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U.S.-Led Force Storms Kufa Mosque in Attack on Iraq Militia KUFA, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S. forces and Iraqi soldiers launched a major offensive against a Shi'ite militia on Sunday, killing about 20 in one raid on a mosque and pounding other positions around the holy city of Najaf....
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 9:40am PDT
The Deir Yassin Massacre: 'We Created Terror Among the Arabs' There will never be a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict until Israel takes responsibility, under U.N. Resolution 194, calling for reparation of the Palestinian refugees, and recognizes the immense suffering it caused at that time. We need also to recognize the US is giving unqualified moral support to a state that is based on racial purity and one that is intrinsically expansionist....
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 3:51am PDT
Currently Employed SCI-Green Prison Guard Supervised Torture of Prisoners in Iraq ...
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 11:09pm PDT
Surveying the ruins of Rafah The high-level United Nations delegation was making its way down one of Rafah's ruined streets....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:57pm PDT
Israel proposes payment for homes razed in Gaza Strip Israel intends to offer compensation to the owners of hundreds of homes along the Philadelphi route, on the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, if the buildings are damaged in the framework of the Israel Defense Forces' operation to broaden the road. The IDF operation is aimed at increasing security and preventing the smuggling of weapons and other military material into the Strip through tunnels from Sinai....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:55pm PDT
Survey: 43% of Israeli teenagers support refusenik stance Nearly half of Israeli teens from both the left and the right support refusing certain military orders, according to a survey conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute two months ago....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:49pm PDT
Palestinians Storm UN Aid Convoy After Israeli Raid RAFAH, Gaza Strip (Reuters) - Dozens of Palestinians, angry over Israel's bloodiest raid in the Gaza Strip in years, smashed the windows of a U.N. car Saturday and mobbed a shipment of humanitarian aid.
"Where have you been?" one man screamed as others pounded on the cars in the U.N. convoy as it entered a sealed-off neighborhood in Rafah refugee camp to survey damage and deliver aid supplies, including powdered milk....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:46pm PDT
Iraqis lose right to sue troops Military win immunity pledge in deal on UN vote...
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:45pm PDT
In the Shadows of Abu-Ghraib Prison Many of the Americans working in the prisons of Iraq, especially in the reserves, are cops or prison guards in their civilian lives. Indeed, one of the men identified as a suspect in the brutal mistreatment of people in Abu Ghraib, indeed a corporal in the Army, works here, at SCI-Greene!...
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:45pm PDT
Report: US general witnessed Iraq abuse A military police commander at Abu Ghraib prison is to testify that the top US general in Iraq witnessed some of the abuses....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:30pm PDT
Four year old Palestinian girl shot in the forehead by Israeli sniper 
Rawan abu-Zeid could not be resuscitated at a local hospital after she received two bullets in her head and neck during sporadic shooting in the Brazil refugee camp. Israeli forces had withdrawn some - but by no means all - of its forces from the camp on Friday....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:05pm PDT
A Marine's tale: 'We killed 30 civilians in six weeks. I felt we were committing genocide' Back home in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, he says the cause of the uprising in Iraq is that "we killed a lot of innocent people...We would take over villages and control checkpoints...My men and I would fire warning shots at oncoming vehicles...if they didn't stop, we didn't have any qualms about loading them up." The Marines were told that Iraqis were filling ambulances with explosives, and that soldiers were dressed as civilians, but after pouring fire into vehicles and ...
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 9:51pm PDT
RAFAH: A brother, a sister, and a morgue too full for them both Ahmed Mughayer, 14, was laid out with 13 other corpses on the floor of the refrigeration room of a flower and plant growers' firm on the outskirts of town. Dr Ahmed Abu Nkaira removed the sheet and raised Ahmed's trunk for us to see where the bullet had made a small incision on his forehead just above his hairline. Then he pointed to the exit wound, a much larger and bloodier hole in the back of his head. Earlier, back at the hospital, he had brought out the body of Asmaa, his 16-year-old sis...
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 8:27pm PDT
US Enters Kufa, Kills At Least 17 Iraqis KUFA, Iraq (CNN) -- U.S. soldiers killed 17 suspected insurgents early Sunday and found a large cache of weapons at a mosque during an operation in the city of Kufa, a stronghold of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mehdi Army militia, military officials said....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 4:33pm PDT
US forces re-enter Karbala US occupation forces have re-entered Karbala's city centre, but find no signs of the Mahdi Army....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 3:59pm PDT
Arafat appeals for international protection Arab leaders carried on with a summit in Tunis on Saturday despite a walkout by Libya's Muammar al-Qadhafi....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 3:58pm PDT
Iraqi militia to leave Karbala Fighters loyal to the radical Shia cleric, Moqtada Sadr, have agreed to withdraw from the centre of Karbala....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 10:27am PDT
Plan Anti Patriota - Colombia 
“lo que hacen es controlar la producción; si no se fumigara habría una mayor producción, mayor oferta y el precio bajaría” los beneficiarios de las fumigaciones son los narcotraficantes...
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 8:11am PDT
EU Commission approves biotech sweet corn for food use Brussels, 19 May 2004:
Today, the EU Commission approved a genetically modified sweet corn (Bt-11) for food use in the European Union, which is the first GM food product to be approved in Europe since 1998....
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 12:17am PDT
Southern Iraqi town of Majar al-Kabir turns against British troops As the British Government debates whether to send more troops to Iraq, Jack Fairweather in Majar al-Kabir looks at what could be in store for them...
Posted: Sat, May 22, 2004 12:15am PDT
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