assault on the city began on 8 November.

The paper cited the story of one family using a car to flee the carnage into the city only to come face to face with a marine squad who had taken control of a mosque as a defence position.

"A barrage of bullets followed. Minutes later, Ms Abd Allah's mother lay bloodied and dying in the rear seat, glass shards strewn about her. Ms Abd Allah, hit in the back by a bullet, collapsed into her mother's lap. Three men in the car were lightly wounded," the paper reported.

When US marines realised they may have killed civilians, they rushed to check on the casualties. Their support Iraqi National Guard advised they kill the survivors, but the marines held off and provided medical assistance when it was determined the people in the car were not part of the city's resistance groups.

Agencies
Sunday 21 November 2004 6:26 AM GMT

You can find this article at:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/75E3CA31-83B0-46FD-A762- 0C1157C408F9.htm

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IRAQ: Political blowback from Fallujah begins

Rohan Pearce, Green Left Weekly

November 22, 2004 - The NBC TV footage of a US marine executing a wounded and unarmed Iraqi resistance fighter in al Fallujah mosque was a rare crack in the facade that Washington, with the complicity of most of the corporate media, has tried to present to the world of its brutal assault on the rebel Iraqi city.

Despite press reports of whole apartment complexes being reduced to rubble within minutes by US artillery, of 1000-kilogram bombs being dropped by US warplanes on residential houses, little of what the US assault has meant for Fallujah's population - tens of thousands forced into squalid refugee camps and unknown numbers torn limb from limb by the air strikes of the occupation forces or crushed under the rubble of bombed-out buildings - has been reported by the US TV networks.

The banal exchanges between US newsreaders and their "embedded" reporters touched only on the tragedies that Western, especially US, viewers were allowed to mourn - the death of some 35 members of the US-led occupation forces during the assault on Fallujah.

According to Washington's sock puppet Iyad Allawi, the CIA "asset" installed as Iraq's interim prime minister, no civilians died in the US assault on Fallujah, a city previously inhabited by 340,000 people located 55 kilometres west of Baghdad. Yet, according to a November 16 report by Dahr Jamail, an independent journalist whose dispatches from Iraq are published on the Electronic Iraq website (< http://electroniciraq.net >), a Red Cross official told him that "at least 800 civilians" had been killed by the US assault.

"Several of our Red Cross workers have just returned from Fallujah since the Americans won't let them into the city", said the official, who requested anonymity because of possible reprisals by the US military. "And they said the people they are tending to in the refugee camps set up in the desert outside the city are telling horrible stories of suffering and death inside Fallujah."

According to the official, the US occupation forces refused to take Red Cross and Red Crescent medical supplies into the city. "The Americans close their ears, and that is it", he told Jamail. "They won't even let us take supplies into Fallujah General Hospital", located on the city's outskirts, and seized by US Special Forces troops on November 9.

The callous attitude of the invaders toward Fallujah's residents should come as no surprise given that one of the opening acts of the US assault was the reduction by aerial bombing of Nazzal Emergency Hospital, in the city centre, to rubble.

The level of brutality that the NBC footage offered a glimpse of isn't coincidental: The attack on Fallujah is intended by Washington to be a message to other Iraqis that the US military will not tolerate resistance to its occupation. But while the US Central Command will no doubt chalk up the Fallujah operation as a "heroic victory" like its 1968 reconquest of Vietnam's Hue city, its aftermath has already shown that the US military has been unable to crush or demoralise the Iraqi national liberation movement.

Even while the levelling of Fallujah was continuing, the Pentagon had to send 1200 troops, accompanied as usual by punishing air strikes, into the northern city of Mosul. The objective was to recapture up to 22 police stations that resistance fighters had taken over. On November 17 in Ramadi, 50km west of Fallujah, US troops and resistance fighters fought fierce street battles.

Scott Ritter, the former UN weapons inspector who was vilified by the US corporate media for opposing the invasion of Iraq and and declaring US President George Bush's "coalition of the willing" was lying about Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction, described the US military's assault on Fallujah in a November 13 article on the ZNet website as akin to "squeezing jello".

"Far from facing off in a decisive battle against the resistance fighters", argued Ritter, "it seems the more Americans squeeze Falluja, the more the violence explodes elsewhere. It is exercises in futility, akin to squeezing jello. The more you try to get a grasp on the problem, the more it slips through your fingers."

Similarly, in a November 16 interview on MSNBC's Hardball program, the show's host, Chris Matthews, asked Time magazine Iraq reporter Michael Ware whether the US was winning the war in Iraq. "Well, I wouldn't say that we're losing this war at this stage, but I'm certainly not of the view that we're winning", replied Ware.

In a later reference to the US invasion of Fallujah, Ware explained: "It is a significant event. And it cannot be underrated. In military terms, this was a sweeping victory. We have reseized the rebel stronghold of Fallujah. We're now denying them sanctuary from which they could launch their suicide car bombs and other attacks on Iraqi and coalition targets. We've denied them meeting and recruiting and training grounds.

"We've also removed a political eyesore, upon which there was an imperative to rid it from the landscape of Iraq before the elections. But have we beaten the insurgency? No. No, I suspect we're far from that. They will now be more decentralised." ("We have reseized" Fallujah - it goes without saying that Ware, an Australian, was "embedded" in a US Army unit.)

While Iraqi resistance fighters are unable to militarily defeat the US military's massive firepower, as long as the occupation continues and Washington is unable to terrorise the Iraqi population into submission, resistance will continue.

The political blowback from the Fallujah atrocity has already begun. On November 17, representatives of 47 Sunni, Shiite, Turkoman and Christian political groups who attended a Baghdad conference hosted by the Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars announced that they would boycott the January elections.

Parties to the statement, reported Islam Online, included the "AMS, Sheikh Jawad Al Khalsi, the secular National Arab Current, the Iraqi-Turkoman Front, the Democratic Christian Party and the communist People's Union party". According to Islam Online, the organisations condemned the attack on Fallujah and "further said that the outcome of the election is settled in advance for the 'collaborators' with the US occupation troops".

The destruction of Fallujah has been accompanied by the
disintegration of any pretence that Allawi and the Interim Government of Iraq are anything other than US stooges,
making it more likely that Washington will increasingly
rely on the Pentagon's iron fist to eliminate opposition
to the occupation.

The antecedent of the kind of devastation unleashed on Fallujah is the Vietnam War's CORDS (Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support), which involved US forces unleashing terror on sections of south Vietnam's population suspected of being sympathetic towards the National Liberation Front guerrillas, combined with "rewards" - such as the rebuilding of infrastructure the US had destroyed - for villages and cities that proved their loyalty to the US. As long as the occupation regime is confident the political price of Fallujah-scale destruction is not too high, other Iraqi cities that resist will suffer similar treatment to that meted out to Fallujah.

As in Vietnam, the resistance offensive in Mosul, Iraq's third largest city with at least 1.8 million residents, has proved that the US is unable to crush a guerrilla force that enjoys the support of most of the population. At Matthews' prompting, Ware drew a comparison between the Iraqi insurgency and the US experience of trying to crush Vietnam's national liberation movement. "It was once said that [in Vietnam] the only ground the US soldier could control is that beneath his feet", Ware said. "Well, in many regards, so it is in Iraq. We do not
control this country. We may have territory, but we do not have the substance of the people, nor of the land...

"We're certainly encountering very similar insurgency practices, methods, techniques, tactics, a mind-set that we did see in Indochina. And indeed, something that resonates with me to this day is interviews I've done with senior insurgent leaders, the upper echelons. And they talk to me about reading Vo Nguyen Giap, the Vietnamese general. They talk to me about reading Che Guevara, Mao Zedong. They're bringing it straight from the Vietnam and the broader insurgency playbook."

From Green Left Weekly, November 24, 2004.

The address of this page is : www.uruknet.info?pt80

The original address of this article is :
www.greenleft.org.au/back/2004/607/607p14.htm

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Neue Panzer für Irak

23.11.2004

Einem Bericht des südkoreanischen Korea Herald vom Montag zufolge hat das US-Militär mit der Verlegung von 100 Panzern vom Typ M1A1 Abrams von Südkorea in den Irak begonnen.
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2004/11/22/ 200411220024.asp

US-Beamte stellten klar, daß es sich hier ausschließlich um eine seit längerem geplante Materialrotation handelte. Sie betonten, daß bereits im Sommer dieses Jahres eine neuere Version des M1A1 nach Südkorea gebracht worden war. Bei den nun verlegten Panzern handele es sich um durch diese neueren Modelle ersetzte Panzer. Insgesamt verfügt das US-Militär in Südkorea nach Angaben des südkoreanischen Verteidigungsministeriums über 140 Panzer dieses Typs.

"Diese Panzer stellen keine Verringerung der Anzahl der Panzer zur Unterstützung der gemeinsamen Verteidigung Koreas oder der Allianz dar, sondern sind ältere, überschüssige Modelle, die aufgerüstet und rotiert wurden", so das US-Militär in Südkorea auf Anfrage.

Wie ein Artikel der chinesischen People's Daily vom Februar dieses Jahres belegt, ist dies allerdings nicht die ganze Wahrheit. Demnach war vielmehr geplant, die durch die Rotation überzähligen Panzer zurück in die USA zu bringen.

Damit bestätigt sich zweifellos der erste Eindruck, daß die Verlegung der Panzer in den Irak dortige Verluste oder zumindest im Hinblick auf den weiter anwachsenden Widerstand mangelnde Ausrüstung ersetzen beziehungsweise ergänzen soll.

http://www.freace.de/artikel/200411/231104a.html

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                   Der Wahltermin kam aus Beirut
      Am 30. Januar soll im Irak unter Besatzungsbedingungen
           gewählt werden. Heftige Kämpfe am Wochenende

Im Irak soll am 30. Januar 2005 gewählt werden. Diesen Termin gab zumindest der Sprecher der Wahlkommission, Farid Ajar, am Sonntag in Beirut bekannt. Der Januar war bereits seit längerem von den USBesatzern und ihren irakischen Vertretern in Bagdad genannt worden, indes stand eine Fixierung aus. Ob allerdings am 30. Januar tats ächlich unter Besatzungsrecht gewählt werden wird, ist trotz aller Willensbekundungen völlig unsicher. Schon die Verkündung des Termins vom libanesischen Ausland aus deutete darauf hin. Derzeit steht Irak unter Ausnahmerecht. Falludscha wurde von US-Bombern am Wochenende erneut bombardiert, und auch sonst wurde die militärische Lage weiter durch Gefechte und Angriffe bestimmt.

So kamen in der Stadt Ramadi westlich von Bagdad bei Kämpfen nach Angaben eines Krankenhausarztes sechs Menschen ums Leben. Zwölf weitere wurden verletzt. In der nordirakischen Stadt Mosul entdeckten Nationalgardisten zwei Leichen; bei einem der Toten handele es sich laut dessen Personalausweis um einen irakischen Soldaten, der andere sei noch nicht identifiziert, sagte ein Offizier der Nationalgardisten. Am Samstag wurden die Leichen von neun irakischen Soldaten in Mosul gefunden. In der Nähe der Sunnitenhochburg Latifijah entdeckten Einwohner 30 bereits verweste Leichen von 27 Männern und drei Frauen, wie ein AFP-Reporter berichtete. In der Stadt selbst kam es zu heftigen Gefechten zwischen Aufständischen und irakischen Nationalgardisten sowie US-Truppen. Westlich von Kirkuk im Ölfeld von El Chabbasa verübten Unbekannte einen Sprengstoffanschlag auf eine Ölförderanlage, die daraufhin in Brand geriet.

Trotzdem wurde der Wahltermin am Sonntag verkündet. Am 30. Januar sollen demnach eine Nationalversammlung, ein autonomes Parlament für die irakischen Kurdengebiete sowie Provinzräte gewählt werden. Die Nationalversammlung soll eine neue Regierung bestimmen und eine endgültige Verfassung erarbeiten.

Eine am Montag in dem ägyptischen Badeort Scharm el Scheich beginnende zweitägige Irak-Konferenz soll sich mit organisatorischen Fragen zur Durchführung der Wahlen beschäftigen. Neben den Nachbarländern des Irak sollen die G-8-Staaten,
die EU, die UNO, China, Tunesien, Algerien und Bahrain, die Arabische Liga und die Organisation der Islamischen Konferenz daran teilnehmen.

(AFP/AP/jW)

junge Welt vom 22.11.2004
Adresse: http://www.jungewelt.de/2004/11-22/011.php

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            Kein Platz für die Bagdader Opposition
       Im ägyptischen Scharm al-Scheich begann gestern
              eine internationale Irak-Konferenz

Übergangsregierung erhofft sich Unterstützung für Wahlen

Von Karin Leukefeld

Politische Anerkennung und finanzielle Unterstützung erwartet sich die irakische Übergangsregierung von einer zweitägigen Irak-Konferenz.

Initiator des Treffens, das am Montag begann, ist die US-Regierung, Gastgeber im luxuriösen Badeort Scharm al-Scheich die ägyptische Regierung. Am ersten Tag erörterten die Außenminister Iraks und seiner Nachbarstaaten die Sicherheitslage in dem kriegsgeschüttelten Land. Bagdad erwartet besonders von Iran, dass militante Gegner der irakischen Übergangsregierung am Grenzübertritt gehindert werden. Bei einem Treffen der Innenminister beider Länder am 30. November in Teheran sollen entsprechende Vereinbarungen unterzeichnet werden. In einem Reuters-Interview bezeichnete Außenminister Hoschiar Sebari auch die Anwesenheit von (früheren) PKK-Militanten an der türkischirakischen Grenze als Unsicherheitsfaktor, der beseitigt werden müsse.

Weiteres Konferenz-Thema sind die für Januar geplanten Wahlen in Irak. Am Sonntag hatte der Sprecher der Wahlkommission, Farid Ayar, in Bagdad erklärt, der Urnengang sollte am 30. Januar 2005 stattfinden. Auch gestern bemühte sich die Übergangsregierung, alle Zweifel am Wahltermin zu zerstreuen. 122 Organisationen und Parteien seien bisher registriert worden. 46 Parteien haben allerdings einen Wahlboykott angekündigt, darunter die Vereinigung der Muslimgelehrten (AMS), die Bewegung der nationalen Tendenz, die Irakische Turkmenenfront und die Christliche Demokratische Partei. Ayar betonte, man brauche mehr internationale Beobachter. Bisher sind lediglich 35 UNWahlhelfer in Irak.

Für den zweiten Konferenztag haben sich Vertreter der führenden Industrienationen (G8), der Arabischen Liga und der Organisation der Islamkonferenz, sowie der UN und der EU angekündigt. Dann soll es vorrangig um den wirtschaftlichen Wiederaufbau des Landes gehen. Ashraf Ghazi, der Irak-Sonderbeauftragte von UN-Generalsekret är Kofi Annan, hatte nach einem Treffen mit dem amtierenden irakischen Außenminister Sebari in New York gesagt, die Konferenz sei ein »klares Signal für die Verpflichtung der internationalen Gemeinschaft, Irak zu unterstützen«. Sebari machte deutlich, dass an der Konferenz »keine irakische Partei oder Organisation teilnehmen « werde. Einzige Repräsentanten des »neuen Irak« seien Mitglieder der Übergangsregierung.

Bei den wochenlangen Vorgesprächen hatte es um die Teilnahme der irakischen Opposition heftigen Streit gegeben. Frankreich, das ursprünglich nicht nur die Teilnahme irakischer Widerstandsgruppen gefordert, sondern auch auf einem Termin für den Abzug der USgef ührten Truppen aus Irak bestanden hatte, musste dabei deutliche Niederlagen einstecken. Washington und London weigerten sich, einen Termin für den Truppenrückzug zu nennen. In dem auf diplomatischer Ebene beschlossenen Abschlusspapier heißt es lediglich, die Präsenz der US-geführten Truppen sei »befristet«.

Rechtzeitig vor Beginn der Konferenz hatten die Finanzminister des Pariser Clubs beschlossen, Irak in einem Dreistufenplan 80 Prozent seiner Schulden in Höhe von 39 Milliarden Dollar zu erlassen. Nun sind Kuwait und Saudi-Arabien im Zugzwang, denen Bagdad den größten Teil der restlichen 80 Milliarden US-Dollar schuldet. Bisher hatte sich vor allem Kuwait geweigert, Irak die Rückzahlung zu erlassen. Kuwait erhält seit Jahren hohe Entschädigungszahlungen für die völkerrechtswidrige Invasion 1990. Bislang hatten Frankreich, Deutschland und Russland der neuen irakischen Regierung lediglich einen Schuldenerlass von rund 50 Prozent zugestehen wollen; die USA und Großbritannien hatten dagegen für einen hundertprozentigen Schuldenerlass plädiert.

Dokumentiert

Monatelang feilten Diplomaten in Kairo an der Abschlusserklärung für die internationale Irak-Konferenz, die gestern im ägyptischen Badeort Scharm al-Scheich begann. Die Nachrichtenagentur AFP fasste auf der Grundlage des Entwurfes die 14 Punkte zusammen.

1. Irak ist ein souveräner, politisch unabhängiger Nationalstaat. Das irakische Volk hat ein Recht auf stabile und sichere Lebensverhältnisse und kann auf demokratischem Wege frei über seine Zukunft bestimmen.
2. Das Treffen der irakischen Nachbarländer am 21. Juli in Kairo war im Interesse des irakischen Volkes und der Stabilität der Region.
3. Die UNO hat eine führende Rolle für die politische Entwicklung Iraks. Die Führungsrolle der Vereinten Nationen beim Wahlprozess und die Entscheidung, dafür mehr Personal ins Land zu schicken, wird begrüßt. Die internationale Gemeinschaft wird aufgerufen, der UNO in Irak den notwendigen Schutz zu gewähren.
4. Die Konferenz ist ein Schritt zur Ausweitung der Beteiligung der Iraker an der politischen Entwicklung ihres Landes. Die Bemühungen der irakischen Übergangsregierung und anderer Führer, diese Beteiligung zu fördern, werden begrüßt. Alle, die Gewalt ablehnen, werden aufgefordert, sich in der Politik und bei der Wahl durch friedliche Mittel zu beteiligen.
5. Die Bemühungen der Übergangsregierung zur Demokratisierung werden gelobt und die Regierung ermutigt, die Wahlen und die weiteren Schritte gemäß der UN-Resolution 1546 zu gestalten.
6. Alle »terroristischen Taten« werden verurteilt, diese müssen »sofort« aufhören. Alle Parteien werden aufgerufen, Gewaltexzesse zu vermeiden und maximale Zurückhaltung zu üben, um Gewalt gegen Zivilisten zu vermeiden.
7. Entführungen und Ermordungen werden verurteilt.
8. Alle Betroffenen werden aufgerufen, alles für eine Stabilisierung Iraks zu tun. Die UN-Mitglieder sind verpflichtet, das Eindringen von »Terroristen« in Irak, ihre Bewaffnung und Finanzierung zu verhindern.
9. Gute Beziehungen zu den Nachbarstaaten sind wichtig genauso wie die Nicht-Einmischung in innere Angelegenheiten anderer Länder.
10. Das Mandat der multinationalen Truppen ist nicht unbegrenzt und endet gemäß der UN-Resolution 1546 oder mit dem Ende des politischen Prozesses. Die irakischen Sicherheitskräfte müssen so schnell wie möglich in die Lage versetzt werden, zunehmend ihre Verantwortung für die Sicherheit und Stabilität übernehmen zu können.
11. Die humanitäre Hilfe beim Wiederaufbau Iraks ist wichtig.
12. Die Reduzierung der Schuldenlast ist entscheidend für den Wiederaufbau.
13. Die Verantwortlichen für Kriegsverbrechen gegen Iran und Kuwait sowie für Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit unter der früheren irakischen Führung müssen vor Gericht gebracht werden.
14. Die Umsetzung der Konferenzbeschlüsse soll überprüft werden.

Chronologie

Ein entscheidender Schritt zur geplanten Demokratisierung Iraks sollen die ersten freien Wahlen seit fast 50 Jahren sein. AFP gibt einen Überblick zum Zeitplan.

1. November:

Beginn der Wählerregistrierung. Schätzungsweise zwölf Millionen Iraker können sich seither in einem von 600 Büros registrieren lassen.

22. und 30. November:

Bis zu diesen Tag müssen Parteien und Einzelkandidaten in der Provinz beziehungsweise in Bagdad ihre Kandidatur beantragt haben. Parteien müssen mindestens zwölf Kandidaten aufstellen und 500 Unterschriften von Unterstützern vorlegen.

15. Dezember:

Frist zur Eintragung in die Wählerverzeichnisse läuft ab.
Offizieller Beginn des Wahlkampfs. Er endet zwei Tage vor
der Abstimmung.

30. Januar:

Wahlen zur Nationalversammlung, zu den 18 Provinzräten und zum autonomen kurdischen Parlament. Die 275-köpfige Nationalversammlung soll eine neue Regierung bestimmen und eine endgültige Verfassung erarbeiten. Die Wahlkommission will dafür 7.000 Wahlbüros einrichten und 100.000 Wahlhelfer mobilisieren.

ND / Neues Deutschland, v. 23.11.04)
http://www.nd-online.de/artikel.asp?AIDc295&IDC=2

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Iraqi Children Pay Silent Cost of Occupation: Report

CAIRO, November 21 (IslamOnline.net) - Iraqi children are paying the silent cost of the US-led occupation with malnutrition rates exceeding by far those in the world's poorest and disease-plagued countries, a leading US newspaper reported on Sunday, November 21.

Acute malnutrition among Iraqi children has nearly doubled since the US invaded the country 20 months ago, The Washington Post reported, citing a study by Iraq's health ministry in tandem with Norway's Institute for Applied International Studies and the UN Development Program (UNDP).

"After the rate of acute malnutrition among children younger than 5 steadily declined to 4 percent two years ago, it shot up to 7.7 percent this year," concluded the study.

"Iraq's child malnutrition rate now roughly equals that of Burundi, a central African nation torn by more than a decade of war. It is far higher than rates in Uganda and Haiti."

The study further put at some 400,000 the number of Iraqi children suffering from "wasting", a condition characterized by chronic diarrhea and dangerous deficiencies of protein.

The United Nations children's fund (UNICEF) had warned that the number of children who suffer from diarrhea, Iraq's number one killer of infants, has more than doubled under occupation.

Iraqi doctors attributed the increase in malnutrition to dirty water, unreliable supplies of the electricity needed to make it safe by boiling and a crippled economy.

The study said 60 percent of rural residents and 20 percent of urban dwellers have access only to contaminated water.

"I've heard of typhoid cases," Zina Yahya, a nurse in a Baghdad maternity hospital, told the Post.

"Even myself, I suffer from the quality of water."

"They tell me I have anemia," added pregnant Yusra Jabbar, noting that doctors said almost all the pregnant women in the hospital do.

The World Health Organization (WHO) expected in May 2003
a cholera epidemic in southern Iraq, and warned that other infectious waterborne diseases could break out.

Disillusionment

There is, in effect, increasing disillusionment with the US and its "liberation" rhetoric after health care conditions and unemployment rates hit all-time low.

The Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington research group, said health care was worsening at the quickest pace.

Deteriorating basic services take lives that many Iraqis said they had expected to improve under American stewardship.

"These figures clearly indicate the downward trend," Alexander Malyavin, a child health specialist with the UNICEF mission to Iraq, told the American daily.

Kasim Said, a day laborer, was at Baghdad's main children's hospital to visit his ailing year-old son Abdullah, who weighs just 11 pounds.

"Things have been worse for me since the war," he said.

"During the previous regime, I used to work on the government projects. Now there are no projects," said the father.

The Post said after the 1991 Persian Gulf War left much of the capital a shambles, Saddam Hussein's government restored electricity and kerosene supplies in only two months.

"Believe me, we thought a magic thing would happen" with the fall of Saddam, said an administrator at Baghdad's Central Teaching Hospital for Pediatrics.

"So we're surprised that nothing has been done. And people talk now about how the days of Saddam were very nice."

http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2004-11/21/article05.shtml

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Erfolg für die CIA

21.11.2004

Websites, die eine tiefgehende Verstrickung der amerikanischen CIA in den internationalen Drogenhandel belegen sind mindestens so zahlreich wie ebensolche Bücher - hier sei nur auf "Im Namen des Staates" von Andreas von Bülow und das englischsprachige "White-out: CIA, Drugs and the Press" von Alexander Cockburn und Jeffrey St.Clair hingewiesen.

In den letzten Jahren der Herrschaft der Taliban war die Opiumproduktion in Afghanistan praktisch zum Erliegen gekommen, da die Taliban ihr Verbot für die Produktion von Opium streng und rücksichtslos durchsetzten.

Seit ihrem Sturz steigt die Opium-Produktion in dem Land allerdings wieder drastisch an.

So berichteten die Vereinten Nationen am Donnerstag, daß die OpiumProduktion in Afghanistan in diesem Jahr trotz schlechtem Wetter bei 4.200 Tonnen lag. Der Opiumanbau war im Vergleich zum Vorjahr um 64 Prozent angestiegen.
http://www.unodc.org/pdf/afg/afghanistan_opium_survey_2004.pdf

87 Prozent des weltweit gehandelten Opiums stammt heute aus Afghanistan. Mit einer geschätzten Gesamthöhe von 2,8 Milliarden US-Dollar entspricht der Opiumhandel 60 Prozent des legalen Bruttoinlandsprodukts des Landes. Jeder zehnte Arbeiter im Land ist in dieser "Industrie" beschäftigt.

Ein Bericht des britischen Independent vom Freitag läßt keinen Zweifel daran, daß die großen Drogenhändler gut Beziehungen zur "afghanischen Regierung" haben, die wiederum mehr als gute Beziehungen zur US-Regierung hat.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?storyX4401

Ein ehemaliger Insasse des Gefängnisses Pol-i-Charki in der Nähe Kabuls, sagte gegenüber der BBC: "So wie ich es sehe, haben diese Drogenbarone gute Beziehungen zur Regierung und deshalb werden sie nie verhaftet. Ich glaube, wenn die Regierung es ernst meinen würde, könnten sie die schweren Jungs verhaften, statt kleine Leute wie mich zu ärgern."

Das gleiche sagte auch ein Mitarbeiter einer Hilfsorganisation in Jalalabad. "Die Leute sagen, daß einer der örtlichen Beamten in der Provinz Nangarahar 700 Tonnen Opium hat. Das sind Typen, die für die Amerikaner gegen die Taliban gekämpft haben, jetzt verdienen sie großes Geld mit Opium. Nimmt will dieses Geschäft in Afghanistan. Aber wird die Regierung hinter den großen Akteuren, die einen Markt schaffen und den Handel abwickeln, her sein oder hinter den Bauern, die versuchen zu überleben?"

Diese Frage ist sowohl von der "afghanischen Regierung" als auch den Besatzungstruppen und deren Spezialeinheiten zur Drogenbek ämpfung bisher ausschließlich zu Ungunsten der Bauern beantwortet worden.

http://www.freace.de/artikel/200411/211104b.html

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The Life and Mysterious Murder of Margaret Hassan

By Ghali Hassan

11/22/04 "ICH" -- Margaret Hassan was born Margaret Fitzsimmons in Dublin, Ireland and murdered in the US-occupied Iraq. She has lived in Iraq for more than 30 years. She was a dual British-Iraqi citizen. On 19 October 2004, men dressed in the new Iraqi Police uniforms kidnapped her. It is alleged that Mrs Hassan's body was found in Fallujah during the US assault on the city.

In 1972, Margaret Hassan moved to Iraq with her Iraqi husband. She falls in love with the country, learnt Arabic and converted to Islam. She was director of studies at the British Council in Baghdad during the love relation between the British government and the Saddam regime.

Despite the first US war against Iraq, which left her without work, Margaret Hassan never left Iraq; instead she campaigned for the lifting of the genocidal sanctions. In 1990 she became the director of the Brussels-based relief organisation CARE International. Like her friends Dennis Halliday and Felicity Arbuthnot, she worked tirelessly to help lift the criminal sanctions. She was a vocal voice against the US-UK sponsored sanctions, which killed more than 2 million Iraqis, a third of them children under the age of 5 years.

Just before the US-Britain assault on Iraq in March 2003, Margaret Hassan had urged the UN and the British Parliament against the war. She told them: "The Iraqi people are already living through a terrible emergency", she said. "They do not have the resources to withstand an additional crisis brought about by military action". According to many people who knew her, Margaret Hassan hated the sanctions and the US-Britain wars against Iraq.

Fluent in Arabic and very aware of the devious and corrupt politics of the West, she was a strong voice for the Iraqi children who are the first victims of US-Britain states terrorism. Margaret Hassan was unapologetic in her opposition to the sanctions and the war against Iraq. She was very popular in Iraq and was loved by the Iraqi children. I know that myself. The Iraqi people are very generous to and very respectful of foreigners, especially those who converted to Islam.

The distinguish Australian political analyst and reporter John Pilger wrote recently; "I travelled the length of Iraq [before the US invasion], from the hills where St Matthew is buried in the Kurdish north to the heartland of Mesopotamia, and Baghdad, and the Shia south. I have seldom felt as safe in any country. Once, in the Edwardian colonnade of Baghdad's book market, a young man shouted something at me about the hardship his family had been forced to endure under the embargo imposed by America and Britain. What happened next was typical of Iraqis; a passerby calmed the man, putting his arm around his shoulder, while another was quickly at my side. 'Forgive him', he said reassuringly. 'We do not connect the people of the west with the actions of their governments. You are welcome'". "The crimes against the Iraqi people are committed in our name", he added.

Margaret Hassan abduction was a carbon copy of the abduction of Simona Pari and Simona Torretta, the two Italian women who were working for the Bridge to Baghdad humanitarian NGO. They were abducted three weeks and released unharmed after well-publicised demonstrations against their abduction. It is alleged that the Italian government negotiated their release and probably paid ransom for their freedom. In a press conference in Rom, they praised their kidnappers and said that, "they had been treated very well". They urged Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to withdraw Italians troops from Iraq. They also said that; "You have to distinguish between terrorism and Resistance" to Occupation. Resistance is a legitimate self-defence.

Margaret Hassan abduction did draw some attention as the abduction of Simona Pari and Simona Torretta. Many people have called for her release. Resistance groups in Iraq said her kidnapping suggests collaboration with foreign forces. However, some voices are conspicuous by their absence: the White House and the Allawi puppet government. Neither has said a word.

The British Prime Minister Tony Blair was ready to attack the Iraqi Resistance, but did nothing to free Margaret Hassan. Her abduction was used to portray the Iraqi Resistance as "evil people". "I think it shows you the type of people we are up against, that they are prepared to kidnap somebody like this", Mr Blair said. "Who is this moralizing Blair? A man of Christian faith whose troops brought nuclear weapons to the region last year, to be used `if necessary' in a country in which half the people are below 16 years of age. That shows you which type of people the Iraqis are up against", wrote Christian Harleman and Jan Oberg of Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research. Mr Blair's comment is propaganda to dehumanise not only the Iraqi Resistance, but also all Iraqis and justify a fascist Occupation. It is his job as a second-hand imperialist.

The US Occupation of Iraq is the most unpopular occupation in the history of aggression and occupation. The Bush cabal is trying very hard to remain in Iraq. They tried to instigate civil war and failed. The new excuse to remain in Iraq is: "Iraq can't defend itself if US troop leave". This is a lie. No country has threatened to invade Iraq. The Iraqi people are capable to form a cohesion society again and govern their country. Furthermore, the US is refusing to provide a timetable to withdraw its troops from Iraq, and continues to build illegal military bases in Iraq.

On Saturday 20 November 2004, another female hostage was released unharmed after being taken hostage in October. A Polish-Iraqi citizen Mrs Teresa Borcz Khalifa has lived in Iraq for 30 years and is married to an Iraqi. She said she had been "well treated" by her captors during her three weeks in captivity. Prime Minister Marek Belka of Poland said Ms Borcz release had been orchestrated by Polish government agencies in cooperation with other countries.

Margaret Hassan murder was videotaped. "In the background of these appalling pictures, there were none of the usual Islamic banners. There were none of the usual armed and hooded men. There were no Qur'anic recitations, noted the British journalist Robert Fisk. The Iraqi Resistance groups denied any involvement in Margaret Hassan abduction, and some suggested that pro-Occupation forces abducted her.

It should be borne in mind that Margaret Hassan was not killed in Saddam Hussein's Iraq; she was murdered in the US-occupied Iraq. Kidnapping, beheading and suicide bombing are the new crimes in Iraq. Iraq never had such heinous crime before the US Occupation. The US Occupation have brought to Iraq a daily, murderous
violence which surpasses that of a tyrant who never promised a fake democracy. These kinds of crimes are against the aim of the Resistance, which is the end to US Occupation. Why Margaret Hassan was killed during the Fallujah atrocity? The purpose is clear, to justify more crimes.

I am very aware of the problem in Iraq, just as I am aware of the fact that not all violence is part of the Iraqi Resistance. There are other criminal elements at work to discredit the name and the image of the Iraqi Resistance. The murder of Margaret Hassan has no beneficial advantage to the Iraqi Resistance. It is not in the interest of the Iraqi Resistance to harm innocent people.

There are those who supported the Occupation and are benefiting from it. The Chalebi's thugs (INC), the Allawi's thugs (INA), the Peshmergas of the two Kurdish parties, the Badir Brigade of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), and the Israeli Mossad. Since they entered Iraq with the US invasion, the four groups have taken the law into their own hands and killed many innocent Iraqis. The Occupation authority has never investigated their crimes.

In fact, the Iraqi Resistance have invited western journalist to come to Fallujah to report on the US atrocity there. No one took the offer. Western journalists prefer to be propaganda agents (`imbedded') to serve power and deny the world the truth. No one seems to be interested in the crimes committed against the Iraqi people.

Prominent Iraqi citizens are paying with their lives on daily basis. A conference in Cairo was told, more than 310 Iraqi scientists have been murdered at the hands of Israeli commando unit (the Mossad) specialising in murdering Iraqi scientists. "There is a joint American and Israeli plan to kill as many Iraqi scientists as possible", said Abdel Raoof al-Raidi, an ambassador and assistant foreign minister. US Administration has imprisoned many Iraqi scientists in isolated areas. The Al-Ahram Studies Centre in Cairo estimated that nearly 17,000 Iraqi scientists have fled the country since the invasion.

Like the 100,000s of Iraqis who were killed as a result of the US Occupation, the killing of Margaret Hassan is another crime of this Occupation. If they can kill unarmed and wounded men, women and children, they can kill innocent people like Margaret Hassan. Margaret name will rise again in truly liberated Iraq.

As a result of this Occupation, the Iraqi people have lost everything, including their love ones. The answer to this
atrocity is to end the Occupation of Iraq, and free the Iraqi people. Once the Occupation is ended, its crimes will end
with it.

Ghali Hassan lives in Perth Western Australia. He can be reached at e-mail: G.Hassan@exchange.curtin.edu.au

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article7345.htm

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                      Iraqi Resistance Report
               for events of Monday, 22 November 2004

Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org

Monday, 22 November 2004.

Al-Fallujah.

Mafkarat al-Islam: Monday completely calm in al-Fallujah and the environs.

A state of complete calm prevailed over the center and outlying regions of al-Fallujah on Monday, according to a dispatch posted on Mafkarat al-Islam at 11:35pm Monday night, Mecca time. No fighting or clashes took place in the city. US occupation forces remain centered in their same positions as on previous days, having made no advances. Some minor movements were observed of some military units, but they were not apparently consequential.

The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondents outside the city of al-Fallujah observed US troops to be in a relaxed mood, as they could be seen getting out of their cars, resting and playing around with one another.

US forces occasionally opened and occasionally closed the road that leads to as-Saqlawiyah, allowing families some movement. A person who had entered al-Fallujah once before is not being allowed to enter a second time, however.

The situation in the city was also peaceful on Sunday, apart from a few minor skirmishes in the industrial zone after midnight and until dawn.

Mafkarat al-Islam reported that there is no truth to claims on some news media outlets that clashes had occurred in the al-Mu'allimin and al-Jawlan neighborhoods, because there is no Resistance presence in those neighborhoods, according to Mafkarat al-Islam.

Fierce fighting resumes in al-Fallujah's south as US behaves treacherously with medical team - allowing it in, then shooting at it.

China's Xinhua News Agency reported eyewitnesses as saying on Monday that "fierce clashes are underway in the al-Jawlan, al-'Askari, and ash-Shuhada' neighborhoods. They said that several relief teams were conducting hard negotiations with US troops to gain access to the city to provide assistance to the wounded and bury the dead.

Residents outside the city reported that US troops let a relief team into the city on Sunday but later opened fire on their convoy, killing one member of the team and forcing them to withdraw amid growing fears of a humanitarian crisis in al-Fallujah.

Chinese news agency confirms Mafkarat al-Islam information: Resistance controls 60 percent of al-Fallujah.

China's Xinhua News Agency reported Monday that Iraqi Resistance forces hold 60 percent of al-Fallujah and have surrounded dozens of US Marines in the al-Jawlan district of the city. Quoting eyewitnesses on Sunday "who managed to sneak out of the city," Xinhua wrote that the residents reported that the Resistance still controls the southern part of al-Fallujah, which "constitutes the larger part of the city." Xinhua quoted the witnesses as saying that "US troops only control the north and small eastern spots in the city."

The residents said that "some American troops are based in government buildings and they are pounded by fighters." They told the Chinese news agency, "in daytime groups of mujahideen engage with hit-and-run attacks with US Marines, and at the same time they gear themselves up for the night battles." Xinhua reported that "fierce fighting and loud explosions resonated throughout the al-Jawlan neighborhood before sunset."

Acute malnutrition rate among Iraqi children doubles under US occupation. The US newspaper The Washington Post reported Monday that that the most recent study has shown that the malnutrition rate among Iraqi children has doubled since the US-led invasion of Iraq 20 months ago.

The study, co-conducted by the puppet so-called "Iraqi health ministry," the Norwegian Institution of Applied Studies and the United Nations aid agency in occupied Iraq, pointed out that the rate of severe malnutrition among Iraqi children above 5 years old increased to 7.7 percent this year, in comparison with 4 percent two years ago.

It also showed that some 400,000 Iraqi children were suffering from emaciation characterized by chronic diarrhea and deprivation of protein.

It should be noted that the severe American-engineered embargo that was imposed on Iraq in 1990 was only lifted after the US invasion of the country. As a result of that embargo, malnutrition was already rampant in the country before the US invasion and more than 1.5 million Iraqis had died as a result of the strangulation imposed on the country, more than half of them women and children.

Despite the extremely difficult situation, the government of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was able steadily to bring the down rate of acute malnutrition among children younger than 5 to under 4 percent in 2002. This despite the fact that Washington repeatedly acted to tighten its embargo on the country.

The Washington Post wrote: "Iraq's child malnutrition rate now roughly equals that of Burundi, a central African nation torn by more than a decade of war. It is far higher than rates in Uganda and Haiti.

"'The people are astonished,' said Khalil M. Mahdi, who directs the Nutrition Research Institute at the puppet so-called "health ministry. The institute has been involved with nutrition surveys for more than a decade; the latest one was conducted in April and May but has not been publicly released," the Washington Post continued.

The American newspaper said, "Mahdi and other analysts attributed the increase in malnutrition to dirty water and to unreliable supplies of the electricity needed to make it safe by boiling. In poorer areas, where people rely on kerosene to fuel their stoves, high prices and an economy crippled by unemployment aggravate poor health.

"'Things have been worse for me since the war,' said Qasim Sa'id, a day laborer who was at Baghdad's main children's hospital to visit his ailing year-old son, 'Abdullah. The child, lying on a pillow with a Winnie the Pooh washcloth to keep the flies off his head, weighs just 11 pounds.

"'During the previous regime, I used to work on the government projects. Now there are no projects,' his father told the
Washington Post.

The Post explained that when Sa'id does find work, "he can bring home $10 to $14 a day. If his wife is fortunate enough to find a can of Isomil, the nutritional supplement that doctors recommend, she pays $7 for it.

"'But the lady in the next bed said she just paid $10,' said Su'ad Ahmad, who sat cross-legged on a bed in the same ward, trying to console her skeletal 4-month-old granddaughter, Hiba, who suffers from chronic diarrhea.'

The Washington Post wrote that Iraqi "health ministry" employees "like to surprise visitors by pointing out that the nutrition issue facing young Iraqis a generation ago was obesity."
Malnutrition, they note, appeared in the early 1990s with the UN embargo imposed on it by Washington.

Prominent Sunni religious figure assassinated in Mosul.

Unknown gunmen on Monday assassinated Shaykh Fayd Bashshar al-Faydi, the brother of the official spokesman of the Board of Muslim 'Ulama' [Scholars] in Iraq, Shaykh Muhammad Bashshar al-Faydi in Mosul.

Shaykh 'Akif Jarallah Muhammad, a witness to the murder told Agence France Presse (AFP) that four masked men in a car opened fire on Shaykh Fayd al-Faydi and then fled. The attack took place, he said, in the ar-Rifaq neighborhood of central Mosul at about 9am Monday as the Shaykh was coming out of a mosque.

Dr. 'Abd al-Jabbar Muhammad Jaris of Medical City hospital in Mosul said that Shaykh Fayd was struck and killed by four bullets in the abdomen and chest.

The Board of Muslim 'Ulama' is the most prominent Sunni religious body in Iraq. Its leaders and spokesmen have been subject to arrest and assassination by the US occupation authorities and the puppet "national guard," according to Mafkarat al-Islam.

Western Iraq.

Bus attack kills five puppet troops in al-Waziriyah.

At 4pm Monday afternoon, Iraqi Resistance forces opened fire on Hyundai Bus carrying members of the puppet so-called "Iraqi national guard" in the al-Waziriyah area of western Iraq,
killing five puppet troops and wounding two more.

Baghdad.

Afternoon ambush in al-Mushahadah.

Iraqi Resistance fighters firing RPG7 rockets attacked a US column in the al-Mushahada district north of Baghdad at 3:30pm Monday, destroying two trucks and killing two US troops.

Two US troops killed in al-Ghazaliyah ambush.

At about 3:15pm Monday Iraqi Resistance forces firing RPG7 rockets attacked a US patrol on the highway in al-Ghazaliyah southwest of Baghdad, destroying a Bradley armored vehicle and a military truck and disabling another Bradley. Two US soldiers were killed in the ambush.

Attacks in ad-Durah.

Iraqi Resistance fighters firing RPG7 rockets disabled a Bradley armored vehicle in the Hur al-Basha area of ad-Durah in the southern suburbs of Baghdad, killing one US soldier.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded in the al-Bu 'Itha area of ad-Durah in the southern suburbs of Bagdhdad at 4pm Monday, disabling a Humvee and killing one US soldier and injuring three others.

Bomb attack kills three US troops Monday night.

At 6:30pm Monday, a heavy Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded between the al-I'lam and the at-Turah areas of Baghdad, destroying a Bradley armored vehicle and killing three US troops.

Resistance attacks in al-A'zamiyah.

At 10pm Monday night an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded in the alA' zamiyah neighborhood of Baghdad destroying a Humvbee and killing three US troops.

Iraqi Resistance forces attacked a US patrol in the al-A'zamiyah neighborhood of Baghdad at 7:30pm Monday. Afterwards fighting erupted that left four puppet policemen dead and two others wounded and disabled two Nissan patrol cars.

Resistance bomb kills nine Iraqi puppet troops in Baghdad.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded in the al-Jihad neighborhood of Baghdad at about 9pm Monday night as a truck loaded with puppet "national guardsmen" was passing by. Nine puppet troops were killed and six others wounded.

Stunning attack by Iraqi Resistance on US camp in Hala Saddam Hussein's Palace.

At about 10am Monday, a large group of Iraqi Resistance fighters attempted to storm the Palace of Hala Saddam Hussein - the daughter of the Iraqi President - which has been turned into a US base in the area between al-Jadiriyah and the Republican Palace area called the "green zone" by the occupation troops in Baghdad.

The Resistance launched their operation by firing 15 rockets of various types, including 82mm and 60mm mortar rounds and Katyusha rockets, into the building. They then stormed Hala's Palace, killing more than 28 US troops according to the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent, all of them detailed to guard doors and towers of the facility. Resistance fighters also destroyed two Bradley armored vehicles when they tried to escape from the Palace. On their side, 16 Iraqi Resistance fighters were martyred in the battle.

US helicopter massacres 29 Iraqi civilians after battle in ad-Durah.

At about 10:30am local time, Iraqi Resistance forces attacked US troops when they were bulldozing land and cutting down date palms and other trees on the "al-Isra'iliyah" Road in the southern Baghdad suburb of ad-Durah. The Resistance fired SPG9 and RPG7 rockets at the bulldozers destroying three of them as well as two Humvees. The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent wrote that 11 US troops were killed in the vehicles, and four who were on foot also died. Shortly thereafter a US helicopter arrived and set about strafing homes in the area indiscriminately, killing at least 29 Iraqi civilians, and destroying eight private cars.

Four guards of Iraqi puppet "minister" killed in Resistance attack.

Four members of the guard detail of the puppet so-called "Iraqi minister of the interior" were killed at about 10:30am Monday morning when four cars driven by Iraqi Resistance fighters firing Kalashnikov and BKC automatic weapons attacked a motorcade in which the puppet "minister" was thought to be riding in the as-Saddah area in the al-Karradah district of Baghdad. One white 2002 Land Cruiser a White Sunny car were destroyed.

Attacks in Abu Ghurayb

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded on the Old Street in Abu Ghurayb at about 9am Monday morning, destroying a Humvee and killing three US troops aboard it.

Iraqi Resistance fighters firing RPG7 rockets attacked and destroyed a US Bradley armored vehicle in the Kharnabat area of Abu Ghurayb at 2:30pm Monday. Four US troops were killed inside the Bradley.

Iraqi Resistance bombs exploded in the path of two Humvees west of Abu Ghurayb, destroying them and killing four US troops and seriously wounding three others at 2pm Monday.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded under a US military truck in the adh-Dhahab al-Abyad village in the Abu Ghurayb area, killing one US soldier at 5pm Monday.

Bomb attack in al-Ishaqi.

At about 10:30am Monday an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded
in the al-Ishaqi area north of Baghdad, destroying a Bradley armored vehicle and killing three US troops.

Convoy attacked in al-Makasib.

Iraqi Resistance fighters detonated a bomb and then opened fire with RPG7 rockets at US convoy on the highway in the al-Makasib area south of Baghdad, at 2:15pm Monday, destroying a military tank truck and killing two US soldiers.

Monday ambushes in Baghdad.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded in the path of a US patrol destroying two Humvees and killing two US troops and injuring three others in Baghdad on Monday.

At 8am Iraqi Resistance fighters detonated a bomb on the highway in the al-'Amil neighborhood, destroying a Bradley armored vehicle and killing the gunner.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded on Airport Road in Baghdad, destroying a civilian Gulliver vehicle that was carrying three persons believed to have been CIA members.

At 4:30pm Iraqi Resistance fighters firing RPG7 rockets attacked a civilian Turkish truck, killing its driver.

Bomb attack south of Baghdad Monday afternoon.

At 2:30pm Monday an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded on the highway between as-Sayyidiyah and ad-Durah to the south of Baghdad, destroying a Humvee and killing three US troops aboard it.

Resistance fighters assassinate spy.

At about 8:30am Monday morning Iraqi Resistance fighters firing Kalashnikov assault rifles attacked a spy working for the US occupation in the al-Jihad neighborhood of Baghdad.

Resistance guns down collaborationist Badr Brigade members on Hayfa Street.

At about 1:40pm Monday, Iraqi Resistance fighters driving a 1994 Daewoo on Hayfa Street in Baghdad's al-Karakh district, attacked and killed collaborationist Badr Brigade gunmen.

Resistance abducts two Badr Brigade gunmen in ar-Ridwaniyah.

Iraqi Resistance fighters abducted two members of the
collaborationist Badr Brigades at about 2:30pm Monday
in ar-Ridwaniyah south of Baghdad.

Al-Latifiyah.

At 11am Monday, Iraqi Resistance fighters detonated bombs and opened fire with RPG7 rockets on US forces in the al-Latifiyah area southwest of Baghdad, destroying a Bradley armored vehicle and two Humvees and killing 17 US troops according to the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent. Three Iraqi Resistance fighters were also killed in the engagement, and two others seriously wounded.

Iraqi Resistance bombs exploded under a US patrol that was heading from al-Latifiyah to the north at about 11:30am Monday, Resistance forces then attacked the US forces with RPG7 rockets and BKC automatic weapons disabling two Humvees and killing nine US troops and wounding two others.

Iraqi Resistance forces ambushed a US force in the al-Janabayn area with RPG7 rockets, destroying an armored GMC car that was believed to be carrying an officer.

At 4pm Monday afternoon, Iraqi Resistance forces detonated seven bombs under a column of US troops on the main street in the Sayyid 'Abdallah area of al-Latifiyah, destroying two Humvees and three military trucks and disabling two other military trucks. The attack killed nine US troops according to the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent.

Bombardments around Iraq on Monday.

At 6am Monday Iraqi Resistance forces bombarded the US as-Suqur base south of Baghdad with four Katyusha rockets.

At 6:30am Monday Iraqi Resistance forces fired six 120mm mortar rounds into the US base in Saddam International Airport.

At 6:30am Monday morning, Iraqi Resistance forces fired six 60mm mortar rounds into the joint US-Iraqi "national guard" base in the at-Taji area north of Baghdad.

Iraqi Resistance forces bombarded a joint US-puppet "national guard" command post in al-Yusufiyah, 20km south of Baghdad, with five 120mm mortar rounds.

At about 7am Iraqi Resistance forces bombarded the US headquarters in what was formerly the offices of the Iraqi chiefs of staff in the al-'Amiriyah section of Baghdad with eight 120mm mortar rounds.

At 3pm Monday Iraqi Resistance forces fired two Katyusha rockets into the US airbase in al-Muthanna in Baghdad.

At 3pm Monday Iraqi Resistance forces fired four Katyusha rockets into the British base at al-Mahawil north of al-Hillah.

At 5:30pm Monday Iraqi Resistance forces bombarded the US as-Suqur base south of Baghdad with five 120mm mortar rounds.

Iraqi Resistance forces at 6pm Monday fired three Grad rockets into the US base in Saddam International Airport.

Iraqi Resistance forces fired an intensive barrage into the US as-Suqur base south of Baghdad at 8pm Monday night that was still going on when the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent filed his report posted at 12:45am Tuesday, local time (11:45pm Monday, Mecca time). Every three minutes the US base shook to the violent explosion of Resistance 120mm mortar rounds or Katyusha rockets.

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                      Iraqi Resistance Report
              for events of Sunday, 21 November 2004

Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member editorial board The Free Arab Voice. http://www.freearabvoice.org

Al-Fallujah.

The most peaceful day in weeks passes Sunday as Resistance retains control of southern al-Fallujah.

In a dispatch posted at 10:40pm Mecca time Sunday night, the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in al-Fallujah reported that until 9pm local time Sunday night calm had prevailed in the city during the day after the fighting that raged during the night quieted down around dawn.

No US aircraft were observed flying over the city, nor did the American forces bombard any neighborhoods of the city, not from the air, nor by mortar or tank fire as has been a regular occurrence since the offensive on the city began.

The correspondent added that Sunday was probably the calmest of any of the days that the city has enjoyed for more than two weeks.

The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondents in as-Saqlawiyah and
al-'Amiriyah observed the US military formations, and noted that they remained in place and stationary.

The correspondents in their Sunday night reports noted that Resistance fighters outside the city had fired no rockets at the US forces since Sunday morning.

US forces currently occupy positions behind the highway south of al-Fallujah, and the Resistance is in control of the industrial zone and the ash-Shuhada', al-Jubayl, an-Nazal, and al-'Askari neighborhoods in the southern and eastern parts of the city. There is no US presence in those areas.

The US forces are present, however, behind the highway east of al-Fallujah, now occupying the positions they formerly held before the US offensive began three weeks ago.

Fierce fighting all through Saturday-Sunday night.

Fighting broke out Saturday night on all approaches to the city of al-Fallujah and lasted until dawn Sunday morning. In a dispatch posted at 1:08pm Sunday afternoon Mecca time, the Mafkarat alIslam correspondent in al-Fallujah reported that after intermittent fighting during the day Saturday, but after 10pm continuous battle erupted that lasted until sunrise.

US aircraft this time did not join in the bombardment of Resistance positions. American forces shelled the city with mortars and tanks, and the Resistance fiercely returned fire, striking the American staff south of al-Fallujah with 15 Grad rockets, after which flames could be seen over seven heavy vehicles. After dawn fighting died down into skirmishes.

In stunning move: Resistance fighters break into al-Fallujah to bring supplies to city's defenders.

In a qualitatively new development, Iraqi Resistance fighters outside of al-Fallujah broke through the US ring around the city on Saturday afternoon to bring supplies and raise the morale of the defenders of the city.

The correspondent of Mafkarat al-Islam in al-Fallujah reported that a large group of Resistance fighters advanced towards al-Fallujah from al-Azraqiyah, a village west of the city. Crying Allahu Akbar! (God is greatest!) - a call that could be heard in many parts of the city itself - the fighters advanced into the old city of al-Fallujah, then moved to the al-Jawlan neighborhood, then went to the train station, then proceeded to the as-Sakani neighborhood and after that left the city, going on to the north.

The break in and drive through the city lasted just over two hours, beginning at 3:30pm Saturday and ending at 5:45pm. The Resistance fighters who broke through US lines to get into the city brought new types of supplies to the defenders of the city, the nature of which was not disclosed to the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent.

The correspondent wrote that American forces in and around the city fell back before the large-scale Resistance break through. Some of the US troops fell back into the ad-Dubbat neighborhood from the area of the breakthrough, others fell back to the northwest of the al-Jawlan neighborhood.

The fact that the Americans retreated in the face of the attack came as a surprise, and was attributed to the speed of the Resistance breakthrough and the fragility of the US ring around the city. The US only weakly engaged the Resistance fighters in the old city of al-Fallujah and in the al-Jumhuriyah neighborhood in the northwest of the city. It was somewhat stronger, however, in the al-Jawlan neighborhood, but there was no fighting at all in the area of the train station and in the as-Sakani neighborhood.

The operation reflected the exhaustion and weakness that have afflicted the US Marines as a result of the constant operations of the Iraqi Resistance in and around al-Fallujah. Some six days ago Mafkarat al-Islam quoted a Resistance leader as saying that something very important was expected to happen in the Battle of al-Fallujah in the next day or so, and it appears that the breakthrough was this major development, although it was delayed due to the difficult military situation in the city.

Resistance downs US Chinook helicopter with up to 50 US troops aboard over the ash-Shuhada' neighborhood.

Iraqi Resistance fighters in al-Fallujah shot down a US Chinook helicopter that was carrying a large number of US troops, estimated by some Resistance sources to number 50. Mafkarat al-Islam's correspondent in al-Fallujah reported that the helicopter was shot down by Resistance fighters who fired a Strela missile at the helicopter over the ash-Shuhada' neighborhood of southeastern al-Fallujah late Saturday night.

The correspondent added that immediately after the crash of the laden helicopter, Resistance fighters rushed to pound it with numerous anti-personnel RPG7 rockets, making sure that the helicopter was totally destroyed and killing all aboard. No one aboard the vehicle escaped.

Baghdad.

Resistance car bombing in Baghdad.

An Iraqi Resistance car bomb driven by a martyrdom attacker exploded at an American control point on Airport Road between the al-Furat and al-Jihad neighborhoods in the south of Baghdad at about 3:10pm. Two Humvees and a Bradley armored vehicle were destroyed, and another Bradley and Humvee were disabled. The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent reported at least 13 US troops killed in the attack. A 1987 Brazilian civilian car was also damaged, killing two persons aboard it.

Firece fighting south of Baghdad Sunday afternoon.

Extremely fierce fighting erupted in the area between al-Latifiyah and al-Mahmudiyah south of Baghdad at around 1:30pm Sunday. Resistance fighters fired RPG7 and C5K rockets and BKC automatic weapons and hurled hand grenades at US and puppet so-called "national guard" forces. Local eyewitnesses told Mafkarat
al-Islam that 18 US troops and 25 puppet "national guardsmen" were killed. Nine Iraqi Resistance fighters were martyred and more than 10 were seriously wounded.

Afterwards, US forces opened fire indiscriminately in every direction around the area, killing 15 Iraqi civilians and
wounding more than 25 others.

Four Marines reported killed in ambush west of Baghdad.

Iraqi Resistance forces firing rocket-propelled grenades attacked a column of US troops on the strategic road in the al-Baghdadi area that leads to the al-Asad base, destroying two civilian trucks transporting supplies to US forces. Four US Marines were killed aboard the trucks.

Evening attack in al-Khadra'.

At about 6pm Sunday Iraqi Resistance forces firing RPG7 rockets attacked a US patrol in the al-Khadra' area, destroying an armored personnel carrier and killing five US troops aboard it.

Resistance attack in al-Jadiriyah.

Iraqi Resistance forces attacked the US headquarters in the al-Jadiriyah area of Baghdad with three 68mm C5K rockets.
US forces attacked neighborhing houses indiscriminately,
damaging several but not causing any deaths.

Resistance shoots down Chinook helicopter near Saddam International Airport.

Iraqi Resistance forces firing a C5K rocket shot down a US Chinook helicopter over the al-Makasib area in the south of Baghdad. The attack took place at about 4:30pm Sunday. The helicopter caught fire in the air and crashed before it could enter the airspace over Saddam International Airport.

US patrol ambushed in al-Ishaqi.

At 10:15am Sunday Iraqi Resistance fighters ambushed a US patrol in the al-Ishaqi area north of Baghdad destroying a Bradley armored vehicle and killing four US troops.

Attack in at-Taji.

Iraqi Resistance fighters firing RPG7 rockets attacked a US patrol in the city of at-Taji north of Baghdad, destroying a Humvee and killing three US troops at 10:30am Sunday.

Unmanned spy plane downed.

Iraqi Resistance fighters shot down an unmanned US spy plane over the al-Mushahadah area north of Baghdad at 1pm Sunday.

Resistance action in ad-Durah Sunday.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded on the highway in ad-Durah south of Baghdad at 2:45pm Sunday, destroying a Humvee and killing two and wounding three US troops.

Two Iraqi Resistance bombs exploded together under a US Bradley armored vehicle in the 'Arab Jabbur area of ad-Durah on the southern outskirts of Baghdad at 11am Sunday morning, destroying the Bradley and killing all aboard it according to the Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent. Five bodies were seen being extracted from the demolished vehicle.

Ambush on truck in al-'Amiriyah leaves two US troops dead.

Two US troops were killed when Iraqi Resistance fighter firing RPG7 rockets destroyed a civilian truck loaded with prefabricated housing at 11:30am Sunday on the highway in the al-'Amiriyah area.

Members of Iraqi puppet forces killed.

At about 4pm Sunday Iraqi Resistance forces stopped a taxi as it was driving onto Hayfa Street in Baghdad, pulled out a member of the puppet so-called "Iraqi national guard" and killed him.

At about 6:30pm Sunday, Iraqi Resistance fighters in a car opened fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles on a puppet police car on the at-Tijari street in the as-Sayyidiyah area south of Baghdad, killing two puppet policemen and wounding two others.

Attacks in ar-Rashidiyah.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb destroyed a US armored vehicle on the main road in the ar-Rashidiyah area on the outskirts of Baghdad, killing three US troops who were aboard it. The attack took place at 12:15pm Sunday.

At about 12:45pm in the park area of ar-Rashidiyah, a US Humvee was destroyed by the explosion of an Iraqi Resistance bomb, killing three US troops.

Massive car bomb takes heavy toll of US troops on bridge over Euphrates River.

A very powerful Iraqi Resistance car bomb, apparently loaded with a large quantity of TNT exploded as two US troop transport vehicles were crossing a bridge that passes over the Euphrates River between the cities of ar-Ridwaniyah and ad-Duwalibah at about 9:30am Sunday. The Mafkarat al-Islam correspondent in the area reported that the two transports were loaded with some 30 US troops and that the car bomb killed at least 25 of them.

Attacks in al-Ghazaliyah.

At about 5:30pm Sunday, a heavy Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded in al-Ghazaliyah under a US column, after which Resistance fighters opened fire with RPG7 rockets, destroying a Bradley armored vehicle and killing four US troops.

At about 1pm Sunday Iraqi Resistance forces firing RPG7 rockets attacked a US column on the highway passing through al-Ghazaliyah, destroying a supply truck and a Humvee and killing four US troops.

Bomb attack kills two US troops in as-Sayyidiyah.

At about 9am Sunday morning an Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded on the highway in as-Sayyidiyah south of Baghdad, destroying a Bradley armored vehicle and killing two US troops.

Resistance attack in Salman Bak.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded under a US Humvee in the Salman Bak area southeast of Baghdad at 8:30am Sunday, destroying the vehicle and killing two and wounding two other US troops.

Fighting in al-A'zamiyah.

Fierce fighting broke out in al-A'zamiyah in Baghdad at 3pm Sunday near the US-occupied former headquarters of the Iraqi security service. Resistance fighters fired RPG7 and C5K rockets and BKC automatic weapons. Two Humvees were destroyed, two armored vehicles were disabled, and nine US troops were killed. Two of the US troops were killed by Iraqi sharpshooters when they emerged from one of the two armored vehicles. One Resistance fighter was also martyred.

Puppet forces raid houses in Baghdad, arrest children.

Puppet so-called "Iraqi national guard" troops carried out a campaign of raids and arrests in the areas of al-Mushahadah, ar-Rahmaniyah, and al-Fahhamah and on Hayfa Street in Baghdad's al-Karakh district Sunday, arresting a large number of local residents, including children no older than 13 and 14 years.

Eyewitnesses reported that the puppet troops also stole money and gold jewelry from homes they raided, and opened fire at many other peaceful houses.

Blast kills five US troops.

Iraqi Resistance bombs exploded in a dirt road near the Old Diyala Bridge in the northeast of Baghdad at exactly 4:30pm Sunday, killing five US troops and wounding two more when two Humvees were destroyed.

Action in as-Suwayrah.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded and destroyed a US Humvee in asSuwayrah, south of Baghdad at about 9am, killing three US troops aboard it.

Attacks in Abu Ghurayb.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded on the highway in Abu Ghurayb at 4pm Sunday, destroying one Humvee, disabling a second, and killing three US troops and wounding two more.

Iraqi Resistance forces firing RPG7 and C5K rockets attacked US troops on the Old Road near Khad Sarri west of Abu Ghurayb at about 2:30pm Sunday, destroying two US Bradley armored vehicles and killing seven and wounding three other US troops.

Iraqi Resistance forces attacked a truck with Kuwaiti license plates as it was on its way on the highway in the Abu Ghurayb area west of Baghdad at 8am Sunday. The Resistance took the driver, an African in appearance, prisoner, and then destroyed the truck.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded on the highway in the al-Kharnabat area of Abu Ghurayb killing two US soldiers in a military truck at 9am Sunday morning.

Argentine newspaper confirms Resistance data on American casualties in al-Fallujah.

The Argentine newspaper IAR Noticias published a story datelined 20 November 2004 and entitled, "Cuántos soldados norteamericanos murieron en Faluya?" ("How many North American soldiers have died in al-Fallujah?" that refutes US claims that only 51 American troops had been killed in the combat there and finds that the figures cited by the Iraqi Resistance of 400 American dead and 140 Iraqis killed to be the more accurate figure.

Al-Latifiyah.

Action in al-Latifiyah Sunday.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded under a US column in the alJanibayn area of al-Latifiyah, after which Resistance fighters opened fire on the US troops with RPG7 rockets, destroying one military fuel truck and killing three US troops. Two others were seriously wounded.

Salah ad-Din Province.

Attacks plague US troops.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded in the al-Jarrad area of Salah ad-Din Province destroying a Humvee and killing one US soldier and a driver aboard it at 12:30pm Sunday.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded in the az-Zuba'i area of Salah ad-Din Province destroying a Humvee and killing and/or wounding three US troops aboard it at about 1:15pm Sunday.

Kirkuk and the north.

Resistance attacks leave six oil wells ablaze west of Kirkuk.

Iraqi puppet security sources reported that a new oil well was attacked on Sunday by Iraqi Resistance forces in the north of the country, bringing the number of blazing oil wells that firefighters are trying to cope with to six.

The new well is located in the al-Khabbazah oil field west of the city of Kirkuk. Iraqi Resistance forces struck five other wells last week and a colonel in the puppet security service told Agence France Presse (APF) that fire fighters are still trying to extinguish the blazes there.

Resistance fighters attack Turkish trucks near Bayji.

Iraqi Reistsance forces opened fire on two Turkish trucks in the al-Mukhawwal area of Bayji, 200km north of Baghdad, killing their drivers.

Resistance bombing in at-Tarimiyah.

An Iraqi Resistance bomb exploded as a truck was passing through the at-Tarimiyah area north of Baghdad at about 5pm Sunday, killing a person aboard the vehicle.

Salah ad-Din Province - Balad.

Resistance attack leaves two Turkish truck drivers dead.

Iraqi Resistance fighters firing RPG7 rockets attacked two trucks loaded with provisions for US troops in the Balad area at 4pm Sunday, killing two Turkish truck drivers.

Resistance chemical attack on al-Bakr base in retaliation for American chemical warfare in al-Fallujah.

At about 8:15am Iraqi Resistance forces fired four rockets at the US al-Bakr base. According to Mafkarat al-Islam the warheads contained a chemical agent that inflicted casualties among the more than 2,500 US troops posted at that base, which serves as a supply point for US forces in the north, northeast and northwest of the country. Sources inside the base reported that the rockets released a white substance affecting areas north and east of the base where American troops were making ready for a drive to Mosul.

Chinook and Black Hawk helicopters reportedly carried away the American dead and wounded from 8:30am until 11:30am. US forces set up a red line around the area of the attack.

Afterwards US forces sprayed a liquid like water around the area affected by the chemical agent.

Bombardments throughout Iraq on Sunday.

At about 7am Sunday Iraqi Resistance forces bombarded the US asSuqur base south of Baghdad with four Katyusha rockets.

The joint US-Iraqi "national guard" base in the at-Taji area was bombarded by eight 120mm mortar rounds at about 7am Sunday.

The US base at Saddam International Airport was bombarded by Iraqi Resistance forces at 7:30am Sunday with six Katyusha rockets.

The US base at Saddam International Airport was bombarded by Iraqi Resistance forces at 8:30am Sunday with five 120mm mortar rounds.

At 9am the Iraqi Resistance struck the British base at al-Mahawil north of al-Hillah with five 82mm mortar rounds.

At about 12:30pm Sunday, Iraqi Resistance forces fired three Katyusha rockets into the US camp in the former Iraqi Meat Company in the 'Uwayrij area south of Baghdad.

At 1pm Sunday the Iraqi Resistance struck the US base in the northern part of Tikrit with a Grad rocket.

Iraqi Resistance forces fired three Katyusha rockets into the US as-Suqur base south of Baghdad at about 3pm Saturday.

At about 3:30pm Sunday Iraqi Resistance forces fired nine 82mm mortar rounds into the British base in al-Mahawil.

Iraqi resistance forces at 5:30pm fired five 82mm mortar rounds and two Katyusha rockets into the US airbase in al-Muthanna in Baghdad.

At about 7pm Iraqi Resistance forces attacked the US occupation headquarters in the Republican Palace area on Baghdad - known to the invaders as the "green zone" - firing two Katyusha rockets into the facility.

At 8pm Sunday the Iraqi Resistance fired three Grad rockets into Saddam International Airport.

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Palestinians Called 'Stinking Animals' on MSNBC's 'Imus', Mass Murder and Genocide Of Palestinians and Muslims Advocated

by T.V. Host

Date: 11/20/2004 12:41:05 AM Eastern Standard Time
Forward from mart

Another day in George Bush's fascist, hate filled 2004 AmeriKKKa! - Palestinians Called "Stinking Animals" on MSNBC's 'Imus'. Mass Murder and Genocide Of Palestinians and Muslims Advocated by T.V. Host.

["Palestinians Called 'Stinking Animals' on MSNBC's 'Imus' Muslims urged to demand apology for hate-filled remarks"]

Not just an apology, but legal action and sanctions against both Imus and against MSNBC should be demanded...and the demand should not come just from Muslims either, but from all thinking, decent people! mart

P.S. Just imagine the outrage if Imus's comments had been made about Jews rather than Palestinians and if he had called for the mass murdering and extermination of Jews, instead Palestinians???

Action Alerts

Thursday, November 18, 2004
http://www.cair-net.org/asp/article.asp?id 1&pageª

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 11/18/04) - A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called for an apology from the MSNBC cable television network over comments on its "Imus in the Morning" program that referred to Palestinians as "stinking animals" and suggested that they all be killed.

The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) also urged that the program's host, Don Imus, be reprimanded for failing to challenge his colleagues' inflammatory remarks. CAIR, which says it received numerous complaints about the comments, quoted a transcript of Imus' November 12th program in which he and his on-air colleagues engaged in the following discussion about live coverage of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's funeral:

DON IMUS: They're (the Palestinians) eating dirt and that fat pig wife of his is living in Paris.

COLLEAGUE: They're all brainwashed, though. That's what it is. And they're stupid, to begin with, but they're brainwashed now. Stinking animals. They ought to drop the bomb right there, kill 'em all right now.

IMUS: Well, the problem is we have (reporter) Andrea (Mitchell) there; we don't want anything to happen to her.

COLLEAGUE: Oh, she's got to get out. Andrea, get out and then drop the bomb and kill everybody.

COLLEAGUE: Look at this. Animals. Animals!

In a letter to MSNBC President Neal Shapiro, CAIR stated: "We are firm defenders of the First Amendment, but these hate-filled and racist remarks can only serve to legitimize anti-Muslim and antiArab bigotry in our society and could lead to further discrimination against members of the Islamic and Arab-American communities." (CAIR also filed a complaint with the FCC because "Imus in the Morning" is a nationally-syndicated radio program.)

This is not the first time Imus has been involved in a controversy over anti-Arab and Islamophobic remarks. As early as 1985, he was forced to apologize for referring to Arabs as "goat-humping weasels." (Sunday Mail, 4/21/85) He has also been criticized for using the derogatory term "raghead." (Accuracy in Media) In a reference to the crash of an Iranian airliner earlier this year that killed 43 passengers, Imus said, "When I hear stories like that, I think who cares." He then stated: "Too bad it wasn't full of Saudi Arabians." (National Iranian American Council)

Earlier this year, CAIR announced a campaign designed to counter hate speech on talk radio. The campaign, called "Hate Hurts America," is based on the premise that the increasing attacks on Islam by talk show hosts harm the United States by creating a downward spiral of interfaith mistrust and hostility. As part of that campaign, Muslims were given step-by-step instructions on how to monitor local and syndicated radio programs, report anti-Muslim hate, file FCC complaints, and contact advertisers to register their concerns.

SEE: http://www.cair-net.org/hatehurtsamerica

Reports of anti-Muslim hate may be filed at:
http://www.cair-net.org/hatehurtsamerica/hatewatch.asp

To learn "How to Challenge Anti-Muslim Hate on the Radio," go to:
http://www.cair-net.org/hatehurtsamerica/hatehurtsamerica.asp?page challengeradio

ACTION REQUESTED: (As always, be POLITE and RESPECTFUL.)
Contact NBC and MSNBC to demand an apology and a reprimand for all those involved in the program.

CONTACT

Mr. Neal Shapiro President NBC 30 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 10112-0002 FAX: 212-664-2264 Mr. Rick Kaplan President MSNBC 1 MSNBC Plaza Secaucus, NJ 07094-2419 E-MAIL: rick.kaplan@msnbc.com , neal.shapiro@nbc.com

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cair@cair-net.org

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  >>  Jemen-Page       :               http://jemen.giv-seiten.info  <<
  >>  Jordanien-Page   :           http://jordanien.giv-seiten.info  <<
  >>  GIV-Archiv       :              http://archiv.giv-seiten.info  <<
  >>  GIV-Archiv       :                   http://www.giv-archiv.de  <<

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