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Muslim Scholar Gives Up Notre Dame Post
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) - A Muslim scholar resigned his appointment to the University of Notre Dame on Tuesday four months after the Bush administration revoked the scholar's work visa before he could take up his teaching position....
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 8:46pm PST
Israel’s "Jews-only" Law Under Fire
CAIRO, December 14 (IslamOnline.net) - Israeli critics have warned that the proposed law, allowing Jews to bar Arabs from buying homes in their communities, could expose Israel to a fresh wave of condemnation and could further deepen Israel’s image as an aparthied state....
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 8:13pm PST
Document Reveals More U.S. Detainee Abuse in Iraq
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Marines fired a pistol in a mock execution involving four young Iraqi looters and shocked another Iraqi detainee with an electric transformer until he "danced," a document made public on Tuesday showed....
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 4:17pm PST
A Year After Saddam's Capture: Iraq is Getting Worse
A suicide bomber blew himself up and killed seven people in Baghdad yesterday on the first anniversary of the capture of Saddam Hussein.
Far from that being the turning point the US had hoped for, the conflict remains bitter a year later. American planes have resumed bombing Fallujah, which the Marines claimed to have captured last month. Seven US Marines were killed in combat in western Iraq at the weekend. And the suicide bombings are creating a growing mood of insecurity in the capital....
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 4:07pm PST
Abbas asks Palestinians to drop arms
Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas said his people should drop their weapons in the struggle for a state, marking out a clear change of strategy for peace with Israel after Yasir Arafat's death last month....
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 4:06pm PST
Bodies Of 20 More Dead Iraqis Found In Mosul
Al-Jazeera reported that the bodies of 20 Iraqi National Guard members were found northwest of Mosul. In a separate development, the US Army said two marines were killed in Al-Anbar Governorate, western Iraq....
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 4:04pm PST
Battle for Fallujah not over
nsurgents in Fallujah have proven smart opponents despite US formidable firepower unleashed on city....
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 4:00pm PST
Iraq fuel crisis adds to chaos
Baghdad is in the grip of the most serious fuel crisis since the war, forcing drivers to spend more than a day queuing for petrol and underlining the government's struggle to maintain even basic services weeks ahead of elections....
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 3:58pm PST
Syria: Bomb shows Israel does not want peace
DAMASCUS: Syrian Information Minister Mehdi Dakhlallah said Tuesday that the bombing of a car belonging to a member of the Palestinian movement Hamas in Damascus showed Israel continued to reject peace....
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 3:54pm PST
Hariri: Oslo has led to a dead end
Dubai: Former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri has criticized international attempts to solve the Arab Israeli conflict.
Speaking on the second day of the Arab Strategy Forum in Dubai, Hariri said Western peace proposals, including the current U.S.-backed "road map," are "all based on the premise that the Palestinian people should prove that they deserve a separate state....
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 3:53pm PST
Dahr Jamail: Respite
“My list is now 32,” says Salam as he arrives at the hotel, “Now 32 of my friends have been killed.”
He still has tears in his eyes, even though he’s being stoic. Another of his friends has been shot and killed.
“You know I feel like shit every time I add someone to my list. Sometimes it feels like it is every day,” he says.
Welcome to Iraq. Where the news gets better with each passing day....
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 3:46pm PST
Protest persecution of Italian anarchist Massimo Passamani
Italian anarchist, Massimo Passamani is going on trial on December 16 for "multiple aggravated injury" to a fascist city councilor. Here is his statement about the incident:...
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 1:50pm PST
Premier Says Ex-Government Erased Data on Madrid Attack
Prime Minister José Luis Rodguez Zapatero contended Monday that the government of his predecessor erased all of the presidential records related to the March 11 train bombings before leaving office in April....
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 11:47am PST
Israel's nuclear weapons and Iran's and the Arabs' call for a nuclear free zone
Iran has signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and Iran has repeatedly called for a nuclear-free Middle East. Guess who opposes that idea? The United States. Guess why? Israel is the only country in the Middle East that really does have nuclear weapons. Israel has also refused to sign the non-proliferation treaty and refuses to allow international inspections. And it is Israel that views Iran as a threat.
But in the perverted world of Washington, a Muslim country that has signed the n...
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 11:42am PST
A Message From The Iraq Resistance
This is a rush transcript of an Iraqi Resistance speech on videotape, December 13 2004...
Posted: Tue, Dec 14, 2004 11:25am PST
Israeli forces shell Palestinian school in Khan Yunis
PCHR strongly condemns the latest attack committed by Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) this morning, when they fired an artillery shell at a school in Khan Yunis, wounding 7 Palestinian schoolchildren under the age of 9. PCHR is increasingly concerned for attacks by IOF on educational institutions, threatening the lives and safety of children, even in places where full protection is supposed to be offered to them in all circumstances....
Posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 6:46pm PST
U.S. Caught in Kabul
"Afghanistan's new "democratic" president is the world's most expensive mayor. Karzai rules only downtown Kabul, protected by 200 U.S. bodyguards, 17,000 U.S. troops and a token NATO force that includes Canadians. It costs Washington $1.6 billion US monthly to keep Karzai in power. Without the foreign troops' bayonets, Karzai's little puppet regime would quickly be swept away."...
Posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 6:42pm PST
Israelis shoot and kill another Palestinian girl
Israeli troops shot dead a 7-year-old Palestinian girl in a Gaza refugee camp on Friday......
Posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 5:57pm PST
The Slow Creep of Israel’s annexation of Palestine
First they were told that they were building a wall between the two populations for the protection of both.
….. Then they were told them that the wall on their land was necessary for the protection of Israel.
Then they told the Palestinian farmers on whose land the wall rests that they would have unlimited access to their lands……after which gates were erected along the wall – gates which would be opened only three times a day.
…. Then the Palestinian farmers were told that if they wa...
Posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 4:14pm PST
The War is the War Crime: Abused Iraqis, Abused Americans
This was a war to transcend all wars a war fought not for crass interests or crude motives, but for freedom and democracy. Or so we were told. Once this grand narrative was felled by reality, however, the story of its basic actors was twisted to meet new requirements: since it could not possibly be that the war aims were themselves corrupt, it must be the Iraqis the supposed recipients of liberation, and the American soldiers the deliverers of that liberation who were flawed. This twi...
Posted: Mon, Dec 13, 2004 4:12pm PST