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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
Bush rules out any delay in bogus Iraqi election Before the Iraqi elections planned for January 30 get underway, it is clear that the exercise has nothing to do with bringing democracy to the Iraqi people....
Posted: Mon, Dec 6, 2004 7:23am PST
Jan. Elections Remain Misunderstood in U.S., Tenuous in Iraq by Lisa Ashkenaz Croke, The NewStandard
Dahr Jamail in Baghdad contributed to this piece....
Posted: Mon, Dec 6, 2004 6:47am PST
Kaddoumi: Fatah may expel Barghouthi for election bid TUNIS - The new chief of the dominant Palestinian Fatah movement threatened to expel Marwan Barghouthi, a popular leader jailed by Israel, if he stays in the presidential race to succeed Yasser Arafat....
Posted: Mon, Dec 6, 2004 6:46am PST
Falluja: the Beginning of the Gulag Archipelago of Iraq remember the post last week about the plans of the Marines to require returning Fallujans to submit to retinal scans and carry ID badges at all times? the sources were dismissed at lacking credibility, but it turns out to be true, and note also that young males may be subjected to forced labor as well...
Posted: Sun, Dec 5, 2004 10:31pm PST
Iraq violence spurs calls for poll delay More than 90 deaths in three days have added weight to calls from Iraqi politicians seeking to delay planned 30 January elections, arguing that the climate of violence could lead to the results being challenged....
Posted: Sun, Dec 5, 2004 6:51pm PST
Iraq: Harvest of death The grim routine of repeated violence may have a numbing effect when viewed from afar, but that is not so for those on the receiving end. Yesterday's news from Iraq was bad enough to make headlines on an otherwise quiet Sunday, but it also sharpens increasingly troubling questions about how the country's mayhem will end....
Posted: Sun, Dec 5, 2004 6:48pm PST
Sistani poll official in 'US custody' The man in charge of drawing up an electoral list backed by Grand Ayat Allah Ali al-Sistani, the influential Iraqi Shia Muslim leader, has been arrested by the US military, an aide said....
Posted: Sun, Dec 5, 2004 4:19pm PST
Reporting on the Ground from Iraq: An Interview with Patrick Cockburn By Alan Maass
Counterpunch.org
December 5, 2004...
Posted: Sun, Dec 5, 2004 12:45pm PST
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