Archive for February 8, 2004
Australian police have arrested three U.S. Navy personnel on charges of raping two women while on shore leave in the northern port city of Darwin, Australia.
Posted on February 8, 2004 by As'ad
Drawing ideologically charged conclusions from raw data can be dangerous
Posted on February 8, 2004 by As'ad
Watching and reading all this, one is tempted to ask, where were you [the US news media) all before the war? Why didn’t we learn more about these deceptions and concealments in the months when the administration was pressing its case for regime change—when, in short, it might have made a difference?
Posted on February 8, 2004 by As'ad
Full text: Spotlight on Subsidies: Cereal Injustice in UK.
Posted on February 8, 2004 by As'ad
Thus spoke a kook: Israeli Tourism Minister Benny Elon (National Union) asked Christian missionary groups last week to work to convert Muslims to Christianity in order “to show them the light.”
Posted on February 8, 2004 by As'ad
Clerics go home: Anger grows among children of Iran’s 25-year-old revolution
Posted on February 8, 2004 by As'ad
They should have been disillusioned with Arafat, some 3 decades ago, AT LEAST. Hundreds of members of Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement resigned at the weekend in protest at the lack of political reform, corruption and the leadership’s failure to challenge the Israeli occupation.
Posted on February 8, 2004 by As'ad
Swiss voters yesterday overwhelmingly approved a new law requiring that rapists and other violent criminals deemed incapable of reform be imprisoned for life without parole.
Posted on February 8, 2004 by As'ad
Get the bomb shelters ready: More liberation wars to come. The Bush administration has launched an ambitious bid to promote democracy in the “greater Middle East”.
Posted on February 8, 2004 by As'ad
In what may be the first subpoena of its kind in decades, a federal judge has ordered a university to turn over records about a gathering of anti-war activists.
Posted on February 8, 2004 by As'ad
Pentagon: Eight deaths weren’t reported; also, soldier reported killed in Iraq actually died in Afghanistan. And Baghdad is not the capital of China as was previously thought.
Posted on February 8, 2004 by As'ad
I am offering this verbatim translation from the pro-American, pro-Saudi Arabic daily, Al-Hayat (Monday, Feb. 9, 2004): “An American patrol unit broke into a house in the Ash-Sha`b City, north of Baghdad the other day, looking for two kids, one is 7- the other is 9- years old. They both had aimed their plastic toy [...]
Posted on February 8, 2004 by As'ad
Timeline of official quotes on Iraqi WMD
Posted on February 8, 2004 by As'ad
PRESIDENT’S BUDGET CONTAINS LARGER CUTS IN DOMESTIC DISCRETIONARY PROGRAMS THAN HAS BEEN REPORTED. OMB Documents Not Made Widely Available Show Domestic Discretionary Programs to be Cut $50 Billion a Year by 2009
Posted on February 8, 2004 by As'ad
Not everyone got it wrong on Iraq’s weapons
Posted on February 8, 2004 by As'ad
Fox News has a live webcam from Baghdad’s Firdaws Square.
Posted on February 8, 2004 by As'ad
Full texts: the Ron Suskind’s documents.
Posted on February 8, 2004 by As'ad
The 10 Worst Corporations of 2003
Posted on February 8, 2004 by As'ad
US newspapers insist that the Iraqi resistance is confined to the “Sunni triangle.” Washington Post now insists it is confined to a street, in a quarter, in an area, within Fallujah.
Posted on February 8, 2004 by As'ad
The U.S.-led coalition in Iraq is threatening the Iraqi and regional stability by empowering Kurdish and Shiite Muslim groups, according to an Arab League report
Posted on February 8, 2004 by As'ad