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U.S. Abuse of Afghan Prisoners Systemic - Rights Group KABUL (Reuters) - Mistreatment of prisoners by American forces in Afghanistan is systemic, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday, a day after the U.S. army in Kabul launched a fresh inquiry into beating and sexual abuse at secret jails....
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 11:24am PDT
Berg Died for Bush, Rumsfeld 'Sins' - Father PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The father of Nick Berg, the Pennsylvania contractor beheaded in Iraq, on Thursday directly blamed President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for his son's death....
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 10:56am PDT
South African government agrees to give Aristide asylum South Africa said on Thursday that it was ready to give former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide a temporary home, nearly three months after an armed revolt forced him to flee his poor Caribbean country....
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 8:37am PDT
BJP Racists FInally Voted Out In a stunning electoral verdict, the BJP-led NDA was today voted out of power to pave the way for the return of the Congress Party at the helm of the national affairs after eight years in wilderness....
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 8:34am PDT
Battles near Iraqi shrines KARBALA, Iraq American forces battled Iraqi militiamen amid heavy gunfire and explosions on Thursday near a shrine that is one of the most sacred sites of Shiite Islam....
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 8:11am PDT
Fighting continues in Karbala, Najaf More fighting between US troops and militiamen loyal to Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr had erupted in Karbala and Najaf...
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 8:07am PDT
Rummy & Lidice The obvious parallel to Fallujah is Lidice -- where 170 Czechs were killed to avenge the death of Reinhard Heydrich...
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 6:13am 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
Possible US move into Najaf Najaf, Iraq-AP -- There are some large explosions being heard in the Iraqi city of Najaf (NAH'-jahf).
And residents say U-S forces appear to be making an armed incursion into the holy city....
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 7:27pm PDT
The Chickens Have Come Home to Roost – Yet Again Summary: Racism being crucial to the killing, torture and humiliation of Iraqis, ostensibly called "abuse", is hardly mentioned in discussions on the subject. So that any attempt to reverse the horrors will remain largely cosmetic....
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 6:39pm 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
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
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
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