Showtimes:

May 22 - 7pm
May 25 - 7pm

Brunswick Theatre
296 Brunswick Avenue (2nd Floor), Toronto Ontario

Toronto Premiere
With filmmaker David Martinez in person

A one hour documentary, not about soldiers, not about governments, but about Iraqi civilians and a handful of independent journalists in a country turned into hell. A cinema cerite narrative of daily life, disintegration, and the humor that ordinary people adapt when living in a war zone. Includes rare footage from inside besieged Fallujah, April 2004, and a Choubi music soundtrack provided by Sublime Frequencies. Unlike any Iraq movie you have seen.

By Michael Keefer

Does anyone remember the shock with which the British public greeted the revelation four years ago that one of the members of the Real IRA unit whose bombing attack in Omagh on August 15, 1998 killed twenty-nine civilians had been a double agent, a British army soldier?

That soldier was not Britain’s only terrorist double agent. A second British soldier planted within the IRA claimed he had given forty-eight hours advance notice of the Omagh car-bomb attack to his handlers within the Royal Ulster Constabulary, including “details of one of the bombing team and the man’s car registration.” Although the agent had made an audio tape of his tip-off call, Sir Ronnie Flanagan, chief constable of the RUC, declared that “no such information was received.”

When a state is determined to pursue war, and all forms of indirect symbolic protest actions have failed to sway politicians to halt their imperialist aggression, the only remaining option is direct action by the working class. One option is a general strike by workers that can effect the production and transpiration of military capital, that is the materials essential for the war machine. The other is to deprive the military of the labor it needs to fight the war. The slogan from the Vietnam War protests deliberately speaks to this, "What if they had a war, and no one came?" The U.S. military is overwhelmingly recruited from the working class, and convincing our class as a whole to refuse to work for this blood money may be our best chance for both ending the war in Iraq and limiting the imperialist ambitions of the U.S. for future decades.

By Robert Fisk in Baghdad - 29 July 2004

http://www.k1m.com/antiwarblog/archives/000113.html 

Iraq, we are told by Mr Blair, is safer. It is not. US military reports clearly show much of the violence in Iraq is not revealed to journalists, and thus goes largely unreported. This account of the insurgency across Iraq over three days last week provides astonishing proof that Iraq under its new, American-appointed Prime Minister, has grown more dangerous and violent.

From juancole.com
Paul Garwood of AP reports that "the carnage" continued in Iraq over the weekend.

US troops made a sweep of Buhriz, northeast of Baghdad near Baqubah, which is a radical Salafi ("Sunni fundamentalist") stronghold, which has mounted numerous rebellions in recent months. Its nearby date palm groves were suspected of affording cover to guerrillas.

read Tarek's blog at www.tarek.2y.net/iraq

The News From Planet Falluja

by CHRISTIAN PARENTI

[posted online on July 5, 2004]

Tariq is an upper-middle-class Canadian medical student of Palestinian origin. He is a Muslim, fluent in Arabic and English, very smart, very young, brave and a bit naïve. He is an obsessive computer geek with a tendency toward pedantry on matters technological. Over the past two years he has spent several months in Palestine doing solidarity work.

Resistance attacks continue despite handover

by Al Jazeera

Tuesday 29 June 2004 6:23 GMT

Three US marines have been killed in a roadside bomb blast in Baghdad in the first reported fatal attack on US occupation forces in Iraq since the formal handover of authority to an interim government.

The “Iraqi Resistance” and Worker-communists

from www.wpiraq.org

May 18,2004

“The situation in Nasiriyiah today May 18th is
relatively calm. The Mahdi Army fled the fight against

This career Marine was interviewed on CBC Radio One this morning and his disgust at his own involvement in the occupation of Iraq is really illuminating. His condemnation of the war as a Marine is that much more powerful because of who it is coming from.

by Fisnik Abrashi, AP, Friday May 21, 2004

KARBALA, Iraq (AP) - American AC-130 gunships and tanks pounded militia positions early Friday near two shrines in the center of the holy city of Karbala, and the U.S. military said it killed 18 fighters loyal to a rebel cleric. Hospital officials said the dead included two Iranian pilgrims.

U.S. fires on wedding party; 40 reportedly dead
Americans withhold confirmation but say they are investigating

ASSOCIATED PRESS

BAGHDAD - A U.S. helicopter fired on a wedding party in the remote desert near the border with Syria, killing more than 40 people, many of them women and children, Iraqi officials said. The U.S. military said it was investigating.

By Bob Wing

War Times newspaper, http://www.war-times.org

A friend of mine was discussing Abu Ghraib with his Egyptian father, who
had originally supported the war. Referring to the photo of the female

The video that the story below describes is available here:
http://www.hraunfjord.com/apache_killing.mpeg

According to Fisk, most Western media is refusing to play this video - even though it is genuine - for fear of the reaction it may provoke.

By DENIS D. GRAY

May 3rd, 2004 NAJAF, Iraq (AP) - Militiamen pounded a U.S. base with mortars Monday in the most intense attacks yet on U.S. troops in Najaf, where the Americans have been holding back their full firepower to avoid enflaming the anger of Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority. Another American soldier was killed in Baghdad.

PAMPHLET on Occupation, Prisons and Torture



Sumoud (a political prisoner support group) and Autonomy & Solidarity have created a pamphlet on “Occupation, Prisons and Torture.” The pamphlet analyzes imprisonment and torture in the context of the occupation of Iraq. It argues that torture is a strategy of US imperialism and that the racism involved is nurtured by the logic of war and occupation. The pamphlet includes photos and can be printed for distribution.

Posted on Fri, Apr. 30, 2004

AP Toll Says 1,361 Iraqis Killed in April

LEE KEATH
Associated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Volunteers hunting for bodies in Fallujah find a woman and her daughter in their home, killed in the siege but undiscovered for days. Chanting mourners bury two boys caught in the crossfire of a Baghdad gunfight. A morgue in Basra overflows with torn and burned bodies from a suicide bombing.

Fleeing Fallujans killed as crisis deepens

Thursday 29 April 2004, 12:50 Makka Time, 9:50 GMT - Al Jazeera

US soldiers have fired on a minibus full of civilians near a checkpoint on the outskirts of the besieged Iraqi town of Falluja.

68 dead, 238 hurt in Basra explosions

Press Association
Wednesday April 21, 2004 12:08 PM

Up to 68 people were feared dead and 238 injured - including four British soldiers - after a series of explosions in the southern Iraqi city of Basra.

Occupation troops clash with al-Sadr army

Al Jazeera
Friday 16 April 2004, 17:42 Makka Time, 14:42 GMT

Five Iraqi civilians have been killed and another 20 wounded during clashes between US marines and the Mahdi Army in Najaf while Muqtada al-Sadr made his first public appearance in two weeks. 

Insurgents' tactics more sophisticated: Campaign damages bridges, hampering movement

By Thomas E. Ricks

FORWARD OPERATING BASE DUKE, Iraq, April 13 - Insurgents fighting the U.S.-led occupation force have sharply increased the sophistication, coordination and aggressiveness of their tactics over the past week, Army officers and soldiers involved in combat here said.

87 U.S. Troops Killed in Iraq in April

Wednesday April 14, 2004 4:16 PM

By ROBERT BURNS

AP Military Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - For American forces in Iraq, these are the deadliest days of the war. At least 87 U.S. troops have been killed in action so far this month, with the most recent death announced on Tuesday. Also this month, more than 560 have been wounded and two soldiers were declared missing. At least four American civilians were killed, one contractor was captured by gunmen and six others were missing and feared abducted.

A article by Jo Wilding on the experience of evacuating the dead and wounded from Fallujah under Marine sniper fire.
Available at Open Democracy.
Check the end to see what the Pentagon has to say!

In an effort to toughen the Iraqi forces, Abizaid said the U.S. military will reach out to former senior members of Saddam Hussein's disbanded army — a reversal in strategy. The military has tried to avoid relying on top officials from the ousted regime. "It's ... very clear that we've got to get more senior Iraqis involved — former military types involved in the security forces," he said. "In the next couple of days, you'll see a large number of senior officers being appointed to key positions in the ministry of defense and the Iraqi joint staff and in Iraqi field commands."

Americans Slaughtering Civilians In Falluja

by Dahr Jamail, The New Standard, April 12, 2004

I knew there was very little media coverage in Falluja, and the entire city had been sealed and was suffering from collective punishment in the form of no water or electricity for several days now. With only two journalists there that I'd read and heard reports from, I felt pulled to go and witness the atrocities that were surely being committed.

By LOURDES NAVARRO and ABDUL-QADER SAADI

FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) - Fallujah's residents buried their dead in a football stadium and lines of women, children and the elderly tried to leave beseiged Fallujah on Friday as U.S. Marines paused in their assault on the Sunni rebel stronghold.

Plea to lift siege as Falluja toll mounts
Al-Jazeera

Thursday 08 April 2004, 14:11 Makka Time, 11:11 GMT

Doctors in Falluja want the siege on the town lifted for shifting patients with serious injuries even as brutal street battles rage.

This is one of 16 photos cataloguing the human toll of the massacre unfolding in Falluja, site of the ambush-assault operation where 4 US mercenaries were killed in their SUVs last week. Of the 16 photos, at least 10 are of murdered children. The forces of US imperialism have chosen to collectively punish the people of Falluja for their fierce and unyielding resistance to the illegal occupation. US Marines currently claim to control 25% of the city, after 3 days of fierce fighting featuring US Marine AC-130 gunships, artillery, and tanks arrayed against Iraqi freedom fighters with small arms and RPGs. The fighting is house to house, and the imperialists have relaxed the Rules of Engagement (a joke anyway) to allow for 500 lbs laser guided bombs to be called in to hit local mosques, as happened today (04/06/04).

U.S. Hits Mosque Compound; 40 Said Killed

By BASSEM MROUE and ABDUL-QADER SAADI

Associated Press Writers

FALLUJAH, Iraq (AP) - U.S. Marines in a fierce battle for this Sunni Muslim stronghold fired rockets that destroyed part of a wall surrounding a mosque compound filled with worshippers Wednesday, and witnesses said as many as 40 people were killed. Shiite-inspired violence spread to key cities in Iraq.

April 7, 2004

Fierce Fighting With Sunnis and Shiites Spreads to 6 Iraqi Cities
By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN and DOUGLAS JEHL

BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 6 — American forces in Iraq came under fierce attack on Tuesday, with as many as 12 marines killed in Ramadi, near Baghdad, and with Shiite militiamen loyal to a rebel cleric stepping up a three-day-old assault in the southern city of Najaf, American officials said.

'40 killed' as US targets mosque

George Wright and agencies
Wednesday April 7, 2004
The Guardian

A US helicopter today fired three missiles at a mosque in the besieged Iraqi city of Falluja, killing as many as 40 Iraqis, according to witnesses quoted by the Associated Press.