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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI agents saw military interrogators use abusive tactics on prisoners at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, including a woman interrogator who grabbed a detainee's genitals, officials said on Monday....
Posted: Mon, Dec 6, 2004 9:06pm PST
In 2004, there could be something for Israel to gain from contact with Barghouti. There won't be a "deal" - Israel will talk with him because it does not have a chance. But just so we're not surprised again when a once-in-a-generation chance comes in the Palestinian Authority's leadership, there should already be an examination of whether there is any basis to talks with Barghouti, the only one in the arena who has the potential to become a Palestinian Mandela....
Posted: Mon, Dec 6, 2004 4:46pm PST
ArabNews summarizes the carnage in Iraq on Sunday....
Posted: Mon, Dec 6, 2004 4:39pm PST
Three anti-US fighters have been killed and four wounded in clashes with US forces in Iraq's northern al-Anbar province....
Posted: Mon, Dec 6, 2004 4:36pm PST
Driving across Baghdad yesterday a GMC full of armed men races past our car, missing it by inches. Along with guns pointed out their windows at us (and all the other cars), a couple of the men hold their hands out, waving them down towards the ground in order to instruct the traffic they are pushing their way through to stay back....
Posted: Mon, Dec 6, 2004 4:35pm PST
Before the Iraqi elections planned for January 30 get underway, it is clear that the exercise has nothing to do with bringing democracy to the Iraqi people....
Posted: Mon, Dec 6, 2004 7:23am PST
by Lisa Ashkenaz Croke, The NewStandard
Dahr Jamail in Baghdad contributed to this piece....
Posted: Mon, Dec 6, 2004 6:47am PST
TUNIS - The new chief of the dominant Palestinian Fatah movement threatened to expel Marwan Barghouthi, a popular leader jailed by Israel, if he stays in the presidential race to succeed Yasser Arafat....
Posted: Mon, Dec 6, 2004 6:46am PST
remember the post last week about the plans of the Marines to require returning Fallujans to submit to retinal scans and carry ID badges at all times? the sources were dismissed at lacking credibility, but it turns out to be true, and note also that young males may be subjected to forced labor as well...
Posted: Sun, Dec 5, 2004 10:31pm PST
More than 90 deaths in three days have added weight to calls from Iraqi politicians seeking to delay planned 30 January elections, arguing that the climate of violence could lead to the results being challenged....
Posted: Sun, Dec 5, 2004 6:51pm PST
The grim routine of repeated violence may have a numbing effect when viewed from afar, but that is not so for those on the receiving end. Yesterday's news from Iraq was bad enough to make headlines on an otherwise quiet Sunday, but it also sharpens increasingly troubling questions about how the country's mayhem will end....
Posted: Sun, Dec 5, 2004 6:48pm PST
The man in charge of drawing up an electoral list backed by Grand Ayat Allah Ali al-Sistani, the influential Iraqi Shia Muslim leader, has been arrested by the US military, an aide said....
Posted: Sun, Dec 5, 2004 4:19pm PST
By Alan Maass
Counterpunch.org
December 5, 2004...
Posted: Sun, Dec 5, 2004 12:45pm PST
The first Latin American Working Class Film and Video Festival was held in Buenos Aires this past month. Plans are being made to tour it throughout the US and internationally....
Posted: Sun, Dec 5, 2004 12:32pm PST
U.S proposals for a unified Iraq can only lead to civil war, according to some members of the main ethnic group in North Iraq....
Posted: Sun, Dec 5, 2004 11:30am PST
Assailants firing from two cars have killed up to 20 Iraqis as they were heading to work at a US military facility in the northern city of Tikrit while separate attacks killed four Iraqi security personnel in nearby towns....
Posted: Sun, Dec 5, 2004 11:02am PST
EILAT, Israel - Egypt freed an Israeli Arab man convicted of spying in exchange for Israel's release of six Egyptian students Sunday, a swap that signaled a warming of relations that had been severely strained by the four-year-old Palestinian uprising....
Posted: Sun, Dec 5, 2004 10:20am PST
The violence in Iraq on Saturday, which killed at least 40 and wounded many more, was particularly worrying because it was again characterized by a strong element of ethnic warfare....
Posted: Sun, Dec 5, 2004 9:57am PST
The Iraqi Red Crescent Society withdrew from the battleground city of Fallujah today amid concerns over continuing insecurity, the organisation’s chief said....
Posted: Sun, Dec 5, 2004 9:46am PST
More than a thousand Falluja residents displaced by the US-led attack on their city have rallied to demand they should be allowed to return home....
Posted: Sun, Dec 5, 2004 9:44am PST