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Stories from 2002-06-29
"Clinton said Colombia's government should be allowed to use U.S. aid 'not only against drug trafficking, but in a direct confrontation against those terrorist groups.' " [more]
" 'The forensic team also found evidence of recently disposed human remains in two of the nine gravesites that were visited. While we are not in a position to verify the provenance of the remains in these sites, we heard speculation from well-informed international observers that one of these sites, near the city of Sheberghan, could have been a disposal ground of Taliban prisoners who had surrendered to the Northern Alliance in November and December 2001.' " [more]
"A major Iraqi opposition organization said in remarks published on Saturday that Washington should seek to oust President Saddam Hussein through U.N. resolutions and not by military force." [more]
"Live rockets, missiles and mortars littered the streets of the scruffy Afghan border town of Spin Boldak on Saturday after an arms dump blew up, killing at least 25 people and leaving a trail of destruction." [more]
" 'I was treated as a terrorist. I was psychologically tortured in the prison,' 35-year-old Mufeed Khan told the BBC on Saturday. 'I was shackled and handcuffed — completely bound — and questioned as if I were an associate of Osama Bin Laden.' " [more]
"The Red Cross has warned Afghan children not to play with unexploded yellow cluster bomblets dropped on Afghanistan by the United States last year that look a little like toys." [more]
"A rocket struck near Kabul's airport on Saturday, a key base of foreign peacekeeping troops, but caused no casualties or damage, an Afghan Interior Ministry official said. General Deen Mohammad Jurat, the ministry security chief, said the Russian-made rocket, called a BM1, landed after dawn on the perimeter of the airport to the northeast of the city." [more]
"In an exclusive statement to the Kuwaiti daily al-Rai al-Am issued on Friday, the Russian official said that Iraq had committed to the UN resolutions and responded to the UN demands. A matter which makes it imperative not to direct a military strike against it." [more]
"The delegation made up of interior and foreign ministry officials had been waiting for weeks for permission to visit the Guantanamo base where the American military is keeping more than 500 suspected members of Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda organisation and Taleban." [more]
" 'It's bizarre beyond belief,' said Ibrahim Hooper of the Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations. 'It would suggest to us an "Israelization" of American politics. 'What message is sent when our legislators begin tying our national security to a foreign country engaged in a brutal occupation? Is it Israel and America against the rest of the world?' Mr. Hooper asked." [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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