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11/15/2004:

"US bombs rebels in Falluja: Amnesty fears on human rights"

...Large areas of Falluja lie in ruins, devastated by the ferocity of the US onslaught. The attacks were designed to clear insurgents out of what had been their biggest stronghold ahead of January's elections. An embedded BBC reporter said the fighting had become more frantic as the insurgents made a last stand.

A Reuters correspondent saw bloated and decomposing bodies in the streets, smashed homes, ruined mosques and power and telephone lines hanging uselessly.

Overnight, US warplanes made 20-30 bombing sorties over the city and surrounding areas, where there has been an upsurge in violence since the Falluja offensive started last Monday.

At least nine people died today in fierce battles in Baquba, 35 miles north-east of Baghdad. There was also fighting today in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad. There has been violence for five days in Mosul, with insurgents storming two police stations in the northern city yesterday and killing at least six Iraqi troops.

And tonight there were reports of two heavy explosions from the heavily fortified green zone compound in Baghdad where the Iraqi and coalition headquarters are. There was no immediate explanation for the blasts.

Amnesty International said it was "deeply concerned" that rules of war protecting civilians and combatants had been violated by the US forces and the insurgents in Falluja.

Amnesty cited an incident shown on Channel Four news last week when a marine fired at an apparently wounded insurgent who was off screen then said "he's gone". Amnesty said: "Under international humanitarian law the US forces have an obligation to protect fighters hors de combat [disabled fighters]."
Full Article: guardian.co.uk

On ABC News this evening was footage of Marines going into a Mosque and shooting to death a wounded Iraqi lying there, a wounded Iraqi LEFT lying there by Marines a few days before. That is what the US makes of 'international humanitarian law' and protecting fighters 'hors de combat.'