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Rights group calls for mechanism to ensure impartiality counting Palestinian votes
On 1 December 2004, President of the Palestinian Authority Rawhi Fattouh ratified amendments made to the process of preparing the final record of voters. According to the amendments, article 15(1) of the law prescribes that "the record of voters being prepared in accordance with the law and the record of civil registration are the accredited records for the purpose of preparing the final electoral record to decide who has the right of voting and candidature to the Palestinian general el...
Posted: Wed, Dec 8, 2004 10:08am PST
Is Marwan Barghouti right to run?
Marwan Barghouti, the Palestinian resistance leader imprisoned by Israel, has caused an uproar by reversing his earlier decision not to run for president of the Palestinian Authority.
Barghouti may not be able to run on the Fatah ticket after the movement picked Mahmoud Abbas as its sole candidate in an opaque process. However, Barghouti has the right to run as an individual and as one of a handful of Palestinians widely-known enough in the occupied territories to make the election a serio...
Posted: Wed, Dec 8, 2004 10:07am PST
California Kwanzaa Agriculture Expo
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Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 7:23pm PST
Abbas tries to woo hardliners during Damascus visit
DAMASCUS: PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas held a second day of talks Tuesday with Syrian officials on a mission to patch up strained ties with the government and with Damascus-based Palestinian opposition groups....
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 7:01pm PST
Barghouti mulls pulling out of Palestinian election
Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti is considering pulling out of a presidential race to avoid splitting his mainstream Fatah faction, an Israeli-Arab lawmaker said after visiting him in jail....
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 7:00pm PST
Palestinians killed in renewed Gaza fighting
Four Palestinian resistance fighters are now reported to have died in clashes in the Gaza Strip which broke out after an Israeli military patrol was ambushed on Tuesday....
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 5:18pm PST
From Al Nakba to 'Anata: 56 Years of Home Demolitions
"I never dreamed I would see my village," she said as the wetness pooled in the corner of her eyes. "I never dreamed I would go back there." And as I watched her choke back the tears, I couldn't help my own. But I wasn't as strong as the 16-year-old refugee girl that sat beside me and I had to reach up to wipe my eyes with the back of my hand....
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 5:15pm PST
Special Ops Threatened Govt Government Agents Who Saw Detainee Abuse
Breaking: Special Ops Task Force Threatened Government Agents Who Saw Detainee Abuse in Iraq, Documents Obtained by ACLU Reveal...
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 4:13pm PST
GM cocaine grown in Colombia
Article from the BBC:
Some Colombian drug growers are using genetically modified coca "trees" to boost cocaine production dramatically, government officials say....
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 3:30pm PST
Raed Jarrar: Cutting Iraq Apart
About 600 leaders from Iraq's Shia Muslims announced plans to begin setting up their own autonomous region, following a meeting today in the holy city of Najaf. One of the puppets working with the allawi government announced: "We must turn ourselves into a regional unit in the context of a federal Iraq"....
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 3:04pm PST
Dahr Jamail In Iraq: So much loss…
Last weekend alone, over 70 Iraqis were killed in violence around their country. Yet these are only those reported as a result of spectacular, “newsworthy” incidents like car bombs or clashes between the resistance and occupation forces....
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 3:02pm PST
AntiMcDonalds Daze in Israel
A Short report - with pictures - of the annual, October 16th AntiMacDonalds Day in Israel....
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 1:36pm PST
War dodger claims U.S. guilty of war crimes - Claims refugee status
There is a poll on http://www.canada.com/national/index.html on the
right hand side about allowing US soldiers to stay in Canada, related
to an article on Jeremy. Right now, only 5% say yes.... unbelievable!...
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 1:12pm PST
Nonviolent Demonstrations at Beit Ula
For two days, the Palestinian village Beit Ula [near Hebron, West Bank] held demonstrations against the construction of the annexation barrier that is taking much of their land. International and Israeli activists joined the villagers in their non-violent protest against this manifestation of Israel's occupation and theft of Palestinian land. On the second day, the protesters successfully caused the halting of the that day's construction of the annexation barrier....
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 9:27am PST
Running Battles in Baghdad: Insurgents as Street Police
American forces and Iraqi insurgents fought running battles in the heart of Baghdad yesterday as the latest American losses brought the number of US soldiers killed in combat in Iraq since the invasion last year close to 1,000....
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 9:26am PST
Shiite List to be Announced
Hussein Shahristani, the Shiite scientist charged by Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani with cobbling together a big comprehensive Shiite list, said Monday that the full listing of candidate names (in ranked order) would be made available on Tuesday....
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 9:24am PST
Dahr Jamail In Iraq: Health Care Given A 'New Look'
BAGHDAD, Dec 7 (IPS) - The Baghdad Medical City has begun to look nice in its new coat of paint.
It does not look that nice to Dr Hammad Hussein, ophthalmology resident at the centre. ”I have not seen anything which indicates any rebuilding aside from our new pink and blue colours here where our building and the escape ladders were painted,” he told IPS....
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 9:22am PST
Curfews Turn Mosul Into Ghost City
MOSUL, December 7 (IslamOnline.net) – Residents of Iraq’s northern city of Mosul have been living a continuous nightmare due to the mid-day till early morning curfew imposed by US troops and city council....
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 9:21am PST
IRAQI PRESS MONITOR, 07 Dec 04
Iraqi Press Monitor is intended to give readers a sense of what Iraqi papers are reporting. Stories for the Iraqi Press Monitor are selected and summarised by Ali Mohammed Jawad and Ali Kadhim Marzook in Baghdad, and edited by Eric Watkins....
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 9:20am PST
Sex Slave Trade: Hundreds of Thousands of East European Women Sold For Sex
Crime syndicates use a variety of methods to capture young women. A girl walking down a road in Moldova is forced into a car. An overflowing Romanian orphanage receives a visit from "social workers" offering "apprentice programs" for adolescent girls. A young Ukrainian woman desperate to help her starving parents responds to a newspaper advertisement for au pairs to work in Germany. An ambitious young graduate signs up with what appears to be a legitimate foreign corporati...
Posted: Tue, Dec 7, 2004 7:35am PST