Fallujah

The fog of war is dense over Fallujah. Until more information becomes available, here are a couple of informative posts on the Fallujah situation: Noah Schachtman : Who Are Iraq's 36th? John Robb: Target: The Fallujah TAZ

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Doctors Liberated from the Fallujah Resistance!

In case you were wondering why the hospital at Fallujah is a "legitimate military target", this is how the US military justifies it:The US military said insurgents had been in control of Fallujah General Hospital – located on the west bank of the Euphrates – and were...

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Why North Korea needs Nukes

Drudge has linked to a story in the Washington Times, picking up a rather interesting UPI report: "Newly declassified documents revealed the United States planned as recently as 1998 to drop nuclear bombs on North Korea if the country attacked South Korea. As part of...

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Chemical weapons in Fallujah?

Isn't it odd that although the resistance in Fallujah has allegedly vowed to use chemical weapons against the Americans that we hear none of the hullabaloo over chemical weapons suits or gas masks or anything that we heard before the invasion? Are the assaulting...

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The Osiraq Myth

Rodger Payne has an interesting post up about the Israeli bombing of the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osiraq in 1981:The 1981 Israeli aerial striike on Iraqi nuclear facilities at Osiraq is frequently cited as a successful use of preventive military force, and may be used...

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Iraqi Mayhem Roundup

Rahul thinks the assault on Fallujah has already begun, which it has, at least the ongoing and escalating bombing campaign, but if any ground troops have actually moved in, I haven't seen it reported. Hala Jaber, who claims to be "the only Western Newspaper reporter...

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Bosnia tax fuss

Normally, it would be quite uninteresing to read about a new tax in Bosnia. But when the said tax is designed as a dedicated source of funding for the unconstitutional central government; when it's pushed by the Empire and international financial institutions (e.g....

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Macedonia referendum watch

Voters in Macedonia are supposed to decide today whether to accept the re-districting law designed to give ethnic Albanians more power and influence in the government. Unlike the elections in the U.S., this referendum actually can make a difference. If Macedonians...

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