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Stories from 2003-08-18
"[The cameraman] was the 17th news organization employee to be killed since the war began. The videotape in [his] camera showed two U.S. tanks coming toward him. Shots were fired, apparently from the tanks, and [he] fell to the ground. His body was taken away by a U.S. helicopter. 'There were many journalists around. They knew we were journalists. This was not an accident,' [a witness] said."
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"A pipeline supplying much of Baghdad's water was blown up this weekend, a huge new fire was set off along an oil pipeline, and a mortar attack on a prison left 6 Iraqis dead and 59 wounded." [more]
"The [Canadian] government provided Butt with an attorney to plead his asylum case, health benefits, and, until he finds work, a housing allowance. He has applied for three factory jobs. Asylum-seekers in the United States, by contrast, must wait six months to work, relying on charity in the meantime. Sometimes they end up in jail as their case winds through the courts." [more]
"Thai officials say Hambali is currently in US custody, though the US refused to say where upon announcing his arrest last Thursday. US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage ... said it would be 'foolish' to believe the threat has evaporated with Hambali's arrest." [more]
"The cameraman was the second Reuters journalist to be killed in Iraq since the invasion began on March 20. His colleague died on April 8 when an American tank fired a shell at the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, from which Mr. Protsyuk was filming the United States advance into the city center." [more]
"The deal would call for current President Moses Blah to cede power by October, handing control over to the interim government. That government would see Liberia through elections. The two rebel movements and the government would be shut out of the top administration posts of chairman and vice chairmanship." [more]
"For Pakistanis who support the US-led war on terrorism, and for Washington, [jihadist rallies are] a troubling sign that Pakistan remains a breeding ground for extremist groups and for an ideology of cultural war shared by Al Qaeda." [more]
"The move could disappoint those who viewed the ouster of Saddam Hussein as an opportunity to set Iraqi oil policy on a pro-American course, open the nation's oil sector to Western companies and reduce the influence of OPEC on world oil production and prices." [more]
"[The] exercise would consist in part of ships and helicopters practicing the 'nonpermissive boarding' of ships suspected of carrying drugs, missile components, nuclear materials and other items that the United States says are being imported or sold by North Korea. Some diplomats are known to worry that [such] exercises ... might be seen as provocative by the government of Kim Jong Il in North Korea, and perhaps by China and Russia."
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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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