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Thoughts On The Shiite Uprising From An Iraqi Reporter
The clashes of today were worse than what I expected.
21 Iraqis killed and 155 injured, 7 US solders killed and dozens injured, 10 other Spanish and Salvador soldiers killed and injured.
This is what the media says: One day clashes.
And here is the real story; long and boring, but real....
Posted: Mon, Apr 5, 2004 7:05am PDT
Links to Womyn/Women-Related Websites
Feel free to add links to websites related to womyn's issues here! (just click "add comment"...
Posted: Mon, Apr 5, 2004 1:02am PDT
4/24: Support the Maquiladora Workers at Daewoo Co. in Mexicali, Mexico!
On April 24, a Binational Conference in Support of the Daewoo
Maquiladora Workers will be held in the border city of Mexicali,
Mexico -- just across from Calexico, Calif....
Posted: Mon, Apr 5, 2004 12:44am PDT
France 'sought secret UN deal' in bid to avert row
The French government offered a surprise compromise to the US president, George Bush, in the run-up to the war in Iraq, according to a detailed investigation published in Vanity Fair this week....
Posted: Sun, Apr 4, 2004 7:26pm PDT
Seven U.S. soldiers die in ambush
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Seven U.S. soldiers were killed in clashes with supporters of a leading Shiite cleric in a Baghdad neighborhood Sunday, military officials told CNN....
Posted: Sun, Apr 4, 2004 2:38pm PDT
Violent Disturbances Rack Iraq From Baghdad to Southern Cities
BAGHDAD, April 4 — Iraq was racked today by its most violent civil disturbances since the occupation started, with a coordinated Shiite uprising spreading across the country, from the slums of Baghdad to several cities in the south. An American soldier and a Salvadoran soldier were killed in the unrest, news agencies reported....
Posted: Sun, Apr 4, 2004 1:36pm PDT
Independent Journalism Under Occupation in Iraq
Today in Iraq, like in the U.S., there is a horrendous disparity between what is really occurring on the ground and what the Western corporate media chooses to report....
Posted: Sun, Apr 4, 2004 1:07pm PDT
Mehdi Army militia
Iraq's Mehdi Army (MA) militia probably has no more than a few thousand actual members but its potential for organising unrest is clear from the street battles which erupted in Shia parts of the country....
Posted: Sun, Apr 4, 2004 12:31pm PDT
Coalition troops open fire: 24 killed in Najaf
Spanish-led troops and Iraqi police fired on protesters and clashed with armed Shi'ite militiamen near Najaf Sunday, leaving at least 20 people dead and more than 100 wounded, witnesses and hospital officials said....
Posted: Sun, Apr 4, 2004 10:31am PDT
Brits Destroy Home of Terrorist but then Condemn Jews when they do the Same
Slimy British Hypocrisy...
Posted: Sun, Apr 4, 2004 1:43am PST
Atrocity Watch: Troops prepare for Fallujah battle
"Fallujah is a barrier on the highway to progress," said Col. J.C. Coleman, chief of staff to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. "We're going to eliminate that barrier without damaging the highway."...
Posted: Sat, Apr 3, 2004 8:55pm PST
Caribbean people and nations stand firm for Haiti
Basseterre, St. Kitts - A two-day conference of the 15 nations of the Caribbean Community culminated Saturday in CARICOM’s call for a U.N. investigation into the ouster of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide of Haiti and its refusal to recognize the U.S.-backed interim government there. Instead, CARICOM nations will deal directly with the Haitian people....
Posted: Sat, Apr 3, 2004 6:07pm PST
Thugs and the Interim Government of Haiti
Waters Intercedes to Keep President Aristide in the Caribbean
Condemns the Alliance between Haitian
Thugs and the Interim Government of Haiti...
Posted: Sat, Apr 3, 2004 6:06pm PST
Bush and Blair made secret pact for Iraq war 9 days after 9/11
President George Bush first asked Tony Blair to support the removal of Saddam Hussein from power at a private White House dinner nine days after the terror attacks of 11 September, 2001....
Posted: Sat, Apr 3, 2004 4:34pm PST
Shias march against US in Baghdad
Thousands of Iraqi Shias have marched through the streets of Baghdad in the latest protest against US occupation....
Posted: Sat, Apr 3, 2004 4:18pm PST
Iraqi protesters met by tanks: at least two demonstrators crushed
US tanks have deployed in the Iraqi capital to stop hundreds of angry protestors marching on the coalition's city centre headquarters after Shiite Muslim radicals took to the streets across central and southern Iraq....
Posted: Sat, Apr 3, 2004 4:05pm PST
Moqtada Sadr's supporters shoot three coalition soldiers in Iraq
Three soldiers from El Salvador have been shot and wounded in Iraq by supporters of a militant Shiite cleric....
Posted: Sat, Apr 3, 2004 4:02pm PST
Fallujah
The propaganda value of the mutilation of American corpses in Fallujah and a case for who the real barbarians are in Iraq....
Posted: Sat, Apr 3, 2004 9:43am PST
EL PLAN COLOMBIA Y LA LUCHA CONTRAINSURGENTE EN AMÉRICA LATINA
"Estados Unidos nunca se planteará acabar verdaderamente con la compraventa ilegal de droga, por que seria buscar su propia autodestrucción como sistema capitalista"...
Posted: Sat, Apr 3, 2004 6:30am PST