city:fallujah

L’aide militaire fournie aux rebelles syriens a indirectement contribué à armer l’EI
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2017/12/14/l-aide-militaire-fournie-aux-rebelles-syriens-a-indirectement-contribue-a-ar

Trois ans d’enquête de terrain entre Kobané, en Syrie, et Bagdad, en Irak, 40 000 pièces récupérées sur les lignes de front et soigneusement analysées, des dizaines de contrats d’achat et d’exportation passés au crible : le rapport sur les armes de l’organisation Etat islamique (EI), publié jeudi 14 décembre par l’ONG Conflict Armament Research (CAR), est l’étude la plus complète produite à ce jour sur ce sujet aussi explosif que complexe.

Il fait la lumière sur les filières d’approvisionnement souvent tortueuses mises en place par l’organisation djihadiste, via la Turquie en particulier, pour constituer et entretenir son arsenal. Il démontre qu’au-delà des saisies réalisées dans les stocks des armées syrienne et irakienne, l’EI est parvenu à récupérer beaucoup d’armes fournies aux groupes rebelles syriens par leurs parrains étrangers, notamment les Etats-Unis et l’Arabie saoudite. Il révèle enfin que ces livraisons ont été effectuées quasi systématiquement en violation des accords conclus avec les pays où ces armes ont été produites – principalement des Etats d’Europe de l’Est – qui incluaient une clause de non-réexportation.

After US Bombs Syrian Government for Third Time in 8 Months, Media Ask Few Questions | FAIR
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On May 18, the US military launched an air raid against forces allied with the Syrian government, killing several soldiers. The Trump administration claimed Syrian- and Iranian-backed militias had entered a 55-kilometer (34-mile) “deconfliction zone” around a base in southern Syria, near the borders of Iraq and Jordan, where the US trains opposition fighters.

Yet US officials also later admitted that they do not themselves recognize the legitimacy of these de-escalation zones—even while using them to justify carrying out such attacks.

No major media outlets questioned the government narrative, or the notion that the Syrian-allied forces were a “threat.” (For context, 34 miles is the distance between Aleppo and Idlib, considered two separate theaters in the Syrian civil war. It is also roughly the distance between Baghdad and Fallujah, or between Washington, DC, and Baltimore.)

A map of every car bomb explosion in #Baghdad since 2003. Atleast 82 Killed and 160 injured in overnight bombings.

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Le WaPo évoque l’augmentation des campagnes pour lever des fonds en Arabie saoudite au profit de Falloujah (comprendre de Da’ich), que l’armée irakienne et le Hashd al-Cha’abi sont actuellement en train de reprendre. Ceci sur fond de détestation sectaire des chiites dans le royaume saoudien.
▻https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/shiite-iraqs-gains-against-islamic-state-spur-fundraising-in-saudi-arabia/2016/06/08/10f99590-2db5-11e6-9de3-6e6e7a14000c_story.html

Iraq’s current military offensive against the Islamic State in the city of Fallujah has sparked a flurry of new fundraising campaigns in Saudi Arabia.
“You cannot control the sympathies of people,” said Saudi Maj. Gen. Mansour al-Turki, a spokesman for his government’s Interior Ministry. But what Saudi Arabia can control, he said, are potentially fake campaigns to raise money in the name of the “children of Fallujah” that actually funds terrorism.
Charitable solicitation or giving for any cause outside the country has been monitored by the government since 2004, and all private donations going abroad must use official channels, he said. Some 226 people have been convicted of terrorism financing activities.

Islamic State faces new trouble in Fallujah as Sunni tribesmen revolt

BAGHDAD — Sunni tribesmen have attacked Islamic State militants in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, the Iraqi military and local officials said Friday, overrunning and burning one of their headquarters as resentment against the group grows.

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#Irak #ISIS #EI #Etat_islamique #Falloujah

With US air war in 10th month, ISIS advances in Iraq and Syria - World Socialist Web Site

▻http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/06/02/iraq-j02.html

With US air war in 10th month, ISIS advances in Iraq and Syria
By Bill Van Auken
2 June 2015

With the US-led air war against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) now in its 10th month, the Islamist militia continues to make territorial gains in both countries, inflicting serious losses on the military in Iraq as well as both government forces and rival Islamist “rebels” in Syria.

In its latest attack on Monday, ISIS launched a devastating suicide bombing against an army base just north of the Iraqi city of Fallujah, killing at least 45 members of the security forces and wounding scores more.

#is #ISIS #irak #syrie

The rise and fall of ISIL - Al Jazeera English

▻http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/interactive/2015/02/rise-fall-isil-150212075706347.html

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When the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant first started taking territory, the media didn’t take much notice. The city of Fallujah had already fallen to ISIL fighters when, in June, its men stormed the University of Anbar in Ramadi. Still, little attention. But when Mosul, Iraq’s second biggest city, fell the same month the world started to watch the country again. ISIL, also active in Syria, now seemed both a threat to the region and a group with the wind behind its back. Since then, there have been hundreds of battles, gruesome killings that have shocked the world, and a US-led campaign of air strikes. Kurdish fighters have pushed the group out of some towns and villages. And what many once saw as an invincibility on the battlefield, is starting to look shaky.

Here, we recall some of the key events for ISIL from that assault on Ramadi until now.

Iraqi battle seen as key victory in Iran - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East
▻http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2014/10/iran-sees-iraq-battle-jurf-al-sakhar-key-control-isis.html

The battle for the strategic city south of Baghdad is significant in that control of Jurf al-Sakhar will enable the Iraqi army to cut off IS from its strongholds in Anbar province. The city was won solely by Iraqi forces without coalition air power, and set the blueprint for the next battle between the Iraqi army and IS in the strategic cities of Amiriya and Fallujah.

Ce qu’il se passe à Ferguson ne reste pas à Ferguson - Investig’Action
▻http://www.michelcollon.info/Ce-qu-il-se-passe-a-Ferguson-ne.html

La semaine dernière, le gouverneur du Missouri a déclaré l’état d’urgence et a déployé la Garde Nationale à Ferguson, dans la banlieue de Saint Louis, afin de mettre un terme aux agitations qui duraient depuis deux semaines à la suite du meurtre par la police de Michael Brown, un adolescent noir non armé.

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Dans cet état d’exception permanent et mondialisé, la traditionnelle distinction entre le public et le privé devient ici de plus en plus floue. À Fallujah, les fournisseurs privés avaient été appelés afin de maintenir l’ordre public, tandis que l’armée américaine, au détriment de la dette publique, veillait à protéger les intérêts privés 24 heures sur 24.

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Les États-Unis dépensent l’argent public en menant des guerres à l’étranger à des fins privés, et, dans le même temps, ils permettent que les intérêts privés financent directement les services de police locaux, qui disposent aujourd’hui des armes excédentaires provenant de ces mêmes guerres, afin de maintenir l’ordre public national. La sécurité devient la préoccupation première du gouvernement, bien que celui-ci cède presque toujours aux intérêts privés en faisant fi de la sécurité sociale.

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Là où la richesse se concentre entre un nombre toujours plus restreint de personnes, où la population est reléguée dans certains quartiers ou vit dans la misère des bidonvilles, la « démocratie » tant vantée du marché mondial rejoint les ambitions totalitaires de l’État Nation. « L’état d’exception », explique G. Agamben, « apparaît comme le seuil d’indétermination entre la démocratie et l’absolutisme. »

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Selon G. Agamben, l’état d’exception peut clairement être comparé à un camp, qui « délimite un espace où l’ordre est de facto interrompu et où le fait de commettre ou non des atrocités dépend non pas de la loi mais du caractère civilisé et éthique de la police qui agit provisoirement en tant que souverain. »

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Pour les Afro-américains, donc, l’état d’urgence a toujours été un état permanent, il n’a pas commencé avec le meurtre de Michael Brown et il ne se terminera certainement pas avec le retrait de la Garde Nationale de Ferguson par le gouverneur Nixon. Cette fois, la différence réside dans le fait que les gens se sont révoltés contre le meurtre, à une nouvelle reprise, d’un autre jeune adolescent noir par la police, et ils ont choisi de répondre à la violence légitime de la répression policière qui s’en est suivie par un violence « extra » légitime dont ils se sont permis l’usage.

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la prétendue « violence » des manifestations de Ferguson, qui fait pâle figure à côté de la violence du capital financier et de celle de l’État, peut se révéler hautement productive. Et tandis que l’idée d’une violence « pure » en dehors de la loi peut paraître menaçante pour certains, il ne faut pas oublier que l’émeute urbaine, malgré les destructions sans raisons apparentes et l’évanescence spectaculaire, a été dans le passé un grand moyen vers le progrès.

Ce que nous appelons aujourd’hui la démocratie n’existerait pas sans ces émeutes.

#Ferguson #États-Unis

version russe (rapportée par les Ukrainiens) : les forces ukrainiennes utiliseraient des lance-roquettes multiples (BM-21 - Grad)

DMITRY TYMCHUK : About the reports on the ATO use of phosphorous bombs and GRAD systems | Информационное сопротивление
▻http://sprotyv.info/en/news/1142-dmitry-tymchuk-about-reports-ato-use-phosphorous-bombs-and-grad-syste

Just today, on June 12, 2014, Russian media reported that the Ukrainian security forces allegedly used phosphorous bombs against the civilian population. In support of this [allegation] Russian TV has used footage shot in 2004 in the city of Fallujah, Iraq - (video)

In addition, Russian media recently reported on alleged facts of Ukrainian forces use of multiple launch rocket systems “Grad” against the peaceful population.

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version ukrainienne : des terroristes déguisés en gardes nationaux ukrainiens utilisent des BM-21

Summary – June 13, 2014 | Информационное сопротивление
►http://sprotyv.info/en/news/1179-summary-june-13-2014

… no MRLs were seen in the possession of security forces in the ATO area.

Today, a group of terrorists–mercenaries from the Caucasus and local insurgents–fired at a vegetable storage base in the city of Dobropillya [Donetsk Oblast] with the BM-21. Terrorists had a total of three such MLRs at their disposal. At the same time, terrorists disguised themselves as the National Guard.

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sur YouTube, cette vidéo (ukrainienne) d’un Grad abandonné à Dobropolyé
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#attacks across #Iraq leave 33 dead
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/attacks-across-iraq-leave-33-dead

Violence across Iraq, including shelling of the conflict-hit city of Fallujah, killed 33 people Tuesday, as politicians haggle over forming a new governing coalition after April elections. The worst of Tuesday’s bloodshed was concentrated in Fallujah, which has been under the control of anti-government fighters since the beginning of the year. Shelling in the city, which lies just a short drive west of Baghdad, killed 18 people and wounded 43 others, according to Ahmed Shami, a doctor at Fallujah hospital. read more

#violence

#shelling kills 11 in rebel-held #Fallujah
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/shelling-kills-11-rebel-held-fallujah

Shelling killed 11 people on Saturday in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which has been held by anti-government fighters for more than four months, a doctor said. A further 20 people were wounded by the bombardment, according to Doctor Ahmed Shami, the chief of Fallujah’s main hospital. The latest casualties come a day after Iraqi forces launched an operation to retake areas near the city, which lies just a short drive west of Baghdad, in preparation for an eventual assault. read more

#Iraq #Top_News

In The Darkness Of #Dick_Cheney
▻http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/mar/06/darkness-dick-cheney/?page=2

... we live still in Cheney’s world. All around us are the consequences of those decisions: in Fallujah, Iraq, where al-Qaeda-allied jihadis who were nowhere to be found in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq have just again seized control; in Syria, where Iraqi jihadists play a prominent part in the rebellion against the Assad regime; in Afghanistan, where the Taliban, largely ignored after 2002 in the rush to turn American attention to Saddam Hussein, are resurgent. And then there is the other side of the “war on terror,” the darker story that Cheney, five days after the September 11 attacks, was able to describe so precisely for the country during an interview on Meet the Press:

We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will. We’ve got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world. A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our intelligence agencies…. That’s the world these folks operate in, and so it’s going to be vital for us to use any means at our disposal, basically, to achieve our objective.

The day after Cheney made these comments President Bush signed a secret document that, according to longtime CIA counsel John Rizzo, was the most comprehensive, most ambitious, most aggressive, and most risky Finding or MON [Memorandum of Notification] I was ever involved in. One short paragraph authorized the capture and detention of Al Qaeda terrorists, another authorized taking lethal action against them. The language was simple and stark…. We had filled the entire covert-action tool kit, including tools we had never before used.

This memorandum, as Rizzo remarks, “remains in effect to this day.” So too does Congress’s Authorization for the Use of Military Force that Bush signed the following day. More than a dozen years later these are the two pillars, secret and public, dark side and light, on which the unending “war on terror” still rests. Though we have become accustomed to President Obama telling us, as he most recently did in the State of the Union address, that “America must move off a permanent war footing,” these words have come to sound, in their repetition, less like the orders of a commander in chief than the pleas of one lonely man hoping to persuade.

#legs

Iraqi rebels make gains in Anbar
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/iraqi-rebels-make-gains-anbar

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Iraqi traders sell their goods at an open air market in the center of the city of Fallujah, west of the capital #Baghdad on January 8, 2014, following days of fighting between Iraqi security forces and militants. (Photo: AFP - Saddam al-Mahmedy) Iraqi traders sell their goods at an open air market in the center of the city of Fallujah, west of the capital Baghdad on January 8, 2014, following days of fighting between Iraqi security forces and militants. (Photo: AFP - Saddam al-Mahmedy)

Rebel gunmen, including fighters linked to al-Qaeda, made gains in the Iraqi city of Ramadi Tuesday in a setback for pro-government forces, as attacks killed 10 in the capital. The clashes came after UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called (...)

#anbar_province #Iraq #ISIS #Top_News

Iraqi forces fail to recapture #ISIS-held cities in overnight battle
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/iraqi-forces-fail-recapture-isis-held-cities-overnight-battle

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An man walks past an Iraqi soldier at Ein Tamer as families flee their homes in the city of #Fallujah making their way to the city of Karbala, on January 6, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Ahmad al-Rubaye) An man walks past an Iraqi soldier at Ein Tamer as families flee their homes in the city of Fallujah making their way to the city of Karbala, on January 6, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Ahmad al-Rubaye)

Iraqi troops failed to recapture jihadist-held areas of Anbar provincial capital Ramadi in a night-time assault that left four civilians dead, medical and security officials said on Tuesday. Fighters with the Islamic State of #Iraq and Syria (ISIS) were still in control of the south of the city, west of Baghdad, after fighting off the assault, (...)

#anbar_province #Top_News

Jihadist #ISIS captures Fallujah from Iraqi forces
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/jihadist-isis-captures-fallujah-iraqi-forces

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Smoke billows from a police car following clashes between jihadists and Iraqi forces backed by tribesmen in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, West of Baghdad, on January 1, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Azhar Shallal)

The Iraqi government has lost control of Fallujah to #al-Qaeda-linked militants, a senior security official said Saturday, after days of fighting sparked by an anti-government protest camp’s removal. Parts of the cities of Ramadi and Fallujah, west of Baghdad, have been held by militants for days. Fighting erupted in the Ramadi area Monday, when security forces removed the main anti-government protest camp set up after demonstrations broke out in late 2012 against what minority Sunnis say is the marginalization and targeting of their community. read (...)

#Falluja #Iraq #Top_News

#militants make gains in #Iraq city : police
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/18098

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Smoke billows from a police car following clashes between Jihadists and Iraqi forces backed by tribesmen in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, West of Baghdad, on January 1, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Azhar Shallal) Smoke billows from a police car following clashes between Jihadists and Iraqi forces backed by tribesmen in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, West of Baghdad, on January 1, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Azhar Shallal)

Al-Qaeda-linked militants on Friday advanced into new areas of one major Iraqi city, as part of another remained outside the control of security forces, police said to AFP. Districts of Ramadi and Fallujah west of Baghdad have been held by militants for days, harking back to the years after the 2003 US-led illegal invasion (...)

#Anbar #Top_News

Five journalists killed in #Iraq #suicide_attack
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/five-journalists-killed-iraq-suicide-attack

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A man mourns over the coffin of Iraqi free-lance journalist Yasser Faisal Al-Joumaili who was killed in the Syrian province of Idlib on December 4, as his body arrives by road from Turkey to the Iraqi city of Fallujah, west of the capital Baghdad, on December 8, 2013. (Photo: AFP - Azher Shallal)

Suicide bombers assaulted an Iraqi television station headquarters Monday, killing five journalists in the latest in a series of attacks against the media, police officers said. The dead in Tikrit, north of Baghdad, were Salaheddin television’s chief news editor, a copy editor, a producer, a presenter and the archives manager, the officers said. Two of the bombers blew themselves up during the attack, and security forces killed the other two when they stormed the (...)

#Freedom_of_the_Press #Top_News

Ten Years Later, U.S. Has Left Iraq With Mass Displacement & Epidemic of Birth Defects, Cancers
Qui sera jugé pour ces crimes ?
| NationofChange

▻http://www.nationofchange.org/ten-years-later-us-has-left-iraq-mass-displacement-epidemic-birth-de

In part two of our interview, Al Jazeera reporter Dahr Jamail discusses how the U.S. invasion of Iraq has left behind a legacy of cancer and birth defects suspected of being caused by the U.S. military’s extensive use of depleted uranium and white phosphorus. Noting the birth defects in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, Jamail says: “They’re extremely hard to bear witness to. But it’s something that we all need to pay attention to ... What this has generated is, from 2004 up to this day, we are seeing a rate of congenital malformations in the city of Fallujah that has surpassed even that in the wake of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that nuclear bombs were dropped on at the end of World War II.” Jamail has also reported on the refugee crisis of more than one million displaced Iraqis still inside the country, who are struggling to survive without government aid, a majority of them living in Baghdad. Click here to watch part 1 of the interview. [includes rush transcript]

À Fallujah, un quart des bébés meurent avant leur première semaine, et les trois quarts de ces bébés morts souffraient de déformations. Et plus de cancers, de leucémies et de mortalité infantile qu’à Hiroshima and Nagasaki en 1945. The moral equivalent of Nuremberg - Robert Koehler
►http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/columnists/sns-201210171700--tms--rkoehlerctnbk-a20121018-20121018,0,3103148.co

The recent study focused on the cities of Basra and Fallujah, where serious fighting occurred during the war. Fallujah was the scene of two large, extremely destructive coalition assaults in 2004. Five years later, doctors at Fallujah General Hospital finally became so alarmed by the increase in birth defects they petitioned the United Nations to investigate, explaining in a letter: “In September 2009, (the hospital) had 170 newborn babies, 24 percent of whom were dead within the first seven days (and) a staggering 75 percent of the dead babies were classified as deformed.” In comparison, their letter stated, in August 2002, before the invasion, 530 babies were born; six of them died within the first week, with a single birth defect reported.

About eight months later, the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health published the results of an epidemiological study, which found that Fallujah was experiencing higher rates of cancer, leukemia and infant mortality than Hiroshima and Nagasaki did in 1945.