From the New York Times, Jan. 13, emphasis added: ATHENS, Jan. 12 — An antitank grenade was fired into the heavily fortified American Embassy here on Friday just before dawn. The building was empty, but the attack nonetheless underscored deep… Read moreConspiranoids waste no time after Athens embassy blast
Ethiopian and US forces are still in pursuit of three supposed al-Qaida militants originally said to have been killed in the US airstrike of Jan. 8, with an anonymous “senior US official” in Kenya telling AP that they all survived… Read moreSomalia: facts of US air-strike disputed; exiles deported for opposing intervention
Leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), meeting in the Philippine city of Cebu, are working on a regional anti-terror pact the day after a series of bombs exploded in nearby towns on the southern Mindanao island…. Read morePhilippines: terror tops ASEAN summit, rights activists protest
The wives of eight campesinos from Ayacucho, Peru, who were arrested for involvement in a December ambush on a police patrol have began a hunger strike to demand the their release. Peru’s Interior Minister Pilar Mazzetti admitted in a press… Read morePeru: unrest follows Ayacucho ambush
Cindy Sheehan, mother of a US soldier killed in Iraq, was among several US citizens who arrived in Cuba on Jan. 6 in preparation for a series of actions Jan. 9-13 to protest the US military’s use of its Guantanamo… Read moreCuba: Cindy Sheehan arrives for Gitmo protest
On Dec. 29 Chilean judge Haroldo Brito sentenced 13 former security agents to prison terms ranging from five to 18 years for four revenge murders carried out after a September 1986 attempt to kill Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, dictator of… Read moreChile: Pinochet agents sentenced
Paraguayan general Alejandro Fretes Davalos, who led the imprisonment and torture of hundreds of people under the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner (1954-1989), died on Dec. 29 following a lengthy illness. Fretes had graduated from Chile’s Military School, where he served… Read moreParaguay: ex-military chief dies
On the night of Jan. 1, an armed group entered the village of El Cedro in Yarumal municipality, in the Colombian department of Antioquia, and shot to death four civilians, two men and two women. The victims included Yolanda Munoz… Read moreColombia: more community leaders murdered
Unknown Somali fighters opened fire with automatic weapons and launched rockets at Ethiopian and allied Somalian troops in Mogadishu Jan. 9. The attack came as the troops had established themselves in a building formerly used by the police force. No… Read moreSomalia: US airstrikes, anti-Ethiopia resistance
From the Arab American Community Coalition, Jan. 1: The Arab American Community Coalition has just learned of an entire Palestinian family – the Ibrahims – being held in jail in Texas while waiting an unjustified deportation. The Immigration and Customs… Read moreICE detains Palestinian family in Texas
On Jan. 2, a California National Guard helicopter assisting the Border Patrol crashed in the mountains about 20 miles southeast of downtown San Diego. Two National Guard soldiers and three Border Patrol agents were hospitalized with neck and back injuries;… Read moreBorder chopper crashes outside San Diego
On Dec. 5, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 in favor of an immigrant deported for a first-time drug conviction in South Dakota. “Conduct that is a felony under state law but a misdemeanor under the Controlled Substances Act is not… Read moreSupreme Court reverses deportation
