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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
Breakthrough at 1st Latin American Working Class Film & Video Festival The first Latin American Working Class Film and Video Festival was held in Buenos Aires this past month. Plans are being made to tour it throughout the US and internationally....
Posted: Sun, Dec 5, 2004 12:32pm PST
U.S. plan in Iraq doesn’t address Kurdish group’s concerns U.S proposals for a unified Iraq can only lead to civil war, according to some members of the main ethnic group in North Iraq....
Posted: Sun, Dec 5, 2004 11:30am PST
Army base workers attacked in Iraq Assailants firing from two cars have killed up to 20 Iraqis as they were heading to work at a US military facility in the northern city of Tikrit while separate attacks killed four Iraqi security personnel in nearby towns....
Posted: Sun, Dec 5, 2004 11:02am PST
Arab/Kurdish, Sunni/Shiite Violence Flares, Killing Dozens The violence in Iraq on Saturday, which killed at least 40 and wounded many more, was particularly worrying because it was again characterized by a strong element of ethnic warfare....
Posted: Sun, Dec 5, 2004 9:57am PST
Iraqi Red Crescent Pulls Out of Fallujah The Iraqi Red Crescent Society withdrew from the battleground city of Fallujah today amid concerns over continuing insecurity, the organisation’s chief said....
Posted: Sun, Dec 5, 2004 9:46am PST
Refugees rally for Falluja return More than a thousand Falluja residents displaced by the US-led attack on their city have rallied to demand they should be allowed to return home....
Posted: Sun, Dec 5, 2004 9:44am PST
Amnesty Int. condemns torture in Spain Amnesty International has released a report condemning the torture of Basque detainees and immigrants in Spain....
Posted: Sat, Dec 4, 2004 11:19pm PST
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