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Stories from 2002-03-01
"Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), in an interview Thursday, made clear he has many questions for the administration -- and some frustration over the way the Bush team is ignoring Congress as it charts its policy. He said the administration has "no clear message" about the war at this point. "There is nobody I know you can go to in this administration [who can say] this is the plan," he said." [more]
"A hunger strike yesterday by almost two-thirds of the 300 al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba, called to protest two guards' removal of a makeshift turban from a captive's head, prompted a rapid about-face by U.S. military officials, who told the inmates they could indeed wear such a headdress." [more]
"The seven, all prominent residents of the Pashat area of eastern Kunar province, traveled to Jalalabad last week and met with commission members to discuss strategy in convening the assembly, now scheduled for June.
They were shot and killed by unknown gunmen late Friday in the Kunar provincial capital of Asadabad, near the Pakistani border, at the home of someone they were staying with, said Aziz Ullah Salik, the nephew of one of the victims. " [more]
"President Bush has dispatched a shadow government of about 100 senior civilian managers to live and work secretly outside Washington, activating for the first time long-standing plans to ensure survival of federal rule after catastrophic attack on the nation's capital." [more]
"In the Middle East the war on terrorism could have the unintended consequence of disturbing regional politics to a degree unknown since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War I." [more]
"Thousands of protesters today staged a march and rally in central London to call for a halt to the bombing in Afghanistan and the threat to other countries such as Iraq. Police estimated that around 7,500 demonstrators had gathered by the time the march reached Trafalgar Square, although organisers of the protest said 20,000 people attended." [more]
U.S. warplanes and Afghan fighters backed by U.S. Special Forces launched a major attack Saturday on Taliban and al-Qaida forces regrouping in eastern Afghanistan. Defenders fought back with heavy weapons, and the Pentagon said one American was killed and others were injured. [more]
"The Bush administration has agreed to Yemen's request to provide U.S. troops to train its military in combating terrorists, officials said Friday." [more]
The Yemeni official said U.S. forces will train 2,000 Yemeni military personnel at a coast guard training center to be built in Aden, site of the October 2000 attack that killed 17 American sailors on the USS Cole. [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] |
This website is a tribute to Why War?, one of the nation's first and most innovative post-9/11 student antiwar organizations. Born on October 22, 2001 at Swarthmore College, we were a handful of freshmen and sophmores who vocally opposed the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. And now, seven years later, we are retiring this website as we focus our efforts on new directions. We hope that it continues to serve future activists and we remain confident that humanity is on the verge birthing a better world.
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