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Robert Fisk: Baghdad is a city that reeks with the stench of the dead
The Americans bring in corpses. When they do, there are no autopsies...the Ministry of Health has told doctors there should be no autopsies in these cases...six corpses arrived at the Baghdad mortuary after being brought in by US forces...All had suffered, according to the American records, "traumatic wounds to the head", the normal phrase for gunshot wounds. There were no autopsies. Death is now so routine even the most tragic of deaths becomes a footnote. A US tank collides with a...
Posted: Wed, Jul 28, 2004 8:14am PDT
Scores killed in Iraq bomb attack
At least 68 people have been killed in a car bomb explosion outside a police station in Iraq, exactly one month after the transfer of sovereignty....
Posted: Wed, Jul 28, 2004 7:34am PDT
The world bury the head in the sand
The preparation for US invasion of Iran goes according to plan...
Posted: Tue, Jul 27, 2004 2:25pm PDT
US threat to Falluja reconstruction
US aircraft have dropped leaflets on the Iraqi city of Falluja, warning residents they will lose $102m in rebuilding funds if they do not halt attacks on US troops....
Posted: Tue, Jul 27, 2004 11:17am PDT
US 'protects' Iran rebels in Iraq
The US has granted "protected status" under the Geneva Conventions to 3,800 members of an Iranian opposition group interned in Iraq....
Posted: Tue, Jul 27, 2004 8:04am PDT
S. Korea, The Different Levels of Migrant Workers Struggle
Anti-war, stop crackdown - let's fight for a better world!...
Posted: Tue, Jul 27, 2004 1:17am PDT
Iraq Pipeline Watch
Attacks on Iraqi pipelines, oil installations, and oil personnel:...
Posted: Mon, Jul 26, 2004 8:30pm PDT
Israel expands West Bank settlements
Months after Ariel Sharon announced his dramatic plan to pull Jewish settlers out of Gaza, portraying it as a sacrifice for peace, the government is grabbing more land for West Bank settlements.
Israeli peace groups and Palestinian officials say thousands of homes are under construction in the main settlements, in addition to an expansion of Jewish outposts that are illegal under Israeli law. Mr Sharon has promised the US he will dismantle the outposts, which are usually clusters of contain...
Posted: Mon, Jul 26, 2004 8:25pm PDT
Iraqi female prisoners raped by US guards and MPs
In December 2003, a woman prisoner inside the jail west of Baghdad managed to smuggle out a note...The note claimed that US guards had been raping women detainees, who were, and are, in a small minority at Abu Ghraib...The women had been forced to strip naked in front of men, it said ... one of seven female lawyers now representing women detainees in Abu Ghraib, began to piece together a picture of systemic abuse and torture perpetrated by US guards against Iraqi women held in detention witho...
Posted: Mon, Jul 26, 2004 11:27am PDT
ACLU & NLG Groups Sue Over DNC "Free Speech Zone" aka Boston's Camp X-Ray
Authorities in Boston have designated as the official protest an area enclosed by a maze of overhead netting, razor wire and chain link fence. To some it resembles an internment camp, to others Guantanamo Bay. Today lawyers file suit to overturn the "free speech zone."...
Posted: Mon, Jul 26, 2004 9:17am PDT
Life in Baghdad
Iraqis talk, in whispers and loud voices, about some American companies that started digging and investing minerals from the land here…then exporting them to America, or some other countries. These whispers between people taught me that they are mostly right, if not every time. Especially the stories about Abu-Ghareb prison, as I heard them, but didn’t believe them at the beginning. Will the Capitalism start sucking the Blood of Iraq, as it has sucked the blood of the American continent?…and...
Posted: Mon, Jul 26, 2004 8:39am PDT
IDF soldier assaults Palestinian at West Bank roadblock
An Israel Defense Forces soldier allegedly abused and shot at a Palestinian student at a roadblock north of Nablus on Sunday, inflicting moderate injuries, Army Radio reported on Monday....
Posted: Mon, Jul 26, 2004 8:16am PDT
Allawi: No normalisation with Israel yet
Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi says Baghdad will not make any moves to normalise relations with Israel before other Arabs do so as part of a Middle East settlement....
Posted: Mon, Jul 26, 2004 8:01am PDT
Iraqi official killed on day of bombings
A senior Iraqi interior ministry official has been assassinated amid a string of deadly car bombs in Mosul and Baghdad....
Posted: Mon, Jul 26, 2004 8:00am PDT
HUNGER STRIKER, ON HIS 36TH DAY, STILL NO ACTIONS FROM THE PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT
Hunger Strike announcement of the discoverer & whistle-blower of seized drugs distribution by high-ranking police generals & drug lords in the Philippines. They used his company. Assasination attempts on him. Richswaze, his nephew-dependent, now 10 held virtual hostage....
Posted: Mon, Jul 26, 2004 7:20am PDT
Car bombs rock Baghdad, Mosul
car bomb has exploded near a Baghdad bridge as a second car bomb is reported detonating at the main entrance of Mosul city's airport where US occupation forces are based....
Posted: Sun, Jul 25, 2004 11:26pm PDT
Six Palestinians killed in Israeli raid
An Israeli undercover unit backed by tanks and jeeps stormed the northern West Bank town of Tulkarim on Sunday night and assassinated six Palestinians, eyewitnesses and medics said....
Posted: Sun, Jul 25, 2004 2:52pm PDT
Ann Petter Released From Israeli Detention
Press conference to be held in East Jerusalem, on Monday, including Ann Petter and Jamie Spector...
Posted: Sun, Jul 25, 2004 10:48am PDT
Heavy Clashes in Iraq; Hostage Crisis Spirals
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's police and National Guard killed 13 suspected militants in heavy clashes near Baghdad on Sunday in one of the fiercest battles the fledgling security forces have faced since the handover of sovereignty....
Posted: Sun, Jul 25, 2004 10:18am PDT
Protesters destroy French GM crop
Hundreds of protesters have destroyed a field of genetically modified maize in south-west France....
Posted: Sun, Jul 25, 2004 10:10am PDT