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Government Looks to Change Manslaughter Charges to Murder in Fallujah Marin
2008-06-01 02:25:00 What do you do when you can’t get Marines to testify against each other, can’t get them to take a deal, and generally have no case? Why, up the ante, of course. A federal grand jury is considering amending charges against a former Riverside police officer from manslaughter to murder for killings while he was ...
By: Euphoric Reality
Marines Accused of Proselytizing in Fallujah
2008-05-30 07:23:00 This article literally sickens me. God forbid the Marines who are laying down their lives for these people get thanks. Instead, they get articles like these, written in a tone of hatred and disdain. Disgusting. FALLUJAH, Iraq ? At the western entrance to the Iraqi city of Fallujah on Tuesday, Muamar Anad handed ...
By: Euphoric Reality
Nazario: Fallujah Marine Jailed; Won?t Incriminate Other Marine
2008-05-22 21:41:00 This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Jose Nazario CaseInteresting turn of events yesterday in the Fallujah case. This from Newsmax: A Marine facing charges for killing an insurgent prisoner in Fallujah, Iraq, 3 1/2 years ago has been jailed for refusing to testify against another Marine involved in the incident. U.S. District ...
By: Euphoric Reality
Food Crisis Hits Fallujah
2008-05-17 02:42:00 by Dahr Jamail and Ali al-Fadhily Sharp increases in food prices have generated a new wave of anti-occupation and anti-U.S. sentiment in Fallujah. "This is a country that was damned by the Americans the moment they stepped on our soil," Burhan Jassim, a farmer from Sichir village just outside Fallujah told IPS. "This is Iraqi land that has always been blessed by Allah with the best production in quality and quantity, but now see how it has been turned into a wasteland." Fallujah faces this new crisis after much of the city was destroyed by U.S. military operations in 2004. The area around Fallujah city, which lies 70 km west of Baghdad, has traditionally been one of the most agriculturally productive in Iraq. Farmers planted tomatoes and cucumbers north of Fallujah, others grew potatoes south of the city near Amiriya. Both areas had plenty of date palm trees and small fruit plantations. Now production is down to a fraction of what it was. Farmer...
Fallujah Revisited: Bush, Petraeus Prepare 'Cleansing' of Sadr City
2008-05-10 00:16:00 by Chris Floyd I.George W. Bush and David Petraeus are preparing to make a new Fallujah in Sadr City, home to two million Shiites in Baghdad. Thousands of people are already fleeing the area before the full-scale slaughter and destruction begin. As in Fallujah, the multitudes who cannot escape will be trapped in a "free fire zone", subjected to ruthless bombardment and ground assault. Thousands — perhaps tens of thousands — of innocent civilians stand in the shadow of imminent death. The assault is part of the run-up to the coming attack on Iran — an attempt to secure the rear of that new front by destroying Iraq's Shiite nationalist forces. It is also part of an on-going effort to eliminate the strongest rival to the Shiite extremists that Bush has installed in office in Iraq, before the conquered land's fall elections. The preliminary assault on Sadr City has already begun, of course. As the BBC notes, in the last seven weeks around 1,000 people ...
Judge in Fallujah Case Shows Bias Before Hearing Evidence
2008-05-05 23:33:00 This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series Jose Nazario CaseFrom the LA Times: Lawyers defending a former Marine accused of killing Iraqi prisoners during the 2004 battle of Fallouja have lost a bid to get the voluntary manslaughter case thrown out of court. Attorneys for Jose Luis Nazario asserted that the civilian criminal system ...
By: Euphoric Reality
Nazario: Attorney Says Civilian Jury Not Fit to Hear Case on Combat Actions
2008-04-22 11:01:00 Sgt Jose Nazario is at the center of another case I’m following. He’s charged with manslaughter in the deaths of insurgents during the Battle of Fallujah. I realize how insane that sounds, but that’s where we are now in this nation. We charge our Marines for killing the enemy. The case is one of the first ...
By: Euphoric Reality
Nazario: Attorney Says Civilian Jury Not Fit to Hear Case on Combat Actions
2008-04-22 11:01:00 Sgt Jose Nazario is at the center of another case I’m following. He’s charged with manslaughter in the deaths of insurgents during the Battle of Fallujah. I realize how insane that sounds, but that’s where we are now in this nation. We charge our Marines for killing the enemy. The case is one of the first ...
By: Euphoric Reality
Marine Charged in Civilian Court For Actions During Battle of Fallujah
2008-04-21 18:41:00 People can’t be charged as civilians for actions during combat while active duty, can they? They can now. Say hello to MEJA. With only mixed success prosecuting U.S. soldiers for alleged atrocities in Iraq, the U.S. government is now turning to a novel legal approach to try military veterans in U.S. civilian courts. The ...
By: Euphoric Reality
Marine Charged in Civilian Court For Actions During Battle of Fallujah
2008-04-21 18:41:00 People can’t be charged as civilians for actions during combat while active duty, can they? They can now. Say hello to MEJA. With only mixed success prosecuting U.S. soldiers for alleged atrocities in Iraq, the U.S. government is now turning to a novel legal approach to try military veterans in U.S. civilian courts. The ...
By: Euphoric Reality
Fallujah is easier to get around in than Toy R Us [Digg]
2008-04-17 15:49:00 Toys R Us might be the ultimate death trap... And a suggestion for a few new kids toys.
By: Stix Blog
NCIS At It Again: Fallujah Marine Charged as a Civilian For Military Action
2008-04-15 06:56:00 Unless we hold the government responsible, these cases will never stop. The government is making up law as they go, putting these honorable men in prison, charging them with crimes that never happened. It’s disgusting and it’s a travesty of justice. Now, another Marine is charged with murder…this time as a civilian, ...
By: Euphoric Reality
'Blackwater Bridge' in Fallujah Refurbished
2008-04-01 00:03:00 It was America's Mogadishu moment - only with civilian private military contractors going down in Fallujah, Iraq instead of Army Blackhawks in Somalia's capital. The Marines are trying to wipe the slate of history clean today with a few coats of fresh paint splashed over a ghastly landmark in America's painfully long war in Iraq. Four years ago today, four American security men from Blackwater were ambushed in Fallujah. They were shot in their vehicles, doused in gasoline and set afire, mutilated...(read more)
Return To Fallujah
2008-01-28 08:14:00 Patrick Cockburn returned to Fallujah after being absent for a few years in order to examine what has happened to the Iraqi city in its fight against terrorism. There was definitely an absence of bombings and random killings, and although he counted 27 manned checkpoints, it was clear al-Qaeda and other militants had lost ...
Surge Still Not Working In Fallujah
2008-01-25 08:01:00 Fallujah was a militant stronghold and it has been quiet for months, but the success of the Surge still depends on creating conditions within the city that make its inhabitants feel confident peace will remain on a long term basis. Although Marines have not fired ashot in combat in nearly three months, basic facilities within ...
Fallujah safer but residents still lack basic services
2008-01-24 15:28:00 FALLUJAH, Iraq - Hamed Ahmed, an influential tribal sheik, lives by the flowing waters of the Euphrates River but when he turns on his faucets, nothing comes out.
By: Get rich
War Footage in Fallujah
2008-01-23 02:05:00 This is some real footage of what goes on during war. Street Fight In Fallujah - Watch more free videos Bookmark to: Hide Sites
WTW: Thanks For The Loss In Fallujah, Liberals!
2008-01-02 13:54:00 Morning, y’all, Prophet Sallami Sallami Mohammed here on another infidel destroying White Trash Wednesday. All jihadi’s around the world are snickering with our camels over this report A secret intelligence assessment of the first battle of Fallujah shows that the U.S. military thinks that it lost control over information about what was happening in the town, ...
By: Pirate's Cove
Fallujah, the Information War, and U.S. Propaganda
2007-12-28 15:07:00 by Stephen Soldz Now receded into distant memory for many, the battle for the Iraqi city of Fallujah, accompanied by the al Sadr uprising in the south, was a decisive turning point in the Iraq occupation. These battles demonstrated to much of the world that the occupation was deeply unpopular among many Iraqis, who were willing and able to fight the occupation to a stalemate. These battles both ended in standoffs, as the U.S. forces felt constrained from unleashing their full military capabilities to crush the resistance. New insights into the thinking of the U.S. military are available from a U.S. army intelligence analysis – by the Army's National Ground Intelligence Center – of the first Fallujah battle entitled Complex Environments: Battle of Fallujah I, April 2004 that was leaked this week on the Wikileaks web site. The first battle for Fallujah (the second, in November 2004, resulted in the city's capture by occupation forces) began when images circulated of four contractor...
Video: What's Going On In Fallujah, Iraq
2007-12-11 14:22:00 The filmers of this video - USMC - are hardly phased by an occupied building being blown up on 10-second impact...in fact, they find it rather funny. Although, I wouldn't be in the least bit surprised if they were suffering from PTSD or another mental condition brought on by armed conflict. Here is a video clip of a building being destroyed on camera by firefight bombings by the U.S. in Fallujah, Iraq. The video was leaked two days ago.
Billy Joël et Cass Dillon : Christmas in Fallujah
2007-12-08 00:00:00 Voici une chanson contre la guerre en Irak composée par Billy Joël intitulée Christmas in Fallujah (Noël à Fallujah) et interprétée par Cass Dillon. Christmas in Fallujah a été mis en vente mardi sur le portail Internet iTunes d'Apple. Les profits tirés des téléchargements seront...
By: Eparsa Magazine
Fallujah: Radical Islamists out, peaceful revival in
2007-11-27 18:49:00 A message to defeatists. Fallujah is a now terrorist free. Soldiers and citizens confidently walk the streets. The city is being rebuilt, businesses and schools re-opening, and finally there is a sense of peace. Michael Totten’s latest column: An Edgy Calm in Fallujah None of the Marines I’ve spoken to are nervous while walking the streets. ...
Fallujah Now Under a Different Kind of Siege
2007-11-22 17:34:00 by Ali al-Fadhily FALLUJAH, Nov 20 (IPS) - Three years after a devastating U.S.-led siege of the city, residents of Fallujah continue to struggle with a shattered economy, infrastructure, and lack of mobility. The city that was routed in November 2004 is still suffering the worst humanitarian conditions under a siege that continues. Although military actions are down to the minimum inside the city, local and US authorities do not seem to be thinking of ending the agonies of the over 400,000 residents of Fallujah. "You, people of the media, say things in Fallujah are good," Mohammad Sammy, an aid worker for the Iraqi Red Crescent in Fallujah told IPS, "Then why don’t you come and live in this paradise with us? It is so easy to say things for you, isn’t it?" His anger is due to the fact that the embattled city is still completely closed and surrounded by military checkpoints to make it look like an isolated island. Those who are not genuine residents of the city ...
What I saw in Fallujah
2007-11-08 12:44:00 by Dahr Jamail Dahr Jamail set out to report the truth about the US invasion of Iraq and its terrible impact on daily life. Determined to remain independent of the army, he embedded himself instead with the Iraqi people On the day martial law was declared, US tanks began rolling into the outskirts of Fallujah, while war planes continued to pound the city with as many as 50,000 residents still inside. Iyad Allawi, the US-installed interim prime minister, laid out the six steps for implementing his "security law". These entailed a 6pm curfew in Fallujah, the blocking of all highways except for emergencies and for government vehicles, the closure of all city and government services, a ban on all weapons in Fallujah, the closure of Iraq's borders with Syria and Jordan (except to allow passage to food trucks and vehicles carrying other necessary goods), and the closure of Baghdad International Airport for 48 hours. Meanwhile, in the US, most corporate media ou...
Blackwater: Fallujah Deaths Unavoidable
2007-10-24 20:00:00 Heavier guns and sturdier trucks would not have saved a team of Blackwater USA guards brutally killed in March 2004 after being lured by corrupt Iraqi forces into a well-planned ambush, the embattled private security contractor contends in a report to Congress. This conclusion sharply contradicts the findings of a congressional investigation led by House Democrats ...
Blackwater: Fallujah Deaths Unavoidable
2007-10-24 19:48:00 Heavier guns and sturdier trucks would not have saved a team of Blackwater USA guards brutally killed in March 2004 after being lured by corrupt Iraqi forces into a well-planned ambush, the embattled private security contractor contends in a report to Congress. This conclusion sharply contradicts the findings of a congressional investigation led by House Democrats ...
By: The Hot Joints
Blackwater: Fallujah Deaths Unavoidable
2007-10-24 04:56:00 WASHINGTON (AP) — Heavier guns and sturdier trucks would not have saved a team of Blackwater USA guards brutally killed in March 2004 after being lured by corrupt Iraqi forces into a well-planned ambush, the embattled private security contractor contends in a report to Congress.
By: Latest News
U.S. Marines Annihilate Insurgent Stronghold In Fallujah
2007-09-04 19:55:00 U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, engaging Insurgents in Fallujah, Iraq. This battle was part of Operation Phantom Fury. November & December of 2004 in Fallujah, Iraq. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oZjFp7Pt85w
By: Brawl Movies
Marines in Fallujah: ?I?d do it again in a hearbeat?
2007-09-03 23:16:00 Soldiers of War, protecting America, making us proud back here in the states. “I’d do it again in a heartbeat,” Lance Cpl. Justin Blitzstein of West Milford told me. Self-assured and ready for anything, he added, “Anybody who doesn’t think we should be here should see the difference we’ve made in the way these people ...
Salon: Fallujah catches its breath
2007-08-21 05:55:00 This is a good read and surprisingly it is from Salon. And when I say 'surprisingly' I dont mean that Salon articles generally suck. They don't, they are generally well written and interesting. It is just that their liberal bias and BDS is as obvious and blatant as the smell of patchoulli oil on their aging hippie editors. And as much as the author wants to find defeat and failure in Iraq he grudgingly admits that maybe, just maybe, our military is doing something right. There are a lot of back handed compliments in the piece that follows but over all I have to take it as a positive assessment by the author. ~RJHSalon article link Fallujah catches its breathDespite Bush's deceptive rhetoric and mishandling of the war, the Marines I rode with here have won a delicate peace in this once-deadly city. By David J. Morris Aug. 21, 2007 | I've been traveling throughout western Iraq for almost a month now and what I've seen so far has been shocking, but not in the way you might expec...
Fallujah Fears A 'Genocidal Strategy
2007-03-31 11:53:00 IPS reports that US forces are killing people in the volatile al-Anbar province west of Baghdad. Residents allege that Iraqi security forces working with them are also executing people seized during home raids and other operations.Residents of Fallujah say the local police detention centre holds hundreds of men, who have had no legal representation.65- year-old Abu Fayssal said :"They say they are fighting al- Qeada but they are only capable of killing our sons with their genocidal campaign and destroying our mosques."Others believe occupation forces have another sinister strategy. Adding to the violence are U.S.-backed Shia militias which regularly raid Sunni areas under the eyes of the U.S. and Iraqi army.In the face of the U.S.-backed violence, most Iraqis now openly support attacks against occupation forces.
By: Munaeem's Blog
Great Videoblogging From Fallujah
2006-12-22 03:22:02 Those wishing to see the Danish Muhammad (pbuh) cartoons that are causing so much controversy can see them on this site by clicking here. Even worse anti-Muhammad (pbuh) cartoons can be seen on this site here and here.The latest death toll figures from Hurricane Katrina can be seen on this website here. Exclusive photos of dogs eating human corpses in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina can be seen on this site here.This really neat little video clip is the sort of thing we need to see on our US news channels, but of course we never well. It was produced by Brian Conley, an acquaintance of mine, of the great Alive in Baghdad blog, with the assistance of a couple of Iraqi journalists. The production is somewhat amateurish but I'd rather imbibe amateurish stuff like this than the poison the MSM spews at me day and night.Brian is of the new "citizen journalism" school, except he is taking it a lot further than couch potatoes like me. Brian actually gets up off his butt, forks over the...
By: Robert Lindsay
Caught in the Crossfire: The Untold Story of Fallujah
2006-11-13 08:06:02 As the United States occupation of Iraq continues, many of us continue to watch the news of the endless battles that the American troops are fighting against. One town named Fallujah is right in the heartland of the bloodshed as hundreds of thousands of civilians are caught between two sides. We rarely encounter documentaries on how civilians in Fallujah are expected to survive once the fighting is over. Unfortunately, the fighting is still not over and these civilians trapped inside Fallujah must struggle to keep their families alive. Mark Manning, an independent filmmaker shows us the other side of the story that the mainstream American media often does not show. He lived with the citizens of Fallujah un-embedded and experienced life from their perspectives after their city was completely destroyed in an operation known as ? Phantom Fury .? So with fulfilling Mark?s promise on sharing his story to the rest of the word, you can watch the two part mini documentary on the ...
By: Today's Talk
Just Ship Out For Fallujah, Senator
2006-10-20 00:42:01 I?ll tell you what, Senator ?Straight Talk Express? (maybe he?s really living up to that billing here); if you really believe that, then we?ll let you choose whichever means you prefer. I?m sure there are certain poisons that will numb you and cause your bodily functions to slowly cease, or you could just choose the Budd Dwyer method we?re familiar with in these parts from many years ago (a simple gunshot to the head, that is).In addition to further lowering the political debate in this country (Can it get lower? I?d better not ask), good job to trivialize a legitimate mental health issue faced by many people that requires medication and counseling, you moron. |
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