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Stories from 2002-03-05
"After the first three weeks the men were given four days' intensive weapons training. Each man was offered lessons in one weapon: Kalashnikov assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades or machine guns. Following the weapons training they began a four-day exercise to prepare for the attack on Shah-e-Kot. On the fifth day, Saturday, the attack began." [more]
"For all the Pentagon's efforts to present the loss of the lives of at least nine US servicemen in a weekend as a small hiccup on the road to certain victory, the episode has come as a rude awakening to America." [more]
"Chideya stressed the dire need for Americans to escape its isolationist tendencies so that they may become more fully conscious of current events, not only within the country, but also throughout the globe. 'Nine-eleven made us realize that if we donít pay attention, they will make us pay attention,' she said." [more]
"It seems likely that the American victory will not come easily and that the bitter mountain battle will not mark the end of the war." [more]
" 'If the Palestinians are not being beaten, there will be no negotiations,' Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told reporters at Parliament. 'The aim is to increase the number of losses on the other side. Only after they've been battered will we be able to conduct talks.' " [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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