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Wave of Violence in Iraq as Marine Is Killed in Fallujah BAGHDAD, 19 November 2004 — A wave of violence engulfed Iraq as a US Marine and an Iraqi soldier were killed in Fallujah yesterday. And17 other people died in attacks elsewhere in Iraq....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 5:11pm PST
Rare Blood Infection Surfaces in Injured U.S. Soldiers ATLANTA (Reuters) - An expectedly high number of U.S. soldiers injured in the Middle East and Afghanistan are testing positive for a rare, hard-to-treat blood infection in military hospitals, Army doctors reported on Thursday....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 4:24pm PST
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 11/19/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! 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, Russia, China, and Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 4:24pm PST
Gaza's blocked arteries 
It is a public holiday in Gaza - with Eid and the period of official mourning for Yasser Arafat - so there is no better time to sample what it is like for Palestinians travelling through the Israeli-occupied strip.
Gaza is a 40km by 5km (25-mile by three-mile) ribbon of land along the south-east corner of the Mediterranean Sea, home to some 1.3 million Palestinians and 8,000 Jewish settlers....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 3:35pm PST
Egypt furious after Israel kills policemen CAIRO: Cairo lodged a formal protest Thursday after the Israeli Army killed three Egyptian border policemen by mistake, threatening to plunge their delicate diplomatic ties into crisis.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sought to defuse the row by personally calling President Hosni Mubarak to express "deep sorrow" over the incident on the Gaza border and promised to keep him abreast of an official investigation....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 3:16pm PST
Al-Anssi: the FBI ruined my life he Yemeni FBI collaborator who attempted to commit suicide last Monday in front of the White House in Washington DC had revealed that his life was ruined after he cooperated with the FBI.
In an unprecedented act that triggered emotions and shock among Yemenis in the country and abroad, Muhamed Mohsen Al-Anssi, 52, tried to set himself ablaze when he was denied the opportunity to meet US President George W Bush and when he was unable to deliver a letter in which he apparently complained about...
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 3:14pm PST
Afghanistan: Refugees in their own land KABUL, November 19 (Online): Among the many challenges facing Afghanistan, one that rarely gets attention is the complex issue of internally displaced people.
There are thousands of internal refugees across the country, many living in isolated desert camps....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 3:11pm PST
Dahr Jamail: Media Repression in 'Liberated' Land BAGHDAD, November 18, 2004 - Journalists are increasingly being detained and threatened by the U.S.-installed interim government in Iraq. Media have been stopped particularly from covering recent horrific events in Fallujah.
The "100 Orders" penned by former U.S. administrator in Iraq L. Paul Bremer include Order 65 passed March 20 to establish an Iraqi communications and media commission. This commission has powers to control the media because it has complete control over l...
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 3:09pm PST
Iraqi Election Boycott 47 Iraqi political parties and related bodies, meeting at the headquarters of the Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars at Baghdad's Umm al-Qura mosque (in Saddam's time, Umm al-Marek, the Mother of Battles), have decided to boycott the alleged elections supposedly scheduled for January (and required under the terms of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1546). In their statement, they have said that the election results are a foregone conclusion, with rewards already lined up for the parties co...
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 3:05pm PST
Rebels hit Mosul governor’s office BAGHDAD, NOVEMBER 18: Guerrillas in Mosul attacked the governor’s office and there was bloodshed elsewhere in the north, as US forces wound down their offensive against the shattered rebel stronghold of Falluja....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 3:01pm PST
Palestinian groups to field candidate Five Palestinian factions have agreed to field a joint candidate in the 9 January presidential election to replace the late Yasir Arafat, an official said.
Two of the groups, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, boycotted the previous Palestinian election in 1996. Both factions rejected Arafat's interim peace deals with Israel....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 2:57pm PST
UN warns of Afghan 'drug state' 
The UN has warned that Afghanistan could become a "narco-state" after opium cultivation rose by two-thirds this year....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 2:56pm PST
FALLUJAH IS JUST THE START: THE PROGRAM IS WAR It argues that we have been led to believe in a false idea of war, that this is the big lie of governments, how the conflicts at the moment are the continuing practice of the US administration, before and after 911, and nothing to do with terrorism...
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 11:16am PST
Israel releases senior Hamas leader A senior member of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas has been released from an Israeli prison after completing a two-year sentence....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 10:52am PST
Settlers' assaults bar Palestinians from attending school Some 20 Palestinian children from the south Hebron hills area cannot attend school due to continuing harassment and assaults by residents of the nearby outpost of Havat Maon....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 10:47am PST
Refugees from Fallujah struggle just to get by Fallujans in Flight: Transit Camps Are Not Much Safer Than Siege They Left...
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 10:35am PST
US Losses In Fallujah to Overweight Victory: Expert PARIS, November 18 (IslamOnline.net) – Washington will win the military battle in the western Iraqi city of Fallujah but its strategic looses will certainly outweigh such a victory, said a French strategic expert.
Branding the US practices against the Fallujah residents as "state terrorism," Pascal Boniface, Director of the Institute for International and Strategic Studies in Paris, expected the onslaught to further fan anti-US feelings in the entire Islamic world....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 10:32am PST
What Palestinians should do now The first priority for Palestinian leaders now must be to defend their people against Israel's relentless colonization and violence and not to negotiate with Israeli guns to Palestinian heads. They must formulate a national strategy to regain Palestinian rights enshrined in UN Resolutions, clearly explain this strategy, and organize Palestinians and allies everywhere to struggle for it, starting with full implementation of the ICJ decision on the West Bank wall. Palestinians should seek to em...
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 10:26am PST
Dahr Jamail: The Streets of Baghdad We had our daily car bomb today when a suicide bomber drove his car into a US patrol as it passed near the Yarmouk police station. Several Iraqis were killed, with no report yet on US casualties. I felt the rumble even though I was on a street far away from the blast-at least 5 miles distant....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 10:13am PST
The Failure of the Corporate Media's Coverage in Iraq As the situation in Iraq continues to grow more bloody by the day, we hear an address by Columbia University professor Mahmood Mamdani discussing the corporate media's coverage of Iraq and the U.S. assault on Fallujah....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 10:05am PST
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