Tal Afar Residents Send Out SOS

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Residents of the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar has sent out an SOS to the international community to interfere with the US occupation authorities to stop their continuing bombing of their devastated city, revealing a terrible humanitarian situation.

"US and Iraqi forces are still besieging Tal Afar amid ongoing intensive bombing, ordering residents of Hassan Kawi and Sarray neighborhoods to evacuate immediately," a Tal Afar tribal leader told IOL over the phone Thursday, September 8.

"The Americans are seemingly bombing the city with chemical weapons," he said, adding Tal Afar residents are speaking of suffocations and other health problems upon exposure to any hit area.

US and Iraqi troops have been besieging the city since Saturday, September 3, and were reportedly gearing up for a large-scale offensive.

http://www.kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2005/09/10/4058.shtml

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Once upon a time we helped the ruling faction (s) in Iraq go after

people in many different ways. We are still doing that. Only the names have changed, the basic agenda remains. THIS IS WHAT THEY HATE.

[malaise]

2. Funny how Sadam is now on trial

for what the puppet regime and the invaders are currently committing - genocide.

[willing dwarf]

3. Napalm

Did Saddam ever use Napalm on his people? I hear we used it under some other name in Fallujah. I imagine they'll do the same in this city. So good we came to "help."

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. Yes, but they don't call it Napalm anymore

It's something like Mark IV (?) or something biblical.

These poor people, most of them are like the people Bush tried to imprison in the Superdome. When will he ever get enough death and destruction?

BTW: Welcome to DU :hi:

[malaise]

8. No he didn't

when will these goons be stopped.

[seriousstan]

5. Bullshit source. Maybe we should start poting from Jihad Unspun.

http://www.jihadunspun.com/home.php

[JoFerret]

6. Guardian/Observer ""a big funnel of death""

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5269317,00.html

The offensive in Tal Afar, 260 miles northwest of Baghdad, is especially delicate because of the tangle of ethnic sensitivities.

About 90 percent of the city's 200,000 people - most fled to the countryside before the fighting - are Sunni Turkmen who have complained about their treatment from the Shiite-dominated government and police force put in place after the U.S. invasion in 2003.

Addressing that complaint, Jabr announced Saturday that 1,000 additional police officers would be hired in Tal Afar after the offensive and that they would be chosen from the Turkmen population.

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[seriousstan]

7. I thought the Resistance still held the city. How can both be true?

"Through Mafakarat al-Islam, Dr. Qasim called on what he called “honest satellite TV stations to come to Tall ‘Afar and broadcast what is going on there to the world. He noted that the city remains, until now, in the hands of the Iraqi Resistance, and that the claims by al-‘Arabiyah TV and the puppet regime’s al-‘Iraqiyah station that the city had fallen to the US troops and their Iraqi puppet army were completely untrue.



He stressed again that the Resistance continues to control the entire city and that the US forces outside the city been using tactics of advance and retreat in its attacks on the city since Thursday."

Yet another highly reliable source.....Mafakarat al-Islam.

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9. You can't stop an occupier. That's what they do. OCCUPY by killing.

We need to make sure the media outlets get our messages that we still are paying attention to Iraq. We know what is going on and we will be in DC on the 24th.