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US claims major blow against Mahdi Army The US says it has killed scores of Iraqi fighters near Najaf - but an aide of the Shia leader beseiged there says a deal can still be struck....
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2004 5:44pm PDT
Heavy US air, ground forces pound Falluja Fierce fighting has erupted in the restive Iraqi city of Falluja as US occupation forces strike the town with warplanes, helicopter gunships, mortar bombs and tanks....
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2004 5:43pm PDT
Latin Am Health Workers Embattled Last year public health workers held 37 national work stoppages in 12 countries of Latin America, highlighting the grave crises plaguing health systems that have few prospects of recovery....
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2004 9:55am PDT
Bolivians Call for Ouster of New President April 22 - About 20,000 demonstrators swamped downtown La Paz on Thursday to demand the resignation of Carlos Mesa just six months after nationwide protests toppled the previous president....
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2004 9:52am PDT
Afghanistan: "First execution since fall of Taliban" Amnesty International today expressed shock at news of the first judicial execution known to have been carried out in Kabul since the fall of the Taliban. Abdullah Shah, a military commander from Paghman, was executed on approximately 19 April. Amnesty International urges President Karzai to declare a formal moratorium on executions in line with assurances given to Amnesty International in 2003....
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2004 9:20am PDT
U.S. Civilians Confront U.S. Military in Najaf, Iraq As numerous people from nonprofit organizations working in Iraq evacuated the country during the past week, an independent emergency delegation of U.S. civilians was preparing to enter the conflict-torn nation,traveling to the tense stand-off around Najaf, where the U.S. military recently deployed almost 3,000 troops for a looming assault to crush Shiite rebels there....
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2004 9:19am PDT
Three killed by suspected Taliban in Afghanistan Suspected Taliban have shot dead two Afghan aid workers and one soldier and injured several others during raids in a district near the southern city of Kandahar, officials said....
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2004 9:19am PDT
Sharon Plan May Foil Palestine State, Historians Say April 27 (Bloomberg) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to retain territories captured from Arab countries in the 1967 war has little chance of bringing peace to the region because it won't leave Palestinians enough land to create a viable state, said historians including Israel's Tom Segev....
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2004 9:16am PDT
Hamas says Israel escalating assassinations of Palestinian militants GAZA, April 27 (Xinhuanet) -- Islamic resistance movement Hamas on Tuesday accused Israel of escalating the operations of assassination against Palestinian militants and leaders in the West Bank and Gaza....
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2004 9:14am PDT
The Battle for Fallujah Intesifies; U.S. Poised to Attack Najaf The daily carnage in Iraq continued across Iraq yesterday. Eight Iraqis and one U.S. soldier were killed in clashes in Fallujah, two U.S. soldiers and one Iraqi were killed in Baghdad and 43 Iraqis were killed in Najaf. We go to Najaf to get a report from a peace activist acting as a human shield and we speak with author Rahul Mahajan about Fallujah....
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2004 9:00am PDT
U.S. Kills Scores of Insurgents in Najaf BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. troops fought militiamen overnight near Najaf, killing 64 gunmen and destroying an anti-aircraft gun. An American soldier was killed Tuesday in Baghdad, raising the U.S. death toll for April to 115 — the same number lost during the entire invasion of Iraq last year....
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2004 8:59am PDT
US kills tens of Iraqis on Najaf's doorstep US occupation forces have killed tens of Iraqis in overnight clashes near the city of Najaf....
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2004 8:54am PDT
REVOLUTION: Why it's necessaryWhy it'sPossible Excerpts from a film of Bob Avakian -...
Posted: Tue, Apr 27, 2004 8:04am PDT
Gunships level minaret as US cancels assault An American assault on the Iraqi city of Fallujah was postponed yesterday after local commanders said bloody urban warfare could provoke retaliation across the country and protests throughout the Muslim world....
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2004 6:04pm PDT
Sadr the agitator: like father, like son KUFA, IRAQ – Sadr enters the mosque at Kufa where he's led Friday prayers for nearly a year denouncing the authorities and warning of an "imperialist" conspiracy against Iraq's majority Shiites.
The thousands fill the vast open courtyard, chanting the name of their hero when he strides through the gate, and they take up his call during the sermon. "No, no to America! No, no to Israel! No, no to imperialism!" In Baghdad, the authorities worry about how to handle this mili...
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2004 5:50pm PDT
Aristide Party Rejects Haiti Election Role PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) - The political party of ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide said on Monday it would not take part in a council charged with organizing new elections because of continuing persecution....
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2004 5:07pm PDT
Haiti fires 300 Aristide staff Some have said the government is working too slowly to restore basic services, such as electricity and water, to punish people in former Aristide strongholds....
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2004 12:10pm PDT
US bullying Caricom over Haiti? Two planned meetings in jeopardy if interim regime not recognised...
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2004 12:08pm PDT
Diplomats attack Blair's Israel policy Tony Blair's foreign policy was under scrutiny tonight after an unprecedented coalition of more than 50 former diplomats attacked his policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2004 11:39am PDT
Raed On Support For Sadr And The SCIRI The situation of Falluja and Najaf isn’t getting any better, but I still believe that the real crisis is the Najaf one; Falluja is a smaller conflict for sure....
Posted: Mon, Apr 26, 2004 11:38am PDT
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