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/ 15 September 2005
Bob Dylan went ”electric” to angry shouts; the Rolling Stones watched Hells Angels stab a man to death at a 1968 free concert; and there was the time rap music came to the Gaza Strip. It started innocently enough. The official Palestinian rally for Gaza’s ”liberation” from Israel was winding down on Wednesday afternoon when a throbbing bass groove shook the ground.
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/ 14 September 2005
Hamas militants blew a gaping hole on Wednesday in a concrete barrier on the Gaza Strip’s southern border, enabling Palestinians to continue surging into Egypt despite pledges to restore order. Under pressure from Israel, Egyptian authorities set a new deadline for all Palestinians to return to the Gaza side.
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/ 11 November 2004
United States marines and Iraqi troops occupied about three-quarters of Fallujah on Thursday, but were facing an enormous task in rooting out determined insurgents, many of whom appeared to have gone underground. It was unclear how many insurgents died in the battle. In the dusty streets, cats fed off the corpses.
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/ 10 November 2004
Crouching in mosques, rebels traded fire with United States troops on Wednesday in the heart of Fallujah as the military pushed south after seizing 70% of the Iraqi city on the second full day of battle. The Red Crescent painted a grim picture of the humanitarian conditions inside and said it is sending a small team to evaluate.
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/ 2 November 2004
United States marines are on guard outside the rebel bastion of Fallujah, where they believe at least 2 000 fighters are ensconced, the majority of them followers of Iraq’s most-wanted man, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The US military believes some of Zarqawi’s top men are in Fallujah, but is not sure about the whereabouts of the leader himself.
Corpses littered the streets of the Iraqi town of Fallujah on Thursday as United States marines met ferocious resistance in the Sunni Muslim bastion. Meanwhile, Polish and Bulgarian forces were attacked in Karbala and cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s headquarters were destroyed in Sadr City.
United States marines pressing an offensive in the Iraqi town of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, bombed a central mosque on Wednesday and killed up to 40 insurgents holed up inside, a marine officer said. The bombing came after several hours of small arms and rocket-propelled grenades fire from insurgents.
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