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Stories from 2002-02-25
"Tensions within the walls of Muslim day schools are in many ways emblematic of the U.S. Muslim community's political concerns, fears, biases and hopes, all brought into sharp focus since the events of Sept. 11." [more]
"The UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, publicly embarrassed Tony Blair today with an appeal from the doorstep of No 10 for the US not to attack Iraq." [more]
"Recent intelligence reports indicate that Osama bin Laden survived the U.S. bombing assault on his hideouts in Afghanistan and could still be somewhere in the lawless, mountainous region that straddles the Afghan-Pakistan border, officials said yesterday." [more]
"The mother of a 22-year-old British man detained in Guantanamo Bay today called on the US government to release her son, as lawyers for Britons held in Cuba said they would sue the UK government in the high court for aiding and abetting their 'unlawful detention.' " [more]
"The leader of Afghanistan's interim government, Hamid Karzai, visited Tehran today and appealed to Iran and the United States to put aside their differences and help build his war-ravaged country." [more]
"Hamid Karzai, 44, unelected chairman of Afghanistan's fractious interim government, seems like a man in control, but two months into his tenure he is governing largely by illusion." [more]
"Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's admission last week that the United States mistakenly killed 16 people in the village of Hazar Kadam on the night of Jan. 23 is confused and inadequate." [more]
"The man accused of masterminding the abduction of US journalist Daniel Pearl in Pakistan has refused to confess to the crime in a Karachi court. In his latest appearance, he complained to the judge that he was being pressed to sign a confession.
" 'Police have been trying to force us to sign blank papers,' Sheikh Omar said." [more]
"The Pentagon appeared increasingly likely today to eliminate a new office intended to influence public opinion and policy makers overseas, as both President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld distanced themselves from the operation. Proposals from the new agency, the Office of Strategic Influence, have caused an uproar in Congress and elsewhere in the government." [more]
The war in Afghanistan and Pentagon efforts to bolster security at home will cost a projected $30 billion this year, far more than Congress has provided, according to Defense Department documents obtained by The Associated Press. [more]
"A Pakistani terrorist who Indian police say admitted to aiding the 1993 street war against U.S. forces in Somalia may be the long-suspected link between Osama bin Laden and the killing of 18 U.S. soldiers in Mogadishu." [more]
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(IHT, Apr 30)
"In just five years, Bush has challenged more than 750 new laws, by far a record for any president, while becoming the first president since Thomas Jefferson to stay so long in office without issuing a veto." [more]
(Interactivist Info Exchange, Jul 26)
"Horizontalism is not an ideology, however, it is a relationship — a way of relating to one another in a directly democratic way while at the same time creating through the process of discovery. What has resulted is the creation of an amazing complex of movements, all linked." [more] |
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