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Two IDF soldiers killed, two injured in battle in Rafah Two Israel Defense Forces soldiers were killed and two others suffered moderate wounds during heavy fighting with Palestinian snipers in a refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah on Friday....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 11:25am PDT
Palestinians: IDF razing homes in Gaza refugee camp The Israel Defense Forces launched a mass demolition of buildings Friday in the Rafah refugee camp, adjacent to the Philadelphi Route where five IDF soldiers were killed in a Palestinian attack on an armored personnel carrier two days before.
Witnesses said armored bulldozers had demolished 20 houses and were threatening many more in the camp....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 11:23am PDT
Battles rage around Najaf's holy sites At least 10 Iraqi militiamen have reportedly been killed in fierce clashes between US occupation forces and supporters of Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 11:21am PDT
Stan Goff: Another Open Letter to the US Troops in Iraq Special thanks to the folks at Z magazine and Counterpunch.org....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 9:47am PDT
Guantánamo abuse same as Abu Ghraib, say Britons Two British men who were held at Guantánamo Bay claimed that their US guards subjected them to abuse similar to that perpetrated at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
In an open letter to President George Bush, Britons Shafiq Rasul and Asif Iqbal accused US military officials of deliberately misleading the public about procedures at Guantánamo....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 8:51am PDT
Bremer hints at US pullout from Iraq The US overseer for Iraq, Paul Bremer, has aired the possibility of an American pullout from the country, saying the United States did not stay where it was "not welcome"....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 8:48am PDT
Holiest Shi'ite Shrine Seen Damaged After Battle NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Aides to militant Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr blamed U.S. tank fire on Friday for three small holes that appeared in the vast gilded dome of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrine, the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 8:41am PDT
Israelis conduct a scorched earth policy in Zeitun killing 38 Palestinians The death toll in three days of fighting in the Gaza Strip reached 38 last night when 12 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces searching for the remains of five soldiers.
There were signs that the Israelis had conducted something of a scorched earth policy before withdrawing, exploding dozens of charges in the road, supposedly to detonate any still active explosives planted by Palestinian militants, and destroying eight buildings, making 92 people homeless....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 8:11am PDT
Beheading of US citizen condemned by Hamas and Hizbollah Of the killers shown cutting off Berg's head, Hezbollah said: "This group belongs to the Pentagon school - the school of killings, occupation, crime, torture and immoral practices as exposed by the big scandal in the [US] occupation prisons."...
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 8:02am PDT
The new socialist government and the international role of Spain THE STUNNING electoral defeat of Spain’s conservative Popular Party (PP) government March 14 after bombing attacks in Madrid that killed nearly 200 people has shaken up George W. Bush’s plans for the occupation of Iraq. SW interviewed Gustavo Buster about it....
Posted: Fri, May 14, 2004 7:00am PDT
Fears of backlash as troops battle with al Sadr fighters HAMZA HENDAWI, Kerbala May 14 2004
US forces were yesterday locked in ferocious battles with Iraqi militiamen near two shrines in Kerbala, the Imam Abbas and Imam Hussein, which is one of the most sacred sites for Shi'ite Muslims.
Heavy explosions were heard in another Shi'ite holy city, Najaf, where militiamen loyal to the radical cleric, Moqtada al Sadr, are also facing American troops....
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 9:44pm PDT
FILM "RAYMUNDO" WEBSITE We have the pleasure to inform you that was inaugurated the official site of the film RAYMUNDO....
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 9:42pm PDT
Open Letter to Our Troops An incredible letter from a US Special Forces vet.
"When one uses the term "systemic," she is saying that the source of this abuse is not individual moral failure, but a predictable expression of the system and its structures.
The abuses of detainees, by US troops, by CACI International and Titan Corporation mercenaries, and by the CIA in Iraq, is "systemic."
This message has been brought to you by ZNet....
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 7:54pm PDT
Wasserman: Bush The Torturer Must Leave Office This ghastly spiral of brutality is all about George W. Bush and who he really is. And since he is doing this in the name of the United States, it is ultimately about us, and what we do about him....
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 5:31pm PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 5/14/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! 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, and Cuba....
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 4:22pm PDT
Berg Died for Bush, Rumsfeld 'Sins' - Father "My son died for the sins of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld. This administration did this," Berg said....
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 4:13pm PDT
Reuters on World Bank corruption World Bank and other multilaterals charged with wasting hundreds of billions....
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 1:00pm PDT
Exposed at Abu Ghraib: Torture of U.S. Rule The U.S. interrogators, officially called "Human Exploitation Teams" (HETs) have been terrorizing, raping, torturing and murdering prisoners in Iraq......
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 12:42pm PDT
U.S. Abuse of Afghan Prisoners Systemic - Rights Group KABUL (Reuters) - Mistreatment of prisoners by American forces in Afghanistan is systemic, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday, a day after the U.S. army in Kabul launched a fresh inquiry into beating and sexual abuse at secret jails....
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 11:24am PDT
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