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Palestinians call for people's congress Palestinian groups have called for people's congresses to be held in all areas of the occupied Gaza Strip to end the unrest that has shaken the region in recent weeks....
Posted: Sun, Jul 25, 2004 12:37am PDT
Gaza protesters storm government building A group from al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades seized the governorate building in Khan Yunus city for several hours on Saturday, Aljazeera's correspondent in Palestine has reported....
Posted: Sat, Jul 24, 2004 5:53pm PDT
Officials: Jewish extremists may crash plane on Temple Mount Israeli security officials have recently become increasingly concerned that right-wing extremists might be plotting an attack on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem to derail Israel's planned withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. The Shin Bet security service and the police are preparing for a number of possible terror attack scenarios at the sacred Old City site, Israeli security sources said on Saturday night....
Posted: Sat, Jul 24, 2004 5:50pm PDT
The Plight of Strays in Greece Dogs (and cats, birds etc) are regularly poisoned, not only in Athens but all over Greece, including the islands....
Posted: Fri, Jul 23, 2004 10:13pm PDT
Update from Jamie Spector's Mother Relaying my mom Ann Sperry¹s account of Jamie¹s court hearing Friday AM:...
Posted: Fri, Jul 23, 2004 5:02pm PDT
ISM Updates on American and Dutch Prisoners New York Graphic Designer Released from Detention-Allowed Entry
into Israel
Jamie Spector, a Jewish-American social worker from the Bay Area,
California, was denied entry to Israel after a hearing last
Wednesday.
Dutch Teacher in Detention Awaits Final Court Answer...
Posted: Fri, Jul 23, 2004 2:35pm PDT
Athens: Petrol bombs tossed at ministry buildings Demonstrators at an anti-Olympics protest in central Athens last night hurled a gasoline bomb outside the Interior Ministry and spray painted the columns of surveillance cameras set up for the Games. There were no arrests....
Posted: Fri, Jul 23, 2004 12:39pm PDT
Egyptian envoy abducted in Iraq An armed group in Iraq has kidnapped an Egyptian diplomat in Baghdad, the Egyptian embassy in the capital says....
Posted: Fri, Jul 23, 2004 11:44am PDT
Fresh bombings in Falluja US occupation forces have carried out bombings in the town of Falluja, which hospital sources say has injured five including children....
Posted: Fri, Jul 23, 2004 10:09am PDT
Al-Sadr gives first sermon in two months Iraqi Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr gave his first public sermon in nearly two months, saying he he will not allow any attack on neighbours Syria or Iran from Iraqi territory....
Posted: Fri, Jul 23, 2004 10:06am PDT
Homeland Security Shows Off New Surveillance Equipment and Weapons at Camp Near Boston With the Democratic National Convention approaching, the Department of Homeland Security gathered more than 30 law enforcement agencies in a field outside of Boston to show off the latest technology in surveillance and crowd control. We speak with Dallas Morning News reporter Pete Slover who was there....
Posted: Fri, Jul 23, 2004 8:56am PDT
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 7/23/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY! A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, China, Russia, Spain, and Cuba....
Posted: Thu, Jul 22, 2004 5:10pm PDT
Adolph Hitler: How to change the world RE: Bush-Hitler: Hypnotizing the Masses (Argumentum
ad Captandum)...
Posted: Thu, Jul 22, 2004 3:58pm PDT
Israel's Knesset More Racist Legistlation A report from Ha'aretz on the racist Citizenship Law....
Posted: Thu, Jul 22, 2004 3:43pm PDT
Prisoner-abuse totals jump Washington — The U.S. military has found a total of 94 cases of confirmed or alleged abuse of prisoners by U.S. soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan since the fall of 2001, the army's inspector general said Thursday....
Posted: Thu, Jul 22, 2004 9:52am PDT
US media covers for Allawi—Washington’s executioner-in-chief in Iraq On July 17, two of Australia’s leading daily newspapers, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Age, published the testimony of two unnamed Iraqi men who claim to have witnessed the interim prime minister, Iyad Allawi, shoot and kill at least six prisoners at the Al-Amariyah security center in Baghdad. The murder of the suspected anti-US insurgents was reportedly carried out in mid-June, in the presence of Iraq’s interior minister and American military personnel, among others....
Posted: Thu, Jul 22, 2004 9:34am PDT
Farouk Abdel-Muhti: Palestinian Freedom Fighter Called For Unity Moments Before He Died Palestinian freedom fighter Farouk Abdel-Muhti, died Wednesday, apparently of a heart attack, after giving a speech in Philadelphia. He was 57 years old. His death comes just three months after he was released from jail where he was detained for two years without charge. We hear a recording of his last words as well as an address he gave on the night he was released from prison and we speak with his son Tariq and his fiancee and longtime friend Sharin Chiorazzo who was with him when he died....
Posted: Thu, Jul 22, 2004 9:29am PDT
A Stranger in My Own Land: Checkpoints and Walls When I first came to the USA for college, you would not believe my shock upon making my first Spring Break drive to Florida, some 24 hours, and realizing no one stopped us to ask for ID or inquire where we're going. In the West Bank, during the 10-mile drive from Ramallah to Jerusalem, travelers today get stopped twice at Israeli checkpoints. Now I have seen checkpoints before, but on this last trip, the procedures at those two checkpoints were just surreal....
Posted: Thu, Jul 22, 2004 9:27am PDT
Israeli conscientious objectors receive reduced sentences GENEVA, PARIS -– The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint program of FIDH and OMCT, welcomes the decision by the Military Parole Committee on July 14, 2004 to reduce the sentences of Haggai Matar, Matan Kaminer, Shimri Zameret, Adam Naor and Noam Bahat, conscientious objectors to the occupation of the Palestinian territories. Initially scheduled to be released in January 2005, they will now be released September 15, 2004....
Posted: Thu, Jul 22, 2004 9:24am PDT
Arafat agrees to give up authority over security forces Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, under growing pressure, has agreed to grant his prime minister full authority over the security forces, a Palestinian lawmaker said Thursday after meeting with Arafat....
Posted: Thu, Jul 22, 2004 9:20am PDT
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