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Twenty two people have been killed and 20 others injured in a US raid on a house in Falluja, medical sources and witnesses have told Aljazeera's correspondent....
Posted: Sat, Jun 19, 2004 9:30am PDT
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- More than 5,000 supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide marched through Haiti's capital Friday, calling for his return and accusing the U.S. government of forcing his departure....
Posted: Sat, Jun 19, 2004 1:09am PDT
To reduce abuse, make celibacy optional for secular priests of the Latin Rite....
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 10:35pm PDT
On Thursday, June 17, older men lay down in front of moving bulldozers to stop the destruction of their olive groves for the Apartheid Wall in Salfit, West Bank. The army responded by shooting tear gas and sound bombs at close range, and later threatened youth with live fire. Video 5:40....
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 6:11pm PDT
Arafat is ready to sign an agreement that would give Palestinians 97 per cent of the West Bank and Gaza - with the rest in a land swap, and the right of return of not all, but at least some refugees. In a free-ranging interview with Haaretz, conducted in the carefully preserved ruins of the Muqata, the PA Chairman also spoke of the historical family bonds between the two peoples.
"Definitely," says Yasser Arafat, waving his arm for emphasis. He definitely understands and accep...
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 5:39pm PDT
Pictures Purporting To Show The Body Of Paul Johnson After His Barbaric Murder: - WARNING - THE PICTURES ON THIS PAGE ARE OF A PARTICULARLY HORRIFIC NATURE AND SHOULD ONLY BE VIEWED BY A MATURE AUDIENCE....
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 2:36pm PDT
Franti continues his fact-finding trip through the Middle East. We last spoke with him in Baghdad, he is now in Rafah where Israel recently demolished hundreds of Palestinian homes....
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 10:20am PDT
Insurgents clashed Friday with U.S. forces near Baghdad for the second time in as many days, and crews repairing a sabotaged crude oil pipeline expect to have full exports flowing by the end of next week....
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 9:48am PDT
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A U.S.-appointed Iraqi judge has issued an arrest warrant for one of the fiercest opponents of former President Saddam Hussein in connection with murder, politicians and lawyers familiar with the case said Friday....
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 9:46am PDT
POST THIS EVERYWHERE!!!!!
The criminals engaged in the "Business of Disease" and of Tyranny,
are planning a new weapon against humanity !!
Know this: The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall of tyranny at the...
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 7:23am PDT
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A renegade commander has taken control of most of a remote Afghan provincial capital after clashes in which 18 people were killed or wounded and the governor was forced to flee, combatants said on Friday....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 11:55pm PDT
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Russia, Spain, China, and Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 4:50pm PDT
Israel on Thursday set in motion a plan to build a moat along the Gaza-Egypt border, inviting contractors to bid on the project aimed at putting and end to alleged weapons smuggling....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 2:21pm PDT
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Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 12:59pm PDT
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Most Iraqis have lost confidence in the U.S.-led occupation and would feel safer if foreign troops left their country, a poll commissioned by the coalition authority has found....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 10:44am PDT
"One more historic victory like this," goes the mordant Hebrew expression, "and we are lost."
It was only last month that the settlement movement, along with allies in the right and far-right, scored perhaps its most dramatic political triumph on record. In a come-from-behind landslide, Likud members responded to an all-out settler campaign and repudiated Ariel Sharon's withdrawal proposal in a referendum the prime minister had vowed to honor....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 10:28am PDT
by Dahr Jamail | Posted June 16, 2004 at 11:32 PM Baghdad time...
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 10:15am PDT
by Dahr Jamail | Posted June 14, 2004 at 07:50 PM Baghdad time...
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 10:13am PDT
How can we explain the conjurer's trick by which Sharon has turned into the darling of the Israeli peace camp?...
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 10:01am PDT
The non-Jewish wave of immigration has brought the issue of relations between religion and state - chiefly regarding marriage and conversion - to a moment of truth. Even those who favor continued Orthodox monopoly on marriage will not be able to accept a situation in which hundreds of thousands of immigrants are unable to marry in Israel. This is what led former chief rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron to propose a sweeping annulment of the monopoly....
Posted: Thu, Jun 17, 2004 9:59am PDT