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Pictures from Iraq Click on the link to view images recently brought back from Iraq.
Warning: Some of the images are very graphic....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 9:00pm PDT
Syria nabs Mossad men planning to kill Hamas leader An attempt to assassinate Meshal was foiled in 1997 when two Mossad agents were caught in Jordan with forged Canadian passports. They were released a few days later and sent back to Israel....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 6:49pm PDT
Excerpts from Major General Antonio Taguba's report on abuses at Abu Ghraib prison May 3, 4:35 pm EST. The Los Angeles Times has published excerpts from Major General Antonio Taguba's report on abuses at Abu Ghraib prison and Camp Bucca in Iraq (the report mentioned in Seymour Hersh's article). Here's part of it:...
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 5:50pm PDT
John Kerry Tells Audience He Doesnt Give Shit About Palestinians "...he of course also emphasized that he would never pressure Israel, would not force it to negotiate with an unreliable partner..."...
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 4:31pm PDT
Breaking News: Israelis surround Arafat compound Israeli troops have surrounded the headquarters of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, according to witnesses....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 4:28pm PDT
Mid-East Realities Excerpts from Mid-East Realities for May 2, 2004...
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 4:15pm PDT
MURDER IN MEXICO!!! HELP! A local activist at the UNAM in Mexico, Pavel, has been found dead - please fight for truth!...
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 4:04pm PDT
Where there is smoke there is mirrors... Some writings from an American Palestinian on the wars in Iraq and Palestine....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 3:59pm PDT
A Mother in Baghdad On The Images Of Torture Monday, May 03, 2004...
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 2:42pm PDT
U.S. torture worse than Saddam's, prisoner says Dhia al-Shweiri spent several stints in Baghdad's notorious Abu Ghraib prison, twice under Saddam Hussein's rule and once under American. He prefers Saddam's torture to the humiliation of being stripped naked by his American guards, he said Sunday in an interview with The Associated Press....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 12:41pm PDT
Stadium of Death: Fallujah Residents Bury Their Dead In Aftermath of Bloody U.S. Siege U.S. forces pull out of Fallujah following a brutal U.S. siege which killed some 600 Iraqis, wounded 1,000 and left some 60,000 people displaced. We go to Fallujah to get a report from Free Speech Radio News' Aaron Glantz who describes dozens of bodies buried in the city's soccer stadium after US forces blocked roads heading toward the cemetery....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 11:21am PDT
Seymour Hersh: U.S. Knew of Rampant Abuse in Iraqi Prisons Months Ago We speak with Pulitzer-prize winning reporter Seymour Hersh about a classified internal U.S. army report he obtained that reveals systematic torture of at least 20 Iraqi prisoners who were subjected to "sadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses" by their U.S. jailers at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 11:21am PDT
U.S. troops in Najaf come under mortar fire; U.S. likely to replace new Fallujah commander NAJAF, Iraq - Militiamen pounded a U.S. base Monday in the most intense attacks yet on U.S. troops in the Shiite city of Najaf, where the Americans have been holding back their full firepower to avoid enflaming the anger of Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 6:55am PDT
Students in Mexico are victims of the Dirty War In the last few months, several students have been attacked and beaten by undercover infiltrators for trying to have a voice in the university councils and the center of activism at UNAM - Okupa Che Guevara - is under threat of eviction. The current situation with Pavel (see below) has had very little coverage outside of the university and has continued to be declared by the media as a suicide. Pavel was very active and participated in a lot of events at Che and was a dedicated volunteer of S...
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 10:34pm PDT
Torture commonplace, say inmates' families Luke Harding at Abu Ghraib prison, near Baghdad, where stories of US guards routinely abusing prisoners come as no surprise to Iraqis...
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 10:24pm PDT
Iraqis are disgusted but not surprised at PoW abuse Karim Hassan, a retired teacher, said: "There was a story going around that the Americans were torturing people, and the imam in the local mosque said female detainees were raped by American soldiers."...
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 9:35pm PDT
Two killed and Sadr aide arrested in Iraq raid, residents say HILLA, Iraq - Two Iraqis were killed and an aide to rebel Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was arrested in a raid by troops of US-led occupation forces in the Iraqi city of Hilla, residents of the city and Sadr aides said on Sunday....
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 3:27pm PDT
U.S. Plan for Fallujah Hits Snag FALLUJAH, Iraq, May 2 -- The U.S. Marine plan to have former Iraqi soldiers restore order in Fallujah ran into trouble Sunday as the former Iraqi general heading the new force denied there were any foreign fighters in the city, calling into question his commitment to American military objectives. A few hours later, the top U.S. military commander said the general would not be allowed to lead the scores of armed men he already has mustered in the city....
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 3:26pm PDT
Anger at heart of city besieged HE was scarcely 120cm tall and when he removed the scarf masking his face I saw that his cheeks were smooth. He had beautiful brown eyes and a lovely smile.
As American gunships fired into Fallujah one night last week, shaking the floor beneath our feet, this pretty 12-year-old boy described how he had tricked and killed a US sniper in the battle for the city....
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 3:22pm PDT
Israeli gunships blast building in Gaza Israeli helicopter gunships have attacked Gaza City, hitting a 14-storey block of flats....
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 1:52pm PDT
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