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  • Egyptian diplomat in Iraq taken captive
    24 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Aljazeera
    An Egyptian diplomat has been seized in Baghdad by a group calling itself "Lions of God Battalions in Iraq".
    The capture was in response to comments by Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmad Nazif that Egypt is ready to offer its security experience to the interim Iraqi government, a videotape aired on Aljazeera channel said
    The captive has been identified as Muhammad Mamduh Hilmi Qutb, the television said based on the videotape sent to it by the group on Friday.
    Egypt reaction (…)

  • Militants kidnap six more in Iraq
    23 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ravi Nessman in Baghdad
    A MILITANT group said today it had taken six more hostages — three Indians, two Kenyans and an Egyptian — and would behead them if their countries did not immediately announce the withdrawal of their citizens from Iraq.
    The US death toll since the start of the war rose to 900 when a roadside bomb killed a soldier.
    The seizure of the hostages came a day after a Filipino truck driver was released in exchange for Manila’s withdrawal of its 51-member troop (…)

  • Family of American beheaded in Iraq say U.S. government ignoring them
    18 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Family members of slain U.S. businessman Nicholas Berg are being stonewalled by their government as they try to find out exactly what happened in the weeks before he was kidnapped and beheaded in Iraq in May, Berg’s father said.
    Among other details, the Bergs want to know whether Berg, who had been in Iraq seeking work for his fledgling telecommunications company, was being held by allied or Iraqi forces before his kidnapping, The Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper reported.
    "If it weren’t (…)

  • Only Cowards Cancel Elections
    15 July 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Rivers Pitt
    A number of trial balloons have been floated in recent days, from Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge specifically, about canceling or postponing the national election because of a terrorist attack. DeForest B. Soaries Jr., the Bush-appointed chairman of the newly minted U.S. Election Assistance Commission, apparently got the ball rolling with Ridge by writing a letter to him. In it, he bade Ridge ask Congress for the power to put off the November election in the (…)

  • The view from the editorial pages
    19 June 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Stephen W. Stromberg
    President Bush may still believe in the pre-war Iraq-al Qaida connection as much as a 5-year old does in Santa Claus, but the editorial boards of several major newspapers are no longer deluded — thanks in large part to this week’s revelation by the 9/11 commission that Iraq and al-Qaida had no working relationship.
    The Financial Times: "Whether the Osama and Saddam thesis was more the result of self-delusion or cynical manipulation, it — along with Washington’s (…)

  • An illegal and immoral war, betrayed by images that reveal our racism
    8 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Fisk
    First, our enemies created the suicide bomber. Now, we have our own digital suicide bomber, the camera. Just look at the way US army reservist Lynndie England holds the leash of the naked, bearded Iraqi. Take a close look at the leather strap, the pain on the prisoner’s face. No sadistic movie could outdo the damage of this image. In September 2001, the planes smashed into the buildings; today, Lynndie smashes to pieces our entire morality with just one tug on the leash. (…)

  • 11 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq; hostage escapes
    3 May 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    American truck driver flees captors three weeks after being abducted
    Eleven U.S. troops were killed in attacks across Iraq, including a mortar barrage today in which six Americans died and 30 others were wounded. Meanwhile, kidnapped U.S. truck driver Thomas Hamill escaped his Iraqi captors, prying open a door of the house where he was held when an American patrol passed by.
    Running a kilometre to the patrol, Hamill identified himself and led the soldiers to the house, where two Iraqis (…)

  • Sharon’s "Courageous" Plan Bush Legitimizes Terrorism
    18 April 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    So President George Bush tears up the Israeli-Palestinian peace plan and that’s okay. Israeli settlements for Jews and Jews only on the West Bank. That’s okay. Taking land from Palestinians who have owned that land for generations, that’s okay. UN Security Council Resolution 242 says that land cannot be acquired by war. Forget it. That’s okay.
    Does President George Bush actually work for al-Qa’ida? What does this mean? That George Bush cares more about his re-election than he does (…)