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Stories from 2004-05-03

Cornerstone Laid for New Gush Katif Neighborhood

Uri Glikman | Maariv International | May 3, 2004

"During the ceremony it was also announced that plans to build additional housing in other Gaza Strip communities have been approved." [more]

Pressure Has Place in War, Some Say

Jeff Barker | Baltimore Sun | May 3, 2004

"Practices such as lying to prisoners, intimidating them, screaming at them, stripping them, hiding their faces under hoods, and depriving them of toiletries and comforts are permissible to a degree if there is a valid reason, Ritz said./ But he drew the line at the sort of excesses allegedly committed by U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib prison near Baghdad, such as sodomizing prisoners with a broom and forcing them to simulate and commit sex acts." [more]

Rall's 'Tillman' Cartoon Pulled by MSNBC.com

Dave Astor | Editor & Publisher | May 3, 2004

"'Tillman gave up millions of dollars,' Rall added. 'To that extent I think he's admirable, but the cause is not. ... He would have been a better person and a better husband if he took the $3.6 million and played football and left the poor and beleaguered people of Afghanistan and Iraq alone.'" [more]

Torture and Civilian Deaths in Three Counterinsurgencies

William Marina | Independent Institute: Center on Peace and Liberty | May 3, 2004

The war in Iraq shares parallels with both the Vietnam War a generation ago and the Spanish-American War a century earlier—massive civilian deaths and torture are characteristics of all three imperial interventions... The estimates of civilians killed in the Philippines range from 200,000 to a high of perhaps 600,000 — no one really knows... [more]

Victory Rises Above a Mass Grave

Aaron Glantz | Inter Press Service | May 3, 2004

"'The Americans are dogs,' he says. 'They try to kill anybody who works in humanitarian aid. They attack any humanitarian aid worker, doctor, or ambulance to kill him.' Many more bodies continue to rot under buildings that collapsed under U.S. bombing, he says." [more]

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