As we have noted, all US soldiers accused of killings in Iraq have thus far been acquitted. This particularly grisly case will really put Pentagon justice to the test. But we again note that, in any case, higher-ranking officers–who the… Read moreGIs face charges in torture-death
The Russia-based Iraqi Resistance Report website cites a story from the Iraqi newspaper Mafkarat al-Islam June 1 that US forces beseiging the central town of al-Ramadi are using restoration of water and other basic services as a bargaining chip to… Read moreIraq: US using water as bargaining chip?
Amnesty International is defending its description of Guantánamo prison as a “gulag,” and urges the US to allow independent investigations of allegations of torture at its detention centers for terrorism suspects. A verbal feud between Amnesty and Washington has escalated… Read moreAmnesty: Gitmo a “Gulag”
Emulating recent jihadi tactics in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Iraqi resistance has targetted a gathering of Sufis for a suicide attack, as well as escalating attacks against Shi’ites. A suicide bomber blew himself up at a gathering of Sufi Muslims… Read moreIraq “resistance” blows up Sufis
A suicide bomb tore through a mosque in Kandahar June 1 at the funeral of Mullah Abdul Fayaz, a Muslim cleric who spoke out against the Taliban, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens. Hundreds of mourners were crowded… Read moreAfghanistan: 20 dead in mosque blast
More chilling revelations in the ongoing scandal over abuse at Guantanamo Bay and other US military detention centers… Gitmo Detainees Say Muslims Were Sold By Michelle Faul The Associated Press Tuesday 31 May 2005 San Juan, Puerto Rico — They… Read moreGitmo detainees: We were “sold”
A front-page story in the NY Times reveals some details of the secret air fleet the CIA uses to carry out “renditions”–but unfortunately fails to emphasize the global outcry over the practice from human rights groups and even the judiciary… Read moreSecret CIA “rendition” fleet revealed
From Spanish TV ABC.es, Sevilla, May 26: When I see Bush, he reminds me of Benito Like the great humorists, who are certainly the most sad, Harold Bloom will never laugh at his own jokes nor betray the effect they… Read moreLIT CRIT DUBS DUBYA DUCE
Hundreds of Egyptians, many of them women dressed in black, rallied in Cairo May 31 to demand the resignation of Habib al-Adly, the interior minister. Activists said they held the minister responsible for the fact that police stood by last… Read moreEgyptians protest attack on women activists
Much to our dismay, our story by Frank Morales in the current issue of WW4 REPORT, “The Provacateur State: Is the CIA Behind the Iraqi ‘Insurgents’?“, has been picked up by the neo-Nazi Stormfront, which bills itself as “the first… Read moreWW4 REPORT makes Stormfront
Just four days after the last one, another mosque was hit by a suicide bomber in Pakistan last night. This time the blast, at a Shi’ite mosque in Karachi, killed five and wounded 18. It also sparked a night of… Read morePakistan: still more sectarian terror
France will “soon” offer Libya a cooperation agreement to help Tripoli develop its civilian nuclear energy program, the French foreign ministry said today. “The principle of cooperation in the area of peaceful applications of nuclear energy is a given, but… Read moreFrance-Libya nuclear cooperation seen
