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Palestinians killed in renewed Gaza fighting Four Palestinian resistance fighters are now reported to have died in clashes in the Gaza Strip which broke out after an Israeli military patrol was ambushed on Tuesday....
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 5:18pm PST
From Al Nakba to 'Anata: 56 Years of Home Demolitions "I never dreamed I would see my village," she said as the wetness pooled in the corner of her eyes. "I never dreamed I would go back there." And as I watched her choke back the tears, I couldn't help my own. But I wasn't as strong as the 16-year-old refugee girl that sat beside me and I had to reach up to wipe my eyes with the back of my hand....
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 5:15pm PST
Special Ops Threatened Govt Government Agents Who Saw Detainee Abuse Breaking: Special Ops Task Force Threatened Government Agents Who Saw Detainee Abuse in Iraq, Documents Obtained by ACLU Reveal...
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 4:13pm PST
GM cocaine grown in Colombia Article from the BBC:
Some Colombian drug growers are using genetically modified coca "trees" to boost cocaine production dramatically, government officials say....
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 3:30pm PST
Raed Jarrar: Cutting Iraq Apart About 600 leaders from Iraq's Shia Muslims announced plans to begin setting up their own autonomous region, following a meeting today in the holy city of Najaf. One of the puppets working with the allawi government announced: "We must turn ourselves into a regional unit in the context of a federal Iraq"....
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 3:04pm PST
Dahr Jamail In Iraq: So much loss… Last weekend alone, over 70 Iraqis were killed in violence around their country. Yet these are only those reported as a result of spectacular, “newsworthy” incidents like car bombs or clashes between the resistance and occupation forces....
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 3:02pm PST
AntiMcDonalds Daze in Israel A Short report - with pictures - of the annual, October 16th AntiMacDonalds Day in Israel....
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 1:36pm PST
War dodger claims U.S. guilty of war crimes - Claims refugee status There is a poll on http://www.canada.com/national/index.html on the
right hand side about allowing US soldiers to stay in Canada, related
to an article on Jeremy. Right now, only 5% say yes.... unbelievable!...
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 1:12pm PST
Nonviolent Demonstrations at Beit Ula 
For two days, the Palestinian village Beit Ula [near Hebron, West Bank] held demonstrations against the construction of the annexation barrier that is taking much of their land. International and Israeli activists joined the villagers in their non-violent protest against this manifestation of Israel's occupation and theft of Palestinian land. On the second day, the protesters successfully caused the halting of the that day's construction of the annexation barrier....
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 9:27am PST
Running Battles in Baghdad: Insurgents as Street Police American forces and Iraqi insurgents fought running battles in the heart of Baghdad yesterday as the latest American losses brought the number of US soldiers killed in combat in Iraq since the invasion last year close to 1,000....
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 9:26am PST
Shiite List to be Announced Hussein Shahristani, the Shiite scientist charged by Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani with cobbling together a big comprehensive Shiite list, said Monday that the full listing of candidate names (in ranked order) would be made available on Tuesday....
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 9:24am PST
Dahr Jamail In Iraq: Health Care Given A 'New Look' BAGHDAD, Dec 7 (IPS) - The Baghdad Medical City has begun to look nice in its new coat of paint.
It does not look that nice to Dr Hammad Hussein, ophthalmology resident at the centre. ”I have not seen anything which indicates any rebuilding aside from our new pink and blue colours here where our building and the escape ladders were painted,” he told IPS....
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 9:22am PST
Curfews Turn Mosul Into Ghost City MOSUL, December 7 (IslamOnline.net) – Residents of Iraq’s northern city of Mosul have been living a continuous nightmare due to the mid-day till early morning curfew imposed by US troops and city council....
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 9:21am PST
IRAQI PRESS MONITOR, 07 Dec 04 Iraqi Press Monitor is intended to give readers a sense of what Iraqi papers are reporting. Stories for the Iraqi Press Monitor are selected and summarised by Ali Mohammed Jawad and Ali Kadhim Marzook in Baghdad, and edited by Eric Watkins....
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 9:20am PST
Sex Slave Trade: Hundreds of Thousands of East European Women Sold For Sex Crime syndicates use a variety of methods to capture young women. A girl walking down a road in Moldova is forced into a car. An overflowing Romanian orphanage receives a visit from "social workers" offering "apprentice programs" for adolescent girls. A young Ukrainian woman desperate to help her starving parents responds to a newspaper advertisement for au pairs to work in Germany. An ambitious young graduate signs up with what appears to be a legitimate foreign corporati...
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 7:35am PST
FBI Letter Details Guantanamo Prisoner Abuses WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI agents saw military interrogators use abusive tactics on prisoners at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including a woman interrogator who grabbed a detainee's genitals, officials said on Monday....
Posted: Mon, Dec 6, 2004 9:06pm PST
Barghouti: He'll yet be their Mandela In 2004, there could be something for Israel to gain from contact with Barghouti. There won't be a "deal" - Israel will talk with him because it does not have a chance. But just so we're not surprised again when a once-in-a-generation chance comes in the Palestinian Authority's leadership, there should already be an examination of whether there is any basis to talks with Barghouti, the only one in the arena who has the potential to become a Palestinian Mandela....
Posted: Mon, Dec 6, 2004 4:46pm PST
Carnage becoming Routine in Iraq: Another Bloody Sunday ArabNews summarizes the carnage in Iraq on Sunday....
Posted: Mon, Dec 6, 2004 4:39pm PST
Clashes flare in Iraq's Sunni heartland Three anti-US fighters have been killed and four wounded in clashes with US forces in Iraq's northern al-Anbar province....
Posted: Mon, Dec 6, 2004 4:36pm PST
Dahr Jamail: Fallujah as a “Model City” Driving across Baghdad yesterday a GMC full of armed men races past our car, missing it by inches. Along with guns pointed out their windows at us (and all the other cars), a couple of the men hold their hands out, waving them down towards the ground in order to instruct the traffic they are pushing their way through to stay back....
Posted: Mon, Dec 6, 2004 4:35pm PST
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