Palestinian mufti appeals for release of Iraq hostages 6 December 2005 05:05 AM BBC Monitoring Newsfile Text of report by Iraqi Al-Sharqiyah TV on 6 December Mufti of the Palestinian Territories Ikrimah Sabri appealed on Monday [5 December] for the… Read morePalestinian mufti appeals for release of hostages on Iraqi TV
Another turn of the screw. Shame on Judge Richard Berman. From the New York Daily News, Dec. 2: Judge: Searches of bags in subway is constitutional Random police searches of riders’ bags to deter terrorism in the nation’s largest subway… Read moreNYC: judge upholds subway searches
From Beirut Indymedia: The Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades Palestine From your brothers in arms, the sons of the same blood who have suffered from one enemy, to the fighters against the invaders in Iraq, at a time when we are… Read moreAl-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades call for freeing CPT hostages
Eleven archaeology and cultural-heritage non-governmental organizations from around the world appeal for the release of archaeologist Susanne Osthoff and her escort in Iraq. New York, December 4, 2005 Press contacts: Roger Atwood: (202) 518 8630 Micah Garen: (646) 526 4361… Read moreAn appeal for the release of Susanne Osthoff
Transcript of Palestinian Press Conference Calling for the Release of the Four CPT Hostages in Iraq Ramallah, December 5th, 3 p.m. 2005 International Solidarity Movement Each of the following people spoke in Arabic unless noted otherwise. The following is a… Read morePalestinian Mufti, political factions call for release of Iraq hostages
[Translation presented as received] Statement number (112) issued from the Iraqi Islamic Party Regarding the kidnap of the Four Captives By the time that the Iraqi Islamic Party calls upon all Muslims to give the best image that represents our… Read moreIraqi Islamic Party calls for captives’ release
Statement from Toronto security-certificate detainees on James Loney: From Mahmoud Jaballah, Mohammad Mahjoub and Hassan – Dec. 4,.2005 [original statement in Arabic and English in PDF] Statement from the three Toronto security certificate detainees. James (Jim) Loney is from Toronto,… Read moreCanadian “security detainees” speak out for Iraq hostages
Iraq’s armed guerillas are usually portrayed in vague and shadowy terms, allowing political commentators to cast them in whatever image is deemed convenient. Even the correct word to designate them says more about the commentator than the militants themselves. Those… Read moreAnatomy of Iraq’s insurgency
The case of Chad’s former president Hissène Habré, now fighting a Belgian extradition request on atrocity charges, will be handed over to African Union leaders to decide next month, Senegal’s government announced. Senegal’s Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio said Nov…. Read moreAfrican Union to decide in Chad war crimes case
The Bush administration decided to charge designated “enemy combatant” Jose Padilla, a US citizen who was initially said to have been preparing a radioactive “dirty bomb” attack on US soil, with less serious crimes because it was unwilling to allow… Read morePadilla case raises torture concerns
On Nov. 16, Brazilian landless workers Vanderlei Macena Cruz and Mauro Gomes Duarte, residents of Accampamento Renascer (Rebirth Encampment), were assassinated while riding a motorcycle to work near Gleba Gama, in the Nova Guarita region of Brazil’s Mato Grosso state…. Read moreParamilitary terror in Brazil
On Nov. 19 and 20, some 19,000 people gathered outside the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia to demand a dramatic shift in US foreign policy and the closure of the US Defense Department’s Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC),… Read more20,000 protest School of the Americas
