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River: Arabs aren't anti-American. US foreign policy towards the region is what's hated ...we don't need news networks to make us angry or frustrated. All you need to do is talk to one of the Falloojeh refugees making their way tentatively into Baghdad; look at the tear-stained faces, the eyes glazed over with something like shock. In our neighborhood alone there are at least 4 families from Falloojeh who have come to stay with family and friends in Baghdad. The stories they tell are terrible and grim...I wish every person who emails me supporting the war, safe behind their comp...
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 8:54pm PDT
How Israel persuaded leader of the free world to see West Bank entirely their way Ariel Sharon was smiling during much of his joint White House conference with President George Bush last night.
He secured most of what he came to Washington DC for, perhaps more than even he had dared to expect....
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 5:06pm PDT
Bitter Palestinians lose hope at Bush's words GAZA (Reuters) - Joyless Palestinians took bitter consolation from the prospect of ruling Gaza on Wednesday as the United States backed Israel's hold on chunks of West Bank land....
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 5:05pm PDT
Italian hostage killed - Aljazeera TV A group calling itself the Green Brigade says it has killed one of the four Italians hostages it had captured....
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 1:55pm PDT
Thousands of foreign "illegal combatants" flood into Iraq Since the U.S. Invasion/Occupation of Iraq in March of 2003, thousands of "illegal combatants" have entered Iraq to join the fight. In fact, they form the 3rd largest foreign army after the USA & UK occupation invaders. But most are paid by the Pentagon & under contract as "civilian contractors."...
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 1:10pm PDT
Aljazeera: Falluja ceasefire broken Occupation forces in Iraq have used F16 fighter planes to bomb the Nizal neighbourhood in Falluja, Aljazeera TV's correspondent has reported....
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 12:05pm PDT
Najaf: A US Invasion Could Be Worse Than Fallujah 2,500 US soldiers [are] prepared for action against armed supporters of radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr in the southern holy city of Najaf...Sadr has barricaded himself near a shrine in the city, and vowed to continue the "popular revolution" against occupying troops. "I fear only God," he told a Lebanese TV station on Tuesday. "I am ready to sacrifice my blood for this country."
US officials have vowed to kill or capture him.
"The target is not Najaf...
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 7:17am PDT
"Fear is Transmuting Into Anger" - Rahul Mahajan Reports on Resistance in Iraq We speak with author and antiwar activist Rahul Mahajan in Baghdad who was one of the only western reporters in Fallujah during the U.S. siege. He says: "The United States has completely lost control, and even the mildest of people are now absolutely enraged at what is being done in Fallujah, and want the United States out...anyone that didn't have a gun today could pick up a gun tomorrow." [includes rush transcript]...
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 7:07am PDT
Fallujah Refugees Describe Horrors of U.S. Siege We get a report from Baghdad with Free Speech Radio News' Aaron Glantz who speaks with Fallujah residents fleeing the besieged town. They describe digging mass graves, snipers and bombers killing people inside their homes, attacks on ambulances and the increasing anger and resentment towards U.S. occupying forces. [includes rush transcript]...
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 7:06am PDT
Iraqi 'beaten to death' by US troops for refusing to remove a picture of Sadr from his car (4/14/2004) An Iraqi has died of his wounds after US troops beat him with truncheons because he refused to remove a picture of wanted Shiite Muslim leader Moqtada Sadr from his car, police said today....
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 6:59am PDT
BBC Analysis: US 'emulates' Israeli tactics With sporadic fighting in Falluja and US forces moving into position outside Najaf, the Arab press is pointing to similarities between US military operations in Iraq and the tactics Israeli forces employ in the West Bank and Gaza....
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 6:52am PDT
Sadr proposes peace deal Moqtada al-Sadr, the radical Shia leader, is to put a set of peace proposals to American officials through his appointed envoy....
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 6:48am PDT
Four killed as RI's Mer-C ambulance hit by U.S. missile Four killed as RI's Mer-C ambulance hit by U.S. missile
JAKARTA (JP): An ambulance of the Medical Emergency Rescue Committee (Mer-C) donated by Indonesia was shot by a missile launched from a U.S. jet fighter in Fallujah, Iraq, killing four people, news reports said on Wednesday....
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 6:45am PDT
300 women, children among Fallujah dead BAGHDAD: Half the Iraqis killed in a US offensive in the town of Fallujah were women, children and elderly people, a mediator said on Tuesday, but US officials insisted they took all precautions to avoid non-combatants....
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 10:45pm PDT
Falluja ceasefire broken Occupation forces in Iraq have used F16 fighter planes to bomb the Nizal neighbourhood in Falluja, Aljazeera TV's correspondent has reported....
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 10:38pm PDT
Stop Union Busting in Haiti "The company pays for this type of thing, to destroy the unions. There’s a group of 20 people in the free trade zone who are paid to prevent the formation of any unions." - (IFCTU Report, disclosed by Charles Arthur, of the Haiti Support Group, September 2003)....
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 6:29pm PDT
Colombian Governor Who Resisted US and Death Squads Speaks Tues. 4/13 Colombian Governor Defied Death Squads and US...
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 3:41pm PDT
Clashes between pro-democracy protesters and Police in Kathmandu 
Clashes between pro-democracy demonstrators and the King’s police continue in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu today. (April 11th)...
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 12:18pm PDT
Venezuelan Group to file Court cases against U.S.Ambassador Charles Shapiro CIA involvement in Venezuela...
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 11:50am PDT
US threatening Iraqi media, says Al Jazeera Dubai - Arabic-language satellite TV channel Al Jazeera on Tuesday accused US-led coalition officials in Iraq of threatening the media over their coverage of US troops battling Iraqi rebels....
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 11:12am PDT
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