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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
U.S. Out of Iraq Petition
Please sign/distribute "U.S. Out of Iraq" Petition
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Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 12:27pm PDT
Open Letter to Warlord Don
Like your hero General George Patton, you're a "blood-n-guts" militant with ideas centuries behind your time......
Posted: Wed, May 12, 2004 2:02am 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
U.S. Troops Storm Karbala Mosque Held by Al-Sadr Militia
May 12 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. troops stormed a mosque in Karbala, Iraq, that was held by followers of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, the New York Times reported on its Web site, citing an American military official....
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2004 11:30pm PDT
AUDIO: Ali Abunimah-Palestinians are held responsible for the safety of their occupiers
Ali Abunimah discusses Kofi Anan's support of Israel, the UN's support of Palestinian rights under international law and the one state solution....
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2004 11:22pm PDT
The Israeli Torture Template -- Rape, Feces and Urine-Dipped Cloth Sacks
With mounting evidence that a shadowy group of former Israeli Defense Force and General Security Service (Shin Bet) Arabic-speaking interrogators were hired by the Pentagon under a classified "carve out" sub-contract to brutally interrogate Iraqi prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, one only needs to examine the record of abuse of Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners in Israel to understand what Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld meant, when referring to new, yet to be released...
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2004 10:06pm PDT
Demand release of So Anne, grandmother arrested on mothers day in Haiti
United States Marines have arrested Anne Auguste (So Anne), a prominent Haitian singer and humanitarian activist. A sizeable contingent of marines attacked So Anne’s home in Port-Au-Prince, where she was recuperating from surgery. They detained eleven friends and family, who were handcuffed and taken away, including two young children (ages five and twelve years old). The military ransacked the house. The U.S. Marines apparently still hold So Anne incommunicado....
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2004 8:54pm PDT
Eyeless in Gaza
The latest horror in Gaza, as in previous tragic episodes there and in the West Bank, signaled a new countdown. Once more, the security cabinet consulted regarding a response. Once more, there is a deepening public doubt whether there is anyone to talk to or anyone to rely on - on the other side, or ours. Suddenly, because of another act of manslaughter, the disengagement takes a new turn, as if it were not the resolute decision of the prime minister that was defeated in the referendum, as if...
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2004 6:49pm PDT
Aide to radical Iraq cleric, leaders agree on possible solution to standoff
Najaf, Iraq-AP -- Iraqi leaders in Najaf have come up with a list of conditions under which which radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr will end his violent standoff with American troops....
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2004 6:32pm PDT
U.S. Rejects Rights Group Access to Afghan Prisoners
KABUL (Reuters) - The U.S. military, under fire for its treatment of prisoners in Iraq, Tuesday turned down a request by Afghanistan's human rights body for access to Afghans in its custody.
Concerned that local prisoners may be treated like those in Iraq, the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission has sought access to Afghans detained for suspected Islamic militant links and held at various U.S. bases in Afghanistan. "We have no intention right now of changing our policy with re...
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2004 6:24pm PDT
GOP Senator Senator James Inhofe labels Iraq prisoners as terrorists, denounces Red Cross
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A Republican member of the Senate Armed Services Committee dismissed Tuesday the outrage over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. troops, saying Iraqis depicted in widely broadcast photographs probably had "blood on their hands."...
Posted: Tue, May 11, 2004 6:17pm PDT