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textPrisoner abuse 'on wider scale', US report says by Guardian
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
text‘Valley of Peace’ turns into killing field by Middle East Online (repost)
Holy burial grounds in Iraqi city of Najaf witness daily engagements between US troops, Mehdi Army....
Posted: Wed, May 26, 2004 10:52am PDT
textTop Sadr aide seized in war-torn Najaf by BBC
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
textBUSH TALIBAN supports "Axis of Repression" by Tortuga Bi LIBERTY
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
textRobert Fisk: Israeli subcontractors involved in directing interrogations at Abu Ghraib by Robert Fisk, The Independent
...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
textStatement from Annette Auguste (So Anne) by sources
Pétionville Penitentiary, Haiti, 23rd May 2004...
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 9:57pm PDT
textIraqi weapons pipeline probed by Mark dameli
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
textFreedom Summer Palestine 2004 by ISM
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
textMehdi Army Grows as Tempers Rage Over ‘Wedding Massacre’ by Dahr Jamail: The NewStandrad (repost)
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
textGaza raids 'left 2,000 homeless' by bbc
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
textPalestinians stranded on Rafah border by Aljazeera
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
textUN Iraq resolution needs 'improving' by ALJ
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
textUNRWA: IDF razed 45 buildings in Rafah during Operation Rainbow by haaretz
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
textAfghanistan, the war the world forgot by independent
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
textIraqis Say U.S. Soldiers Steal During House Raids by repost
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
textIraqis dismiss Bush's Abu Ghraib plan by ALJ
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
textSacred Shia site damaged in Najaf fighting by Guardian UK
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
textGeneral Zinni slams NeoCons for the war. Gets branded 'anti-semitic' by some in the Pentag by SAM HAMOD, Counterpunch
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
textUS intelligence fears Iran duped hawks into Iraq war by Guardian
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
textIraqi oil pipeline badly damaged by ALJ
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
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