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Stories from 2002-05-05
"With Yasser Arafat released from his month-long confinement in Ramallah and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon set to visit Washington for talks this week with President Bush, the Middle East crisis is on the verge of a new round of diplomatic struggle." [more]
"[Labour MP] Galloway added: 'The anti-war movement in Britain and opposition to sanctions is closely reflected in Parliament, where 157 MPs, including two former Cabinet Ministers, Chris Smith and Gavin Strang, have signed a motion.' " [more]
"The partnerships that Green Berets and other U.S. troops forged with Afghan fighters were key to defeating the Taliban. But it wasn't easy." [more]
"United States and British troops came under rocket attack at the Khost airport in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) reported. The Pakistan-based private news agency quoted residents as saying that three rockets were fired after midnight, with one landing at the airport and two others nearby." [more]
"Al Qaeda was not destroyed in the war. Afghanistan was. Is our country doing anything significant to rebuild the country, nation-building, all those things? Anything that would suggest that when we move on to Iraq it might do some good? Iraq might emerge better? If the model of going into Iraq is Afghanistan, boy, you can understand why people might be very worried." [more]
"In a draft resolution, the Arab states are demanding that Annan present a report on Jenin and other Palestinian cities by 'drawing upon the available resources and information.' The group demanded that it receive the report two weeks after the resolution is adopted." [more]
"The new aid for Colombia, being considered on Capitol Hill, would for the first time allow the US military to help and train forces in the battle against the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, the largest Colombian guerrilla group, which controls about 40 percent of the country. US law has limited American assistance to the Colombian government to fight the drug trade." [more]
"The 'unsigning' of the treaty, which is expected to be announced on Monday, will be a decisive rejection by the White House of the concept of a permanent tribunal designed to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity and other war crimes, the New York Times reported." [more]
"Accused terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, facing charges he plotted the September 11 attacks, today sought to fire his lawyers and represent himself at trial. During a rambling 50-minute address in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, Moussaoui also called for the 'destruction of Jewish people and...the destruction of the United States of America.' " [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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