From AP, March 2: Al-Qaida has encouraged its followers to attack oil pipelines and facilities in Muslim countries and tankers but not wells, according to a document posted on a Web site by the group that targeted the world’s largest… Read moreAl-Qaeda: target oil infrastructure
From Reuters, March 8: KHARTOUM – Shouting “Down, Down USA,” thousands of Sudanese protested in Khartoum on Wednesday against any deployment of U.N. troops to the western Darfur region. “Get out all foreigners, we don’t want you here,” shouted 21-year-old… Read moreSudan threatens “Darfur Jihad”
From Prensa Latina, March 8: A call to return illegally owned lands was launched by Bolivia´s President Evo Morales, while warning his administration will put an end to unproductive large landed estates. On his Tuesday statement after assigning Saul Salazar… Read moreBolivia: Evo to free the land?
Just to get both sides of the story, first this account (in rather poor English) from Cuba’s Prensa Latina: La Paz, Mar 8 – Bolivia conditioned the return of weaponry and technology the US supplied to an elite military unit… Read moreBolivia: military tension with US —already
Ginger Thompson writes for the New York Times, Feb. 27: MEXICO CITY, Feb. 26 A secret report prepared by a special prosecutor’s office says the Mexican military carried out a “genocide plan” of kidnapping, torturing and killing hundreds of suspected… Read moreMexico: “dirty war” files reveal “genocide plan”
Feb. 16 marked a full decade since the signing of the San Andres Accords, negotiated by rebel Zapatista commanders and Mexican federal legislators in the restive southern state of Chiapas. The Accords called for changes to the Mexican constitution as… Read moreZapatista tour advances 10 years after stalled peace accord
All press stories on this controversy note that the oil will be exported to China. But, as we have noted, Russia is racing with China to provide a Pacific outlet for Central Asian oil, and we suspect this is the… Read moreRussian pipeline plan threatens Lake Baikal
Why is it only the right-wing press that ever demonstrates any outrage over this sort of thing? Just asking. From the New York Times, March 7: PARIS, March 6 — Three attacks against Jews over the weekend have added to… Read moreMore Jews attacked in France
With the word’s attention elsewhere, a violent confrontation between security forces and jihadis in Bangladesh. From India Monitor, March 7: Dhaka: Wanted terrorist and Islamist leader Siddiqul Islam better known as Banglabhai, who founded the jihadi organisation Jagrata Muslim Janata… Read moreBangladesh: jihadi arrested, guns blazing
Rumsfeld exploits the carnage in Iraq to score points against Iran, even as he scolds the media for daring to actually report it. How does he keep a straight face? From Bloomberg, March 7: U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld today… Read moreRumsfeld accuses Iran, blasts media
Great propaganda for the right-wing Human Events Online. This from Robert Spencer’s “Jihad Watch” column, March 7. Our editorial interjections added. Last Friday afternoon, a student named Mohammed Taheri-azar drove an SUV onto the campus of the University of North… Read moreJihad in Chapel Hill?
From AP, March 7, links added: VARANASI – Explosions rocked a packed railway station and crowded Hindu temple Tuesday in Hinduism’s holiest city, and at least 12 people were killed and dozens injured, officials said. Authorities were scrambling to determine… Read moreIndia: explosions rock Hindu holy city
