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Hamas' Canadian operative convicted Jamal Zakariya Abdel Al Aqel, 24, the Palestinian with Canadian citizenship accused of planning to target a senior Israeli government official and members of the American and Canadian Jewish communities, was sentenced to four years in jail by the Erez Military Court on Wednesday....
Posted: Thu, Nov 25, 2004 7:18am PST
Eyewitness: Farewell to Falluja US forces are consolidating their hold over the Iraqi city of Falluja, scene of fierce fighting in recent weeks. The BBC News website spoke by phone to Fadhil Badrani, an Iraqi journalist and resident of Falluja who reports regularly for Reuters and the BBC World Service in Arabic.
We are publishing his and other eyewitness accounts from the city in order to provide the fullest possible range of perspectives from those who are there:...
Posted: Thu, Nov 25, 2004 12:28am PST
US Soldier Charged With Murdering Iraqi FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) - A U.S. soldier was arrested and jailed on murder charges Wednesday in the death of an Iraqi civilian in January....
Posted: Wed, Nov 24, 2004 3:49pm PST
The OTPOR factor in the Ukraine? First it was Georgia, now it is the Ukraine. Pro-western factions ready to sell out to the Washington camp, orchestrated by their foreign masters, sweep to power on the crest of a wave of popular revolt, hooliganism and riots. The Otpor factor. However there is a difference. Eduard Shevardnazde had alienated his people against him, whereas the Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanukovich, has just over half of his electorate on his side....
Posted: Wed, Nov 24, 2004 1:04pm PST
Crowded field for Palestinian election After days of internal haggling, Fatah has decided unanimously to nominate Mahmud Abbas as its candidate for the forthcoming Palestinian Authority presidential election scheduled for 9 January....
Posted: Wed, Nov 24, 2004 1:00pm PST
Why the BBC ducks the Palestinian Story In South Africa, the BBC made it clear that the platform from which it was reporting was one of abhorrence of the state crime of apartheid. No Afrikaaner was ritually rushed into a studio to explain a storming of a township. There is no such platform of the BBC's in Israel/Palestine, where the situation is as bad - apartheid, discrimination, racism, ethnic cleansing as rife as ever it was in the Cape or the Orange Free State
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Despite all this, the sheer imagery of the crisis - tank a...
Posted: Wed, Nov 24, 2004 12:16pm PST
Arafat's New "One State Solution" Arafat was shit and so ar ehis supporters...
Posted: Wed, Nov 24, 2004 11:36am PST
US soldiers killed in Afghan attack Two American soldiers have been killed and another wounded by a homemade bomb in central Afghanistan's Uruzgan province while an Afghan civilian was killed in a rocket attack in the southeast, the US military said....
Posted: Wed, Nov 24, 2004 9:23am PST
US-led troops raid villages near Baghdad Thousands of US-led troops are conducting a campaign of raids on towns and villages south of Baghdad, the US military said on Wednesday.
Unlike this month's storming of Falluja, west of the capital, there has been relatively little combat since the offensive began on Tuesday, but rather a series of raids on resistance strongholds....
Posted: Wed, Nov 24, 2004 9:21am PST
UN envoy: Syria ready to resume peace talks with Israel ''without conditions'' Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said he is ready to restart negotiations with Israel "without conditions," UN Middle East envoy Terje Roed-Larsen said Wednesday. "President Assad had reiterated to me today that he has an outstretched hand to his Israeli counterpart, that he is willing to go to the table without conditions," Roed-Larsen said Wednesday after talks with the Syrian leader....
Posted: Wed, Nov 24, 2004 9:19am PST
Two dead in Kirkuk as ''Zarqawi'' slams Muslim scholars Gunmen in the northern city of Kirkuk attacked Iraqi National Guard forces, killing one soldier and a civilian in the drive-by shooting, the US military said Wednesday. The attackers fired from their car on Iraqi forces helping a civilian with his vehicle, the military said in a statement, cited by The AP. Another Iraqi guardsman suffered injuries in the incident....
Posted: Wed, Nov 24, 2004 9:18am PST
Hamas Likely to Run in Presidential Elections NABLUS , November 24 (IslamOnline.net) – The Islamic resistance movement Hamas is likely to run in the upcoming Palestinian presidential elections by nominating a candidate or supporting a certain runner if it serves best the interests of the Palestinian people, a Hamas politburo member said Tuesday, November23 ....
Posted: Wed, Nov 24, 2004 9:17am PST
Order 81: Iraq's new patent law is a declaration of war against farmers ust how evil can this occupation get?
When former Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) administrator L. Paul Bremer III left Baghdad after the so-called "transfer of sovereignty" in June 2004, he left behind the 100 orders he enacted as chief of the occupation authority in Iraq. Among them is Order 81 on "Patent, Industrial Design, Undisclosed Information, Integrated Circuits and Plant Variety."...
Posted: Wed, Nov 24, 2004 9:14am PST
Ukraine Political Crisis Deepens As Opposition Protests Grow The political crisis in Ukraine deepened last night after the opposition leader, Viktor Yushchenko, declared himself winner in Sunday's presidential run-off against Viktor Yanukovich. We go to Kiev for a report from Independent reporter Askold Krushelnycky....
Posted: Wed, Nov 24, 2004 8:53am PST
Palestinian girl shot in the head by Israelis was alive and 'scared to death' when killed "It's a little girl. She's running defensively eastwards, a girl of about 10. She's behind the embankment, scared to death."
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Israeli soldiers continued firing at a Palestinian girl killed in Gaza last month well after she had been identified as a frightened child...the family's Israeli lawyer believes - and Palestinian witnesses said last month - that she was wounded but alive when the commander fired his first two shots, he has not been charged with manslaughter, apparently...
Posted: Wed, Nov 24, 2004 8:38am PST
Intimidation by Israeli-Linked Organization MEMRI Aimed at US Academic Juan Cole This was on Juan Cole's site today:...
Posted: Tue, Nov 23, 2004 11:59pm PST
MPs call for Blair's impeachment MPs will call for Tony Blair to be impeached for "gross misconduct" over the Iraq war on Wednesday....
Posted: Tue, Nov 23, 2004 11:49pm PST
Fallujah and the laws of war Even as US forces launch new offensives against Iraqi cities, the flow of reports of serious war crimes committed by the American military in the assault on Fallujah continues. The United States and world media have focussed on one incident that occurred in full view of a television crew—the slaying of a defenceless Iraqi prisoner. It has been portrayed as an isolated incident....
Posted: Tue, Nov 23, 2004 10:40pm PST
Witnesses say US forces killed unarmed civilians Allegations of widespread abuse by US forces in Fallujah, including the killing of unarmed civilians and the targeting of a hospital in an attack, have been made by people who have escaped from the city....
Posted: Tue, Nov 23, 2004 6:53pm PST
Ukraine crisis threatens rift between US and Russia Ukraine's political crisis deepened last night after three days of street protests and political drama threatened to cause a diplomatic rift between Russia and the US....
Posted: Tue, Nov 23, 2004 6:50pm PST
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