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1959 of 2012 
Rumsfeld approved 'harsh' interrogation 
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld approved the use of "harsh" interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay, including stripping detainees naked, making them hold "stress" positions and depriving them of sleep, a Pentagon official has confirmed....
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 10:09pm PDT
Outcry over detention of activist visiting Cuba 
Independence for Puerto Rico!
Down with US travel restrictions to Cuba!...
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 8:52pm PDT
Iraqi Prisoner Abuse Photos: Sgt. Javal Davis 
Sgt. Javal S. Davis of Maryland: Javal Davis, 26, of the 372nd Military Police Company, is criminally charged with abusing Iraqi prisoners....
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 8:03pm PDT
Washington and the opposition are behind the terrorist plot agaginst Chavez solidarity with Venezuela...
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 7:58pm PDT
Chavez attacks 'invasion plot' The Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, has said that powerful international forces are behind the presence of a group of alleged Colombian paramilitaries near the capital, Caracas....
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 7:28pm PDT
Focus shifts to jail abuse of women For Huda Shaker, the humiliation began at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Baghdad. The American soldiers demanded to search her handbag. When she refused one of the soldiers pointed his gun towards her chest.
"He pointed the laser sight directly in the middle of my chest," said Professor Shaker, a political scientist at Baghdad University. "Then he pointed to his penis. He told me, 'Come here, bitch, I'm going to fuck you.'"...
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 3:21pm PDT
Stories have started appearing about Iraqi women/girls being raped while in US prisons According to Prof Shaker, several women held in Abu Ghraib jail were sexually abused, including one who was raped by an American military policeman and became pregnant. She has now disappeared.
"A female colleague of mine was arrested and taken there. When I asked her after she was released what happened at Abu Ghraib she started crying," Prof Shaker said.
Yesterday Prof Shaker, who began researching the subject this year for Amnesty International, said she believed the woma...
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 3:16pm PDT
Cleric: Americans fighting Islam not terrorism 
KARBALA, Iraq - U.S. soldiers backed by tanks and helicopters battled fighters loyal to a radical cleric near a mosque in this holy city today, hours after Iraqi leaders agreed on a proposal that would end his standoff with the U.S.-led forces. As many as 25 insurgents were killed, the coalition said....
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 3:14pm PDT
Family of Executed American Angry with U.S. Govt. PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Family and friends of the American civilian executed by Islamic militants are angry about U.S. government denials that their son was ever in U.S. custody in Iraq, a family spokesman said on Wednesday....
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 3:08pm PDT
The Destructive Agrarian Reform Policies of the World Bank 
Examines the effects of World Bank land reform policies on farmers in several developing countries including India, Thailand, Mexico, Columbia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Also provides an overview of various social movements responding to World Bank programs....
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 3:07pm PDT
Israel storms Gaza for troops' remains Several Israeli soldiers and Palestinians have been killed in clashes in the Gaza Strip as occupation troops hunt for the remains of colleagues killed in a resistance attack....
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 3:06pm PDT
Israel accused of attacking UN post UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon have accused Israeli troops of firing smoke bombs at an observation post in an attempt to obscure its border monitoring operations....
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 3:04pm PDT
Filipinos killed in US camp attack Four Filipino workers have been killed in Iraq in a mortar attack on a US military camp amid continuing clashes across the country....
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 3:03pm PDT
IDF reports 5 more casualties in 2nd fatal attack on APC in Gaza in the past two days The Israel Defense Forces Wednesday night said five soldiers, including one officer, were killed when an armored personnel carrier (APC) was hit while travelling through the Philadelphi Route, near Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip....
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 2:58pm PDT
ANALYSIS: Gaza Militants' adoption of guerilla warfare What appeared to be an attempt at a new tactic by Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Tuesday took on a new face Wednesday, with the successful attack on the Israeli convoy on the Philadelphia Route following the same pattern achieved against the Armored Personnel Carrier in the Zeitun quarter of Gaza. It indicates a change from isolated bombings and incidents to systematic and coordinated guerrilla warfare throughout the Gaza Strip....
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 2:55pm PDT
Defiant Sadr vows to fight on, die a martyr NAJAF, Iraq: Rebel Shiite Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr vowed Wednesday to carry on fighting the US-led occupying forces and die a martyr, saying he would not disband his Mehdi Army militia unless religious authorities demanded it....
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 2:47pm PDT
ALJAZEERA - Arabs React to Berg Decapitation Arab public opinion over the decapitation of an American hostage in Iraq has varied, with many calling it barbaric while others see it as a natural response to US violence....
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 12:31pm PDT
Geneva Convention/Treatment of Prisoners of War --Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War-- The coverup of War Crimes are full steam ahead in fascist America, as the world watches the Sham Hearings in total horror....
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 12:51am PDT
U.S. Probes Alleged Afghan Prison Abuse KABUL, Afghanistan - The U.S. military has opened an investigation into allegations that an Afghan police officer was stripped naked, beaten and photographed at a U.S. base in Afghanistan, the American Embassy in Kabul said Wednesday....
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2004 11:50pm PDT
Karzai warning to Herat governor Afghan President Hamid Karzai completed a visit to the city of Herat with a demand that the powerful regional governor disarm his forces....
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2004 11:44pm PDT
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