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Stories from 2003-07-07
"Americans attacked an Iraqi village several miles away where the convoy had stopped earlier in the evening. Several houses were destroyed and a number of villagers injured. Two were killed — Hakima Khalil and her one-year-old daughter Maha. The residents of the village could not understand why they had become targets as they claimed the convoy was just a group of livestock smugglers." [more]
"Delegates held the inaugural session on Monday of a new Baghdad city council, hailed by the United States as a major step towards democracy in Iraq even though it has only an advisory role." [more]
"Tony Blair and his government did not mislead parliament or doctor evidence to justify the war on Iraq, a parliamentary committee concluded on Monday. The government, though, did get its knuckles wrapped over its dossiers on Iraq's weapons." [more]
"The matter-of-fact way in which Rumsfeld suggested [nuclear weapons'] possible role [in US combat] was a rare public sign of a growing effort by the administration to end the decade-long ban on developing and testing new nuclear bombs." [more]
"The Afghan foreign ministry says Musharraf, during a recent trip to Europe, questioned Karzai's influence across Afghanistan, spoke of a power vacuum and said the government was not representative of all ethnic groups." [more]
"Bush set Taylor's departure as a first condition for bringing stability to Liberia and necessary before he would agree to send peacekeepers to the West African country wrecked by nearly 14 years of violence. But the former warlord has said he wants a peacekeeping force in place first to prevent rebels or his own volatile fighters from running wild." [more]
"Attacks on US soldiers are becoming increasingly frequent and are now taking place in the capital and other cities where previously there had been little resistance to the occupation." [more]
" 'Faced with continued resistance, Department of Defense now plans to keep a larger force in Iraq than anticipated for a period of time,' Maj. Gen. Buford Blount, commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, explained in a statement to families a month ago. 'I appreciate the turmoil and stress that a continued deployment has caused,' he added." [more]
"The three known defendants are being held with as many as 680 other foreign captives at Camp X-Ray at Washington's Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba where, according to a series of court decisions, none of them enjoys the basic due-process rights required by the U.S. Constitution." [more]
"Once a model of stability in a chaotic region, Turkish-American relations are going from bad to worse. Over the weekend, ties between the NATO allies hit a new low after U.S. forces in northern Iraq arrested 11 Turkish military officials reportedly suspected of plotting to kill an Iraqi Kurdish leader. Ankara and Washington have since been trying to control the damage, but the wounds could be lasting." [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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