Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

01/02/05

Lakes of sewage in the streets. The smell of corpses inside charred buildings. No water or electricity. Long waits and thorough searches by U.S. troops at checkpoints. Warnings to watch out for land mines and booby traps. Occasional gunfire between troops and insurgents. 'I thought, 'This is not my town!'' Atiya said Tuesday after going back to the abandoned Baghdad clinic his family shares with nearly 100 other displaced Fallujans. 'How can I take my family to live there?'"

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05002/435436.stm


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

Horror In Fallujah, Doctors Say:

The hospital emergency team has recovered more than 700 bodies from rubble where houses and shops once stood, adding that more than 550 were women and children. He said a very small number of men were found in these places and most were elderly.

http://207.44.245.159/article7614.htm

A review of current international law regarding wars of aggression, and its implications for U.S. policy in Iraq and elsewhere...

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/123104Davies/123104davies.html
http://snipurl.com/bqtl


From Information Clearing House

An Interview with Noam Chomsky:

"It's not correct that the media haven't reported the war crimes. They often report them and celebrate them. Take for example the invasion of Fallujah.."

http://207.44.245.159/article7580.htm

http://www.sfbayview.com/122904/theseiege122904.shtml


From Information Clearing House

Inside Falluja: 'Nothing to come back to' :

I was there, inside the city - about 60% to 70% of the homes and buildings are completely crushed and damaged, and not ready to inhabit at the moment.

http://207.44.245.159/article7561.htm

by Mike Whitney

CounterPunch

12/27/04

The role of the media in the siege of Falluja has been nearly as extraordinary as the battle itself. The siege began on November 8, but by Nov. 15 the military had declared 'victory' and the story disappeared from all the major media. It was as if the Pentagon had simply issued an edict forbidding any further coverage of the conflict, and the press left without protest. The fact is, the siege is ongoing and the final results are far from certain. A city of 250,000 has been evacuated; as many as 20,000 American servicemen have been engaged in the operation with 'the largest concentration of heavy armor in one place, since the fall of Berlin.' The military is proceeding with house-to-house searches and bombing raids are still being conducted on a regular basis. The siege of Falluja continues to be a huge story, despite the fact that the establishment media is nowhere to be found...

http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney12272004.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

The chilling reality of what Fallujah has become is only now seeping out, as the American military continues to block almost all access to the city, whether to reporters, its former residents, or aid groups like the Red Crescent Society.

http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20041221&fname=fallujah&sid=1
http://snipurl.com/bjp2


From Information Clearing House

by William S. Lind

LewRockwell.Com

12/22/04

According to people who have been there, Fallujah is not a very big city. You can walk across it in half an hour. Yet when the history of this miserable war is written, I suspect it may loom large. Like Stalingrad, it will mark the point where the war turned against the invader. You may recall that the U.S. Marine commanders on scene declared some weeks ago that the battle was won and Fallujah was ours. It now appears they were Panglissading through reality, in a way that seems universal among American generals...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lind/lind52.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp