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textAristide faithful rally in Haiti by sources
Thousands have marched in Haiti's capital to express support for former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide....
Posted: Fri, Nov 26, 2004 10:08pm PST
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recent email from a friend living in Ukraine...
Posted: Fri, Nov 26, 2004 8:40pm PST
textDahr Jamail: 'Unusual Weapons' Used in Fallujah by Dahr Jamail (reposted)
BAGHDAD, Nov 26 (IPS) - The U.S. military has used poison gas and other non-conventional weapons against civilians in Fallujah, eyewitnesses report. ”Poisonous gases have been used in Fallujah,” 35-year-old trader from Fallujah Abu Hammad told IPS. ”They used everything -- tanks, artillery, infantry, poison gas. Fallujah has been bombed to the ground.” Hammad is from the Julan district of Fallujah where some of the heaviest fighting occurred. Other residents of that area report the use ...
Posted: Fri, Nov 26, 2004 6:14pm PST
text Israel faces Russian brain drain by BBC (reposted)
One million Russians have arrived in Israel since 1990, making them the country's largest group of immigrants, but poor employment prospects and the fear of terrorism has led to many deciding to return home....
Posted: Fri, Nov 26, 2004 4:30pm PST
textBeing disabled, Compassion Clubs, & the future. by rxcannabis
Future of evolving Canadian cannabis dynamic...
Posted: Fri, Nov 26, 2004 2:56pm PST
text Barghouti opts out of election by BBC (reposted)
Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti will not run in the Palestinian presidential election, an official says....
Posted: Fri, Nov 26, 2004 12:00pm PST
textComment Smoking while Iraq burns by UK Guardian
Iconic images inspire love and hate, and so it is with the photograph of James Blake Miller, the 20-year-old marine from Appalachia, who has been christened "the face of Falluja" by pro-war pundits, and the "the Marlboro man" by pretty much everyone else. Reprinted in more than a hundred newspapers, the Los Angeles Times photograph shows Miller "after more than 12 hours of nearly non-stop, deadly combat" in Falluja, his face coated in war paint, a bloody scratch ...
Posted: Fri, Nov 26, 2004 11:47am PST
text13 more bodies found in Mosul; Four workers of British firm confirmed dead by Albawaba
13bodies were discovered in and around the northern city of Mosul, the U.S. military said Friday, bringing the total nuber of corpses found in the area in the past week to35 ....
Posted: Fri, Nov 26, 2004 10:20am PST
textIraq political parties (including main Shia and Kurd parties) want polls to be put off by sources
Leading Iraqi political parties, including the group led by former presidential candidate Adnan Pachachi and the two main Kurdish parties, have signed a petition calling for the planned 30 January elections to be delayed....
Posted: Fri, Nov 26, 2004 10:13am PST
textUS marines killed in Falluja and security staff working for Britain killed in Baghdad by AL Jazeera (repost)
Falluja fighters have killed two US marines who were conducting a house search in the war-ravaged town, US military sources said....
Posted: Fri, Nov 26, 2004 10:09am PST
textAl-Barghuthi 'told' to drop candidacy by sources
Imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan al-Barghuthi has come under pressure from his Fatah faction to drop potentially divisive plans to run for Palestinian president from his Israeli jail cell....
Posted: Fri, Nov 26, 2004 10:04am PST
textThe SHORTWAVE REPORT 11/26/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! by Dan Roberts
A 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Spain, China, and Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Nov 25, 2004 6:12pm PST
textUS Denies Gassing Fallujah by IOL (reposted)
CAIRO, November 25 (IslamOnline.net) - The United States has refuted media reports that its forces have gassed people in the western Baghdad city of Fallujah....
Posted: Thu, Nov 25, 2004 3:24pm PST
text More mass graves discovered in Chechnya; children tortured to death by kavkaz
According to the reports from various human rights organizations, which Chechen Press news agency is referring to, new mass graves have been discovered. The graves contained the bodies dumped by invaders and their accomplices on the territory of Chechen Republic of Ichkeria....
Posted: Thu, Nov 25, 2004 3:02pm PST
textIraq: A Game of Political Dominos by IWPR
The pre-election political scene is still taking shape with solid alliances yet to be formed. By Ali al-Yassi in Baghdad (ICR No. 91, 23-Nov-04)...
Posted: Thu, Nov 25, 2004 12:36pm PST
textDeaths as blasts rock Samarra by ALJ
Two people have been killed and 14 wounded in bomb attacks, one of them involving a human bomber, in the Iraqi town of Samarra, police and hospital officials said....
Posted: Thu, Nov 25, 2004 12:04pm PST
textInsurgents step up the battle for Mosul by UK Guardian
Insurgents increased their efforts to take control of Mosul yesterday, ambushing a convoy of Kurdish peshmerga fighters and attacking the Kurdish deputy governor of Nineveh province. The US military commander in Mosul, Brigadier General Carter Ham, has warned that militants, mainly Sunni Arabs, are trying to foment civil war in the ethnically mixed city of 2 million. Three peshmerga were killed and seven injured when their convoy was attacked on the main road into eastern Mosul, said Ka...
Posted: Thu, Nov 25, 2004 11:54am PST
textAfter kidnapping, the party's over for foreigners in Afghan capital by Daily Star, Lebanon
KABUL: Before the kidnapping of three United Nations workers last month, Afghanistan's capital was beginning to build a reputation as a party town, but everything has changed in recent weeks. Even after the jubilation at the release Tuesday of the trio who were held hostage for nearly a month, Kabul remains a city gripped by security jitters and the whiff of hedonism that was discernible during the summer has faded....
Posted: Thu, Nov 25, 2004 11:52am PST
text Jailed Barghouti mulls leader bid by sources
There are indications that jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti may be considering running in the upcoming presidential elections. There is no confirmation, but officials in the Fatah movement have been quoted saying that he wants to stand....
Posted: Thu, Nov 25, 2004 11:48am PST
textPalestine: 'We are at war' by Al-Ahram Weekly (reposted)
There are some -- including in his Fatah movement -- who see Yasser Arafat's death as an opportunity for change. Not so Zakaria Zubeidi, leader of the Al-Aqsa Brigades in the northern West Bank. Graham Usher spoke with him in Jenin...
Posted: Thu, Nov 25, 2004 11:45am PST
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