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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
4/21: National Day of Silence to Create Safe Schools Founded in 1996, the Day of Silence has become the largest single student-led action towards creating safer schools for all, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression....
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 1:04am 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
Negroponte Is Expected to Be Picked for Iraq Post Negroponte, soon to be ruler of Iraq, says "To this day, I do not believe that death squads were operating in Honduras." Just like Bush believes there are WMDs in Iraq....
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 8:55pm PDT
Farouk Abdel-Muhti Set Free After Two Years in Prison Palestinian activist Farouk Abdel-Muhti was released from jail Monday night nearly two years after he was detained by U.S. immigration officials....
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 7:46pm 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
ELF! gets sent to Prison for 3.5 years for SUV Vandalism Aaron L. Linas, who was 17 at the time of the vandalism spree, pleaded guilty in January to conspiracy charges, and was sentenced Monday....
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 6:19pm PDT
ASScroft Gets a Free Pass from the Fake 9/11 Comission Pretty scary when MSNBC is exposing how absurd the commission hearings are. You have to wonder if they aren't all just following a script that some cheap Hollywood director came up with, it's that useless....
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 5:35pm PDT
Police, FBI still looking into Armory sabotage Local police and FBI agents continue their investigation into the sabotage of a natural gas line at the Olean National Guard Armory on Times Square....
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 4:38pm 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
PA to nix any U.S. pledges that endanger final status issues U.S. to tell Israel it should not retreat to 1949 borders...
Posted: Tue, Apr 13, 2004 12:32pm 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
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