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BAGHDAD, April 22 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – The U.S. occupation forces have "breached" the ceasefire in the town of Fallujah, a chief negotiator said Thursday, April 22, as the American occupation forces admitted killing 36 people in the western Baghdad town a day earlier....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 8:49am PDT
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Two Haitian rebel leaders who helped oust President Jean-Bertrand Aristide promised Wednesday to surrender to face Haitian justice for earlier murder convictions....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 8:41am PDT
Coalition Troops Won't Answer to Interim Government, Wolfowitz Says...
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 8:36am PDT
The new coalition-trained Iraqi police force is being infiltrated by insurgents, a US army general has said....
Posted: Thu, Apr 22, 2004 8:32am PDT
May 1 is international workers' day in many parts of the world and will be
a key day for the "Play Fair" campaign in the Philippines, Hong Kong,
Indonesia, India, Netherlands, Sweden and many other countries. The on-line
campaign tool-kit has a printable campaign petition and lots of ideas for
how you can support the campaign on May 1 in your town or city....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 10:43pm PDT
Nine Palestinian men have been shot dead, the youngest 13 years old, in an Israeli raid on the the town of Bait Lahiya in the Gaza Strip....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 5:17pm PDT
United States forces and Iraqi insurgents traded machine-gun fire, mortars and grenades for four hours in Fallujah early yesterday, killing six civilians and breaking a tentative ceasefire, residents said....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 5:14pm PDT
WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland said on Wednesday it was reviewing its position in Iraq but would not pull its troops out suddenly or without Washington's approval....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 5:11pm PDT
US President George Bush has lavished praise on the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, saying world leaders owe him a 'thank you.'...
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 5:08pm PDT
Nuclear-Armed Iran Would Be 'Intolerable' -Bush
VIENNA, Austria (AP) — Israel continues to produce atomic weapons and already has as many as 300 warheads, experts said today as the country released a man imprisoned for 18 years for leaking nuclear secrets....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 2:16pm PDT
When the US talks about "freedom" one really has to wonder what they mean. Closing a newspaper for inciting violence is bad enough, but going into businesses and homes and destroying anything thats anti-coalition seems about as despotic as one can get. Soldiers will beat up Iraqis and confiscate and destroy pictures of Saddam or Sadr. One wonders if US soliders would do they same if they found a picture of Kerry or other leaders the mostly Republican Coalition Provisional Authority ...
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 2:08pm PDT
Leading Saudi dissidents have said the latest attack in the kingdom's capital is an indication of the government's failure to adequately address calls for reform....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 2:01pm PDT
U.S. War in Venezuela...
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 1:27pm PDT
On the morning that Mordechai Vanunu is released from prison after serving 18 years for revealing to the world that Israel had a nuclear arsenal, we go to Ashkelon to speak with his adoptive parents and a coordinator of the US Campaign to Free Mordecai Vanunu....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 11:15am PDT
The US is not only failing to engage with Iraqi politics to good effect, it is also engaging in tactics that will inflame things further, says Paul McGeough....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 6:57am PDT
At least 10 people are feared dead after an explosion in the Saudi capital, with witnesses saying a car bomb destroyed the seven-storey security forces building....
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 6:53am PDT
Bonobos are near relatives of Chimpanzees, resolving their conflicts with sexual interactions, far less violent than chimpanzees. Deforestation from logging, illegal pet trade and biomedical/pharma research is decreasing their number drastically.....
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 11:33pm PDT
notoriously brutal Indonesian General with years of blood on his hands from East Timor occupation now runnign for president...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 11:15pm PDT
excellent article from April 15, 2004 London Review of Books by the author of "the Uses of Haiti" and "The Pathology of Power"...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 9:21pm PDT