arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

11 april:

"Over 600 Iraqis have now been killed by American aggression, and the residents have turned two football fields into graveyards"

http://blog.newstandardnews.net/iraqdispatches/archives/000162.html

26 april:

"Doctors in the town of 300,000 say some 600 people died in the three weeks since U.S. forces retaliated for the murder of four American security guards."

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20040426_205.html

"Abu Muher said US warplanes were bombing the city heavily last Saturday prior to his departure, and that Marine snipers continued to take their toll, shot after shot, on residents of the besieged city. "There were so many snipers, anyone leaving their house was killed," he recalled."

"Abu Muher, along with two other men from Fallujah who arrived in Baghdad last weekend, said American warplanes had dropped cluster bombs on a road behind their houses in Fallujah."

http://www.axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/article_6832.shtml

"American troops will enter parts of the holy city of Najaf to crush the radical Shia cleric Muqtada Sadr but will avoid its sacred sites, a US general said yesterday."

"Shia leaders have warned there will be an explosion of anger among the 15 to 16 million Iraqi Shia if US soldiers enter Najaf, where Imam Ali, the founder of their faith, is buried in a golden-domed shrine."
http://counterpunch.org/cockburn04262004.html

"In the photo, a smiling Lance Cpl. Ted J. Boudreaux Jr. is standing next to two Iraqi boys. All three have their thumbs up as one of the boys holds a cardboard sign that reads “Lcpl Boudreaux killed my Dad, th[en] he knocked up my sister!”"

http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-2810106.php

http://www.antiwar.com/blog/more.php?id=822_0_1_0_M

wel een week oud op:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/04/288797.html

"The recent battles in Fallujah brought this report from Amnesty International: "Half of at least 600 people who died in the recent fighting between Coalition forces and insurgents in Fallujah are said to have been civilians, many of them women and children."

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0426-06.htm