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The ouster of Jean-Bertrand Aristide was orchestrated by and for the ruling minority. For two hundred years, they have ruled the country by proxy and have undoubtedly some responsibility to bear for the current state of affairs in the country. However, following Aristide's forced departure, they have decided to change course. They have established a puppet regime of technocrats with the aim of smoothing the progress of a total minority rule and according to latest indications, they are right ...

The Pentagon said yesterday it was investigating cockpit video footage that shows American pilots attacking and killing a group of apparently unarmed Iraqi civilians. The 30-second clip shows the pilot targeting the group of people in a street in the city of Fallujah and asking his mission controllers whether he should "take them out". He is told to do so and, shortly afterwards, the footage shows a huge explosion where the people were. A second voice can be heard on the clip say...

A friend once remarked that human rights is too important a matter to be left to politics. But the left is dead in Israel. And if you hold to the observation that social change related to human rights in Israel will be initiated by the left, this is a worrisome trend. In the land of home demolitions, military assassinations, movement restrictions, settlement construction, religious and secular strife, collective punishment, military incursions and legal and socio-economic discrimination...

With the emergence of a new wave of reciprocal Israeli-Palestinian bloodletting, which is currently reaching another peak, it is becoming increasingly clear to both sides that although each has considerable powers of attrition with respect to the other, neither has the ability to win a real victory in this desperate conflict....

New York, Oct. 9 (NNN): As Afghans go to polls on Saturday to elect a president, a leading American newspaper said Hamid Karzai was no more than a rubber stamp and the US envoy in the country was the real driving force behind the post....

CAIR Condemns Killing of British Hostage in Iraq; Islamic Civil Rights Group Calls for End to Cycle of Violence in Region...

Afghans are voting to choose their president in what is the country's first mass democratic poll. The favourite is the interim President, Hamid Karzai, who has led the country since the fall of the hard-line Islamic Taleban nearly three years ago. However, a problem with the indelible ink used to mark voters' fingers has led to a suspension of voting in some Kabul polling stations. Voters found they could wash off the ink, leading to fears of fraud....

KABUL, October 8 (IslamOnline.net) – More than 10 million Afghans are to cast their ballots Saturday, October9 , in the first presidential elections in the country, but questions remain if the poll would be free and fair. Shaky security also casts heavy doubts on the general atmosphere of the elections that has been postponed twice before. Incumbent Hamid Karzai, who was installed office in December 2001 by the United States, is widely expected to emerge the decisive winner amid a field...

Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr, member editorial board The Free Arab Voice....

A Palestinian girl, 9, was killed Friday by Israeli troops in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, medics said. Samah Nassar was fatally hit in the chest, they said. In a separate incident, a Palestinian working in a Jewish settlement in the southern Gaza Strip was shot dead during a militant attack, sources on both sides said Friday. Marzuk Abu Udwan, 50, was killed by Palestinian gunmen while working in a hothouse in Rafah Yam, medics and Israeli military sources said. Mean...