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textIsraeli F16 strikes local car in Nablus by update
GAZA, May 23 (Xinhuanet) -- An Israeli F16 warplane on Sunday fired a rocket at a local Palestinian car driving in the center of the northern West Bank town of Nablus and killed at least two Palestinians, medical sources and witnesses reported....
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 10:12am PDT
textIsraeli Justice Minister Yosef Lapid: Demolition of Gaza homes must end by haaretz
Justice Minister Yosef Lapid on Sunday harshly criticized Israel's demolition of Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip, saying it must end and warning that it could seriously damage Israel's standing in the world. Speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting, Lapid said Israel must halt the destruction. "The demolition of houses in Rafah must stop. It is not humane, not Jewish, and causes us grave damage in the world."...
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 9:43am PDT
textU.S.-Led Force Storms Kufa Mosque in Attack on Iraq Militia by repost
KUFA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces and Iraqi soldiers launched a major offensive against a Shi'ite militia on Sunday, killing about 20 in one raid on a mosque and pounding other positions around the holy city of Najaf....
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 9:40am PDT
textThe Deir Yassin Massacre: 'We Created Terror Among the Arabs' by WILLIAM MARTIN, counterpunch.org
There will never be a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict until Israel takes responsibility, under U.N. Resolution 194, calling for reparation of the Palestinian refugees, and recognizes the immense suffering it caused at that time. We need also to recognize the US is giving unqualified moral support to a state that is based on racial purity and one that is intrinsically expansionist....
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 3:51am PDT
textMonsanto Statment on Candian Supreme Court Decision by Monsanto, reposted by RTC activist
(May 21, 2004) - Monsanto Canada today welcomed the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in ruling that the subject matter claimed within its patent for Roundup Ready canola falls within the Patent Act and that Mr. Percy Schmeiser and Schmeiser Enterprises Ltd. of Bruno, Saskatchewan infringed that patent....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 11:50pm PDT
textCanada Rules in Favor of Monsanto over Seed Saving Farmer by Organic Consumers Association
The Supreme Court of Canada made biotechnology history Friday with a 5-4 ruling that a Saskatchewan farmer violated a patent Monsanto Canada Inc. held on genes of genetically engineered canola seeds....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 11:45pm PDT
textCurrently Employed SCI-Green Prison Guard Supervised Torture of Prisoners in Iraq by thejerichomovement
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Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 11:09pm PDT
textSurveying the ruins of Rafah by bbc
The high-level United Nations delegation was making its way down one of Rafah's ruined streets....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:57pm PDT
textIsrael proposes payment for homes razed in Gaza Strip by haaretz
Israel intends to offer compensation to the owners of hundreds of homes along the Philadelphi route, on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, if the buildings are damaged in the framework of the Israel Defense Forces' operation to broaden the road. The IDF operation is aimed at increasing security and preventing the smuggling of weapons and other military material into the Strip through tunnels from Sinai....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:55pm PDT
textSurvey: 43% of Israeli teenagers support refusenik stance by Haaretz
Nearly half of Israeli teens from both the left and the right support refusing certain military orders, according to a survey conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute two months ago....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:49pm PDT
textPalestinians Storm UN Aid Convoy After Israeli Raid by repost
RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Dozens of Palestinians, angry over Israel's bloodiest raid in the Gaza Strip in years, smashed the windows of a U.N. car Saturday and mobbed a shipment of humanitarian aid. "Where have you been?" one man screamed as others pounded on the cars in the U.N. convoy as it entered a sealed-off neighborhood in Rafah refugee camp to survey damage and deliver aid supplies, including powdered milk....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:46pm PDT
textIraqis lose right to sue troops by Guardian
Military win immunity pledge in deal on UN vote...
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:45pm PDT
textIn the Shadows of Abu-Ghraib Prison by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Many of the Americans working in the prisons of Iraq, especially in the reserves, are cops or prison guards in their civilian lives. Indeed, one of the men identified as a suspect in the brutal mistreatment of people in Abu Ghraib, indeed a corporal in the Army, works here, at SCI-Greene!...
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:45pm PDT
textReport: US general witnessed Iraq abuse by ALJ
A military police commander at Abu Ghraib prison is to testify that the top US general in Iraq witnessed some of the abuses....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:30pm PDT
textA Marine's tale: 'We killed 30 civilians in six weeks. I felt we were committing genocide' by Natasha Saulnier, The Independent
Back home in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, he says the cause of the uprising in Iraq is that "we killed a lot of innocent people...We would take over villages and control checkpoints...My men and I would fire warning shots at oncoming vehicles...if they didn't stop, we didn't have any qualms about loading them up." The Marines were told that Iraqis were filling ambulances with explosives, and that soldiers were dressed as civilians, but after pouring fire into vehicles and ...
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 9:51pm PDT
textRAFAH: A brother, a sister, and a morgue too full for them both by Donald Macintyre in Rafah, The Independent
Ahmed Mughayer, 14, was laid out with 13 other corpses on the floor of the refrigeration room of a flower and plant growers' firm on the outskirts of town. Dr Ahmed Abu Nkaira removed the sheet and raised Ahmed's trunk for us to see where the bullet had made a small incision on his forehead just above his hairline. Then he pointed to the exit wound, a much larger and bloodier hole in the back of his head. Earlier, back at the hospital, he had brought out the body of Asmaa, his 16-year-old sis...
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 8:27pm PDT
textRevelations Lead to Rumsfeld's Door by iskra
As we go to press, senior CIA officials, both past and present, have reportedly leaked that Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld approved the extreme interrogation methods used against Iraqi detainees under U.S. control....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 6:23pm PDT
textUS Enters Kufa, Kills At Least 17 Iraqis by repost
KUFA, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. soldiers killed 17 suspected insurgents early Sunday and found a large cache of weapons at a mosque during an operation in the city of Kufa, a stronghold of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mehdi Army militia, military officials said....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 4:33pm PDT
textBush suffers minor injuries in bike accident by repost
US President George Bush suffers abrasions in mountain mishap. US President George Bush fell off his mountain bike while completing the 25-kilometre stretch of a 27-kilometre biking course on his Crawford, Texas ranch....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 4:04pm PDT
textUS forces re-enter Karbala by ALJ
US occupation forces have re-entered Karbala's city centre, but find no signs of the Mahdi Army....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 3:59pm PDT
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