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Kurdish Leader Talabani Tries to Justify US Torture Of NonKurds WASHINGTON, May 4 (Reuters) - A Kurdish leader sought to play down U.S. soldiers' mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners on Tuesday by recalling that similar abuses were committed under former President Saddam Hussein....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 10:57am PDT
Rep. Maxine Waters Calls on Congress Not To Recognize New Haitian Government The new US-supported Haitian Prime Minister Gerard Latortue arrived in Washington Tuesday for his visit since the U.S. helped oust President Jean Bertand Aristide. Waters is calling on members of Congress not to recognize the new prime minister....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 7:20am PDT
U.S. Assassinates Two Shiite Clerics Meeting to Organize Nonviolent Resistance As the tense standoff between the United States and radical Shiite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr continues in Iraq we go to Najaf and Hilla to get a report from Aaron Glantz of Free Speech Radio News on the killing of two Sheikhs by U.S. soldiers in Hilla....
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 7:19am PDT
WORLD NAKED BIKE DEMONSTRATION GLOBAL ACTION DAY
CICLONUDISTA (WORLD NAKED BIKE DEMONSTRATION)
SATURDAY JUNE 19, 2004
NAKED BEFORE THE TRAFFIC! JUSTICE ON THE STREETS!...
Posted: Wed, May 5, 2004 6:04am PDT
Full Text Of Taguba Report 
The following is the text of the Taguba report with only the names of some witnesses removed for the sake of privacy....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 10:44pm PDT
Staff Of U.S.-Funded Iraqi Paper Quits, Cites U.S. Control BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Much of the editorial staff of a U.S.-funded Iraqi newspaper has quit in a management dispute....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 7:10pm PDT
Prisoners from Abu Ghraib prison dropped off north of Baghdad TIKRIT, Iraq - Scores of prisoners released from the controversial Abu Ghraib prison Tuesday were forced to take a winding, nearly five-hour journey through central Iraq on three hot, rickety buses escorted by U.S. military Humvees before being deposited without explanation in the middle of a gravel quarry near Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 7:03pm PDT
'Good guys' should be ashamed Why are we surprised at their racism, their brutality, their sheer callousness toward Arabs? Those American soldiers in Saddam's old prison at Abu Ghraib, those young British squaddies in Basra came -- as soldiers often come -- from towns and cities where race hatred has a home: Tennessee and Lancashire....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 6:57pm PDT
Jailed Iraqis hidden from Red Cross, says US army US military policemen moved unregistered Iraqi prisoners, known as "ghost detainees", around an army-run jail at Abu Ghraib, in order to hide them from the Red Cross, according to a confidential military report....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 6:54pm PDT
‘Indians were slaves in American kitchens’ New Delhi, May 4: India on Tuesday expressed concern over "disturbing reports" about the conditions in which some of its nationals are being forced to work in Iraq and requested the US Embassy here for details of those compelled to remain in the war-ravaged country against their will....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 9:37am PDT
Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison should be closed now The practice of armies putting the prisons of the barbaric regimes they topple to new use has a history. The Soviet Army, for example, employed the Nazi Buchenwald camp to grim effect for several years after 1945....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 9:16am PDT
Fresh clashes in Iraq Clashes have occurred in the southern Iraqi town of Karbala, while US occupation forces are blamed for the Najaf clashes which left five Iraqis dead on Monday....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 8:09am PDT
Fallujah: Victory Rises Above a Mass Grave Despite relative peace on the streets, there is still no electricity or running water in Fallujah. But the near end to bombings and sniper fire means the city can begin to mourn and give proper burial to its hundreds of dead....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 8:08am PDT
Fallujah residents emerge from homes to survey their shattered city FALLUJAH, Iraq: Scores of residents ventured out to check the state of their city Monday after weeks of heavy fighting appeared to have ended with the agreement between the US Marines and a group of former Iraqi Army soldiers....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 8:05am PDT
US Accused Of Using Slave Labor At Military Camps In Iraq NEW DELHI - A group of 20 Indians who ran away from a United States military camp in Iraq, where they worked in the kitchen, claim they were abused for nine months, it was reported on Tuesday....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 8:01am PDT
Collaborative May Day around the world article! Collaborative Mayday events post....
Posted: Tue, May 4, 2004 1:04am PDT
Ted Rall: Political cartoon about Pat Tillman 
Pat Tillman is not a hero....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 11:33pm PDT
Flights of Fantasy The Middle East is going through an untenable period of imbalance. Iraq, which was considered a strategic balance to Israel and Iran, is on the verge of collapse, according to Middle East analysts. During the standoff with Al-Sadr, the young Shi’a cleric said he was the right hand of Hamas and Hezbollah. When Sheikh Yassin was killed, tens of thousands of Iraqis — Shi’a and Sunni alike — took to the streets and protested the Anglo-American-Zionist aggression against Islam....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 9:35pm PDT
Pictures from Iraq Click on the link to view images recently brought back from Iraq.
Warning: Some of the images are very graphic....
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 9:00pm PDT
Excerpts from Major General Antonio Taguba's report on abuses at Abu Ghraib prison May 3, 4:35 pm EST. The Los Angeles Times has published excerpts from Major General Antonio Taguba's report on abuses at Abu Ghraib prison and Camp Bucca in Iraq (the report mentioned in Seymour Hersh's article). Here's part of it:...
Posted: Mon, May 3, 2004 5:50pm PDT
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