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An Open Letter to Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Alawi Mr. Alawi, I once heard an Iraqi woman protest your being the appropriate leader of Iraq. Her explanation was that you have been in the US for the last twenty-five years. She said that you did not live as an Iraqi, and hence you do not know the pains or the needs of the Iraqi people. As I heard her speak, I thought that maybe she was exaggerating. After all, you do have Iraqi blood in your veins and blood is thicker than water, isn’t it?...
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 9:59am PST
Troops storm major Baghdad mosque 
Three people are reported to have been killed when Iraqi security forces, backed by US troops, raided one of Baghdad's most important Sunni mosques....
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2004 9:56am PST
Feeling of siege in Mosul People talk about worsening living conditions since outbreak of violence, extension of curfew as insurgents lay low....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 7:55pm PST
A Voluntary Tic in Media Coverage of Iraq When misleading buzzwords become part of the media landscape, they slant news coverage and skew public perceptions. That's the story with the phrase "Iraqi forces" -- now in routine use by U.S. media outlets, including the country's most influential newspapers.
The New York Times and the Washington Post have been leading the way in news stories that apply the indigenous "Iraqi forces" label to Iraqi fighters who are pro-U.S.-occupation ... but not to Iraqi fighters who ...
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 7:10pm PST
Hellish elections Deputies of Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani have warned the Shia of Iraq of the risk of going to hell if they fail to participate in the January 2005 elections. This new approach to politics on the part of the Hawza is very curious....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 5:28pm PST
Iraq Elections "Pipe Dream of Deluded Politicians" FJ, Brussels, 18.11.2004 -- The idea of free and fair elections in Iraq any time soon is a "pipe-dream" unless all restrictions on journalists are lifted immediately said the International Federation of Journalists today. The Federation is demanding urgent news about the US detention of an Arab television correspondent and has condemned the interim Iraqi government for trying to censor the media in a new directive from Baghdad....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 5:19pm PST
Iraq election threatens multinational force BUDAPEST, Hungary - President Bush's "coalition of the willing" in Iraq isn't quite so willing any more, even though its largest members - Britain and Italy - are standing firm....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 5:15pm PST
Wave of Violence in Iraq as Marine Is Killed in Fallujah BAGHDAD, 19 November 2004 — A wave of violence engulfed Iraq as a US Marine and an Iraqi soldier were killed in Fallujah yesterday. And17 other people died in attacks elsewhere in Iraq....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 5:11pm PST
Rare Blood Infection Surfaces in Injured U.S. Soldiers ATLANTA (Reuters) - An expectedly high number of U.S. soldiers injured in the Middle East and Afghanistan are testing positive for a rare, hard-to-treat blood infection in military hospitals, Army doctors reported on Thursday....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 4:24pm PST
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 11/19/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! A 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Spain, Russia, China, and Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 4:24pm PST
Gaza's blocked arteries 
It is a public holiday in Gaza - with Eid and the period of official mourning for Yasser Arafat - so there is no better time to sample what it is like for Palestinians travelling through the Israeli-occupied strip.
Gaza is a 40km by 5km (25-mile by three-mile) ribbon of land along the south-east corner of the Mediterranean Sea, home to some 1.3 million Palestinians and 8,000 Jewish settlers....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 3:35pm PST
Egypt furious after Israel kills policemen CAIRO: Cairo lodged a formal protest Thursday after the Israeli Army killed three Egyptian border policemen by mistake, threatening to plunge their delicate diplomatic ties into crisis.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon sought to defuse the row by personally calling President Hosni Mubarak to express "deep sorrow" over the incident on the Gaza border and promised to keep him abreast of an official investigation....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 3:16pm PST
Al-Anssi: the FBI ruined my life he Yemeni FBI collaborator who attempted to commit suicide last Monday in front of the White House in Washington DC had revealed that his life was ruined after he cooperated with the FBI.
In an unprecedented act that triggered emotions and shock among Yemenis in the country and abroad, Muhamed Mohsen Al-Anssi, 52, tried to set himself ablaze when he was denied the opportunity to meet US President George W Bush and when he was unable to deliver a letter in which he apparently complained about...
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 3:14pm PST
Afghanistan: Refugees in their own land KABUL, November 19 (Online): Among the many challenges facing Afghanistan, one that rarely gets attention is the complex issue of internally displaced people.
There are thousands of internal refugees across the country, many living in isolated desert camps....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 3:11pm PST
Dahr Jamail: Media Repression in 'Liberated' Land BAGHDAD, November 18, 2004 - Journalists are increasingly being detained and threatened by the U.S.-installed interim government in Iraq. Media have been stopped particularly from covering recent horrific events in Fallujah.
The "100 Orders" penned by former U.S. administrator in Iraq L. Paul Bremer include Order 65 passed March 20 to establish an Iraqi communications and media commission. This commission has powers to control the media because it has complete control over l...
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 3:09pm PST
Iraqi Election Boycott 47 Iraqi political parties and related bodies, meeting at the headquarters of the Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars at Baghdad's Umm al-Qura mosque (in Saddam's time, Umm al-Marek, the Mother of Battles), have decided to boycott the alleged elections supposedly scheduled for January (and required under the terms of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1546). In their statement, they have said that the election results are a foregone conclusion, with rewards already lined up for the parties co...
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 3:05pm PST
Rebels hit Mosul governor’s office BAGHDAD, NOVEMBER 18: Guerrillas in Mosul attacked the governor’s office and there was bloodshed elsewhere in the north, as US forces wound down their offensive against the shattered rebel stronghold of Falluja....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 3:01pm PST
Palestinian groups to field candidate Five Palestinian factions have agreed to field a joint candidate in the 9 January presidential election to replace the late Yasir Arafat, an official said.
Two of the groups, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, boycotted the previous Palestinian election in 1996. Both factions rejected Arafat's interim peace deals with Israel....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 2:57pm PST
UN warns of Afghan 'drug state' 
The UN has warned that Afghanistan could become a "narco-state" after opium cultivation rose by two-thirds this year....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2004 2:56pm PST
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