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Prisoner abuse 'on wider scale', US report says
An official US army overview of the deaths and alleged abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan has revealed a wider scale of mistreatment than has so far come to light, it was reported today....
Posted: Wed, May 26, 2004 12:24pm PDT
‘Valley of Peace’ turns into killing field
Holy burial grounds in Iraqi city of Najaf witness daily engagements between US troops, Mehdi Army....
Posted: Wed, May 26, 2004 10:52am PDT
Top Sadr aide seized in war-torn Najaf
US troops have seized a brother-in-law of radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr in Najaf, where fighting in the cemetery has reportedly left dozens dead....
Posted: Wed, May 26, 2004 10:27am PDT
BUSH TALIBAN supports "Axis of Repression"
Inside Bush regime, a "Christian Taliban" moves U.S. health and human-rights policies far to the right, allying with Vatican and Muslim regimes....
Posted: Wed, May 26, 2004 9:41am PDT
Robert Fisk: Israeli subcontractors involved in directing interrogations at Abu Ghraib
...let's go back, for a moment, to the long weeks in which the Department of Bad Apples allowed its jerks to put leashes around Iraqi necks, forced prisoners to have sex with each other and raped some Iraqi lasses in the jail...The actual interrogators accused of encouraging US troops to abuse Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib jail were working for at least one company with extensive military and commercial contacts with Israel. The head of an American company whose personnel are implicated in th...
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 11:11pm PDT
Statement from Annette Auguste (So Anne)
Pétionville Penitentiary, Haiti, 23rd May 2004...
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 9:57pm PDT
Iraqi weapons pipeline probed
The Pentagon is investigating reports that Iraqi weapons are being sent covertly to Syria and that they are fueling anti-U.S. insurgents training there, The Washington Times has learned....
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 6:51pm PDT
Freedom Summer Palestine 2004
Freedom Summer Palestine 2004 is conceived to be 56-day campaign (one day for every
year of displacement and dispossession) against occupation, whereby Palestinians
mobilizing with the participation and support of their international supporters,
will draw the attention of the world to the true nature of the situation on the
ground in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and leave no doubt in anyone’s mind
that the Palestinian struggle is a just struggle for dignity, human rights and
fre...
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 5:47pm PDT
Mehdi Army Grows as Tempers Rage Over ‘Wedding Massacre’
Baghdad , May 25 - While US troops continue to damage mosques in heavy fighting against resistance forces they say are holed up in holy sites of Kufa and Kerbala, men in the Sadr City area of Baghdad rushed yesterday to join the Mehdi Army, a militia force loyal to rebel cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr. The recruitment surge followed bloody overnight fighting here that left many Iraqis dead. Not surprisingly, accounts of the overnight battle, as with most recent engagements, differ greatly depending o...
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 4:53pm PDT
Gaza raids 'left 2,000 homeless'
The UN says nearly 2,000 Palestinians have been made homeless this month by Israeli house demolitions in Gaza....
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 2:25pm PDT
Palestinians stranded on Rafah border
The Rafah border crossing, Gaza's only route to the outside world, has been shut down again by Israeli occupation forces, leaving hundreds of Palestinians stranded in the crossing....
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 2:21pm PDT
UN Iraq resolution needs 'improving'
A draft UN resolution on Iraq's future submitted by Britain and the United States needs improving, anti-war countries have said....
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 2:20pm PDT
UNRWA: IDF razed 45 buildings in Rafah during Operation Rainbow
Israel Defense Forces troops destroyed 45 buildings during its six-day operation in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip - making 575 people homeless - the United Nations relief agency UNRWA said on Tuesday....
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 9:12am PDT
Afghanistan, the war the world forgot
The Independent has learnt that an all-party group of MPs from the Foreign Affairs Committee has returned from a visit to the country shocked and alarmed by what they witnessed. They warn that urgent action must be taken to save Afghanistan from plunging further into chaos because of Western neglect....
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 9:07am PDT
Iraqis Say U.S. Soldiers Steal During House Raids
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Besides the prisoner-abuse scandal, there is another, more pervasive problem Iraqis say they suffer daily at the hands of U.S. troops -- theft of money and other property during aggressive American raids....
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 8:57am PDT
Iraqis dismiss Bush's Abu Ghraib plan
US President George Bush's announcement he would demolish the notorious Abu Ghraib prison has drawn scant applause in Baghdad....
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 8:56am PDT
Sacred Shia site damaged in Najaf fighting
One of the most sacred Shia sites in Iraq was today damaged in clashes between US forces and fighters loyal to the radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr....
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 8:54am PDT
General Zinni slams NeoCons for the war. Gets branded 'anti-semitic' by some in the Pentag
General Zinni, former Commander of Central Command of U.S. Military, and Special Envoy to the Middle East in the Bush Administration until he resigned in disgust, said "Heads should roll at the Pentagon--Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, Feith and those who foisted the Iraq war on the U.S. despite my objectioins and those of most U.S. Generals including, Schwartkopf, Skowcroft, Clark, Shinseki and others."
Because of his criticism, some in the Pentagon have labeled him, "anti-semi...
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 12:49am PDT
US intelligence fears Iran duped hawks into Iraq war
An urgent investigation has been launched in Washington into whether Iran played a role in manipulating the US into the Iraq war by passing on bogus intelligence through Ahmad Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress, it emerged yesterday....
Posted: Mon, May 24, 2004 11:28pm PDT
Iraqi oil pipeline badly damaged
An oil pipeline that carries crude from the northern Kirkuk oilfields to Turkey has been bombed and majorily damaged....
Posted: Mon, May 24, 2004 9:18pm PDT