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NVMojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-05 05:03 PM
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A reason to kill GIULIANA SGRENA: Napalm Raid on Falluja?
Edited on Sun Mar-06-05 05:08 PM by NVMojo
A good reason for US to target her for assassination?
November 23, 2004
GIULIANA SGRENA

«We buried them, but we could not identify them because they were charred from the napalm bombs used by the Americans». People from Saqlawiya village, near Falluja, told al Jazeera television, based in Qatar, that they helped bury 73 bodies of women and children completely charred, all in the same grave. The sad story of common graves, which started at Saddam’s times, is not yet finished. Nobody could confirm if napalm bombs have been used in Falluja, but other bodies found last year after the fierce battle at Baghdad airport were also completely charred and some thought of nuclear bombs. No independent source could verify the facts, since all the news arrived until now are those spread by journalists embedded with the American troops, who would only allow British and American media to enrol with them. But the villagers who fled in the last few days spoke of many bodies which had not been buried: it was too dangerous to collect the corpses during the battle.

Yesterday, for the first time since the beginning of the military campaign, the American Headquarters allowed a convoy of the Red Crescent (the Iraqi Red Cross) to enter the city with 7 ambulances and two trucks filled with food. In the past days the convoys of the humanitarian organizations were stopped on the other side of Eufrathes. Thus maybe we will now be able to obtain some more news on the conditions of the people who are left in the city -- the majority fled -- during 15 days of fierce and uninterrumpted attacks.

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http://www.ilmanifesto.it/pag/sgrena/en/420dd721e0ff0.html
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hedda_foil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-05 05:31 PM
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1. OMFG. They firebombed Fallujah.
This is beyond sickening. They can deny it til the cows come home but the only way they'd be telling the truth is if they used another firebomb mixture in place of good old fashioned napalm
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riverwalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-05 07:18 PM
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2. She was one of a few journalists there
who told the truth. The one I can't stand is CNN's Jane Arraf. They would show her reporting from Fallujah as an embed in her helmet and flack jacket during the seige, and I knew damn well what was happening, yet her stories were always full of crap. As far as I am concerned she sold her soul for her job. She was the only one in a position to describe the horror to America, but instead gave sterile phoney "reporting". She knew what was happening, remained silent, therefore she is an accomplice to war crimes.
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NVMojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-05 07:21 PM
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3. It really is sickening to think Guiliana was targetted to silence her
for telling the truth about what we are really doing over there in Iraq.
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Nikepallas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-05 07:45 PM
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5. It is sickening but not surprising. Hopefully this will cause a careful
re-examination of other reporters killed during the past couple years.
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hector459 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-05 07:45 PM
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4. Opportunity and motive. Enough to convict in a court of law.
And US military and Bush should have face a war crimes tribunal.
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NVMojo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-05 07:50 PM
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6. we can only hope now that someday they do ...
this government should be overthrown ...elections won't work. They run the machines.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 08:13 PM
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7. Napalm, Chemical Weapons Used at Fallujah – Iraqi Official
Two days after the US State Department released its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Dr. Khalid ash-Shaykhli, an official at Iraq’s health ministry, told a Baghdad press conference that the U.S. military used internationally banned weapons during its deadly November 2004 offensive in the city of Fallujah.

Two days after the US State Department released its annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, Dr. Khalid ash-Shaykhli, an official at Iraq’s health ministry, told a Baghdad press conference that the U.S. military used internationally banned weapons during its deadly November 2004 offensive in the city of Fallujah.

During the attack on the city, eyewitnesses described horrific scenes that analysts have attributed to attacks with napalm, a poisonous cocktail of polystyrene and jet fuel that has the capacity of melting human flesh and bones.

Dr. ash-Shaykhli stated that his medical teams, assigned the responsibility of investigating the health situation in Fallujah by Iraq's health ministry, had done research that proved U.S. occupation forces used substances, including mustard gas, nerve gas, and other burning chemicals there. <snip>

http://www.ilcaonline.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2050&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
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BushIsBurning Donating Member (68 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-07-05 09:10 PM
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8. Nuremberg Trials II Ready to Begin ?
Only this time, let's make sure the "Goerings" don't have cynanide capsules to save themselves from being drawn and quartered (according to the US Government, it's not torture if the intent is good !)...
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