Nine children were among 12 people killed when a suicide truck-bomber drove into a police station in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk April 2. A further 192 were injured in the blast, and many of the victims were children… Read moreIraq: more terror in Kirkuk
“As Al Qaeda rebuilds in Pakistan’s tribal areas, a new generation of leaders has emerged under Osama bin Laden to cement control over the network’s operations, according to American intelligence and counterterrorism officials.” Thus begins “New Generation of Qaeda Chiefs… Read moreAl-Qaeda: the next generation …based in US ally Pakistan!
The NYPD April 2 defended its surveillance of political activists before the 2004 Republican National Convention (RNC). The NYPD statement admitted “detectives collected information both in-state and out-of-state to learn in advance what was coming our way,” but said the… Read moreNYPD flexes espionage muscle
A high-level al-Qaeda suspect who was in CIA custody for more than four years has alleged that his US captors tortured him into making false confessions about terrorist attacks in the Middle East, according to newly released Pentagon transcripts of… Read moreGitmo tribunal reveals torture charge
Talli Nauman writes for Mexico’s El Universal, April 2: Environmentalists are rejoicing over the cancellation of a liquid natural gas (LNG) terminal project that the federal government had licensed Chevron Texaco to undertake adjacent to the Coronado Islands proposed protected… Read moreBaja California LNG terminal cancelled
Representatives at the third Continental Summit of the Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities in Iximche, Guatemala, spoke out against US plans to use corn crops to produce fuel. “We have a long tradition as corn growers, and using corn to produce… Read moreHemispheric indigenous summit bashes bio-fuels
According to reports in major Dominican dailies on March 30, the Central Electoral Council (JCE) is planning to annul the Dominican birth certificate of human rights activist Sonia Pierre, the head of the Dominican-Haitian Women’s Movement (MUDHA). JCE chief inspector… Read moreDominico-Haitians face threat to citizenship
Protests that led the Brazilian state oil company to halt production in the Ecuadoran Amazon have ended, Ecuador’s Energy Ministry announced March 30. The Ministry statement said losses from the strike totaled more than $40 million, or 840,000 barrels of… Read moreEcuador: Amazon oil strike ends
Ecuador‘s highest electoral court fired a judge who tried to return half the country‘s legislators to their posts March 28, as a political crisis deepened over a planned referndum on rewriting the constitution. President Rafeal Correa told 2,000 supporters that… Read moreEcuador: crisis deepens over constutional referendum
According to residents of Puerto Nuevo, in the Ecuadoran province of Sucumbios near the border with Colombia, on March 22 Colombian soldiers fired a grenade at the home of Ecuadoran citizen Jorge Plaza Mantilla in Puerto Nuevo. Fifteen Colombian soldiers… Read moreEcuador: Colombian military kills two
On March 24, Brazilian federal police and environmental agents shut down a major deep-water port on the Amazon River owned by Cargill Inc., saying the US-based multinational agribusiness firm failed to provide an environmental impact statement required by law. Cargill’s… Read moreBrazil: Cargill’s Amazon port shut down
At least 475 youths were arrested and about 100 police agents were injured in clashes in Santiago on March 29 when Chilean students, mostly from secondary schools, carried out their annual march for the Day of the Young Combatant. Some… Read moreChile: hundreds arrested in protest
