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Photostory: Israel's Rafah operation and its May 19th attack on a peaceful march 
Dutch photojournalist Johannes Abeling found himself in Rafah in the middle of a peaceful protest march by Rafah residents when Israeli combat helicopters and tanks opened fire on the demonstrators, killing at least 50, including many children. Abeling's series of photos is chilling and extremely disturbing....
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 1:29pm PDT
Over 5,500 Iraqis Killed Since Bush Declared End Of War, Morgue Records Show BAGHDAD, Iraq - More than 5,500 Iraqis died violently in just Baghdad and three provinces in the first 12 months of the occupation, an Associated Press survey found. The toll from both criminal and political violence ran dramatically higher than violent deaths before the war, according to statistics from morgues....
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 1:21pm PDT
Qatar labour law opens door to unions The state of Qatar has issued a new labour law allowing for workers in the tiny Gulf emirate the right to form trade unions and go on strike....
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 1:16pm PDT
U.S. Kills 32 Iraqis In Kufa, Including 20 In Mosque 
KUFA, Iraq, May 23 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – U.S. occupation troops gunned down on Sunday, May 23, 32 Iraqis in the Shiite holy city of Kufa, including 20 inside a mosque.
"Tanks crashed through the gates of the mosque compound, during the night and soldiers entered while helicopters hovered overhead," said Hussein Yasser, 32, who lives near the Selah mosque which saw the killings.
Bloodstains were seen on the ground of the mosque compound, along with spent cartr...
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 1:11pm PDT
US soldiers killed in ambush near Falluja Iraqi resistance fighters have killed two US soldiers and wounded five others near the flashpoint city of Falluja in an ambush that involved a bomb and rocket-propelled grenades, witnesses have said....
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 11:38am PDT
Israeli F16 strikes local car in Nablus GAZA, May 23 (Xinhuanet) -- An Israeli F16 warplane on Sunday fired a rocket at a local Palestinian car driving in the center of the northern West Bank town of Nablus and killed at least two Palestinians, medical sources and witnesses reported....
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 10:12am PDT
Israeli Justice Minister Yosef Lapid: Demolition of Gaza homes must end Justice Minister Yosef Lapid on Sunday harshly criticized Israel's demolition of Palestinian homes in the Gaza Strip, saying it must end and warning that it could seriously damage Israel's standing in the world.
Speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting, Lapid said Israel must halt the destruction. "The demolition of houses in Rafah must stop. It is not humane, not Jewish, and causes us grave damage in the world."...
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 9:43am PDT
U.S.-Led Force Storms Kufa Mosque in Attack on Iraq Militia KUFA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces and Iraqi soldiers launched a major offensive against a Shi'ite militia on Sunday, killing about 20 in one raid on a mosque and pounding other positions around the holy city of Najaf....
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 9:40am PDT
The Deir Yassin Massacre: 'We Created Terror Among the Arabs' There will never be a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict until Israel takes responsibility, under U.N. Resolution 194, calling for reparation of the Palestinian refugees, and recognizes the immense suffering it caused at that time. We need also to recognize the US is giving unqualified moral support to a state that is based on racial purity and one that is intrinsically expansionist....
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 3:51am PDT
Currently Employed SCI-Green Prison Guard Supervised Torture of Prisoners in Iraq ...
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 11:09pm PDT
Surveying the ruins of Rafah The high-level United Nations delegation was making its way down one of Rafah's ruined streets....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:57pm PDT
Israel proposes payment for homes razed in Gaza Strip Israel intends to offer compensation to the owners of hundreds of homes along the Philadelphi route, on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, if the buildings are damaged in the framework of the Israel Defense Forces' operation to broaden the road. The IDF operation is aimed at increasing security and preventing the smuggling of weapons and other military material into the Strip through tunnels from Sinai....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:55pm PDT
Survey: 43% of Israeli teenagers support refusenik stance Nearly half of Israeli teens from both the left and the right support refusing certain military orders, according to a survey conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute two months ago....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:49pm PDT
Palestinians Storm UN Aid Convoy After Israeli Raid RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Dozens of Palestinians, angry over Israel's bloodiest raid in the Gaza Strip in years, smashed the windows of a U.N. car Saturday and mobbed a shipment of humanitarian aid.
"Where have you been?" one man screamed as others pounded on the cars in the U.N. convoy as it entered a sealed-off neighborhood in Rafah refugee camp to survey damage and deliver aid supplies, including powdered milk....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:46pm PDT
Iraqis lose right to sue troops Military win immunity pledge in deal on UN vote...
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:45pm PDT
In the Shadows of Abu-Ghraib Prison Many of the Americans working in the prisons of Iraq, especially in the reserves, are cops or prison guards in their civilian lives. Indeed, one of the men identified as a suspect in the brutal mistreatment of people in Abu Ghraib, indeed a corporal in the Army, works here, at SCI-Greene!...
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:45pm PDT
Report: US general witnessed Iraq abuse A military police commander at Abu Ghraib prison is to testify that the top US general in Iraq witnessed some of the abuses....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:30pm PDT
Four year old Palestinian girl shot in the forehead by Israeli sniper 
Rawan abu-Zeid could not be resuscitated at a local hospital after she received two bullets in her head and neck during sporadic shooting in the Brazil refugee camp. Israeli forces had withdrawn some - but by no means all - of its forces from the camp on Friday....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:05pm PDT
A Marine's tale: 'We killed 30 civilians in six weeks. I felt we were committing genocide' Back home in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, he says the cause of the uprising in Iraq is that "we killed a lot of innocent people...We would take over villages and control checkpoints...My men and I would fire warning shots at oncoming vehicles...if they didn't stop, we didn't have any qualms about loading them up." The Marines were told that Iraqis were filling ambulances with explosives, and that soldiers were dressed as civilians, but after pouring fire into vehicles and ...
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 9:51pm PDT
RAFAH: A brother, a sister, and a morgue too full for them both Ahmed Mughayer, 14, was laid out with 13 other corpses on the floor of the refrigeration room of a flower and plant growers' firm on the outskirts of town. Dr Ahmed Abu Nkaira removed the sheet and raised Ahmed's trunk for us to see where the bullet had made a small incision on his forehead just above his hairline. Then he pointed to the exit wound, a much larger and bloodier hole in the back of his head. Earlier, back at the hospital, he had brought out the body of Asmaa, his 16-year-old sis...
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 8:27pm PDT
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