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Stories from 2002-05-08
"Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, under pressure to crack down on militants following a suicide bombing, Wednesday ordered Palestinian security forces to foil any attempt to attack Israeli civilians." [more]
In taking the western media to task for wrongly associating terrorism to Islam, the conference pointed out that such action failed to acknowledge the fact that terrorism was an international problem that cannot be linked with any religion and race, and that no society was free from such problems. [more]
"Negotiators were trying to revive parts of a deal to end Israel's 37-day-old siege of the church after it stalled on Tuesday when Italy refused to take 13 militants whom Israeli and Palestinian officials had agreed would be sent into exile." [more]
"We continue to look at ways to reform the Palestinian Authority. And we look at ways to bring hope to the Palestinian people through economic development and humanitarian efforts. And we look forward to security activity that Mr. Tenet will be pushing forward next week when he goes over." [more]
"The Bush administration, which has pressed for overhauling the 11-year-old sanctions policy since it took office last year, contends the new rules will eliminate any legitimate claim by Hussein that United Nations sanctions are responsible for suffering and starvation." [more]
"Musharraf promised to fight back. 'We feel this act of international terrorism has to be met with full force. My government has the complete resolve of meeting this threat,' he said without elaborating. 'I would appeal to the international community to understand our domestic environment resulting from our cooperation against international terrorism,' Musharraf said." [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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