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The War on Haiti's Priests
I write to urge you to take immediate action to protect the life of Father Gerard Jean-Juste, the pastor of Saint Claire Church in the Delmas area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, as well as the lives of several other Haitian priests and parishioners, who are reportedly in imminent danger....
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 3:20pm PDT
Clanedestine interview from Haiti: resistance in the slums of Port au Prince
Backed by United Nations so-called peacekeepers, the U.S.-installed Haitian regime continues its siege of poor neighborhoods in the capital, Port au Prince, in an attempt to crush ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide’s Lavalas party. The following is the result of a clandestine interview with a woman called Nancy, conducted last Sunday in the slum of Bel Air....
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 3:19pm PDT
Afghan warlords poised to take up power
Alleged war criminals are poised to take positions of power in Afghanistan's new government, threatening hopes of democracy taking shape after last week's historic election, a human rights grouphas warned.
Men with bloody records from years of conflict will become judges, police chiefs and government ministers unless their appointments are blocked by presidential decree, according to a report by Afghanistan Justice Project....
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 3:11pm PDT
Israel: Medieval State, Medieval Carnage
As Israel’s circle of vengeance closed in on Gaza last week, and ashen-faced civilians cowered in their homes, one wondered if Zionist leaders this time around may have crossed a line — that line in Immanuel Kant’s “Perpetual Peace,” published in1795 , where the German philosopher wrote: “No state at war with another shall permit acts of hostility as would make mutual confidence impossible during a future time of peace.”
The carnage that the Israeli entity has wrought in Palestine in recen...
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 3:09pm PDT
Americans want negotiations to fail: Fallujah delegation member
BAGHDAD, Oct. 14 (Xinhuanet) -- A member of a delegation of the people of Fallujah, 50 km south of Baghdad, told Xinhua on Thursdaythat he accused American forces of attempting to torpedo negotiations between the delegation and the interim Iraqi government.
"It seems that the Americans do not want the negotiations to succeed between the people of Fallujah and the government," said Sheikh Abdul Hamid Jadoo, a member of the Fallujah delegation....
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 3:07pm PDT
Death Toll from Israel's Gaza Offensive Rises to 100
"Rockets were never fired from among our houses and not from my garlic store," said Anwar al-Shafai, 60, gazing at the rubble of his business. It seems to us that Sharon's so-called unilateral withdrawal will be only an illusion. An Israeli bulldozer uprooted the graves of my mother and uncle. I will have to rebury their remains."...
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 1:23pm PDT
Israel withdraws charge that driver loaded rocket into UN ambulance
Israeli PR in Action:
After releasing FALSE CHARGES to news medias, Israel withdraws FALSE CHARGES...
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 9:47am PDT
Attackers strike Iraq Green Zone
Insurgents have penetrated Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone to carry out two bomb attacks that killed five people and injured 18 others.
Three Americans were among the victims of the blasts at a market and cafe.
The Green Zone, where Iraqi government offices and US forces are based, comes under frequent mortar attack.
But this appears to be the first time militants have managed to carry out suicide bombings in what is supposed to be the safest place in Iraq....
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 8:45am PDT
Poor Iraqis
The poor Iraqi people face thesame fate that was committed agaist them by u.s. troops 130 years ago as the government began to illegally steal Black Hills Lakota gold reserves from 1851 Treaty Territories....
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 8:45am PDT
Death Toll from Israel's Gaza Offensive Rises to 100
GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli air strikes killed five Palestinians in Gaza Thursday as the Palestinian death toll rose to 100 in a 16-day-old army offensive aimed at crushing militants behind rocket salvoes into Israel....
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 8:34am PDT
Allawi Threatens Massive Onslaught on Fallujah
BAGHDAD, October 14 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – US-backed Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi threatened a massive assault on Fallujah unless the resistance bastion turns in militant Abu Mussab Al-Zarqawi, but a negotiator for the city dismissed the warning, insisting Zarqawi was not in the city.
On the ground Thursday, October14 , Fallujah was struck again by US air raids, as nineteen Iraqis were killed in separate attacks.
In what seemed to be the beginning of the impleme...
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 8:32am PDT
Two 15-year-olds arrested for assaulting Arabs in Jerusalem
Two 15-year-old boys were arrested on Thursday for allegedly assaulting and harassing Arabs in Jerusalem in recent months. The two have already admitted to the allegations against them....
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 8:29am PDT
Israel could become pariah state, warns report
Israel is set on a collision course with the EU and could turn into a pariah state, on a par with South Africa during the apartheid years, if the conflict with the Palestinians is not resolved, Israel's foreign ministry has warned.
In a confidential 10-year forecast obtained by the Associated Press, the ministry's Centre for Political Research said the EU is pushing to become a major global player in the next decade, and that as a result the US, Israel's main ally, could lose international...
Posted: Thu, Oct 14, 2004 8:27am PDT
Cheney Vows To Attack U.S. If Kerry Elected
GREENSBORO, NC—In an announcement that has alarmed voters across the nation, Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that he will personally attack the U.S. if Sen. John Kerry wins the next election....
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 10:43pm PDT
Bill and Kathleen Christison: Israel as Sideshow
In the last year, there has been a rash of investigative films and in-depth studies and analyses put out by progressive journalists and media outlets that examine the U.S. drive for global hegemony and try to look at why terrorists are targeting the U.S. These journalists and media outlets, the very progressives who should best be able to "get it," have all totally or almost totally ignored the Israeli connection to the Iraq war and to the various other Bush administration plans for...
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 10:04pm PDT
Rallies provoke fears of unrest in the ethnically-mixed city of Kirkuk
The call for a referendum on the right to self-determination by thousands of Kurdish demonstrators last week has sparked concern over their region’s fate.
Some protestors at the rallies, which took place both in Kurdistan and in Europe, even called for a completely independent Kurdistan – with oil-rich Kirkuk as its capital.
The demonstrations renewed concerns over potential ethnic conflict in Kirkuk, with Mohammed Khalil, an Arab representative on the Kirkuk city council, warning the s...
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 9:55pm PDT
Israeli commander under investigation for slaying of child
The Israeli Army on Wednesday suspended a platoon commander on suspicion he emptied an ammunition clip into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl from close range after she had already collapsed under fire. The officer was not charged, but came under investigation after fellow soldiers said he engaged in an illegal practice known as "verifying a kill."...
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 9:46pm PDT
Haitian ex-soldiers head for capital in confrontation with Aristide loyalists
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Ex-soldiers who ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in a deadly revolt said reinforcements are advancing on the capital to halt violence that has killed at least 48 people - a move that threatens conflict with armed Aristide militants and UN troops....
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 8:47pm PDT
Investigation into Trashed Voter Registrations
An employee of a private voter registration firm alleges that his bosses trashed registration forms filled out by Democratic voters because they only wanted to sign up Republican voters.
The allegations have set off a political firestorm stretching from Las Vegas to Washington D.C., and beyond....
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 8:45pm PDT
Gaza rampage claims more Palestinian lives
At least five Palestinians have been killed and six injured as Israeli occupation forces continue their massive onslaught on the Gaza Strip.
In the latest violence, an Israeli aircraft fired a missile after nightfall Wednesday at a group of resistance fighters near Beit Lahya in the northern part of the Gaza Strip killing one person....
Posted: Wed, Oct 13, 2004 7:07pm PDT