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"So this is Christmas... and what have you done?" -- John Lennon
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December, 2004: 654 days (as of 12/31/04) of US Invasion/Occupation of Iraq
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12/30/04: Falloujans Get an Unsettling Look at Their City -- Edmund Sanders, Los Angeles Times
12/29/04: Falluja and the Disappearing Media - Mike Whitney, ZNet
12/28/04: PHOTOS Updated original photos from inside Fallujah -- Dahr Jamail in Iraq
12/26/04: An Eyewitness Account of Fallujah -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad, The Ester Republic
12/22/04: Bombings and Sectarian Bigotry in Iraq - P. Cockburn, The Independent (UK)
12/22/04: FBI E-Mail Refers to Presidential Order Authorizing Inhumane Interrogation Techniques--ACLU
12/21/04: Fallujah - The Refugee Disaster & Refugee Work -- Donna Mulhearn, Electronic Iraq
12/21/04: US army base hit in Mosul, 22 soldiers killed -- Al Jazeera
12/20/04: Indifferent to Suffering Caused by "Our" Side: An Army Without Compassion -- Robert Fisk, The Independent
12/19/04: US warplanes strike Falluja -- Al Jazeera
12/18/04: Once, They Called It a Model for the Occupation: Has the US Lost Control of Mosul? -- Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad, The Independent
12/17/04: My Family In Iraq: Views on a Silenced Majority -- Stephan Smith, CommonDreams.org
12/17/04: America's Sinister Plan for Falluja -- Michael Schwartz, Tom Dispatch
12/17/04: AUDIO & TRANSCRIPT Exclusive: Conscientious Objector Witnessed Abuse, Killing of Iraqi Detainees at Abu Ghraib -- Democracy Now!
12/16/04: VIDEO & TRANSCRIPT A Message From The Iraq Resistance: "We are simple people who chose principles over fear." -- Information Clearinghouse
12/14/04: A Year After Saddam's Capture: Iraq is Getting Worse -- Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad, Counterpunch.org
12/13/04: U.S. Military Obstructing Medical Care -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad, Inter Press Service
12/13/04: "Contract Meals Disaster" for Iraq Prisoners: Rancid Food Sparked Abu Ghraib Riots -- David Phinney, CorpWatch
12/12/04: Dead & Buried: Iraq’s Civilian Body Count May Go Officially Undocumented but the Widows and the Orphans Know the True Extent of the Toll -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad, Sunday Herald
12/9/04: Fallujah Pictures -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad
12/9/04: AUDIO Intel Agent Strapped to Gurney and Flown Out of Iraq by U.S. Army After Reporting Torture of Detainees -- Democracy Now!
12/8/04: Fallujah Did Not Break the Back of the Insurgency--P. Cockburn & A. Buncombe, The Independent (UK)
12/8/04: Killed Unarmed Iraqis, Ex-Marine Tells Hearing: U.S. deserter was right to flee his post, immigration and refugee board told -- Marina Jiménez, Toronto Globe & Mail
12/7/04: So much loss… -- by Dahr Jamail in Baghdad
12/7/04: Health Care Given A 'New Look' in Iraq -- IPS, Dahr Jamail in Baghdad
12/7/04: Running Battles in Baghdad: Insurgents as Street Police -- Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad, Counterpunch.org
12/6/04: So this is Christmas? Help Send Humanitarian Aid to Falluja Refugees in Iraq: “I have just come from a refugee camp in Baghdad with families from Fallujah. The suffering is beyond description. It's worse than anything you've read or anything I've written so far." -- Dahr Jamail & CodePink
12/6/04: Fallujah as a “Model City” -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad
12/6/04: AUDIO Violence Continues to Rock Iraq: 80 Iraqis, 11 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Weekend Attacks -- Democracy Now!
12/5/04: You Asked for my Evidence, Mr Ambassador. Here It Is: In Iraq, the US Does Eliminate Those Who Dare to Count the Dead -- Naomi Klein, The Guardian
12/5/04: Reporting on the Ground from Iraq: An Interview with Patrick Cockburn -- Alan Maass, Counterpunch.org
12/4/04: Trophy Hunting? -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad
12/3/04: Fallujah Refugees Tell of Life and Death in the Kill Zone -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad, NewStandard
12/3/04: 200,000+ Fallujah refugees in desperate need of aid: U.S. Military provides Frosted Flakes -- Reuters
12/2/04: The Quiet of Destruction and Death -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad
12/2/04: From Guernica to Fallujah -- Pepe Escobar, Asia Times
12/2/04: Another Grim Record: US Death Toll in Iraq Hits 135 in November -- Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad, Counterpunch.org
12/01/04: For Iraq, Deliverance Means Death - Rick McDowell & Mary Trotochaud, AFSC
12/01/04: Iraq's Health Care Under the Occupation - Ghali Hassan, CounterPunch
November, 2004: 623 days (as of 11/30/04) of US Invasion/Occupation of Iraq
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11/30/04: Neglect Follows Siege of Fallujah -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad
11/30/04: U.S. invasion of Iraq 'a public health disaster' -- Al Jazeera
11/30/04: Low Crime Rate in Fallujah -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad
11/30/04: The Insurgency Strikes Back: There Are No Safe Havens in Iraq -- Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad, Counterpunch.org
11/29/04: “We are living a disaster.” -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad
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Margaret Hassan, CARE Aid Worker in Iraq, Kidnapped October 19, 2004.
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11/29/04: AUDIO U.S. Accused of Using Poison Gases in Fallujah -- Democracy Now!
11/28/04: This time last year… --Dahr Jamail in Baghdad
11/26/04: 'Unusual Weapons' Used in Fallujah -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad
11/26/04: Abu Hanifa and its terrorists -- Omar Khan
11/25/04: Witnesses Say US Forces Killed Unarmed Civilians--Kim Sengupta, The Independent (UK)
11/23/04: Occupier of a Prime Minister's Chair--Dahr Jamail, Iraq dispatches
11/23/04: Fallujah Refugees--Dahr Jamail, Iraq dispatches
11/23/04: 'Something Was Not Right': Cameraman Goes Public on Video Footage of Marines--Rupert Cornwell, The Independent (UK)
11/22/04: The Triangle of Death--Ken Sengupta, The Independent (UK)
11/21/04: More blood, More chaos -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad
11/21/04: The Horror of Fallujah: The War is Over; But There is No Peace -- Abbas Ahmed Ibrahim in Fallujah, Iraq, Counterpunch.org
11/21/04: 73 Falluja women, children in mass grave from U.S. terror attack -- Al Jazeera
11/21/04: Since U.S. Invasion acute child malnutrition nearly doubled in Iraq -- Al Jazeera
11/21/04: The Iraqi Resistance Spreads -- Dahr Jamail & Salam T., The Ester Republic
11/20/04: Anti-Bush Protesters Battle Police at Chile Summit: "Fascist Bush is a Terrorist"-- Jason Webb, Reut
11/19/04: Terrorizing those who are praying… -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad
11/19/04: AUDIO U.S. Continues Air Strikes and Ground Assault On Fallujah Despite Claims of Victory -- Democracy Now!
11/19/04: U.S. Troops Storm Baghdad Mosque; Open Fire on Worshippers -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad
11/19/04: Who Killed Margaret Hassan? I Know -- Sam Hamod, Information Clearing House
11/19/04: A New York Diary: The Crushing of Fallujah -- James Petras, Counterpunch.org
11/18/04: Slash and Burn -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad
11/18/04: AUDIO Iraq on Fire: Widespread Violence Continues in Sunni Cities -- Democracy Now!
11/18/04: The Streets of Baghdad -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad
11/18/04: Remembering Margaret Hassan -- Kirsten Zaat, BBC News
11/18/04: What Price Is Innocence Now Worth? The Murder of Margaret Hassan -- Robert Fisk, Counterpunch.org
11/18/04: Beyond Fallujah: A Year with the Iraqi Resistance -- Patrick Graham, Harpers Magazine
11/18/04: Media Repression in 'Liberated' Land -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad
11/17/04: AUDIO Red Cross Estimates 800 Iraqi Civilians Killed in Fallujah -- Democracy Now!
11/17/04: AUDIO Fallujah, City of Death: An Interview with Dahr Jamail -- CKUT Radio Montreal
11/17/04: Onslaught: The Attack On Fallujah -- Milan Rai, Justice Not Vengeance
11/17/04: AUDIO Family of Aid Worker Margaret Hassan Believed Executed: "Our Hearts Are Broken" -- Democracy Now!
11/16/04: 800 Civilians Feared Dead in Fallujah -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad
11/16/04: Crimes in Iraq: Pray for Fallujah -- Sara Khorshid, IslamOnline.net
11/16/04: Photo Documentary of Invasion & Resistance: Iraq Uncensored
11/16/04: Iraqi Police Aiding Militants In Mosul Insurgency -- Kathleen Ridolfo, Radio Free Europe
11/16/04: 'This One's Faking He's Dead' 'He's Dead Now' -- Andrew Buncombe, The Independent
11/16/04: AUDIO & TRANSCRIPT War Crime Caught on Tape: U.S. Marine Executes Wounded Unarmed Iraqi -- Democracy Now!
11/15/04: Dogs Eating Bodies in the Streets of Fallujah -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad
11/15/04: US shells Falluja, turns back aid convoy -- Al Jazeera
11/15/04: The Other Face of U.S. 'Success' in Fallujah -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdad
11/15/04: AUDIO Fallujah Devastated: Witnesses Describe Humanitarian Crisis and Civilian Death Toll -- Democracy Now!
11/15/04: Long live the mujahedin: Fallujah Lies in Ruins, Along with the Lives of the Wretched Survivors -- Michael Georgy in Fallujah & Kim Sengupta, The Independent
11/15/04: The final battle: The hardest story to tell -- Peter Beaumont, The Observer
11/14/04: Inside Fallujah: one family’s diary of terror -- By Dahr Jamail in Baghdad, Sunday Herald
11/14/04: U.S. blocks Humanitarian from Falluja -- Al Jazeera
11/14/04: A Thousand Fallujahs -- Pepe Escobar, Asia Times
11/13/04: Falluja plunges into humanitarian crisis -- Al Jazeera
11/13/04: War Crimes in Fallujah: "Let Them Drink Sand!" -- Alexander Cockburn. Counterpunch.org
11/12/04: Fierce fighting in Falluja as anti-colonial resistance spreads to Baghdad and north -- Al Jazeera
11/12/04: AUDIO Iraq on Fire: Resistance Spreads as the Fallujah Death Toll Rises -- Democracy Now!
11/12/04: "Iraq is burning with wrath, anger and sadness..." -- Dahr Jamail in Baghdadl, Electronic Iraq
11/12/04: Anti-US fighters may have control of Mosul -- Al Jazeera
11/12/04: Rule of Iraq Assassins Must End... -- Baghdad is Burning, Girl Blog from Iraq
11/12/04: A Fighter From Afar: Seeking Salvation In City of Insurgents -- Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Washington Post
11/11/04: Human 'Disaster' Looms in Encircled Falluja -- Reuters
11/11/04: Fighting in Falluja rages amid confusion -- Al Jazeera
11/11/04: Prayers for Vengeance, More Death... -- Dahr Jamail in Iraq, Electronic Iraq
11/11/04: Nearly Half of Mosques bombed in Falluja fighting -- Al Jazeera
11/10/04: The Fire is Spreading...--Dahr Jamail, Electronic Iraq
11/10/04: US 'pacifies' city but rebels take violence to rest of country--Kim Sengupta, The Independent (UK)
11/10/04: Iraqi Troops Condemned, Threatened for Fighting; At Least 200 Desert--H. Allam & T. Lasseter, Knight Ridder
11/9/04: U.S. Warplanes Bomb Another Hospital in Falluja -- Al Jazeera
11/9/04: The Siege Begins, Outrage in Baghdad -- Dahr Jamail in Iraq, Electronic Iraq
11/9/04: AUDIO The Battle for Fallujah: U.S. Forces Face Fierce Resistance in Largest Offensive Since Invasion -- Democracy Now!
11/9/04: 'Phantom Fury' Poised to Become Phantom Victory -- Jim Lobe, Inter Press Service
11/8/04: US warplanes staged ferocious strikes on targets in Falluja-- Al Jazeera
11/8/04: AUDIO Fallujah Under Siege: US Begins Massive Assault as Iraq Declares Martial Law -- DemocracyNow!
11/8/04: U.S. Begins Full Terror Strike on Falluja -- Richard A. Oppel Jr. & Robert F. Worth, New York Times
11/7/04: Holy War: Evangelical Marines Prepare to Battle Barbarians -- Agence France Presse
11/7/04: Carnage and Martial Law -- Dahr Jamail, Electronic Iraq
11/6/04: US strikes raze Falluja hospital -- BBC
11/6/04: Spiraling Into Occupied Iraq -- Dahr Jamail, Electronic Iraq
11/4/04: US forces bombard Falluja -- Al Jazeera
11/4/04: U.S. Bombardment Kills Five in Iraq's Falluja -- Fadel al-Badrani, Reuters
11/3/04: Hungary Will Withdraw Troops From Iraq--C. Woodward & R. Fournier, AP
11/3/04: Bombings in Baghdad, Mosul Kill 12 Iraqis--Marian Fam, AP
11/3/04: Iraq Oil Pipelines Hit by Biggest Attacks Yet--Khaled Yacoub Oweis, Reuters
11/1/04: US bombs Falluja as showdown looms -- Al Jazeera
11/1/04: AUDIO & TRANSCRIPT Study: Iraq Invasion Has Killed 100,000 Civilians -- Democracy Now!
11/1/04: U.S. Depleted Uranium Weapons Dust Worries Iraqis -- Thomas D. Williams, Hartfort Courant
October, 2004: 593 days (as of 10/31/04) of US Invasion/Occupation of Iraq
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(March 19, 2003) of the US Invasion of Iraq
10/31/04: Pentagon Suppresses Details of Iraqi Civilian Casualties, Says Expert -- Raymond Whitaker, The Independent
10/29/04: 100,000 Excess Iraqi Deaths Since War--Reuters
10/29/04: U.S. Marines Poised to Storm Falluja and Ramadi--Michael Georgy, Reuters
10/27/04: Negligent US Forces to Blame for Massacre of Recruits, Says Allawi--Kim Sengupta, The Independent (UK)
10/25/04: Chaos, murder and mayhem: Kidnapping and killing is a daily reality in Iraq, but in the west the atrocities go unrecorded and the dead are unnamed -- Haifa Zangana, The Guardian
10/25/04 I dread what is going to happen in Fallujah: We will kill and maim you and yours until you agree to our domination and say you are ecstatic to be given this 'freedom' -- Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, The Independent
10/25/04: AUDIO & TRANSCRIPT Kidnapped British Aid Worker: "Ask Mr. Blair to Take the Troops Out of Iraq, and Not to Bring Them Here to Baghdad" -- Democracy Now!
10/22/04: Sunni Clerics Urge Boycott of Iraq Elections in Wake of U.S. Siege of Fallujah -- Hannah Allam, Knight Ridder
10/22/04: 300 Iraqi security force members chose not to fight in Samarra -- NewStandard
10/22/04:
Kidnapped Aid worker pleads for UK Iraq withdrawal -- Al Jazeera10/22/04:
Falluja In Their Sights -- Patrick Graham, The Guardian10/22/04: U.S. Soldiers at home and in Iraq: "All we are doing around here is getting blown up" -- Derek Seidman, Left Hook
10/20/04: The Heroine Who Offered Hope for Iraq--Robert Fisk, The Independent (UK)
10/19/04: Fate Uncertain for First GIs to Collectively Refuse Iraq Combat Orders -- Lisa Ashkenaz Croke, NewStandard
10/18/04: Falluja peace bid called off: "Who asks for peace while bombs strike? Who agrees to peace when women are being killed?" -- Al Jazeera
10/18/04: AUDIO Army Detains U.S. Reservists Who Refuse to Carry Out "Suicide Mission" In Iraq -- DemocracyNow!
10/17/04: U.S. Continues Attacking Falluja, Battles rage -- Al Jazeera
10/15/04: US military steps up bombing of Falluja, Five Civilians Killed -- Al Jazeera
10/14/04: Hidden Story of the Iraq War: Maimed for Oil and Empire -- Nicole Colson, Counterpunch.org
10/11/04: U.S. Bombs Mosque in Iraq, Setting it on Fire -- Reuters
10/11/04: Major U.S. Terror Attack on 20 to 30 Iraqi Cities on Hold Until After U.S. Vote -- Mark Mazzetti, Los Angeles Times
10/10/04: Strong-willed Individuals Paddle Upstream Toward a Better Iraq -- Orly Halpern -- NewsStandard
10/8/04: US 'Precision' Strike Kills 11 at Iraqi Wedding -- Fadel al-Badrani, Reuters
10/7/04: VIDEO US helicopter crew shoots on street crowd in Falluja, Iraq -- Antiwar.com
10/7/04: U.S. Diverts Billions, Donor Nations Renege: Iraq's water, sanitation services failing -- Al Jazeera
10/6/04: Fresh US-led attacks across Iraq--Al-Jazeera
10/6/04: Elections Will Not End the Fighting in Iraq--Patrick Cockburn, The Independent (UK)
10/6/04: Targeting Civilians in Fallujah--Jeffrey St. Clair, CounterPunch
10/5/04: Dear Dad, Iraq Sucks -- Michael Moore, The Guardian
10/4/04: Civilians Bear Brunt as Samarra 'Pacified' -- Kim Sengupta, The Independent
10/4/04: Iraq & Afghanistan: Post-Invasion Chaos Blamed for Drug Surge -- T. Christian Miller, Los Angeles Times
10/3/04: Onslaught on Samarra escalates in 'dress rehearsal' for major US assault on rebels -- Kim Sengupta, The Independent
10/3/04: US bombers return to Falluja -- Al Jazeera
10/2/04: Samarra Residents Flee US Hell -- Samir Hadad, IslamOnline.org
10/1/04: Scores of Iraqis killed in US assault on Samarra -- Al Jazeera
10/1/04: U.S. forces storm Iraqi town of Samarra, over 100 people killed -- Sabah al-Bazee, Reuters
September
, 2004: 562 days (as of 9/30/04) of US Invasion/Occupation of Iraq* Click here to travel back to Day 1
(March 19, 2003) of the US Invasion of Iraq
9/30/04: From Baghdad: A Wall Street Journal Reporter's E-Mail to Friends -- Farnaz Fassihi, CommonDreams.org
9/29/04: Continued US Airstrikes in Baghdad Draw Criticism -- Ashraf Khalil, Los Angeles Times
9/28/04: Good News for Hostages in Iraq: Two Iraqis, Four Egyptians and Two Italians Relesaed -- Reuters
9/28/04: Italian aid workers freed in Iraq -- Al Jazeera
9/27/04: Falluja official: Only civilians killed in U.S. attack -- Al Jazeera
9/26/04: Falluja doctors decry civilian toll as U.S. attacks residential neighborhood -- Al Jazeera
9/25/04: More Iraqi civilians killed by U.S. forces than by insurgents, data shows -- Nancy A. Youssef, Knight Ridder
9/24/04: Abuse, Torture and Rape Reported at Unlisted U.S.-run Prisons in Iraq -- Lisa Ashkenaz Croke, NewStandard
9/22/04: U.S. Raid on al-Sadr Office Assailed by Shiite Cleric--Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, Knight Ridder
9/22/04: Zarqawi's War--P. Cockburn, The Independent (UK)
9/20/04: Daily US Bombing Raids Seen as Anticipating All-Out Falluja Attack -- Rory McCarthy, The Guardian
9/20/04: US Determined to Excise "Cancer of Fallujah" -- Patrick Cockburn & Andrew Buncombe, The Independent
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An Iraqi boy weeps as people survey the damage following a U.S. air strike in Fallujah on 9/7/04. Despair in Iraq Over the Forgotten Victims of US Invasion -- Patrick Cockburn, The Independent
Shiite Men enroute from Baghdad to Najaf joining thousands of civilians seeking to nonviolently end the U.S. attack on Najaf. (74 Killed as Iraq's Sistani Tries to 'Save' Najaf -- Agence France Presse, 8/26/04)
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9/20/04: Incident on Haifa Street -- Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com
9/18/04: In remembrance: 3207 Named and identified Iraqi victims of the war on Iraq -- IraqBodyCount.org
9/18/04: Into the Abyss: The Week Iraq's Dream of Peace Fell Apart -- Patrick Cockburn, The Independent
9/17/04: Dozens of Iraqis Killed in US Attack on Village South of Falluja -- Al Jazeera
9/16/04: Who Seized Simona Torretta? This Iraqi Kidnapping has the Mark of an Undercover Police Operation -- Naomi Klein & Jeremy Scahill, The Guardian
9/16/04: US Gives Conflicting Accounts of Rocket Attack That Killed 13 Dead -- Patrick Cockburn, The Guardian
9/16/04: Press Reports on U.S. Casualties: About 17,000 Short, UPI Says -- Mark Benjamin, UPI
9/15/04: Blast Kills 47 in Baghdad; Hell on Haifa Street--Patrick Cockburn, The Independent (UK)
9/14/04: 'He's Just Sleeping, I Kept Telling Myself' -- Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, The Guardian
9/14/04: The Punishment of Fallujah: US Precision Strikes...on Ambulances -- Patrick Cockburn, The Independent
9/14/04: 1,000 Iraqi rebels, civilians dead in U.S. attack, Najaf leader says -- Evan Osnos & Rick Jervis, Chicago Tribune
9/13/04: One of Baghdad's Bloodiest Days: "I'm a Journalist! I'm Dying! I'm Dying!" -- Patrick Cockburn, The Independent
9/13/04: AUDIO & TRANSCRIPT Up to 110 Dead in Iraq in One of the Bloodiest Days of U.S. Occupation: Interview with The Independent's Patrick Cockburn -- Democracy Now!
9/13/04: Ambulance hit as US planes pound Falluja -- Al Jazeera
9/13/04: Over 100 killed across Iraq -- Al Jazeera
9/12/04: Witnesses: U.S. Apache Helicopter Fired on Crowd of Iraqi Civilians -- Al Jazeera
9/12/04: One Man's Resistance: 'Why I Turned against America' -- Jason Burke, The Observer
9/12/04: Turkey Reacts with Fury to Massive US Assault on Northern Iraqi City -- Patrick Cockburn, The Independent
9/10/04: Disappointment in Samarrah? Even Ambulances Can't Get Through -- Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch.org
9/10/04: Day 4: US jets continue to attack Falluja -- Al Jazeera
9/9/04: Despair in Iraq Over the Forgotten Victims of US Invasion -- Patrick Cockburn, The Independent
9/9/04: More Than 10,000 Iraqis Die Violently in Baghdad Region Alone -- Bassem Mroue, AP
9/9/04: Third Night of Terror Attacks: US bombing kills more Falluja civilians -- Al Jazeera
9/9/04: Four NGO workers seized in Iraq -- Indlieb Farazi, Al Jazeera
9/9/04: Spare These Fine People: Yesterday My Friends Were Abducted in Baghdad -- Ed Kinane, Counterpunch.org
9/9/04: AUDIO "They Are Not Enemies of the Iraqi People" - Italian and Iraqi Aid Workers Kidnapped in Baghdad -- Democracy Now!
9/8/04: This Doesn't Smell Like Victory; A War on Two Fronts--Patrick Cockburn, The Independent (UK)
9/8/04: U.S. Conceding Rebels Control Regions of Iraq--E. Schmitt & S.R. Weisman, The New York Times
9/7/04: Families flee US bombardment of Falluja -- Al Jazeera
9/7/04: Fallujah Erupts, Again: US Death Toll in Iraq Nears 1000 -- Patrick Cockburn, Counterpunch.org
9/7/04: US Death Toll Nears 1,000; Dozens Killed as Sadr City Erupts Again under U.S. Attack -- Agence France Presse
9/6/04: 20 civilians killed in attacks across Iraq -- Al Jazeera
9/6/04: U.S. Troops in Iraq See Highest Injury Toll Yet -- Karl Vick, Washington Post
9/1/04: U.S. Strike on Fallujah Kills at Least 9 Civilians -- The Associated Press
9/1/04: Sovereign Iraq Just as Deadly to U.S. Forces--Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times
9/1/04: Sadr orders backers to stop fighting
August, 2004: 532 days (as of 8/31/04) of US Invasion/Occupation of Iraq
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8/29/04: US Soldier Says Torture Encouraged -- Reuters
8/27/04: Najaf standoff ends -- Al Jazeera
8/27/04: AUDIO & TRANSCRIPT Ceasefire Begins in Bloodied Holy City of Najaf -- Democracy Now!
8/27/04: Prayers answered: Sistani's quest to Najaf raises hopes of peace deal -- Donald Macintyre in Najaf, The Independent
8/26/04: 74 Killed as Iraq's Sistani Tries to 'Save' Najaf -- Agence France Presse
8/26/04: Woe betide Najaf -- Nermeen Al-Mufti, Al-Ahram
8/26/04: Ali's Story: A Taste of Reality from Baghdad -- Helen Williams, Counterpunch.org
8/26/04: With the Red Cross in Najaf and Kufa -- Helen Williams, Electronic Iraq
8/25/04: Sistani Tells Iraqis to March to Najaf to Save the City -- Agence France Presse
8/25/04: Letter from Baghdad: A Democracy of Killings and Bombings -- Yanar Mohammed, Counterpunch.org
8/23/04: Fighting, Artillery Barrage Rocks Iraqi Shrine--M. Georgy, Reuters
8/20/04: Sadr Presses Iraqi Militia to Continue Fight After Massive US Attacks--AFP
8/19/04: Clashes erupt around Najaf's Imam Ali mosque -- Al Jazeera
8/19/04: Najaf fighting intensifies after Government warning -- Agence France Presse
8/19/04: Al-Sadr accepts peace plan calling for transformation of Mehdi Army -- Chris Shumway, NewStandard
8/19/04: The imperfect media storm or George Bush and the Temple of Doom -- Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
8/18/04: Heavy Fighting in Najaf: 'Surrender or Be Crushed' -- Agence France Presse
8/16/04: Offensive Resumes in Najaf, Prompting Desertions of Iraqi Troops--H.Allam, T.Lasseter & D.Hannah, Knight-Ridder
8/16/04: The Attack on Najaf: The Ultimate Stupidity--G. Leupp, CounterPunch
8/15/04: 50 Iraqis die as US jets bomb Samarra -- Gulf Daily News
8/15/04: Iraq: Massacre Fears as Najaf Peace Talks Collapse -- James Cusick, Sunday Herald
8/15/04: Fighting resumes in Najaf as thousands of Iraqis converge as human shields at sacred Mosque, Media ordered to leave city -- Reuters
8/15/04: Thirteen Iraqis killed during separate clashes south of Baghdad -- Deutsche Presse-Agentur
8/13/04: Uneasy ceasefire takes hold in Najaf -- Al Jazeera
8/13/04: Slaughter in Najaf: Bush Ignited This Insurgency, Not al-Sadr -- Milan Rai, Counterpunch.org
8/13/04: Continued Uprising In Iraq: Widespread Battles Claim Heavy Civilian Casualties -- Drew Poe, DC Indymedia
8/13/04: US atrocity in Najaf -- World Socialist Website
8/13/04: Slaughter as US forces attack Najaf -- Nicolas Rothwell, The Australian
8/12/04: AUDIO U.S. Risks Alienating Millions Across Muslim World with Major Attack on Holy City of Najaf -- Democracy Now
8/12/04: Al-Sadr group seeks Arab intervention in Najaf As U.S. Attack Continues -- Al Jazeera
8/9/04: The battle for Najaf: A first-hand account by the only Western reporter in Najaf as major fighting broke out late last week. -- Scott Baldauf, Christian Science Monitor
8/9/04: Abu Ghraib Victims Speak: Alleged victim calls U.S. jailer 'disgrace to all civilized and democratic values.' -- ABC News
8/8/04: The Battle of Najaf: Hundreds Dead as Truce is Shattered -- Donald Macintyre, The Independent
8/6/04: Fierce clashes rage throughout Iraq, Scores of Civilians Killed -- Al Jazeera
8/6/04: Toll rises as US planes pound Najaf -- Al Jazeera
8/6/04: AUDIO As Sadr Calls Off Truce In Najaf, We Speak With Robert Fisk On How Iraq Is About to Explode -- Democracy Now!
8/5/04: Shocking prisoner abuses are revealed -- Andrew Buncombe & Nigel Morris, The Independent
8/2/04: Iraqi group claims over 37,000 civilian killed in U.S. invasion -- Ahmed Janabi, Al Jazeera
8/2/04: Can’t Bush and Blair See Iraq Is About to Explode? -- Robert Fisk, Arab News
8/1/04: Business Booming for Soldiers of Fortune -- Katherine Stapp, Inter Press Service
July, 2004: 501 days (as of 7/31/04) of US Invasion/Occupation of Iraq
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7/30/04: Three Days of Extraordinary Bloodshed Shake Iraq -- Lisa Ashkenaz Croke, The NewStandard
7/29/04: The Unreported War: US Document Reveals Scale of Conflict -- Robert Fisk, The Independent
7/29/04: Buried Mines and Ordnance Continue to Maim Iraqi Civilians -- Dogen Hannah, Knight-Ridder
7/28/04:
Baghdad is Swamped in the Smell of the Dead--Robert Fisk, The Independent (UK)7/25/04: The Struggle for Iraq is Just Beginning--P. Cockburn, CounterPunch
7/22/04: The government rules only in the capital -- Robert Fisk, The Independent
7/21/04:
Death Toll of U.S. Forces in Iraq Reaches 900--Associated Press7/19/04: The Crisis of Information in Baghdad: Four Missiles, 14 Deaths -- Robert Fisk, The Independent
7/18/04: U.S. Attacks Falluja, Killing 14 Civilians, According to Witnesses -- Ravi Nessman, Associated Press
7/18/04: Five days in the life of an invisible war -- James Meek, The Guardian
7/17/04: U.S. Installed Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi Shot Inmates in Cold Blood, Say Witnesses -- Paul McGeough, Sydney Morning Heralad
7/17/04: 'Secret Film Shows Iraq Prisoners Sodomized' -- Charles Arthur, The Independent
7/17/04: The Iraq War is All Right Then -- Robert Fisk, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
7/14/04: German TV: U.S. has held and tortured Iraqi children in prisons -- translated by Traprock Peace Center
7/13/04: Death of a father -- Helen Williams, Electronic Iraq
7/7/04: The News From Planet Falluja--Christian Parenti, The Nation
7/5/04: The new, free Iraq--Robert Fisk, The Independent (UK)
7/5/04: Getting Away With Murder in Iraq--Tariq Ali, CounterPunch
7/5/04: Rumsfeld Gave Go-Ahead for Abu Ghraib Tactics, says General In Charge--Julian Coman, The Telegrapkh (UK)
7/2/04: Marine Renounces Killing of Civilians--Paul Rockwell, War Times
7/2/04: 3 U.S. soldiers charged in death of Iraqi man--Dan Elliot, AP
June, 2004: 470 days (as of 6/30/04) of US Invasion/Occupation of Iraq
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6/30/04: Marine Renounces Killing of Civilians--Paul Rockwell, War Times
6/28/04: Another Bloody Week in Iraq--P. Cockburn & L. Linton, The Independent (UK)
6/26/04: Paying the Price: The Mounting Costs of the Iraq War--
6/26/04: Where Children Laugh at Bombs--Dahr Jamail, NewStandard
6/21/04: How the military treated some inmates at Abu Ghraib like 'ghosts'--
6/21/04: New Abuse Charges--V. Novak & D. Waller, Time Magazine
6/21/04: Missile Strike By U.S. Kills 22 Civilians in Iraq--P. Cockburn & R. Whitaker, The Independent U.K.
6/16/04: Beirut, Iraq--Dahr Jamail, The NewStandard
6/15/04: Abu Ghraib General Says Told Prisoners 'Like Dogs'--Reuters
6/14/04: General Granted Latitude At Prison--R. Jeffrey Smith and Josh White, Washington Post
6/14/04: High-Profile Air Strikes 'Killed Only Civilians'--Dan Glaister, The Guardian
6/11/04: Use of Dogs to Scare Prisoner
