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  • Arafat : the Dreamer Who Relied on Emotion and Failed to Protect His Own People
    15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Fisk
    He was everything loyal and everything miserable about the Palestinian dream. I have a tape recording of Arafat, sitting with me on a cold, dark mountainside outside the Lebanese port of Tripoli in 1983 where the old man - he was always called the old man, long before he was elderly - was under siege by the Syrian army, another of the Arab "brothers" who wanted to lead the Palestinian cause and ended up fighting Palestinians rather than Israelis.
    Even worse, the Syrians (…)

  • Falluja resident tells of trauma
    15 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    A five-year-old Iraqi girl has arrived in Britain, having been orphaned when a US missile destroyed her family’s home in Falluja.
    Ayisha Saleem was brought here six days ago by her uncle, Mohammad, who decided to leave after the 4 October attack.
    The US military says it used precision strikes to take out insurgents loyal to Abu Musab al-Zaqawi.
    The attack happened before it stepped up its offensive on the city last week.
    Mohammad said he was dazed when he first heard of the bombing. (…)

  • Afghanistan wants its ’Dead Sea Scrolls of Buddhism’ back from UK
    14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Nick Meo in Kabul
    The Afghan government is to request the return of the "Dead Sea Scrolls of Buddhism" from the British Library, amid concerns the priceless manuscripts were looted during civil war in the early nineties.
    Afghanistan’s Minister of Culture will formally ask for the 2000-year-old scrolls to be sent from London to the newly restored Kabul Museum in the next few weeks as part of a campaign to bring home stolen treasures from foreign collections.
    The British Library, (…)

  • Arafat’s death a major test for Bush
    14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jim Lobe
    WASHINGTON - The death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will test whether US President George W Bush intends to maintain his staunch support for Israel’s right-wing government at the risk of further alienating the US’s European allies and Muslim public opinion.
    It will also provide an early insight into whether the hardline coalition that has dominated US foreign policy since September 11, 2001 - aggressive nationalists, neo-conservatives who support Israel’s governing (…)

  • The conflict in Iraq has become a holy war. In both directions.
    14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    A Distant Mirror of Holy War
    By Norman Solomon
    On the surface, the most prominent headline on the New York Times front page Nov. 10 was simply matter-of-fact: "In Taking Fallujah Mosque, Victory by the Inch." Yet it’s not mere happenstance that American forces have bombed many of Fallujah’s mosques.
    For public consumption, U.S. military officers — like their civilian bosses and American journalists — usually discuss this war in secular, even antiseptic terms. When the Times quoted (…)

  • U.S. use of depleted uranium under fire
    14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By LORI MATSUKAWA
    Alvin Clark, of Tacoma, developed aplastic anemia he believes is related to his exposure to depleted uranium dust after he was hit by friendly fire in Saudi Arabia.
    Shells and armor used by U.S. tanks, gunships and helicopters are often made of depleted uranium because depleted uranium, or D.U., is a heavy metal, able to pierce armored vehicles or resist being pierced. But it’s also radioactive, a waste product of nuclear enrichment plants like Hanford.
    A pentagon (…)

  • Rocket the Vote
    14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Naomi Klein
    P. Diddy announced on the weekend that his “Vote or Die” campaign will live on. The hip-hop mogul’s voter-registration drive during the U.S. presidential elections was, he said, merely “phase one, step one for us to get people engaged.”
    Fantastic. I have a suggestion for phase two: P. Diddy, Ben Affleck, Leonardo DiCaprio and the rest of the self-described “Coalition of the Willing” should take their chartered jet and fly to Fallujah, where their efforts are desperately (…)

  • I have just witnessed a murder on my TV screen
    14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Matt Hamon
    As I sit here and write this I have tears streaming down my face, I am shaking and my heart is pounding. I have just witnessed a murder on my TV screen.
    While watching Lateline on Australian ABC television there was a report from Fallujah. In the story they showed a marine saying, “I’ve just injured one, he’s between the two buildings”. At that moment another marine walks over to the gap between the two houses, he then climbs on a forty four gallon drum aims his gun at the (…)

  • The First Casualty of War is: the Casualty Figures
    12 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    “And when it is said unto them: Do not make mischief in the earth, they say, we are only peacemakers” (Al-Koran 2:11)
    by Yamin Zakaria
    In the name of peace they have been terrorising the innocents, committing mass murder and pillaging their resources as billions of oil revenue are still unaccounted for. In occupied Palestine, the same story, the ones who constantly cries wolf about being victims and desiring peace have been busy ethnic cleansing the natives to pave the way for God’s (…)

  • Falluja resident tells of trauma
    12 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Mohammad and Ayisha in Britain Mohammad and Ayisha Saleem arrived in Britain six days ago. A five-year-old Iraqi girl has arrived in Britain, having been orphaned when a US missile destroyed her family’s home in Falluja.
    Ayisha Saleem was brought here six days ago by her uncle, Mohammad, who decided to leave after the 4 October attack.
    The US military says it used precision strikes to take out insurgents loyal to Abu Musab al-Zaqawi.
    The attack happened before it stepped up its (…)