CNN

11/30/04

Mahmoud Zubari and his family fled their home in Falluja after it was bombed and his 13-year-old son was killed. Zubari, his wife and their remaining eight children, ages 2 to 16, spent the next 20 days in the house of a friend while the U.S.-led onslaught to drive out insurgents [sic] in the city got under way. Last week, the family was picked up by the Iraqi Red Crescent, under Marine escort, and taken to the humanitarian group's compound in the city. Tuesday, the family returned to the home they took sanctuary in...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Windows Media

http://www.fallujah.us/download.php?f=www.fallujah.us-Raw-Footage03.wmv
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From Information Clearing House

The Iraqi Red Crescent has set up a relief center in Fallujah -- but continued fighting between U-S-led troops and insurgents is making it impossible for doctors and nurses to treat the wounded.

http://www.kctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2622176


From Information Clearing House

In the annals of military history, it is difficult to find a more egregious example of a military operation dictated so completely by domestic political concerns.

http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/editorial179.html


From Information Clearing House

The Iraqi ministry of health is failing to provide enough support to hundreds of thousands who fled Fallujah. - Some doctors said a deliberate decision had been taken not to help people in the besieged city.

http://www.ipsnews.net/new_nota.asp?idnews=26483


From Information Clearing House

The US military has prevented an aid convoy from reaching the besieged city of Falluja, a doctor based in Baghdad who accompanied the convoy says.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F0A47D67-7D17-4140-A992-2AEC1CF0624A.htm
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From Information Clearing House

Riverbend: Iraqi Girl Blog: Tired in Baghdad...:

The situation in Falloojeh is worse than anyone can possibly describe. It has turned into one of those cities you see in your darkest nightmares- broken streets strewn with corpses, crumbling houses and fallen mosques... The worst part is that for the last couple of weeks we've been hearing about the use of chemical weapons inside Falloojeh by the Americans.

http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2004_11_01_riverbendblog_archive.html#110175554175897095
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From Information Clearing House

Survivors of the week-long attack on Fallujah have reported the U.S. military used poison gas and other non-conventional weapons against civilians in the assault. We go to Baghdad to speak with independent reporter Dahr Jamail who broke the story.

Audio and transcript.
http://207.44.245.159/article7391.htm

News that President George W. Bush has sanctioned the use of napalm, a deadly cocktail of polystyrene and jet fuel banned by the United Nations in 1980, will stun governments around the world.

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