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1924 of 1987 
Israel’s terror in Gaza "I HARDLY recognized my own street. I don’t think an earthquake could do what the Israeli army did to this area." Those were the words of Abdel Rahim Abu Jazer, after Israeli troops left Gaza’s Rafah refugee camp--after a six-day siege by Israeli forces that left 42 Palestinians dead....
Posted: Thu, May 27, 2004 1:21am PDT
U.S. allegedly kills 20 militants in Afghanistan American troops caught in a gunfight with Afghan militants called in air strikes, the U.S. military said yesterday, in fighting that an Afghan commander said killed some 20 Taliban rebels at a newly discovered camp in the south....
Posted: Thu, May 27, 2004 1:19am PDT
Iraqi Cleric Sadr Pulls Fighters from Holy City NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi Shi'ite militiamen began pulling out of strongholds in the holy city of Najaf on Thursday after rebel cleric Moqtada al-Sadr offered a truce to U.S. forces surrounding him....
Posted: Thu, May 27, 2004 1:14am PDT
Haiti and the insanity of ‘official’ denial As many as nine peaceful demonstrators were killed in Haiti on May 18, as tens of thousands of people took to the streets despite the risk - and reality - of violent repression by international forces and a militarized Haitian police force. These demonstrators were calling for an end to the illegal occupation by U.S., Canadian and French forces and for the return of overthrown President Jean-Bertrand Aristide....
Posted: Thu, May 27, 2004 1:11am PDT
New photos show Abu Ghraib tactics 
WASHINGTON - A series of photographs obtained exclusively by NBC News depicts what sources said was the aggressive interrogation of three naked Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the detention facility outside Baghdad that is at the center of the scandal over U.S. mistreatment of Iraqi detainees....
Posted: Thu, May 27, 2004 1:00am PDT
Al-Sadr's army to withdraw from Najaf Iraq Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr began pulling his fighters from the holy city of Najaf after making an offer to end a bloody standoff with US occupation forces that has left hundreds dead....
Posted: Thu, May 27, 2004 12:53am PDT
Two Palestinians killed by IDF in Gaza; army destroys 3 houses in Dir el-Balah Two Palestinians were killed by Israel Defense Forces fire over the past 24 hours in the southern Gaza Strip. Three IDF tanks and a bulldozer early Thursday entered the Gaza town of Dir el-Balah, destroying three Palestinian houses, witnesses and Palestinian security officials said....
Posted: Wed, May 26, 2004 4:55pm PDT
Shin Bet arrests U.K. journalist who interviewed Vanunu Peter Hounam, the British journalist who has been covering the Mordechai Vanunu affair for years and is considered to be one of the closest people to the nuclear-whistle blower, was arrested Wednesday evening by the Shin Bet security service....
Posted: Wed, May 26, 2004 4:53pm PDT
The Trials of Henry Kissinger (video/x-pn-realvideo 31.1MB) "Henry Kissinger is a war criminal," says firebrand journalist Christopher Hitchens. "He's a liar. And he's personally responsible for murder, for kidnapping, for torture." What is Hitchens on about? He could be talking about the lawsuit currently under way in Washington DC, in which Kissinger is charged with having authorised the assassination of a Chilean general in 1970. Or he could be referring to the secret bombing of Cambodia which, arguably, Kissinger engineered wit...
Posted: Wed, May 26, 2004 2:46pm PDT
Turkey undecided on recalling ambassador to Israel Israel`s ambassador to Ankara, Pini Aviv said on Wednesday that according to Turkey's foreign ministry, Ankara had not yet decided whether to recall its ambassador to Israel....
Posted: Wed, May 26, 2004 12:31pm PDT
Amnesty slams Israeli killings ISRAELI forces killed more than 600 Palestinians last year, including 100 children, Amnesty International said today, as Israel faced continuing criticism over a weeklong military offensive in Gaza that left 45 Palestinians dead and dozens of buildings razed....
Posted: Wed, May 26, 2004 12:28pm PDT
U.S. Attacks Taliban Camp in Afghanistan KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) - U.S. warplanes struck a suspected Taliban camp during a battle with the militants in southern Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday. At least eight fighters were killed, but no U.S. casualties were reported....
Posted: Wed, May 26, 2004 12:27pm PDT
Prisoner abuse 'on wider scale', US report says An official US army overview of the deaths and alleged abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan has revealed a wider scale of mistreatment than has so far come to light, it was reported today....
Posted: Wed, May 26, 2004 12:24pm PDT
‘Valley of Peace’ turns into killing field Holy burial grounds in Iraqi city of Najaf witness daily engagements between US troops, Mehdi Army....
Posted: Wed, May 26, 2004 10:52am PDT
Top Sadr aide seized in war-torn Najaf US troops have seized a brother-in-law of radical Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr in Najaf, where fighting in the cemetery has reportedly left dozens dead....
Posted: Wed, May 26, 2004 10:27am PDT
Robert Fisk: Israeli subcontractors involved in directing interrogations at Abu Ghraib ...let's go back, for a moment, to the long weeks in which the Department of Bad Apples allowed its jerks to put leashes around Iraqi necks, forced prisoners to have sex with each other and raped some Iraqi lasses in the jail...The actual interrogators accused of encouraging US troops to abuse Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib jail were working for at least one company with extensive military and commercial contacts with Israel. The head of an American company whose personnel are implicated in th...
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 11:11pm PDT
Statement from Annette Auguste (So Anne) Pétionville Penitentiary, Haiti, 23rd May 2004...
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 9:57pm PDT
Freedom Summer Palestine 2004 Freedom Summer Palestine 2004 is conceived to be 56-day campaign (one day for every
year of displacement and dispossession) against occupation, whereby Palestinians
mobilizing with the participation and support of their international supporters,
will draw the attention of the world to the true nature of the situation on the
ground in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and leave no doubt in anyone’s mind
that the Palestinian struggle is a just struggle for dignity, human rights and
fre...
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 5:47pm PDT
Mehdi Army Grows as Tempers Rage Over ‘Wedding Massacre’ Baghdad , May 25 - While US troops continue to damage mosques in heavy fighting against resistance forces they say are holed up in holy sites of Kufa and Kerbala, men in the Sadr City area of Baghdad rushed yesterday to join the Mehdi Army, a militia force loyal to rebel cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr. The recruitment surge followed bloody overnight fighting here that left many Iraqis dead. Not surprisingly, accounts of the overnight battle, as with most recent engagements, differ greatly depending o...
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 4:53pm PDT
Shahristani to Be Named Iraq Premier, U.S. Sources Say 
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United Nations is expected to pick Hussain Shahristani, a Shi'ite nuclear scientist who spent years in Abu Ghraib prison under Saddam Hussein, as premier of a new interim Iraqi government, U.S. sources said on Tuesday....
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 4:22pm PDT
1924 of 1987