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Naomi Klein on Iraq: "You asked for my evidence, Mr Ambassador. Here it is"
In Iraq, the US does eliminate those who dare to count the dead...
Posted: Fri, Dec 3, 2004 7:37pm PST
US Navy to probe Iraq photos
THE US navy is investigating photos posted on the internet that appear to show Iraqi detainees being abused by navy special forces during their capture in May 2003, a navy spokesman said today....
Posted: Fri, Dec 3, 2004 7:34pm PST
Palestine: And the occupation goes on...
Matthew Cassel writing from Jenin, occupied Palestine, Live from Palestine, 2 December 2004...
Posted: Fri, Dec 3, 2004 7:29pm PST
Very, Very Dirty Pictures; explicit, raw and uncensored
Very, Very Dirty Pictures; You want explicit? You want raw and uncensored and free of media bias? Here you go...
Posted: Fri, Dec 3, 2004 5:51pm PST
Jan. Elections Remain Misunderstood in U.S., Tenuous in Iraq
December 03, 2004
by Lisa Ashkenaz Croke
Dahr Jamail in Baghdad contributed to this piece....
Posted: Fri, Dec 3, 2004 2:31pm PST
Gunmen shoot 2 councilmen in central Iraq
Baghdad, Dec3 , SPA -- Two municipal councilmen from a town
north of Baghdad were ambushed and killed by gunmen Friday while on their way to a conference on the upcoming
elections, officials said....
Posted: Fri, Dec 3, 2004 2:26pm PST
Why Iraqis should boycott the election
Forty seven Iraqi political parties met on 17 November and made the decision to boycott the coming Iraq election. The People's Struggle Movement (al-Kifah al-Shabi), which I represent, was one of those groups....
Posted: Fri, Dec 3, 2004 2:20pm PST
Eastern Ukrainians Insist Upon Their Rights to New Elections, Autonomy
Eastern Ukrainians Insist Upon Their Rights to New Elections, Autonomy...
Posted: Fri, Dec 3, 2004 1:51pm PST
Justice for Bhopal
The Union Carbide's Pesticide Factory In BHOPAL, INDIA DISASTER The World’s Worst-Ever Industrial Catastrophe...
Posted: Fri, Dec 3, 2004 9:52am PST
Afghan Recovery Report No. 150
WELCOME TO IWPR'S AFGHAN RECOVERY REPORT, No. 150, December 02, 2004
ARE AFGHANS BEING POISONED BY ANTI-DRUG EFFORT? Residents of Kunar and
Nangarhar blame aerial eradication of opium poppies for an outbreak of
illness, and the government promises to investigate. By Hayatullah
Gaheez
in Jalalabad and Amanullah Nasrat in Kabul
CRIME INCREASING IN THE NORTH Three failed presidential candidates
with
power-bases in the region deny speculation that they are behind a
sudden
incr...
Posted: Fri, Dec 3, 2004 7:00am PST
IRAQI PRESS MONITOR, 03 Dec 04
WELCOME TO IWPR'S IRAQI PRESS MONITOR, No. 203, December 3, 2004
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: Fri, Dec 3, 2004 6:58am PST
Iraqi Resistance Attracts European Youth: Report
BRUSSELS, December 3 (IslamOline.net & News Agencies) – Europe’s top anti-terror official has acknowledged that many young European Muslims have increasingly been drawn to Iraq to receive military training and fight against foreign troops there....
Posted: Fri, Dec 3, 2004 6:53am PST
At least 20 dead in Baghdad attacks
Two major attacks took place Friday against police stations in different part of Baghdad, killing at least 20 people, including six police officers. One of the attacks was a car bomb, police said....
Posted: Fri, Dec 3, 2004 6:51am PST
12/3: International Day of Disabled Persons
International Day of Disabled Persons
3 December
"Nothing about Us Without Us"...
Posted: Fri, Dec 3, 2004 1:13am PST
New bulletin from the Basque Observatory of Human Rights
We are getting in touch again to let you know that our Bulletin Nº 17 is available at the usual address. Alternatively, you can access it directly by clicking on this link:
http://www.behatokia.info/docs/boletinak/Islada171104eng.zip...
Posted: Fri, Dec 3, 2004 1:06am PST
Fallujah Residents Face Choice: Retina Scan and Take ID Card....Or Die
A caller to the Alex Jones show played a segment from Tom Brokaw's last broadcast on NBC which featured a report from Iraq clearly stating that residents of Fallujah (civilians, NOT insurgents) would be forced to give fingerprints, retina scan and take an ID card or be killed. Recorded on the
Alex Jones Show December 2 2004...
Posted: Fri, Dec 3, 2004 12:38am PST
Juan Cole: Iraqi Election News
Al-Hayat says that the Sunni tribal shaikhs with whom Prime Minister Iyad Allawi met in Jordan on Thusday pleaded with him to postpone the elections. The leader of the Sunni clans of the Dulaim, Majid Ali Sulaiman, told al-Hayat that the shaikhs of the Iraqi tribes "meet Allawi during the past two days, and requested him to postpone the elections to a time when the Iraqi leadership feels it is able to carry them out without security problems." He said Allawi told himm that the elect...
Posted: Thu, Dec 2, 2004 9:32pm PST
Palestine: Time for accountability
As the desire for change sweeps through the territories, Khaled Amayreh talks to former Palestinian information minister Nabil Amr about the future of the PA...
Posted: Thu, Dec 2, 2004 9:27pm PST
Iraq: To vote or not to vote
The fate of the Iraqi elections is fraught with uncertainty as the country remains divided over the election date. Omayma Abdel-Latif reports...
Posted: Thu, Dec 2, 2004 9:25pm PST