Another courageous strike by the heroic Iraqi resistance against the US occupation forces… oops, we mean against Shi’ite civilians. From AP, Oct. 5, via TruthOut: A bomb exploded at the entrance of a Shiite Muslim mosque south of Baghdad as… Read moreIraq: Ramadan blast kills 25
From the Sept. 30 edition of the New York Bangladeshi community paper Bangla Patrika. Translated from the Bangla by the NY Independent Press Association: Federal and local law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, raided the Darul Ulum Shady Brook, a… Read moreFeds raid Connecticut madrassa for vegetables
Freedom’s on the march in Afghanistan—freedom of opium kingpins to exploit the peasantry and make a killing. The opium economy has exploded since the country’s “liberation” from the Taliban, and efforts by the Anglo-American-led occupation forces to crack down on… Read moreAfghanistan: “narco-state under NATO’s nose”
Moroccan troops killed six undocumented African migrants attempting to reach the Spanish-controlled enclave of Melilla on the Mediterranean coast Oct. 6. Citing Abdellah Bendhiba, the governor of Nador province, news accounts said the Africans were killed in a “violent” assault… Read moreMoroccan security forces kill African migrants; crisis grows over Spanish enclaves
On his October 4 visit to Nicaragua, US deputy secretary of state Robert Zoellick met with President Enrique Bolaños and other senior officials to discuss the country’s ongoing political crisis. Speaking with reporters in Managua, Zoellick warned of stark consequences… Read moreU.S. threatens to tighten noose on Nicaragua
Remember all those vicious rapes and senseless murders that served to justify the shoot-to-kill policy declared by state and federal authorities in post-Katrina New Orleans? Well, weeks after the fact, it turns out most of them probably didn’t really happen…. Read moreNew Orleans: post-Katrina violence was exaggerated
Al-Qaeda’s second-in-command in Iraq has been killed, reports say. Iraqi and US officials said Abu Azzam, described as an aide to leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed in a joint operation in Baghdad. A US military official said Azzam was… Read moreAl-Qaeda in Iraq number two killed, US claims
From New York Newsday, Sept. 27: Off-duty cop under fire for accident BY DARYL KHAN STAFF WRITER The witnesses’ names were not known Monday, but the stories they told painted starkly different pictures of how a girl died Friday night,… Read moreWHY WE FIGHT
On Sept. 19 Honduran defense minister Federico Breve ordered an investigation into a camp the Chicago-based firm Your Solutions was running in the community of Lepaterique to train security personnel for work in US-occupied Iraq. The Honduran daily La Tribuna… Read moreHonduras: Iraq mercenaries recruited
Agents of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) shot dead fugitive Puerto Rican nationalist leader Filiberto Ojeda Rios on Sept. 23 in the western town of Hormigueros at a farmhouse where he had been staying secretly with his wife,… Read morePuerto Rico: FBI kills Machetero leader
Ecuadoran troops destroyed a suspected Colombian guerilla camp near the jungle border between the two countries, Ecuador’s defense ministry said Sept. 23. The camp was “probably used by irregular groups” from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the ministry… Read moreEcuador targets Colombian guerillas
Army Pfc. Lynndie England, whose smiling poses in photos of detainee abuse at Baghdad’s Abu Ghraib prison made her the face of the scandal, was convicted Sept. 26 by a military jury at Ft. Hood, TX. England, 22, was convicted… Read morePfc. England convicted in Abu Ghraib abuse case —scapegoat?
