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1824 of 1910
Purported Iraqi group executes US soldier
In videotaped and written statements mailed to Aljazeera, a previously unknown Iraqi group has claimed it has executed a US soldier it captured in April....
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 5:06pm PDT
U.S. ambassador John Negroponte arrives in Iraq
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) John Negroponte, the new U.S. ambassador to Iraq, arrived in Baghdad Monday to take over political contact between Washington and the fledgling Iraqi interim government....
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 11:52am PDT
Toward a Single State Solution -- Zionism, Anti-Semitism and the People of Palestine
The claim that the Jews have a special right to Palestine has no more validity than would an Irish claim of a divine right to establish a Celtic state all across Germany, France, and Spain on the basis that Celtic tribes once lived there. Nevertheless, on the basis of ascribed descent, the Zionist officials assign those they have selected a privileged place within the state. If that is not racism, then the term has no meaning...Israel is a racial state, where rights are assigned on the basis ...
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 11:13am PDT
U.S. Transfers "Sovereignty" to Iraq Two Days Early
In a surprise move the U.S. held a brief ceremony in Baghdad earlier today to mark the so-called handover of power to the new unelected government of Iraq. The handover was scheduled to take place on Wednesday June 30 but the US moved up the date with hopes that it would pre-empt further attacks by members of the Iraq resistance to coincide with the handover....
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 9:17am PDT
Iraqis sceptical as 'power' is transferred
The US occupation authority has officially transferred power to an interim Iraqi government in a move greeted with a mixture of scepticism and hope in the still-occupied country....
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 8:14am PDT
Supreme Court: U.S. Citizen Can't Be Held in Bush's War on Terror
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that an American captured overseas in President Bush's war on terrorism cannot be held indefinitely in a U.S. military jail without a chance to contest the detention....
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 8:07am PDT
Supreme Court: Enemy Combatants' Can Challenge Detentions
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Monday that foreign terrorism suspects at a U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba can use the American legal system to challenge their detention, a major defeat for President Bush....
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 8:05am PDT
U.S. pre-empts its own Iraqi Puppet Show
In line with the Bushed 'Doctrine' of pre-emption, the Imperial ProConsul Paul Bremer handed "full sovereignty" to his chief Iraqi puppet Allawi(an ex-CIA asset), unceremoniously, in front of "half a dozen" Invader-appointed 'apparatchiks,' 2 days ahead of schedule.......
Posted: Mon, Jun 28, 2004 2:55am PDT
Iraqi "handover" 'brought forward' to Monday June 28th!!
The handover of sovereignty to Iraq is being brought forward from 30 June to today, Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari has said....
Posted: Sun, Jun 27, 2004 11:26pm PDT
Caricom must do more than talk this time
AS Caribbean Community Heads of Government prepare for their 25th regular annual summit next week in Grenada, it is to be hoped that the peoples of the region can benefit from some precise information on a range of important issues, such as:...
Posted: Sun, Jun 27, 2004 11:13pm PDT
US backed Haitian Government arrests Yvon Neptune, Haiti's Elected Prime Minister
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Mon. June 28: Yvon Neptune, the man who served Haiti as prime minister until the ouster of President Jean Bertrand Aristide, was yesterday detained at his Port-Au-Prince home by authorities of the interim government....
Posted: Sun, Jun 27, 2004 11:09pm PDT
More Than 40,000 Protest Bush in Turkey
ISTANBUL, Turkey -- Tens of thousands of Turks chanting anti-Bush slogans demonstrated against the president's visit to their country on Sunday and a NATO summit....
Posted: Sun, Jun 27, 2004 11:03pm PDT
UN asks Israel to go nuclear-free
The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, says Israel should start discussions on ridding the Middle East of nuclear weapons....
Posted: Sun, Jun 27, 2004 12:29pm PDT
'Rebel gunmen' kill Afghan voters
Suspected Taleban rebels in Afghanistan have shot dead 16 people after finding them in possession of voter registration cards, officials say....
Posted: Sun, Jun 27, 2004 12:21pm PDT
Washington's plans for the world's biggest embassy - in Baghdad
The beginning of July will see the official launch of the US embassy in Baghdad, which many are describing at the largest US diplomatic mission in the world....
Posted: Sun, Jun 27, 2004 12:18pm PDT
US plane hit near Baghdad, one killed
A US Air Force C-130 transport plane has been hit by small arms fire after taking off from Baghdad International Airport, and at least one person aboard has been killed....
Posted: Sun, Jun 27, 2004 11:34am PDT
Palestine-Israel: One-Democratic-State
Please join this effort! Spread the word....
Posted: Sun, Jun 27, 2004 9:55am PDT
NO WAR NO BUSH! Rome, June 4 Photo reportages:
157 PHOTOS in 2 galleries, to those that wanted another day of war...
Posted: Sun, Jun 27, 2004 8:39am PDT
Clashes erupt in Najaf
Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr's supports have clashed with US-led occupation forces in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf where a truce is in operation after weeks of fighting....
Posted: Sat, Jun 26, 2004 7:45pm PDT