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1931 of 2012 
Iraqi governor killed in attack The governor of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul has been killed in an attack, Iraqi sources have said....
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 9:47am PDT
Robert Fisk: Iraqi academics targeted in murder spree for unknown reasons Just who the modern-day Mongols are remains a painful mystery of our story. Disgruntled students they are not. Baathist-hunters some of them might be - all heads of academic departments were forced to join Saddam's party - but none of the murdered Baghdad university staff were believed to be anything more than card-carriers...Other university staff suspect that there is a campaign to strip Iraq of its academics, to complete the destruction of Iraq's cultural identity which began with the dest...
Posted: Wed, Jul 14, 2004 8:15am PDT
CIA official urges Americans to debate US Middle East policy including support for Israel He urged the United States to debate its policies in the Middle East, including its support for countries such as oil giant Saudi Arabia and its unqualified support for Israel.
"I think before you draft a policy to defeat bin Laden you have to understand that our policies are what drives him and those who follow him," the official told BBC....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 9:59pm PDT
Another Blair Whitewash: Butler Report Likely To Be As Bad As Hutton Report It is known that Blair lied with his pre-ar about WMDs and the use of the 45 min claim that he knew to be a manipulation of facts. The only result of these inquiries has been the punishment of the news media for reporting the truth! Don't let Blair get away with this. He is more to blame for the Iraq war than Bush since he went against public opinion while Bush was able to get majority support....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 12:25pm PDT
Iraqi police make large-scale arrests Iraqi police have arrested more than 525 suspected criminals in a single day as part of a plan to secure Baghdad's streets, officials said....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 12:10pm PDT
KATHLEEN CHRISTISON: The Problem with Neutrality Between Palestinians and Israel ...when in history have decent people seriously accepted balance and neutrality as a proper response in moral conflicts or national conflicts that pit one very powerful party against a powerless party...Neutrality in any conflict in which there is a gross imbalance of power is probably an impossibility and certainly immoral. Treading a middle path between one utterly powerless party and another party with total power, effectively removes all restraints on behavior by the powerful party. Yet t...
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 11:03am PDT
The Myth of the Israeli Left Where Zionism is concerned, it is difficult to determine who is the dove and
who is the hawk. As it appears, the one state solution is the only viable option from now on....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 8:24am PDT
'Access to Aids drugs is a major priority' Bangkok - The International Aids Conference called on Tuesday for scaling up access to life-prolonging medicine for those infected and raised a key question: are patents preventing drugs from reaching millions of needy?...
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 1:13am PDT
Condoms vs Abstinence Divides World AIDS Conference (Bangkok) AIDS conference delegates were deeply split over the use of condoms Monday, with Uganda's leader drawing criticism for insisting they are less effective for HIV prevention than campaigns to promote abstinence and loving relationships....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 1:10am PDT
Caribbean foreign ministers to evaluate Haiti situation (KRT) - Five foreign ministers from the Caribbean Community will visit Haiti Tuesday in a "gesture" they hope will break a nearly six-month political impasse over the departure of former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 12:51am PDT
Otto Reich: A Career in Disservice Otto Reich: A Career in Disservice...
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 12:50am PDT
US in talks over biggest missile defence site in Europe The US administration is negotiating with Poland and the Czech Republic over its controversial missile defence programme, with a view to positioning the biggest missile defence site outside the US in central Europe....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 12:43am PDT
Arab nations want UN to pressure Israel on barrier UNITED NATIONS - Arab states on Monday called for an emergency session of the UN General Assembly to demand that Israel comply with a World Court ruling that the West Bank separation fence is illegal and must be dismantled....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 12:38am PDT
Kidnap forces Filipinos out of Iraq Humanitarian forces from the Philippines are to be withdrawn from Iraq, the country's Deputy Foreign Minister said in Manila yesterday after militants threatened to behead a Filipino truck driver being held hostage....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 12:36am PDT
Fahrenheit 9/11 breaks UK record Fahrenheit 9/11, director Michael Moore's unflinching satire on George Bush's administration and the American right, has broken box office records in the UK....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 12:35am PDT
Green fuels set for breakthrough Motorists who feel a pang of guilt every time they fill their tanks with pollutant-laden fossil fuels may soon find that they no longer have an excuse for not switching to cleaner alternatives....
Posted: Tue, Jul 13, 2004 12:27am PDT
Afghan warlords 'bigger threat than Taliban' The warlords and private militias who were once regarded as the west's staunchest allies in Afghanistan are now a greater threat to the country's security than the Taliban, according to the interim president, Hamid Karzai....
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 8:40pm PDT
The sexual sadism of our culture, in peace and in war The Abu Ghraib images have all the hallmarks of contemporary porn....
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 8:19pm PDT
Iraqi city of Samarra turned into no-go area for US troops The attack was as brazen as it was meticulously-planned. Under the gaze of an old Iraqi general wearing a Saddam Hussein-era olive-green uniform, a disciplined force of former soldiers unleashed a 90-minute mortar barrage on a United States base on the edge of Samarra....
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 12:22pm PDT
Al-Yawir: Iraq to reinstate death penalty Interim Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawir insists the country will soon reinstate the death penalty despite strong opposition from the European Union....
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 11:45am PDT
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