From the New Jersey Herald News, March 24: For activist’s supporters, the show does go on NEW YORK — Rachel Corrie’s legacy just might prove that the pen is mightier than the sword. Despite the cancellation of a theater production… Read moreNYC: 1,200 hear Rachel Corrie’s words
From Knight-Ridder, March 21: BOGOTA, Colombia – It’s pretty easy to tell when Colombian President Alvaro Uribe is angry. The bespectacled president usually airs his grievances in public, particularly against errant generals in his army. Since taking office in 2002,… Read moreColombia: Uribe rift with military?
From the AP, March 22: WASHINGTON — The United States charged 50 leaders of Colombia’s largest guerrilla group with sending more than $25 billion worth of cocaine around the world to finance their fight at home, a federal indictment that… Read moreColombia: US indicts FARC leaders
The Basque separatist ETA has announced a permanent ceasefire after nearly 40 years and some 800 killings. Now, as this report from IOL notes, legal proceedings against accused ETA collaborators may be reconsidered. Note that Arnaldo Otegi faces prison time… Read moreSpain: ETA ceasefire throws internment into question
From AP, March 22: ROME — Italian police said Tuesday they have arrested five people suspected in the killing of a local politician who was shot last year at a polling station in southern Italy where he was voting in… Read moreCalabrian ‘Ndrangheta Europe’s leading crime machine —legacy of Kosova war?
From Reuters: QUETTA, Pakistan, March 23 – A bomb blew up a telephone call office in Pakistan’s troubled Baluchistan province on Thursday, killing the owner and wounding eight other people, police said. A police official, who did not want to… Read morePakistan: Baluchistan insurgency grows
From Pakistan’s daily Dawn: WANA, March 22: A pro-government cleric was killed by gunmen in the Laddah subdivision of the South Waziristan Agency on Wednesday and a telephone exchange was blown up in the Shakai area. Witnesses told Dawn that… Read morePakistan: Waziristan insurgency grows
From AP, March 23: BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. and British troops Thursday freed three Christian peace activists in a rural area of Iraq without firing a shot, ending a four-month hostage drama in which an American among the group was… Read moreIraq: three CPT hostages freed
From AP, March 22: KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Authorities launched a probe today into the killings by Afghan security forces of at least 15 people, who an Afghan army commander claimed were Taliban rebels but locals said were tribesmen wanting to… Read moreAfghanistan: threats, violence meet Nowruz
On March 16, 2003, Washington state-born activist Rachel Corrie, 23, was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer while acting as a “human shield” against the demolition of a Palestinian home in Rafah, on the Gaza Strip. Last year, Katherine Viner,… Read moreNYC: activists bring Rachel Corrie’s censored words to stage
From Reuters, via Khajeel Times, March 21: QUETTA, Pakistan – Suspected militants blew up a gas pipeline in Baluchistan on Tuesday, the latest attack in the troubled southwest Pakistan province where rebels are fighting for greater autonomy, officials said. The… Read morePakistan: Baluch rebels blow up pipeline —again
From Reuters, March 21: President George W. Bush held out the possibility on Tuesday of a U.S. troop presence in Iraq for many years, saying a full withdrawal would depend on decisions by future U.S. presidents and Iraqi governments. Bush,… Read moreBush: years-long military mission in Iraq
