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Barzani sees Kirkuk joining an Iraqi Kurdistan KDP leader says he is sure Kirkuk will become part of Kurdistan once situation in oil-rich city is normalised....
Posted: Tue, Oct 19, 2004 8:44am PDT
The Forgotten Coup: Violence Erupts in Haiti, Activists and Political Leaders Arrested Political violence leaves scores of people dead in Haiti as activists and top Lavalas leaders are arrested. We speak with Rep. Maxine Waters and we go to Haiti to hear from Bill Quigley, lawyer for Father Gerard Jean-Juste who was arrested last week and Miami to hear from Haitian community activist Lucie Tondreau....
Posted: Tue, Oct 19, 2004 8:38am PDT
An Open Letter to British Troops Serving in Iraq The US has asked the British government to send you north to free up forces for another offensive against Falluja. I’m writing to ask you to refuse any orders to deploy to Baghdad or other areas currently under US control....
Posted: Tue, Oct 19, 2004 8:36am PDT
Ramadan in Fallujah…Empty Mosques BAGHDAD , October 19 (IslamOnline.net) - With the advent of the holy month of Ramadan, mosques of Fallujah have been unusually deserted as people fled their city to avoid a reported US massive onslaught, under the pretext of arresting Abu Mosaab Al-Zarqawi and his followers.
Eyewitnesses told IslamOnline.net Monday, October18 , that thousands of Fallujah residents have left the town to spend Ramadan with their relatives in other neighboring cities and villages or in Baghdad to avoid US c...
Posted: Tue, Oct 19, 2004 8:33am PDT
Many casualties in attack on Iraqi forces HQ A mortar attack on an Iraqi National Guard headquarters north of Baghdad has killed four soldiers and wounded scores more.
An Iraqi defence ministry statement said the attack occurred in the morning at Tarmiya, about 25km north of Baghdad....
Posted: Tue, Oct 19, 2004 8:25am PDT
Senior aid worker kidnapped in Iraq A British-Iraqi woman working as the head of CARE International in Iraq has been abducted in Baghdad.
Margaret Hassan, who is employed by Care Australia as its Iraq country director, was seized by kidnappers at 7:30am local time.
Al Jazeera television later aired footage of Ms Hassan after her capture, sitting in a room and looking anxious....
Posted: Tue, Oct 19, 2004 8:22am PDT
Israeli settler crimes and media silence "Human-rights abuses are being carried out by Israeli settlers on a massive scale, but the US media continues to choose not to present the whole Palestine/Israel story - just the Tel Aviv version...Dozens of volunteers from Amnesty International, CPT, Operation Dove, as well as numerous parents, and of course Palestinian schoolchildren, have all been assaulted this week alone...We are not talking verbal abuse, taunts and pushes - we are talking punctured lungs, broken arms, fractured rib...
Posted: Mon, Oct 18, 2004 1:10pm PDT
Ralph Nader slams Abraham Foxman and the ADL "Few groups get the free ride that has been the case of the ADL when it ventures beyond its historic mission into covering the Israeli militaristic regime and its brutalization and slaughter of far more innocent Palestinians it occupies, than the reverse casualties inflicted on innocent Israelis."...
Posted: Mon, Oct 18, 2004 1:12am PDT
Pictures of 13 year old Palestinian schoolgirl gunned down by so-called Israeli 'soldiers' 
Iman Al Shams was shot by an Israeli sniper as she was going to school carrying her books in her satchel. An Israeli commander approached her where she had fallen and shot her twice in the head and then proceeded to unload an entire clip into the rest of her body which was riddled with 20+ bullet holes. He was arrested but then acquitted: "The investigation concluded that the behaviour of the company commander from an ethical point of view does not warrant his removal from his position...
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 11:22pm PDT
'When we came back they had destroyed all the houses The Israeli general who commanded the destruction of the only Jewish settlement in the Sinai before it was returned to Egypt recently offered Ariel Sharon advice on how to carry out his pledge to remove settlers from the Gaza strip.
"Evicting someone from the home they've lived in for 20 years isn't a simple matter," wrote Brigadier General Obed Tira. "To remove a family from its home is embarrassing and difficult, and that is why the removal needs to be done with a lot of l...
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 11:18pm PDT
Iraq says 'come and get us' to Western oil companies Iraq has issued an open invitation to the world's largest oil companies to exploit its vast reserves.
The interim government believes it can double oil production by 2010 if it exploits existing facilities and develops new fields. But it thinks that the only way to do this is by involving the West's energy giants....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 11:05pm PDT
Haiti’s US-installed government cracks down on opponents A fresh eruption of political violence in Haiti has claimed at least 46 lives in the past two weeks as the US-installed interim government of Prime Minister Gérard Latortue has sought to silence supporters of the ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in advance of the scheduled 2005 elections.
Aristide was driven to exile last February following an armed rebellion by former officers of the disbanded Haitian army and the combined pressure of Paris, Ottawa and Washington in what amounted t...
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 11:04pm PDT
'They want Zarqawi. They can't kill him so they're killing us' The missiles struck at just after 3am with devastating effect. Eight members of the al-Jabouri family were killed as they slept, their home destroyed. The following morning the US military issued a statement saying that fighters loyal to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, America's number one enemy in Iraq, had been taken out in a precision strike in Fallujah.
The town had been pounded nightly for three weeks, with the Americans insisting that those killed and maimed were insurgents mainly from Zarqawi...
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 11:03pm PDT
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono: More of the Same though touted as a "reformer" by Washington, new Indonesian President "SBY" is a defender of the status quo
out to please international investors and preserve Indonesian military hegemony throughout the archipelago...
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 3:36pm PDT
Brazilian general in Haiti campaigns for Bush Brazilian government further curries favor with Bush forces; UN forces insure there is no resistance as the
Haitian police get away with arbitrary dentenions and
murder(see:http://blackcommentator.com/109/109_haiti.html)....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 1:28pm PDT
Death squads rampage in Haiti: Flashpoints Radio Interviews Kevin Pina Death squads rampage in Haiti: 600 killed in 2 weeks...
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 1:19pm PDT
European Social Forum fails to attract the poor, activists say LONDON : Activists have hit out after the latest European Social Forum (ESF), held in London, failed to attract the most vulnerable and deprived members of society due to being staged in one of the world's most expensive cities.
The three-day forum ended Sunday with the publication of a text calling for a Europe that was both pacifist and social-minded, and also for a day of demonstration throughout the continent on March 19, 2005....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 12:52pm PDT
Fallujah Reportback Via Iraqi Blog yesterday we sent someone to Falluja, to see how the situation is there. he is from Falluja originally, and he goes there often, but this Time when he went he came back depressed, although he is in his twenties or early thirties, he had a drop in blood pressure and went to the hospital....
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 12:10pm PDT
IDF: Killing children is no longer a big deal More than 30 Palestinian children were killed in the first two weeks of Operation Days of Penitence in the Gaza Strip. It's no wonder that many people term such wholesale killing of children "terror." Whereas in the overall count of all the victims of the intifada the ratio is three Palestinians killed for every Israeli killed, when it comes to children the ratio is 5:1. According to B'Tselem, the human rights organization, even before the current operation in Gaza, 557 Palestinian ...
Posted: Sun, Oct 17, 2004 12:05pm PDT
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