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Dear Colleagues and Friends of CEIMSA,
Today we received two more Dahr Jamail's Iraq Dispatches. The first, in Item A., is the copy of a radio interview documented with sound and photos
taken from the Abu Hanifa mosque massacre in
Sincerely,
Francis McCollum Feeley
Professor of American Studies
Director of Research
Université de Grenoble 3
http://dimension.ucsd.edu/CEIMSA-IN-EXILE/
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A.
from Dahr Jamail :
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 09:56
Here is a radio dispatch and interview from FSRN
and Flashpoints
with audio taken inside the Abu Hanifa
mosque of the raid/slaughter:
http://209.81.10.18/data/20041119-Fri1700.mp3
Here are a few new photos of the aftermath of the
aforementioned:
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album20
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B.
from Dahr Jamail
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 20:15
To: iraq_dispatches@dahrjamailiraq.com
Subject: Iraq Dispatches: More blood, More chaos
** Dahr Jamail's Iraq
Dispatches **
November 21, 2004
More blood, More chaos
In Ramadi today 6 civilians were
killed in clashes between the resistance and military.
The military sealed the city, closing all the roads while announcing over
loudspeakers for residents in the city to hand over terrorists.
A man, woman and child died when the public bus they were riding in approached
a
The city remains sealed by US forces as fierce clashes sporadically erupt
across the area while the military decides how to handle yet another resistance
controlled.
As the mass graves in Fallujah
continue to be filled with countless corpses, sporadic fighting flashes
throughout areas of the destroyed battleground.
The Americans want every city in Iraq to be like Fallujah,
said Abdulla Rahnan, a 40
year-old man on the street where I was taking tea not far from my hotel, They
want to kill us all-they are freeing us of our lives!
His friend, remaining nameless, added, Everyone here
hates them because they are making mass graves faster than even Saddam!
I never tell people I interview I am from
But as Abu Talat told me the other day when I asked
him what he thoughtabout going to Ramadi
or Fallujah, Sure Dahr, we
can go-but not until you get a steel neck!
He laughs his deep laugh, and I fake a laugh with him while peering out my car
window.
After conducting other interviews during the day, Salam
and I are in my room working on a radio dispatch. As we begin recording, his
cell phone and my room phone ring simultaneously.
He gets news of another friend who has been shot by soldiers, while I am told
by Abu Talat that al-Adhamiya
is under a
Over in Sadr City, the military are now sealing off
neighborhoods doing home searches as well-this after having agreed to a deal
with Sadr s Mehdi Army the
fighters turned in many of their weapons and agreed to a truce. Last night a
small boy was shot there because he was out after curfew.
Lieutenant-General Lance Smith, deputy
This goal will most likely be attained by delaying the already scheduled
departure of soldiers already here, and was announced at about the same time
that the commander for the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force in Fallujah, Lieutenant-General John Sattler said that he
believed the assault on Fallujah had broken the back
of the insurgency.
Refugees from Fallujah have yet to be allowed to
return to their city.
One of my friends here works on the election commission for Iraq-he stopped by
tonight laughing at the new date which has been set for the election of January
30th. They have this new date for their rigged elections, he rolls his eyes, And nobody in
He and I were interviewed on a radio program this evening-while I was listening
to commercials waiting to come back on, I laugh to myself as one of the
advertisements is for folks to trade in their old Hummer for a new one with low
financing!
This against the backdrop of the show, where my friend and I had shared stories
with the host and callers of death in the streets, Iraqi outrage over the
failed occupation and other love stories from Iraq.
Meanwhile, more oil facilities are sabotaged in the north, the Green Zone takes
more mortars, and the usual gunfire is audible over the generators running out
my window.
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