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  • Margaret Hassan to be Turned Over to Mythical al-Zarqawi
    5 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    November 3, 2004 - Now we are told the kidnappers of CARE’s Margaret Hassan ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,134206 8,00.html ) have threatened to hand her over to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi - the mythical master terrorist who supposedly chops off heads and then posts videos of the grisly executions on the internet-unless British troops are removed from Iraq in 48 hours.
    Interesting the kidnappers decided to announce this mid-stride in the corporate election of the next CEO of the (…)

  • A Question of Conscience: How Many More? British Study Concludes That 100,000
    3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Civilian Deaths Have Been Caused By Iraq War’s Violence
    by Evan Augustine Peterson III
    "...if the USA’s population suffered the proportional equivalent of 130,000 Iraqi civilian deaths, there would be 1,608,750 American civilian deaths. What if the entire population of a city the size of San Diego had been slaughtered over nineteen months after some hostile nation invaded US soil?"
    "...it is clear that whatever planning did take place was grievously in error. The invasion of Iraq, the (…)

  • Suicide theory on female soldier
    3 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Richard Norton-Taylor
    A senior military policewoman found dead in Basra and named last night by the Ministry of Defence is understood to have killed herself.
    Staff Sergeant Denise Rose of the Royal Military Police’s special investigation branch was found dead from a gunshot wound at the army base in the Shatt-al-Arab hotel on Sunday, the MoD said.
    It added that the death was being investigated but was "not thought to have been the result of hostile action".
    Staff Sgt Rose, who had (…)

  • Hawking to lead anti-war protest on election day
    2 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Andy McSmith
    Stephen Hawking, Britain’s most eminent scientist, has become the latest prominent opponent of the Iraq war by agreeing to take the lead role in a ceremonial protest to coincide with the United States presidential election.
    Peace protesters will gather in Trafalgar Square at 5pm on Tuesday, where they will read out the names of 5,000 Iraqi men, women and children known to have died in the conflict.
    The full death toll was put last week as high as 100,000.
    Playwrights (…)

  • Cherie Blair lambasts Bush
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Tisha Steyn
    London - Cherie Blair, wife of the British Prime Minister, has criticised the policies of the US President George W Bush, attacking his stance on terrorist prisoners and gay rights, according to media reports here on Sunday.
    Blair, a lawyer on a lecture tour of the United States, was condemned by supporters of the US President after a speech to Harvard law students in Massachusetts which contained a stinging rebuke to Bush, the Scotland on Sunday newspaper reported on its (…)

  • Revealed: Blair’s secret mission to woo Kerry
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Andrew Buncombe in Washington and Francis Elliott
    Tony Blair has sent one of his closest advisers on a secret peace mission to mend relations with John Kerry, the United States presidential challenger, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.
    News of the confidential meeting comes as the campaign enters its final 48 hours, with the candidates running neck and neck. Mr Blair is concerned that he will appear isolated if George Bush loses in Tuesday’s poll, because of his support for the (…)

  • Bush ’most hated’ American leader
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    BRITISH spy novelist John Le Carre has branded US President George W. Bush America’s most "universally hated" leader and urged voters to kick him out of office next month.
    The author of global best sellers such as The Spy Who Came In From the Cold and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy launched the stinging attack on the US leader and his war in Iraq in an editorial in the Los Angeles Times.
    "Probably no American president in history has been so universally hated abroad as Bush: for his (…)

  • The Secret Files That Reveal How A Nation Was Deported
    29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by John Pilger
    Three forgotten, grainy films shot more than 40 years ago reveal the evidence of a crime committed by British governments against some of its most vulnerable citizens. What they tell is a shocking, almost incredible story in which the Blair Government has played a major part. One of the films, made in 1957 by the government’s Colonial Film Unit, shows the people of the Chagos islands, a British Crown colony in the Indian Ocean.
    The setting is idyllic; a coral archipelago (…)

  • LDH comments on the London ESF, preparing the Athens ESF
    29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By LDH
    Both European and World social forums aim to be spaces of open and pluralist democracy. They intend to bring together people who share the idea of possible alternatives to the neo-liberal model, as well as to facilitate the broader convergences through meetings and debates.
    Keeping that in mind, we are forced to state that some events occurred during the London ESF want comments from Ligue des Droits de l’Homme - French Human Rights League.
    Each ESF or WSF takes place in a given (…)

  • Blair admits - yes, I’ve met Kerry
    29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    AFTER months of embarrassed silence over links with US Democrats, Downing Street finally admitted yesterday that Tony Blair had twice met John Kerry, who is challenging the Prime Minister’s war ally President Bush for the Oval Office.
    The disclosure suggests that Mr Blair may be hedging his bets on the outcome of the US elections.
    Previously the Government has raised no objection to claims, repeated on both sides of the Atlantic, that Mr Blair had “never met” the Democratic presidential (…)