US forces killed unarmed civilians
Some of the killings took place in the build-up to the assault on the rebel stronghold, and at least in one case – that of the death of a family of seven, including a three-month baby – the American authorities have admitted responsibility and offered compensation.

The doctor said that the attack took place despite assurances from American officers that they were aware of its location and would ensure that it was spared military action.

Dr Abbas, 28, said: “We had five people under treatment and they were killed. We do not know why the clinic was hit. Our colleagues from the Fallujah General Hospital, which was further out in the city, had talked to the Americans and had told us that they would avoid attacking us.

Israeli officer: I was right to shoot 13-year-old child

An Israeli army officer who repeatedly shot a 13-year-old Palestinian girl in Gaza dismissed a warning from another soldier that she was a child by saying he would have killed her even if she was three years old.
The officer, identified by the army only as Captain R, was charged this week with illegal use of his weapon, conduct unbecoming an officer and other relatively minor infractions after emptying all 10 bullets from his gun’s magazine into Iman al-Hams when she walked into a “security area” on the edge of Rafah refugee camp last month.

‘We Live Like Dogs’

The American warplanes came continuously through the night and bombed everywhere in Fallujah! It did not stop even for a moment! If the American forces did not find a target to bomb, they used sound bombs just to terrorize the people and children. The city stayed in fear; I cannot give a picture of how panicked everyone was.”

He is shaking with grief and anger. “In the mornings, I found Fallujah empty, as if nobody lives in it. Even poisonous gases have been used in Fallujah – they used everything – tanks, artillery, infantry, poison gas. Fallujah has been bombed to the ground. Nothing is left.”

He continues on, “There are bodies the Americans threw in the river. I saw them do this! And anyone who stayed thought they would be killed by the Americans, so they tried to swim across the river. Even then the Americans shot them with rifles from the shore! Even if some of them were holding a white flag or white clothes over their heads to show they are not fighters, they were all shot! Even people who couldn’t swim tried to cross the river! They drowned rather than staying to be killed by the Americans.”

Poisonous gases have been used in Fallujah, 35-year-old trader from Fallujah Abu Hammad told IPS. They used everything — tanks, artillery, infantry, poison gas. Fallujah has been bombed to the ground.

Hammad is from the Julan district of Fallujah where some of the heaviest fighting occurred. Other residents of that area report the use of illegal weapons.

”They used these weird bombs that put up smoke like a mushroom cloud,” Abu Sabah, another Fallujah refugee from the Julan area told IPS. Then small pieces fall from the air with long tails of smoke behind them.”

He said pieces of these bombs exploded into large fires that burnt the skin even when water was thrown on the burns. Phosphorous weapons as well as napalm are known to cause such effects. ”People suffered so much from these,” he said.

Falluja: The 21st Century Guernica

Indeed, Peterson news all but drowned out the U.S. militarys claim that successful bombing and shelling of a city of 300,000 residents had struck only sites where insurgents had holed up. On November 15, the BBC embedded newsman with a marine detachment claimed that the unofficial death toll estimate had risen to well over 2,000, many of them civilians.

As Iraqi eyewitnesses told BBC reporters he had seen bombs hitting residential targets, Americans exchanged viewpoints and kinky jokes about Peterson. One photographer captured a Falluja man holding his dead son, one of two kids he lost to U.S. bombers. He could not get medical help to stop the bleeding.

A November 14 Reuters reporter wrote that residents told him that U.S. bombardments hit a clinic inside the Sunni Muslim city, killing doctors, nurses and patients.” The U.S. military denied the reports. Such stories did not make headlines. Civilian casualties in aggressive U.S. wars dont sell media space

Acute malnutrition among young children in Iraq has nearly doubled since the United States led an invasion of the country 20 months ago

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.

By one count, 60 percent of rural residents and 20 percent of urban dwellers have access only to contaminated water. The country’s sewer systems are in disarray.

“Even myself, I suffer from the quality of water,” said Zina Yahya, 22, a nurse in a Baghdad maternity hospital. “If you put it in a glass, you can see it’s turbid. I’ve heard of typhoid cases.”

The nutrition surveys indicated that conditions are worst in Iraq’s largely poor, overwhelmingly Shiite Muslim south, an area alternately subject to neglect and persecution during Hussein’s rule. But doctors say malnutrition occurs wherever water is dirty, parents are poor and mothers have not been taught how to avoid disease.

Falluja women, children in mass grave

Residents of neighbouring Saqlawiya village have told Aljazeera that they helped bury the bodies of 73 women and children who were burned beyond recognition.

“We buried them here, but we could not identify them because they were charred by the use of napalm bombs used by the Americans,” said one Saqlawiya resident in footage aired on Sunday.

US Slaughters People At Prayer In Baghdad Mosque

“They have just shot and killed at least four of the people praying,” he said in a panicked voice. “At least 10 other people are wounded now. We are on our bellies and in a very bad situation.”

Talat gave his account over short phone calls. He said he was witnessing a horrific scene.

“We were here praying and now there are 50 here with their guns on us,” he said. “They are holding our heads to the ground, and everyone is in chaos. This is the worst situation possible. They cannot see me talking to you. They are roughing up a blind man now.” He evidently could talk no further then.

“All of us were subject to intense inspection; the soldiers even examined children’s nappies. Two female doctors were forced to totally undress,” al-Muhannadi said.

Marine Shot Dead Wounded Iraqi Prisoner

Aid convoy barred from ’starving’ Falluja

Some families have been without water, food and electricity for five days, according to a spokesman for the Shura Council of the Falluja Mujahidin. Abu Saad al-Dulaimi said US forces were restricting the relief groups to one area.

“We plead to the conscience of the Islamic world for help,” he said.

“There are massacres in Falluja, there are assassinations, only because the city’s people are protecting their honour and dignity.”

Asma Khamis al-Muhannadi, an assistant doctor who witnessed the US and Iraqi National Guards assault on Falluja hospital, told Aljazeera that the medical staff received threats from the Iraqi health minister who said if anyone disclosed information about the raid, they would be arrested or dismissed from their jobs.

Falluja medical staff say US
soldiers beat hospital workers

“We were tied up and beaten despite being unarmed and having only our medical instruments,” al-Muhannadi said.

“The hospital was targeted by bombs and rockets. I was with a woman in labour. The umbilical cord had not yet been cut. At that time, a US solider shouted at one of the national guards to arrest me and tie my hands while I was helping the mother to deliver. I will never forget this incident,” the assistant doctor said.

“I am from Falluja and I work there. They claimed I was a fighter and stole our money and mobile phones,” she said.

Patients targeted

“The troops dragged patients from their beds and pushed them towards the wall. There were 17 injured people among the patients,” al-Muhannadi said.

“We exited from the hospital on the second day of the attack, but we could not return as the main Falluja-Saqlawiya junction was controlled by the US troops. We saw around 150 women, children and the elderly attacked by aircraft fire,” she said.

“All of us were subject to intense inspection; the soldiers even examined children’s nappies. Two female doctors were forced to totally undress,” al-Muhannadi said.

U.S. Admits Using Napalm Bombs In Iraq: Report
“We napalmed both those [bridge] approaches,” the paper quoted Colonel James Alles, commander of Marine Air Group 11, as saying.

“Unfortunately there were people there … you could see them in the [cockpit] video. They were Iraqi soldiers. It’s no great way to die,” said Alles.

“Safwan Hill went up in a huge fireball and the observation post was obliterated. I pity anyone who is in there,” a Marine sergeant said

“The generals love napalm, … it has a big psychological effect,” the paper quoted Alles as saying.

Marine Corps Maj-Gen Jim Amos confirmed to the paper that napalm was used on several occasions in the invasion.

Satan hides in a hospital

Mainstream media speak as if Fallujah were populated only by foreign “insurgents”. In fact, women and children are being slaughtered in our name.

American mercenaries, killed more than 600 people in Fallujah, a figure that was never denied. Then, as now, they used the ferocious firepower of AC-130 gunships and F-16 fighter-bombers and 500lb bombs against slums. They incinerate children; their snipers boast of killing anyone, as snipers did in Sarajevo

US Troops Reportedly Gassing Fallujah

“The US occupation troops are gassing resistance fighters and confronting them with internationally-banned chemical weapons,” resistance sources told Al-Quds Press Wednesday, November 10.

The fatal weapons led to the deaths of tens of innocent civilians, whose bodies litter sidewalks and streets, they added.

They use chemical weapons out of despair and helplessness in the face of the steadfast and fierce resistance put up by Fallujah people, who drove US troops out of several districts, hoisting proudly Iraqi flags on them. Resistance has also managed to destroy and set fire to a large number of US tanks and vehicles.

The US troops have sprayed chemical and nerve gases on resistance fighters, turning them hysteric in a heartbreaking scene,” an Iraqi doctor, who requested anonymity, told Al-Quds Press.

Some Fallujah residents have been further burnt beyond treatment by poisonous gases,” added resistance fighters, who took part in Golan battles, northwest of Fallujah.

Liberation of Fulluja: “Screams Will Not Be Heard”
The enemy has a face. It is Satan’s. He is in Fallujah, and we are going to destroy him.” – Colonel Gary Brandl, US Marines

‘Body parts everywhere’ in Fallujah

‘I got my kills … I just love my job’

US massacres civilians in Fallujah

Aside from the American and British journalists accompanying the invading troops, there are only a handful of Iraqi journalists reporting on the fighting from inside the city. According to Al Jazeera, one of these journalists reported that shortly after the invasion began, US planes bombed a government health clinic that had been treating wounded insurgents and civilians in the center of Fallujah, killing both patients and staff.

Bakr al-Dulaimi told Al Jazeera that the bombings targeted everything in the city including the hospital, houses and cars. “Al Dulaimi said the hospital’s staff, doctors and patients have all fallen victim to the assault.”

According to Al Jazeera, “Residents said smoke was rising from the whole city as it shook to constant explosions. Civilians were huddled in their homes and there was no word on casualties…An AFP [Agence France-Presse] reporter in Jolan [a district of Fallujah] said one building in every 10 had been flattened. As US-led troops closed in on the neighborhood overnight, at least four 2,000 pound (900-kilogram) bombs were dropped on the city’s northwest.”

The network quoted Muhammad Abbud, who said he was forced to watch his nine-year-old son Ghaith bleed to death because the family could not take him to the hospital while bombs continued to fall on the city and gunfire poured into their neighborhood from US tanks and planes.

“My son got shrapnel in his stomach when our house was hit at dawn, but we couldn’t take him for treatment,” said Abbud, a schoolteacher. “We buried him in the garden because it was too dangerous to go out.”

On Monday, the US took control of Fallujah’s main hospital outside the city center in order to prevent doctors there from reporting on the level of civilian casualties. Sami al-Jumaili, a doctor at the hospital who managed to escape arrest by American troops, told Reuters that there were very few medical supplies and clinics open to treat the injured.

US strikes raze Falluja hospital
The hospital was run by an Islamic charity
A hospital has been razed to the ground in one of the heaviest US air raids in the Iraqi city of Falluja

Protest in Kashmir over alleged rape of girl, mother
Thousands of people in Indian Kashmir staged a protest on Sunday, alleging that soldiers had raped a 10-year-old girl and her mother, police and witnesses said.

The army denied the allegation, the third against defence and police personnel in the troubled Himalayan region in the last 10 days. “There is no question of rape,” army spokesman Lieutenant Col V.K. Batra said, adding that the matter was being investigated.

Police said they registered a case against seven army personnel on Saturday for another alleged rape in southern Kashmir, while on Oct. 29, another two soldiers and a policeman were arrested on similar charges. Witnesses said more than 2,000 protesters shouted slogans against the army and the government on Sunday in Handwara town, 80 km (50 miles) north of Srinagar.

Police said protesters blocked the main street of the town and shouted slogans such as “we want justice”.

They said soldiers allegedly raped the woman and her daughter at their house at Baderpayeen village on outskirts of Handwara when troops were searching their home. Batra said there was nobody in the house during the search.

“The soldiers were searching a militant contact when they entered this house. All the inmates of the house were taken outside the house,” he said. Human rights groups blame the Indian army and militant groups for widespread abuses in Kashmir. Indian authorities deny the allegations, saying they investigate all reports and punish the guilty.

Muslims in China
The Hui Muslims in Henan have been victims of persecution for centuries. During the so-called Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, triggered by Mao Zedong in the 1960s, Muslims were forced to abandon their faith, were prevented from performing religious rites, and press-ganged into Communist Party “correction” centers. During the darkest days of the Cultural Revolution, with the printing and possession of the Qu’ran made a capital crime, Muslims learned the text by heart, each man or woman specializing in one or more surahs. Called “the walking texts”, they were in great demand for secret religious ceremonies.

Restrictions are also imposed on the building of mosques, the creation of religious schools, and the training of Muslim religious leaders. The more radical Chinese leaders have seized upon the global trend in which Islam is often equated with violence and terrorism as an excuse for repressive policies vis-a-vis ordinary Muslim citizens.

IDF
Soldier Describes Killing 30 Palestinian Children

The 30 children I killed by all kind of mistakes. Each child with his special mistake. There was one about whom I thought by mistake that he was not a child. And there was one which I hit because he insisted on standing exactly on the spot at which I decided to shoot. And there was one who threw stones and did not at all look six years old. And there was one who from the air looked like a wanted terrorist. Or like a Qassam rocket. Or like a terrorist holding a Qassam rocket. And there were some children who by mistake got into their heads some of the shrapnel from the shell I shot into their house. And there was one who by mistake hid under her bed exactly when I blew up the bed in order to expel the terrorist squad which was hiding there. But this does not count, it was her mistake, not mine.