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A pan-Iraqi group has been formed to oppose the occupation of Iraq and has immediately called for a meeting with UN envoy al-Akhdar al-Ibrahimi in a direct challenge to the country's US-appointed leadership....
Posted: Sun, May 9, 2004 9:41am PDT
The sacking of a district governor in Afghanistan has threatened to turn into a full blown political row between the Loya Jirga and President Hamid Karzai....
Posted: Sun, May 9, 2004 9:39am PDT
Two foreign nationals have been stoned to death in the Afghan capital Kabul, a government official has said....
Posted: Sun, May 9, 2004 9:38am PDT
Egypt's opposition daily Al-Wafd splashed four pictures on its front page showing what it said were Iraqi women being raped by soldiers....
Posted: Sun, May 9, 2004 1:52am PDT
The Bush administration was bracing itself last night for the release of new pictures and video footage from Abu Ghraib which show US soldiers having sex with an Iraqi woman prisoner, troops almost beating a prisoner to death, and the rape of young boys......
Posted: Sun, May 9, 2004 1:33am PDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Defense Department last year approved interrogation techniques for use at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba that include forcing inmates to strip naked and subjecting them to loud music, bright lights and sleep deprivation, the Washington Post reported on Saturday....
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 10:10pm PDT
About 100 people, including a Black Bloc, participated in an unauthorized march in solidarity with anarchist prisoner Marco Camenisch, passing by the court in which Marco will appear on May 10....
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 5:39pm PDT
Solidarity with venezuela...
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 4:57pm PDT
The United States, which actively participates in an annual ritual of "bashing" countries like Iran, Cuba, Syria, North Korea, Sudan and Myanmar at the U.N. Human Rights Commission in Geneva and at the General Assembly sessions in New York, has lost its moral authority to point an accusing finger at miscreants when it has problems in its own backyard, say diplomats from developing nations....
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 2:55pm PDT
PARIS (Reuters) - Iraq's former human rights minister Abdul Basset Turki said abuses of Iraqi prisoners had been going on at all U.S. bases since the occupation began, with some taking place as recently as last week...
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 2:50pm PDT
BAGHDAD (AP) - The commander of U.S. detention facilities in Iraq said Saturday the military will continue to operate the Abu Ghraib prison, despite calls from some U.S. legislators to close it because of a scandal over the abuse of Iraqi prisoners....
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 2:49pm PDT
An Iraqi prisoner has described how he was allegedly subjected to vicious beatings by laughing British soldiers during interrogation sessions which left another man dead....
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 2:35pm PDT
Karbala - Heavy black smoke was seen rising over Karbala Saturday as US tanks and armoured vehicles encircled the centre of the holy Shiite city, according to witnesses....
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 2:14pm PDT
The US military has said it will investigate claims by a former inmate of Abu Ghraib prison that a girl as young as 12 was stripped and beaten by military personnel....
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 2:10pm PDT
Colombia's ultra-rightist president Uribe's move to declare an oil strike illegal, has sparked worldwide protests. More than a dozen union leaders have been arrested and police have announced that anti-terrorism measures will be taken against striking workers at the country's national oil company, Ecopetrol....
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 12:42pm PDT
British troops have quelled a co-ordinated attack in Basra by hundreds of Iraqi militia loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, the Ministry of Defence said tonight....
Posted: Sat, May 8, 2004 12:31pm PDT
When the young woman involved in this torture expressed her surprise at all the fuss, I immediately understood why. Not because what she did was routine - though it clearly was - but because that is how she was told to treat these Iraqi prisoners. Hadn't they been killing American soldiers, setting off car bombs, murdering schoolchildren? Hollywood turned into reality....
Posted: Fri, May 7, 2004 11:59pm PDT
'Rape, murder likely' in Iraq scandal
From correspondents in Washington
May 08, 2004...
Posted: Fri, May 7, 2004 11:36pm PDT
BASRA (Reuters) - Hundreds of Shi'ite militiamen loyal to rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr took to the streets of the British-controlled southern city of Basra on Saturday, witnesses said....
Posted: Fri, May 7, 2004 11:25pm PDT