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An ominous watershed? 4 more years of trauma BEIRUT: Consistently second only to Ariel Sharon in terms of unpopularity among Arabs, US President George W. Bush's re-election victory was greeted in the Arab world with a sense of disillusionment and foreboding....
Posted: Wed, Nov 3, 2004 2:14pm PST
United Kingdom G8 Protest "Days of Dissent! Reflections on Summit Mobilisations"...
Posted: Wed, Nov 3, 2004 1:14pm PST
Fallujah and What Being in a War Zone Really Means from Mahajan's great blog, his introduction to speech by Naomi Klein...also listen to Rahul on elections today at democracynow.org...
Posted: Wed, Nov 3, 2004 12:18pm PST
Senior Iraqi oil official killed Gunmen have shot dead a senior figure in the Iraqi oil ministry on his way to work, officials have said.
Hussein Ali al-Fattal was killed as he left home in the capital Baghdad.
In another development, a militant group says it posted a video on its website apparently showing a senior Iraqi army officer being beheaded....
Posted: Wed, Nov 3, 2004 6:38am PST
Message from the people of Fallujah This letter was sent by representatives of the people of Fallujah to the UN secretary general Kofi Annan and published in the United Kingdom on October 31, 2004....
Posted: Wed, Nov 3, 2004 2:32am PST
Full transcript of bin Ladin's recent speech -- No wonder the US wanted this suppressed I say to you, Allah knows that it had never occurred to us to strike the towers. But after it became unbearable and we witnessed the oppression and tyranny of the American/Israeli coalition against our people in Palestine and Lebanon, it came to my mind.
The events that affected my soul in a direct way started in 1982 when America permitted the Israelis to invade Lebanon and the American Sixth Fleet helped them in that. This bombardment began and many were killed and injured and others wer...
Posted: Wed, Nov 3, 2004 1:34am PST
Florida official: Tally of absentee ballots may stretch into Thursday TALLAHASSEE, Florida (CNN) -- Florida voters cast an "incredible number" of absentee ballots in Tuesday's presidential election, and counting them may take until Thursday, Secretary of State Glenda Hood said Tuesday night....
Posted: Tue, Nov 2, 2004 9:04pm PST
Massive attacks halt Iraqi oil flow Fighters have mounted the biggest attacks yet on Iraq's oil infrastructure, blowing up three pipelines in the north and hitting exports via Turkey, oil officials say.
The attacks on Tuesday, which were hours apart, sharply reduced crude oil supplies to Iraq's biggest refinery at Baiji....
Posted: Tue, Nov 2, 2004 3:13pm PST
Assassinated for criticizing religious fundamentalism? In the Netherlands, if you criticize fanatic religious fundis, you can be charged in court --- or even killed....
Posted: Tue, Nov 2, 2004 9:53am PST
S. KOREA. 11.02/Last week's struggle report... ...by Myeong-dong Sit-in Struggle Collective (MSSC), nowadays since more than 350 days in strike against mass arrestings and deportation of migrant workers....
Posted: Tue, Nov 2, 2004 4:56am PST
Haiti's New Government Accused of Rights Violations Even the UN, which has been disgusting in its acquiescence to Haiti's current coup regime, is criticizing the extreme crackdowns on Lavalas, meanwhile U.S.stooge Latortue continues to blame Lavalas for everything...
Posted: Mon, Nov 1, 2004 11:07pm PST
Iraq: A ‘limitless’ insurgency The attacks came as the Al-Qaeda-linked Army of Ansar al-Sunna said it had killed 11 kidnapped members of the Iraqi National Guard in a statement posted on its website along with photographs.
Iraqi security forces and US-led troops are a daily target in the violence that has plagued the country in the aftermath of last year’s invasion....
Posted: Mon, Nov 1, 2004 2:37pm PST
China faults Bush on Iraq On the eve of the U.S. presidential election, China accused President George W. Bush of trying to "rule over the whole world" and said that the invasion of Iraq had destroyed the global antiterrorism coalition and worsened religious and ethnic conflicts....
Posted: Mon, Nov 1, 2004 2:34pm PST
U.S. Depleted Uranium Weapons Dust Worries Iraqis Despite assurances from the U.S. military that depleted uranium from exploded munitions does not pose a significant health threat, Iraq's provisional government is asking the United Nations for help cleaning up the low-level radioactive, metal dust spread across local battlefields by U.S. and British forces during the Persian Gulf wars....
Posted: Mon, Nov 1, 2004 2:14pm PST
Suicide Terrorist Strikes Tel Aviv Market; 3 Dead A 16-year-old suicide terrorist Monday morning murdered two women and one man while injuring more than 30 others when he detonated his charge in Tel Aviv’s crowded Carmel market...
Posted: Mon, Nov 1, 2004 7:33am PST
Gunmen kill deputy governor of Baghdad BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Gunmen killed the deputy governor of Baghdad on his way to work Monday, Iraqi officials said.
Hatim Kamil was assassinated in a drive-by shooting, said Baghdad Governor Ali al-Haidari. He had no other details.
Interior Ministry spokesman Col. Adnan Abdul-Rahman said Kamil was killed when gunmen opened fire on his car in the southern Doura neighborhood. Two of his bodyguards were also wounded in the attack, Abdul-Rahman said.
Insurgents have killed dozens of Iraqi pol...
Posted: Sun, Oct 31, 2004 11:32pm PST
Vázquez and Leftist Coalition Wins Presidency, Legislative Majorities in Uruguay Election Coalition of guerrillas, socialists, trotskyists, social democrats celebrate victory; Uruguay's two traditional major parties lose for the first time since independence from Spain....
Posted: Sun, Oct 31, 2004 11:32pm PST
Arafat possibly poisoned: doctors Medical tests on the ailing Palestinian President, Yasser Arafat, have ruled out leukaemia or any other life-threatening condition.
"The latest tests have found that President Arafat does not suffer from any life-threatening illness and what he has is curable," an aide, Nabil Abu Rdainah, said yesterday.
Mr Arafat, 75, underwent tests and scans on Saturday at a French military hospital the day after being flown from his shell-battered compound in the West Bank city of Ramallah...
Posted: Sun, Oct 31, 2004 11:27pm PST
25 killed as Allawi warns of final assault on Fallujah 25 killed as Allawi warns of final assault on Fallujah
* Japan says troops will stay in Iraq despite hostage’s death
RAMADI: Twenty five Iraqis were killed and at least 23 people wounded, including three US marines, in explosions and clashes between rebels and US troops in Ramadi and Tikrit on Sunday, medics and witnesses said.
Fifteen Iraqi civilians were killed and about eight wounded on Sunday when insurgents fired a rocket in Tikrit, the US military said. The rocket, one of two f...
Posted: Sun, Oct 31, 2004 4:15pm PST
Sharon says Arafat will not be buried in Jerusalem Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has announced that Yasser Arafat would not be buried in Jerusalem.
“As long as I am here, and I have no intention of retiring any time soon, he will not be buried in Jerusalem”, the prime minister said during this morning’s Cabinet session....
Posted: Sun, Oct 31, 2004 10:21am PST
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