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Police kidnapped by Sadr's militia The radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's militia has kidnapped 18 Iraqi police officers, apparently to force authorities to release detained militants, police said yesterday.
The kidnappings took place as Mr Sadr's aides accused authorities of trying to arrest officials in the cleric's Mahdi army. The new tensions appear to threaten a fragile ceasefire....
Posted: Tue, Aug 3, 2004 10:45pm PDT
Sadr army owns city's streets SADR CITY, IRAQ – Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army rarely engages US forces anymore. Hundreds of his men were killed in clashes with the US in April and by June, the militant Shiite cleric had declared an informal truce that prevails to this day....
Posted: Tue, Aug 3, 2004 10:44pm PDT
"Wars are Good for the Economy": The Global Free Trade System "The international free market was created artificially in the 18th and 19th centuries and did not develop naturally from the free exchange of goods as neoliberals constnatly claim. According to Polanyi, foreign trade originally meant piracy, robbery and belligerent conquest.."...
Posted: Tue, Aug 3, 2004 10:20am PDT
8/3/04-CFL ALERT: ISRAEL TO EXPAND SETTLEMENTS DESPITE U.S. WISHES, CONTACT CONGRESS Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon approved the expansion of illegal settlements in occupied Palestine in violation of understandings between Israel and the U.S....
Posted: Tue, Aug 3, 2004 8:53am PDT
Israeli troops gun down Palestinians Israeli occupation troops have shot dead four Palestinians including an elderly woman in Gaza in two separate attacks....
Posted: Tue, Aug 3, 2004 6:35am PDT
US, Iraqi forces surround al-Sadr's home US occupation troops have surrounded the home of Shia Muslim leader Muqtada al-Sadr in the central Iraqi holy city of Najaf, an AFP correspondent witnessed....
Posted: Mon, Aug 2, 2004 8:05pm PDT
RAISE YOUR VOICE AGAINST ABUSE OF JAILED ACTIVIST TRE ARROW Environmental, human and animal rights activist Tre Arrow, currently being held in Canada's North Fraser Pretrial Center on immigration charges, has been moved into solitary confinement and is being denied a diet in keeping with his beliefs (raw/vegan) in a blatant attempt to break his spirit. In the 4 months he has been incarcerated he has suffered catastrophic weight loss, and is now down to 91 pounds....
Posted: Mon, Aug 2, 2004 4:51pm PDT
Free Radicals: Trainyard Ska Mark Sound: guitar, bass Nick: drums Tom: keys Pete: bari sax Jimmy: sax recorded at Tom's next to the train tracks. copyleft free radicals 2004...
Posted: Mon, Aug 2, 2004 12:43pm PDT
US forces arrest leading Iraqi editor US occupation forces in Iraq have arrested Dr Muthana Harith al-Dhari the editor of al-Basaer newspaper (Insight) and media officer for the influential Association of Muslim Scholars....
Posted: Mon, Aug 2, 2004 6:40am PDT
Iraq churches targeted Car bombs have exploded in quick succession outside at least four churches in Baghdad and one in Mosul....
Posted: Sun, Aug 1, 2004 1:10pm PDT
Robert Fisk: 'Can't Blair see that this country is about to explode? Can't Bush? "Deadly force is authorised," it says on checkpoints all over Baghdad. Authorised by whom? There is no accountability. Repeatedly, on the great highways out of the city US soldiers shriek at motorists and open fire at the least suspicion. "We had some Navy Seals down at our checkpoint the other day," a 1st Cavalry sergeant says to me. "They asked if we were having any trouble. I said, yes, they've been shooting at us from a house over there. One of them asked: 'That h...
Posted: Sun, Aug 1, 2004 1:59am PDT
Narco News Radio Live from Bolivia (audio/x-mpegurl 0.0KB) Listen to Narco News' Radio Free América live from Cochabamba, Bolivia....
Posted: Sat, Jul 31, 2004 9:11pm PDT
Vatican attacks "radical feminism" The Vatican has published a document designed to address "distortions" generated by radical feminism....
Posted: Sat, Jul 31, 2004 5:15pm PDT
Falluja comes under intense US fire United States military aircraft were seen bombarding sectors of Falluja, Aljazeera's correspondent in the city reported....
Posted: Sat, Jul 31, 2004 5:13pm PDT
Streets of shame Forget the drama of next month's Olympics - the real Greek tragedy is the nation's appalling record on the welfare of animals, says Justine Hankins...
Posted: Fri, Jul 30, 2004 3:48pm PDT
Falluja hit by renewed fighting Renewed clashes overnight in the flashpoint Iraqi city of Falluja have left at least nine Iraqis dead and several injured, local doctors say....
Posted: Fri, Jul 30, 2004 6:35am PDT
Italian troops and Mahdi Army clash Clashes between Italian occupation troops and a Shia militia, the Mahdi Army, have erupted in the centre of the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya....
Posted: Fri, Jul 30, 2004 6:32am PDT
Barack Obama Speaks (video/x-pn-realvideo 17.6MB) Democratic senatorial candidate Barack Obama speaks at the DNC....
Posted: Wed, Jul 28, 2004 9:02pm PDT
CIA Orders Investigation of Cyprus Indymedia - Story Blows Wide Open 
Cyprus Government admits CIA demanded the investigation....
Posted: Wed, Jul 28, 2004 5:04pm PDT
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