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Iraq: Art under fire
Under Saddam, Iraqi artists were forced to produce works that glorified the leader and put him at the centre of everything. Now they are less constrained - and the subject they most want to depict is the violence all around them. Ghaith Abdul-Ahad reports...
Posted: Sun, Nov 21, 2004 5:20pm PST
Death threats and sectarian splits
Voters fearful and confused...
Posted: Sun, Nov 21, 2004 5:16pm PST
Capital Punishment for Anti-Occupation Iraqi Imams
BAGHDAD, November 21 (IslamOnline.net) – The interim Iraqi government of Iyad Allawi has threatened to charge anti-US occupation imams with high treason, which carries capital punishment, an Iraqi newspaper reported Saturday, November20 ....
Posted: Sun, Nov 21, 2004 2:30pm PST
International Internet Censorship: The propaganda war – who is the winner?
Freedom of expression won, when the Internet provider Mikael Storsjо reopened the Chechen web site that the security police had shut down. The situation is still embarrassing as he needed to hire web hosting from Sweden. The Finnish companies, included Storsjо’s own Casa Real, are afraid of pressure from the security police and for bad publicity....
Posted: Sun, Nov 21, 2004 1:33pm PST
Militant groups control 60 percent of Fallujah: witnesses
NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq, Nov. 21 (Xinhuanet) -- Militant groups in battle-torn Fallujah have controlled 60 percent of the central Iraqi city and surrounded dozens of US Marines in Jolan district,witnesses said Sunday....
Posted: Sun, Nov 21, 2004 1:20pm PST
Bodies Of Kurdish Fighters Who Collaborated With US Found In Mosul
The bodies of three men killed by insurgents have been found on a street in the Iraqi city of Mosul, a day after US troops discovered the bodies of nine Iraqi soldiers who had been shot in the head....
Posted: Sun, Nov 21, 2004 12:58pm PST
Iraqi Critics Speak Out on Occupation, Elections
On questions about the future of Iraq, the voices marginalized most in the Western press are those of Iraqis outside elite political circles. Dahr Jamail asks important questions of important people: the Iraqi public....
Posted: Sun, Nov 21, 2004 12:15pm PST
Dahr Jamail: More blood, More chaos
In Ramadi today 6 civilians were killed in clashes between the resistance and military.
The military sealed the city, closing all the roads while announcing over loudspeakers for residents in the city to hand over “terrorists.”
A man, woman and child died when the public bus they were riding in approached a US checkpoint there when they were riddled with bullets from anxious soldiers. A military spokesman said the bus was shot because it didn’t stop when they asked it to....
Posted: Sun, Nov 21, 2004 12:10pm PST
Iraqi civilians gunned down at Ramadi checkpoint
US marines have killed several Iraqi civilians when a bus drove through a checkpoint in the city of Ramadi, the US military and Iraqi police said....
Posted: Sun, Nov 21, 2004 12:08pm PST
Limited number of child soldiers, all sides implicated
After months of media reports highlighting the role of children in the Palestinian Intifada, the 2004 Global Report on the Use of Child Soldiers has found that this phenomenon remains the exception rather than the rule in Palestinian areas, although one which needs to be taken seriously.
The global report, issued by the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers on November 20 to coincide with the UN Children's day, indicates that all groups involved in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have h...
Posted: Sun, Nov 21, 2004 8:39am PST
Aid stalemate at the gates of Falluja
Amid warnings of a humanitarian crisis in Falluja, doctors and Red Cross officials say that plentiful medical supplies are reaching a hospital on the edge of the city - but there is no one to treat....
Posted: Sun, Nov 21, 2004 8:31am PST
Falluja women, children in mass grave
Residents of a village neighbouring Falluja have told Aljazeera that they helped bury the bodies of 73 women and children who were burnt to death by a US bombing attack....
Posted: Sun, Nov 21, 2004 8:30am PST
Child malnutrition soars in Iraq
Acute malnutrition among young children in Iraq has nearly doubled since the United States led the invasion of the country 20 months ago.
After the rate of acute malnutrition among children younger than five steadily declined to 4 per cent two years ago, it shot up to 7.7 per cent this year, according to a study conducted by Iraq's Health Ministry in co-operation with Norway's Institute for Applied International Studies and the UN Development Program....
Posted: Sun, Nov 21, 2004 8:27am PST
El accidente de Chernobyl y el aumento del cáncer en Suecia
La radiactividad liberada por el accidente de Chernobil podría ser responsable del aumento del número de casos de cáncer registrados en Suecia....
Posted: Sun, Nov 21, 2004 4:21am PST
What's in a Name? Insurgents and Resistance in Iraq
The assault on Fallujah is intended to eliminate 'insurgents' from one of the most important centers of opposition in Iraq and is therefore a significant moment in the struggle to control the country....
Posted: Sun, Nov 21, 2004 1:38am PST
Greek Lawyers Threaten To Sue Over Gay Alexander Film
Athens) The upcoming film Alexander and Oliver Stone its director are being threatened with a lawsuit for portraying Alexander the Great as a bisexual.
A group of Greek lawyers announced Friday that they have served Stone and Warner Bros film studios with "an extrajudicial note"...
Posted: Sun, Nov 21, 2004 1:03am PST
Falluja troops told to shoot on sight
On the eve of the assault on Falluja, the US military ordered troops to shoot any male on the street between the ages of 15 and 50 if they were seen as a security threat, regardless of whether they had a weapon....
Posted: Sun, Nov 21, 2004 12:55am PST
Warlord Hekmatyar calls on Afghans to wage jihad against US
KABUL - Warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who is wanted by Washington for terrorism has distributed a video recording in southern Afghanistan urging Afghans to wage jihad against America....
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 11:00pm PST
Campaign to select new Palestinian president starts
Palestinians on Saturday formally launched the campaign to select new president as candidates for the presidency of the Palestinian National Authority started seeking signatures to qualify for the Jan. 9 vote....
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 10:42pm PST
Muslim scholars say resistance a ‘religious duty’
EIRUT: The Council of Trustees of the International Federation of Muslim Scholars has issued a fatwa (a religious edict) deeming resistance to the foreign occupation forces in Iraq as a religious duty for whoever is capable of that inside and outside the country....
Posted: Sat, Nov 20, 2004 10:37pm PST