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The Rediff Interview/Mullah Omar Through the auspices of an influential jihadi leader, Mohammad Shehzad spoke with the Taliban supremo over the phone from Kabul. Shehzad, who had met Omar in a cave near Kandahar in October 2002, positively identified the voice....
Posted: Sun, Apr 11, 2004 10:38pm PDT
600+ killed in Fallujah and 900+ killed around Iraq in latest US 'pacification' offensives Fallujah residents took advantage of the lull in fighting to bury their dead in two soccer fields. One of the fields had rows of freshly dug graves, some marked on headstones as children or with the names of women...Most of the Iraqis killed in Fallujah in fighting that started last Monday were women, children and elderly, the director of the city hospital, Rafie al-Issawi, told The Associated Press...Fallujah hospital's al-Issawi said the number of Iraqi dead in the city was likely higher th...
Posted: Sun, Apr 11, 2004 10:25pm PDT
U.S. to declare Israel won't have to return to 1949 border Israel will not be asked in the future to withdraw to the 1949 cease-fire lines (the Green Line) on the West Bank, according to a letter U.S. President George Bush is to present to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in Washington this week....
Posted: Sun, Apr 11, 2004 5:34pm PDT
Suspected Taliban militants kidnap Afghan intelligence chief Suspected Taliban militants have kidnapped a high-ranking local government officer in south-central Afghanistan's Uruzgan province, an official said on Saturday....
Posted: Sun, Apr 11, 2004 4:22pm PDT
US Wants Al-Jazeera Expelled From Fallujah Alarmed that al-Jazeera TV’s team of reporters and cameramen in besieged al-Fallujah was broadcasting minute-by-minute evidence of American war crimes in that Iraqi bastion of liberty, US military authorities reportedly stipulated that al-Jazeera’s team must be expelled from al-Fallujah before the US would agree to any cease fire in the city. Al-Jazeera had dispatched its distinguished veteran correspondent Ahmad Mansur to head its team in the besieged city. Mansur and his colleagues were abl...
Posted: Sun, Apr 11, 2004 2:51pm PDT
Pacify Fallujah “Where is the Red Cross? We haven’t seen any international organization help us in Fallujah.”...
Posted: Sun, Apr 11, 2004 2:39pm PDT
Iraqi battalion refuses to support US Marines A battalion of the new Iraqi army refused to go to Fallujah this week to support US Marines, the commander of US-led occuaption ground troops in Iraq confirmed on Sunday....
Posted: Sun, Apr 11, 2004 2:20pm PDT
Falluja toll tops 600 More than 600 Iraqis have been killed in fighting in Falluja since US forces launched an offensive against resistance fighters in the town a week ago, say hospital sources....
Posted: Sun, Apr 11, 2004 2:07pm PDT
Senior British commanders compare US troops to Nazis Senior British commanders have condemned American military tactics in Iraq as heavy-handed and disproportionate.
One senior officer said that America's aggressive methods were causing friction among allied commanders and that there was a growing sense of "unease and frustration" among the British high command.
The officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said part of the problem was that American troops viewed Iraqis as untermenschen - the Nazi expression for "sub-hum...
Posted: Sun, Apr 11, 2004 2:05pm PDT
Resistance Radio premiers! the premier of Resistance Radio, providing daily news aroudn the corner...
Posted: Sat, Apr 10, 2004 8:11pm PDT
Venezuela Week in Review-Hands Off Venezuela Campaign Hands Off Venezuela International Campaign...
Posted: Sat, Apr 10, 2004 6:28pm PDT
Falluja Massacre Update. Eyewitnes Accounts. Call to Action! ...
Posted: Sat, Apr 10, 2004 10:12am PDT
River: One year after the US takeover - April 9, Iraqi 'National Day' or Occupation Day The American and European news stations don't show the dying Iraqis… they don't show the women and children bandaged and bleeding- the mother looking for some sign of her son in the middle of a puddle of blood and dismembered arms and legs… they don't show you the hospitals overflowing with the dead and dying because they don't want to hurt American feelings… but people *should* see it. You should see the price of your war and occupation…Over 300 are dead in Falloojeh and they have taken to b...
Posted: Sat, Apr 10, 2004 1:39am PDT
Robert Fisk: US uses Israeli tactics in Iraq. Rachel Corrie's death ignored by media Back on 16 March 2003, when the world was obsessed with the war that would break out in Iraq three days later, a tragedy occurred on another battlefield 500 miles west of Baghdad. On that day, an Israeli soldier and his commander drove a nine-ton Caterpillar bulldozer over a young American peace activist called Rachel Corrie who was unarmed, clearly visible in a fluorescent jacket and trying to protect a Palestinian home that the Israelis intended to destroy. The Caterpillar was part of the r...
Posted: Sat, Apr 10, 2004 12:44am PDT
Abu Ghraib: "We shall knock on the gates of heaven with the skulls of the Americans" a riveting account of the Iraqi insurrection by Patrick Cockburn in the London Independent...
Posted: Fri, Apr 9, 2004 8:12pm PDT
Continuing Slaughter, Kidnappings, US Rhetoric Dahr Jamail is a Baghdad correspondent for The NewStandard, reporting in the midst of the ever-worsening Iraq crisis....
Posted: Fri, Apr 9, 2004 7:04pm PDT
Aljazeera targeted in Falluja The only television crew to be reporting from inside the besieged town, Aljazeera crew members on Friday complained they had been fired at twice during the day....
Posted: Fri, Apr 9, 2004 5:38pm PDT
Gaza Withdrawal - Public Hearing at the Hart Senate Office - You're Invited!!! TUESDAY, April 13, 2004: 10:00 AM
902 Hart Senate Office Building
CNI Capitol Hill Public Hearing
Co-sponsored with The Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep)
Register online at:
http://cnionline.org/hearings/gaza/signup.html
or call 1-800-296-6958
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will be discussing a conditional unilateral withdrawal from Gaza on April 14 with President Bush in
the Oval Office of the White House. What will Israel ask for in terms...
Posted: Fri, Apr 9, 2004 1:17pm PDT
Two Soldiers From The East Bay Die In Iraq The high cost of war hits home in the Bay Area with the loss of two more young soldiers. Both of them were teenagers just out of high school. Both of them were from the East Bay.
19-year-old Marine Lance Corporal Travis Layfield of Fremont died Tuesday while fighting in Iraq's Anbar province.
Also killed on Tuesday was 18-year-old Kyle Crowley of San Ramon. Marine officials told his family he died in a fierce gunfight east of Ramadi....
Posted: Fri, Apr 9, 2004 6:20am PDT
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