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textU.S. troops in Najaf come under mortar fire; U.S. likely to replace new Fallujah commander by repost
NAJAF, Iraq - Militiamen pounded a U.S. base Monday in the most intense attacks yet on U.S. troops in the Shiite city of Najaf, where the Americans have been holding back their full firepower to avoid enflaming the anger of Iraq's Shiite Muslim majority....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 6:55am PDT
textStudents in Mexico are victims of the Dirty War by RePost
In the last few months, several students have been attacked and beaten by undercover infiltrators for trying to have a voice in the university councils and the center of activism at UNAM - Okupa Che Guevara - is under threat of eviction. The current situation with Pavel (see below) has had very little coverage outside of the university and has continued to be declared by the media as a suicide. Pavel was very active and participated in a lot of events at Che and was a dedicated volunteer of S...
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 10:34pm PDT
textTorture commonplace, say inmates' families by Guardian UK
Luke Harding at Abu Ghraib prison, near Baghdad, where stories of US guards routinely abusing prisoners come as no surprise to Iraqis...
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 10:24pm PDT
textIraqis are disgusted but not surprised at PoW abuse by Patrick Cockburn in Baghdad
Karim Hassan, a retired teacher, said: "There was a story going around that the Americans were torturing people, and the imam in the local mosque said female detainees were raped by American soldiers."...
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 9:35pm PDT
textTwo killed and Sadr aide arrested in Iraq raid, residents say by nz herald
HILLA, Iraq - Two Iraqis were killed and an aide to rebel Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr was arrested in a raid by troops of US-led occupation forces in the Iraqi city of Hilla, residents of the city and Sadr aides said on Sunday....
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 3:27pm PDT
textU.S. Plan for Fallujah Hits Snag by wpostrepost
FALLUJAH, Iraq, May 2 -- The U.S. Marine plan to have former Iraqi soldiers restore order in Fallujah ran into trouble Sunday as the former Iraqi general heading the new force denied there were any foreign fighters in the city, calling into question his commitment to American military objectives. A few hours later, the top U.S. military commander said the general would not be allowed to lead the scores of armed men he already has mustered in the city....
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 3:26pm PDT
textAnger at heart of city besieged by Australian
HE was scarcely 120cm tall and when he removed the scarf masking his face I saw that his cheeks were smooth. He had beautiful brown eyes and a lovely smile. As American gunships fired into Fallujah one night last week, shaking the floor beneath our feet, this pretty 12-year-old boy described how he had tricked and killed a US sniper in the battle for the city....
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 3:22pm PDT
textIsraeli gunships blast building in Gaza by Aljazeera
Israeli helicopter gunships have attacked Gaza City, hitting a 14-storey block of flats....
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 1:52pm PDT
textLikud votes down Gaza withdrawal by bbc
Exit polls in Israel indicate that the governing Likud party has rejected Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to pull out from the Gaza strip....
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 1:08pm PDT
textUS suffers multiple attacks in Iraq by ALJ
A mortar attack has killed six US soldiers in western Iraq, with five more dying in other parts of the occupied country....
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 11:46am PDT
textSaddam General in Falluja Questions U.S. Demands by repost
FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - The general from Saddam Hussein's army put in charge of the volatile city of Falluja challenged his U.S. backers Sunday, saying they were wrong to say foreign Islamic guerrillas were behind an insurgency there....
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 11:08am PDT
textRemembering Falluja by Socialist Palestine
Here is a compelling article on Falluja from the Israeli paper, Haaretz. It contains a defense of Al Jazeera news service, and a summary of the slaughter. While the article does a great job of explaining some aspects of Falluja deleted by the US capitalist media, it does not hail the resistance of the united Iraqi people against U.S. imperialism. The people of the world can take pride in the heroic resistance, which proves that imperialism's grip on Iraqi can be challenged, and points...
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 9:29am PDT
textCinco horas de protesta en Quito/1o de Mayo en Am Latina by hoy
Ayer, en las marchas por el Día de Trabajo participaron alrededor de 40 mil personas. Representantes de los movimientos sociales se ubicaron detrás de una gran bandera roja donde se leía: "Trabajadores y fuerzas populares, fuera Gutiérrez, Gobierno popular"....
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 8:58am PDT
textAbortion, "reproductive rights", homosexuality and so on... THE BILLIONAIRE BOMB by original: Steven W. Mosher
Just look who's funding anti-population programs. Bill Gates ($63 billion), Warren Buffett ($28 billion), and Ted Turner ($9 billion) have billions on their minds, and not just in their bank accounts and stock portfolios. On a planet inhabited by 6 billion people, they claim that overpopulation is the greatest threat to survival in the 21st century — “the single most important issue facing mankind today,” according to Turner, founder of the Cable News Network (CNN). Turner statement ...
Posted: Sun, May 2, 2004 3:44am PDT
textROBERT FISK: Crude depictions of Arabs in Hollywood movies has led to racist abuse in Iraq by Robert Fisk, The Independent
Add to that the poisonous, racial dribble of a hundred Hollywood movies that depict Arabs as dirty, lecherous, untrustworthy and violent people - and soldiers are addicted to movies - and it's not difficult to see how some British scumbag will urinate into the face of a hooded man, how some American sadist will stand a hooded Iraqi on a box with wires tied to his hands. Even today, we still show the revolting Ashanti on our television stations, a feature film about the kidnapping of the wife ...
Posted: Sat, May 1, 2004 10:40pm PDT
textMexican Student Activist Found Dead: Justice for Pavel by Punx
Mexican Student Activist Found Dead: Justice for Pavel...
Posted: Sat, May 1, 2004 9:36pm PDT
textWarnings of abuse in Iraq's prisons that were ignored by UK Guardian
Photographs of American and British troops humiliating prisoners could change the public mood across the world. But the coalition has brushed aside similar complaints for six months...
Posted: Sat, May 1, 2004 7:52pm PDT
textUS report 'confirms' serial Iraq abuse by Aljazeera
An American magazine has reported that Iraqi prisoners faced numerous "sadistic, blatant and wanton criminal abuses" by US soldiers including sodomy and beatings....
Posted: Sat, May 1, 2004 7:44pm PDT
textSeven Westerners killed in attack in Saudi Arabia, one reportedly dragged behind car by repost
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) Gunmen entered the office of an oil contractor in Saudi Arabia and began shooting at random Saturday, killing at least seven people, including two American engineers. They then dragged one body down the street, a witness said....
Posted: Sat, May 1, 2004 5:08pm PDT
textFamilies return to devastated Falluja by Aljazeera
Hundreds of Iraqi families are returning to their homes in Falluja, west of the capital, after a month-long siege of the city by US occupation forces....
Posted: Sat, May 1, 2004 3:39pm PDT
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