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U.S. Kills Scores of Insurgents in Najaf BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. troops fought militiamen overnight near Najaf, killing 64 gunmen and destroying an anti-aircraft gun. An American soldier was killed Tuesday in Baghdad, raising the U.S. death toll for April to 115 — the same number lost during the entire invasion of Iraq last year....
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2004 8:59am PDT
US kills tens of Iraqis on Najaf's doorstep US occupation forces have killed tens of Iraqis in overnight clashes near the city of Najaf....
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2004 8:54am PDT
REVOLUTION: Why it's necessaryWhy it'sPossible Excerpts from a film of Bob Avakian -...
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2004 8:04am PDT
Gunships level minaret as US cancels assault An American assault on the Iraqi city of Fallujah was postponed yesterday after local commanders said bloody urban warfare could provoke retaliation across the country and protests throughout the Muslim world....
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2004 6:04pm PDT
Sadr the agitator: like father, like son KUFA, IRAQ – Sadr enters the mosque at Kufa where he's led Friday prayers for nearly a year denouncing the authorities and warning of an "imperialist" conspiracy against Iraq's majority Shiites.
The thousands fill the vast open courtyard, chanting the name of their hero when he strides through the gate, and they take up his call during the sermon. "No, no to America! No, no to Israel! No, no to imperialism!" In Baghdad, the authorities worry about how to handle this mili...
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2004 5:50pm PDT
Aristide Party Rejects Haiti Election Role PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - The political party of ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide said on Monday it would not take part in a council charged with organizing new elections because of continuing persecution....
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2004 5:07pm PDT
Haiti fires 300 Aristide staff Some have said the government is working too slowly to restore basic services, such as electricity and water, to punish people in former Aristide strongholds....
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2004 12:10pm PDT
US bullying Caricom over Haiti? Two planned meetings in jeopardy if interim regime not recognised...
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2004 12:08pm PDT
Diplomats attack Blair's Israel policy Tony Blair's foreign policy was under scrutiny tonight after an unprecedented coalition of more than 50 former diplomats attacked his policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2004 11:39am PDT
Raed On Support For Sadr And The SCIRI The situation of Falluja and Najaf isn’t getting any better, but I still believe that the real crisis is the Najaf one; Falluja is a smaller conflict for sure....
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2004 11:38am PDT
Iraqis 'Threat to kill' Italian hostages If Italians Don't Start Protesting The War Al-Arabiya TV has broadcast a new tape, purportedly from militants threatening to kill three Italians held in Iraq.
The Arabic channel reported that the captors said they would release the hostages if protests were held in Italy against the country's presence in Iraq....
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2004 10:23am PDT
US forces enter Najaf to "cover Spain's withdrawal" NAJAF, Iraq, April 26 (Reuters) - U.S. forces entered Najaf on Monday to protect Spanish troops set to withdraw from the Shi'ite holy city, where rebel Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is holed up with his militia....
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2004 10:14am PDT
SF International Film Festival The SF International Film Festival presents a broad spectrum of political documentaries from home and abroad. In a unique and intimate way, the San Francisco International film festival 2004 offers a political documentary puzzle as to where exactly things stand in the middle east. Of the domestic variety Neverland/Guerilla dissapoints....
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2004 10:13am PDT
Wed Rally at ChevronTexaco HQ in San Ramon Join Amazonian Leaders, Local Community Leaders, Investors and International Human Rights Advocate,
Bianca Jagger, at Chevron Texaco's Annual Shareholder's Meeting!...
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2004 10:02am PDT
Bolivia: Coordinadora del Gas convoca a resistencia civil Quemaron propuesta publicitada del gobierno sobre modificación a la Ley de Hidrocarburos. Organizaciones cochabambinas se organizan para actuar de manera conjunta contra intentos de golpe.
Coordinadora de Defensa del Gas convoca a “resistencia civil” por venta de gas a Argentina...
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2004 9:17am PDT
1.5 million Bolivians outside State Control Since the uprising, this corner of Bolivia, where the dry altiplano, a high plateau, around Lake Titicaca meets lush tropical mountains, has become a kind of an Indian liberated zone. "Before, they were the bosses. They made us work, they would run everything. But people realize what's going on now. It's not like it was before."...
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2004 8:59am PDT
Baghdad bomb hits US occupation troops A powerful bomb has exploded in Baghdad's northern neighbourhood of Waziriya, destroying four US military vehicles....
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2004 6:44am PDT
US helicopters launch Falluja attack: Fallujans ask UN to Investigate war crimes Two US helicopter gunships have launched a missile attack on Falluja's Golan district despite talk of an enduring if not unstable truce....
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2004 6:42am PDT
News From Iraq: Media Lies ... But Where Is The Truth? Thoughts From Baghdad...
Posted: Sun, Apr 25, 2004 11:13pm PDT
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