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Israel Defense Forces troops destroyed 45 buildings during its six-day operation in the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip - making 575 people homeless - the United Nations relief agency UNRWA said on Tuesday....
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 9:12am PDT
Violent battles between US aggressor forces and Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen loyal to Shi‘i religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr overnight in the holy city of Najaf left at least one person dead and 20 injured, a hospital official said. The toll was likely to rise because ambulances had been dispatched to recover more casualties, according to the official, Fadil ‘Abbas. He also said the hospital was waiting for relatives of four people killed in clashes the previous night to identify the bodies. The...
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 9:10am PDT
The Independent has learnt that an all-party group of MPs from the Foreign Affairs Committee has returned from a visit to the country shocked and alarmed by what they witnessed. They warn that urgent action must be taken to save Afghanistan from plunging further into chaos because of Western neglect....
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 9:07am PDT
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Besides the prisoner-abuse scandal, there is another, more pervasive problem Iraqis say they suffer daily at the hands of U.S. troops -- theft of money and other property during aggressive American raids....
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 8:57am PDT
US President George Bush's announcement he would demolish the notorious Abu Ghraib prison has drawn scant applause in Baghdad....
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 8:56am PDT
One of the most sacred Shia sites in Iraq was today damaged in clashes between US forces and fighters loyal to the radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr....
Posted: Tue, May 25, 2004 8:54am PDT
An oil pipeline that carries crude from the northern Kirkuk oilfields to Turkey has been bombed and majorily damaged....
Posted: Mon, May 24, 2004 9:18pm PDT
solidarity with the Bolivarian Revolution...
Posted: Mon, May 24, 2004 5:30pm PDT
Over 800 US fatalities in Iraq so far.
The total US fatalities just passed the 800 mark today. The total for the whole coalition is over 900. For the month of May, there has been an average of 2.78 coalition fatalities per day. The average since the war began is 2.11 per day....
Posted: Mon, May 24, 2004 12:04pm PDT
After three weeks of destructive fighting, the US military claims to have re-taken control of the city of Karbala from the Iraqi resistance fighters being led by Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. American tanks and armoured vehicles rolled through the centre of the city on Friday and Saturday nights, close to the holy Shiite shrines of Iman Hussein and Iman Abbas, without coming under attack. US-controlled Iraqi police are reported to be once again carrying out patrols....
Posted: Mon, May 24, 2004 11:39am PDT
An explosion tore open the gates on the home of Annette “So Anne” Auguste in the early morning of May 10, and dozens of heavily armed U.S. Marines charged in. Members of the household, including Auguste’s five year old granddaughter, were thrown to the floor, flexicuffed, and hauled off to U.S. military headquarters for questioning....
Posted: Mon, May 24, 2004 11:31am PDT
Thousands of Palestinians have attended funerals for 16 people killed during an Israeli raid in Gaza, the biggest in recent years....
Posted: Mon, May 24, 2004 10:13am PDT
A visiting U.S. Democratic legislator on Monday defended Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip and praised Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to withdraw from Gaza....
Posted: Mon, May 24, 2004 10:07am PDT
General Omar Suleiman met in Ramallah on Monday with Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat who told the Egyptian intelligence chief his forces were ready to take control of Gaza....
Posted: Mon, May 24, 2004 10:06am PDT
Seven people, including two Britons, have died in blasts that rocked Baghdad, while clashes between US troops and Shia militiamen have left another 18 dead in the capital....
Posted: Mon, May 24, 2004 10:01am PDT
1) Israelis, Palestinians and Internationals Protest War Crimes in Rafah_ISM report
2) Caterpillar Should Do the Right Thing_Elizabeth Corrie
3) Haifa, Beirut and Beyond ..._ personal journal
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Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 11:21pm PDT
US forces carried out air strikes on the Shia holy city of Najaf and stormed a mosque in nearby Kufa yesterday, as 34 people were killed in the worst fighting yet between American troops and Shia militiamen loyal to the radical cleric, Muqtada Sadr. At least three civilians were among the dead, according to doctors....
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 11:16pm PDT
The first Mohammed Munim al-Izmerly's family knew of his death was when his battered corpse turned up at Baghdad's morgue. Attached to the zipped-up black US body bag was a laconic note.
The US military claimed in the note that Dr Izmerly, a distinguished chemistry professor arrested after US tanks encircled his villa, had died of "brainstem compression".
Dr Izmerly's sudden death after 10 months in American custody left his family stunned, not least because three weeks earlie...
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 11:07pm PDT
A videotape has been broadcast which purports to show before-and-after footage of a wedding which Iraqis say the US attacked, killing about 40....
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 9:02pm PDT
Things must be bad in Palestine when the United States allows a resolution to pass in the UN Security Council, as it did late on 19 May condemning Israeli actions. By 14-0, with the United States abstaining, the Council adopted Resolution 1544 "expressing its grave concern at the continued deterioration of the situation on the ground in the territory occupied by Israel since 1967," and "condemning the killing of Palestinian civilians that took place in the Rafah area." The...
Posted: Sun, May 23, 2004 1:31pm PDT
