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Allawi plans to revamp Iraq security forces Iraq's interim prime minister has announced a restructuring of the country's security forces, saying all Iraqi troops would be brought under a central command....
Posted: Sun, Jun 20, 2004 12:38pm PDT
Twin Towers and Temple Mount The turmoil caused by the decision of Attorney General Menachem Mazuz on the Greek island affair eclipsed the news that emerged from the United States at the end of the week. An interim report of the commission of inquiry into the events of 9/11 states that Bin Laden sought to link Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount and the attacks Al-Qaida planned against American targets. Bin Laden ordered his agents in the U.S. to carry out his satanic plots immediately after Sharon's visit to the si...
Posted: Sun, Jun 20, 2004 12:29pm PDT
Israel allows in 500 Gaza workers Israel has allowed 500 Palestinian labourers in from the Gaza Strip for the first time in three months....
Posted: Sun, Jun 20, 2004 12:25pm PDT
Iraq: The Greatest Ever Failure in US Foreign Policy "One day I had an interview with an Iraqi minister inside the [Green] Zone. We had arranged it over the phone. The meeting never took place. I was first asked who I was by a friendly Nepalese soldier, then questioned by a nervous Algerian and finally stopped by a paunchy security man who, from his accent, came from Mississippi and Alabama.."...
Posted: Sun, Jun 20, 2004 11:53am PDT
Party of Haiti's poor in turmoil With the departure of President Aristide, leaders of his political party wonder if Haiti's poor will have a voice in deciding the country's future....
Posted: Sun, Jun 20, 2004 11:48am PDT
Iraq's Allawi Defends U.S. Strike That Killed 22 FALLUJA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq's prime minister on Sunday defended a U.S. air strike that killed 22 people in Falluja, but Iraqi officers in the town said the dead included women and children and no foreign Muslim militants....
Posted: Sun, Jun 20, 2004 11:45am PDT
Iraq: US Attack in Fallujah Killed Only Civilians Iraqi military officers in the city of Fallujah say there is no sign any insurgents were in a house flattened during a U.S. attack that reportedly killed at least 20 civilians.
The Iraqi officers say Sunday women and children were among those killed, but an investigation produced no evidence foreign insurgents had used the house....
Posted: Sun, Jun 20, 2004 11:43am PDT
Kurds Advancing to Reclaim Land in Northern Iraq MAKHMUR, Iraq, June 17 — Thousands of ethnic Kurds are pushing into lands formerly held by Iraqi Arabs, forcing tens of thousands of them to flee to ramshackle refugee camps and transforming the demographic and political map of northern Iraq....
Posted: Sun, Jun 20, 2004 11:41am PDT
Sadr condemns interim government's US ties Radical Shiite leader Moqtada al Sadr has criticised the close relationship between Iraq's interim government and the United States....
Posted: Sat, Jun 19, 2004 3:18pm PDT
Sadr's best prospect is mainstream politics BAGHDAD: If the United States military still intends to "capture or kill" the maverick Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, it is going to have to move fast. For in less than two weeks, the US-led coalition will transfer sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government, at which point the fiery cleric, who led a sporadic rebellion against coalition troops for two months, seems set to metamorphose from outlaw into influential political player....
Posted: Sat, Jun 19, 2004 3:16pm PDT
Wendy Campbell: Discovering Syria for Myself 
If you want an eye-opening trip to a beautiful country, consider a trip to Syria....
Posted: Sat, Jun 19, 2004 10:34am PDT
British lawmakers say were shot at in Gaza, no injuries A group of British parliamentarians in the Gaza Strip on Saturday claimed they were shot at by Israel Defense Forces soldiers as they visited a site near which a British peace activist had been shot dead....
Posted: Sat, Jun 19, 2004 9:35am PDT
Israeli missiles hit Gaza An Israeli helicopter gunship fired 10 missiles into Gaza City's Zeitoun neighbourhood late on Friday, targeting two metal workshops in the area, sources on both sides said....
Posted: Sat, Jun 19, 2004 9:31am PDT
Iraqis killed, wounded in Falluja air raid Twenty two people have been killed and 20 others injured in a US raid on a house in Falluja, medical sources and witnesses have told Aljazeera's correspondent....
Posted: Sat, Jun 19, 2004 9:30am PDT
Haiti march calls for Aristide's return PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- More than 5,000 supporters of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide marched through Haiti's capital Friday, calling for his return and accusing the U.S. government of forcing his departure....
Posted: Sat, Jun 19, 2004 1:09am PDT
Elders Block Bulldozers in Salfit, Gassed by Israeli Army On Thursday, June 17, older men lay down in front of moving bulldozers to stop the destruction of their olive groves for the Apartheid Wall in Salfit, West Bank. The army responded by shooting tear gas and sound bombs at close range, and later threatened youth with live fire. Video 5:40....
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 6:11pm PDT
An Interview With Arafat Arafat is ready to sign an agreement that would give Palestinians 97 per cent of the West Bank and Gaza - with the rest in a land swap, and the right of return of not all, but at least some refugees. In a free-ranging interview with Haaretz, conducted in the carefully preserved ruins of the Muqata, the PA Chairman also spoke of the historical family bonds between the two peoples.
"Definitely," says Yasser Arafat, waving his arm for emphasis. He definitely understands and accep...
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 5:39pm PDT
Free Speech? Not Here. 
In Iraq, a US soldier tears down a poster of Moqtada Al-Sadr....
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 1:27pm PDT
Hip Hop Artist Michael Franti Reports From Rafah Franti continues his fact-finding trip through the Middle East. We last spoke with him in Baghdad, he is now in Rafah where Israel recently demolished hundreds of Palestinian homes....
Posted: Fri, Jun 18, 2004 10:20am PDT
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