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1906 of 1986 
Afghan warlords 'bigger threat than Taliban' The warlords and private militias who were once regarded as the west's staunchest allies in Afghanistan are now a greater threat to the country's security than the Taliban, according to the interim president, Hamid Karzai....
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 8:40pm PDT
The sexual sadism of our culture, in peace and in war The Abu Ghraib images have all the hallmarks of contemporary porn....
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 8:19pm PDT
Iraqi city of Samarra turned into no-go area for US troops The attack was as brazen as it was meticulously-planned. Under the gaze of an old Iraqi general wearing a Saddam Hussein-era olive-green uniform, a disciplined force of former soldiers unleashed a 90-minute mortar barrage on a United States base on the edge of Samarra....
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 12:22pm PDT
Al-Yawir: Iraq to reinstate death penalty Interim Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawir insists the country will soon reinstate the death penalty despite strong opposition from the European Union....
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 11:45am PDT
Iraqi Tortured by Ba'ath Regime On "Transfer" of Power, Ayad Allawi and Saddam's Trial We take a close look at recent developments in Iraq with Ibrahim Kazerooni, an Iraqi religious leader in Denver who fled Iraq in 1974 after being repeatedly imprisoned and tortured for his religious beliefs and his brother, cousin and uncle killed by the Baathist regime....
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 10:22am PDT
Ann Petter Hearing; Bay Area Peace Activist Detained in Israel The hearing date for Ann Robinson-Petter at the Israeli High Court has been set for
Thursday, July 15 at 9:00AM; Jamie Spector, a social worker from San Francisco has been detained at Tel Aviv's
Ben Gurion Airport yesterday and is facing deportation......
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 9:04am PDT
Elderly man crushed to death after IDF demolishes Gaza home Body of 70-year-old wheelchair-bound man was found in the wreckage of his Khan Yunis house; IDF arrests 4 wanted Palestinians in W. Bank....
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 12:18am PDT
Anger at US ban on Aids scientists The US government came under scathing attack from senior members of the medical establishment yesterday for blocking scientists from attending the International Aids conference which opened in Bangkok.
The biennial conference, with 17,000 delegates, is more political rally than scientific meeting and bears huge significance for those involved in the fight against HIV/Aids.
The US government has sent only a fraction of its usual contingent of scientists, pleading cost - 50 instead of the...
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 12:13am PDT
A genuine Kurdish voice from Iraqi Kurdistan Since the very beginning, many have wondered why the Kurds in Iraqi Kurdistan have so eagerly supported the war on dictator Saddam? And what is their stance today? Or what exactly they are after?...
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 12:11am PDT
In Iraq, Showdown Looms Over Self-Rule for Kurds IRBIL, Iraq -- Karzan Kanabi, whose clothing shop attracts young men with its cheap bell-bottom pants, never went to Baghdad, never learned Arabic and never felt the desire to go anywhere he would have to mix with Iraq’s Arab population....
Posted: Mon, Jul 12, 2004 12:07am PDT
DAFUR: the open sore of a continent Another human tragedy is playing out in western Sudan. It is the tragedy of Dafur. The conflict in the Sudan has been described as genocide. But we shall return to this. However, let me point out that what we see in Dafur is another example of how Africans are made victims of an expansionist, and brutal external marauders who have historically taken advantage of the inherent pacifism, and some might even say indolence, of the Negroid people....
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 6:40pm PDT
Violence breaks out in Venezuela Fighting broke out in Caracas as Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez accused a US government-funded nonprofit organization of funding opposition groups....
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 6:39pm PDT
Tel Aviv Bomb Kills One, Israel Assassinates 4 Palestinians "An anonymous spokesman for the group said it was carried out to avenge 'crimes committed by Israeli occupation forces' in the West Bank town of Nablus.."...
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 3:20pm PDT
Impoverished and unloved: Poverty Among Arabs and Ultra-Orthodox In Israel There are two groups in Israel that seem to be quite different from one another but in fact are quite similar. The beginning of the resemblance - even the identity - between them is statistical, as emerges from figures that the Bank of Israel published last week: 47 percent of the ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel are poor; 47.6 of the Arabs ("the non-Jews") are poor. There are no other groups in Israel in which the percentage of poor people is as high as in these two groups - not the i...
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 3:07pm PDT
Jewish Activist From San Francisco Denied Entry Into Israel JERUSALEM - A Jewish American was denied entry to Israel because she belongs to a pro-Palestinian group, her lawyer said Sunday — a rare case of a Jew banned from the Jewish state....
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 2:52pm PDT
Afghanistan bomb blast claims many lives An explosion has rocked the western Afghan city of Herat killing at least five and injuring 34 others, according to officials....
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 2:03pm PDT
Updates From The Chechen War 
A war twice as bloody as Iraq, a people more oppressed than the Palestinians, a refugee crisis as bad as Darfur... Outside journalists find covering the war more dangerous than any other spot on earth... what's a people to do when world public opinion really doesnt matter...
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 11:32am PDT
Kabul’s Colonel Kurtz Nick Meo delves into the murky world of Afghanistan’s freelance soldiers of fortune...
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 11:00am PDT
Afghanistan acknowledges need for further election delay KABUL: Afghanistan’s electoral commission said Saturday it was necessary to delay parliamentary polls, put off until next year amid shaky security, as it prepared for landmark presidential elections in October.
Election officials said Friday that the already-delayed parliamentary vote would be put off again until April to allow more time for voter registration, the disarming of militia and the strengthening of Afghan security forces....
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 10:58am PDT
Nablus: When does it stop? Arjan El Fassed writing from Nablus, occupied Palestine, Live from Palestine, 10 July 2004...
Posted: Sun, Jul 11, 2004 10:54am PDT
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