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| Pilger on Bali |
For 40 years, Australian governments have colluded with state terrorism in Indonesia. Now, the Bali outrage allows John Howard to distract attention from his hypocrisy : John Pilger :17 Oct 2002 [delve]
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| The Long and Hidden History of the U.S in Somalia |
The East African nation of Somalia is being mentioned with increasing frequency as the next possible target in the U.S.-led war against international terrorism. With what passes for the central government controlling little more than a section of the national capital of Mogadishu, a separatist government in the north, and rival warlords and clan leaders controlling most of the rest of the country, U.S. officials believe that cells of the Al-Qaida terrorist network may have taken advantage of the absence of governmental authority to set up operation. [delve]
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| A city of spiritual beauty broods in the rubble |
Kandahar looked much as it did when the Taliban turned Alexander the Great's timeworn city into their political capital seven years ago: ruined, mined and deserted, most of its inhabitants already in the refugee middens of Pakistan. By Robert Fisk, 15 November 2001. UK Independent. [delve]
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| War Not Going Quite As Planned |
Analysis - By Jim Lobe - Two weeks into Washington's military campaign in Afghanistan, President George W. Bush's ''war'' against terrorism does not appear to be going as well as planned. [delve]
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| Brains, not bombs |
Jamie Lowther-Pinkerton. Terrorism can only be defeated by intelligence on the ground ˜ as Northern Ireland shows [delve]
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| Wartime Lies: A Consumer's Guide to the Bombing |
Last time, it turned out there was more to the story. In the first days of CNN-fueled war hysteria, we couldn't know the truth about whom we bombed, or to what end. It's the same this week as our bombs began raining on Afghanistan. It's hard to know the truth about what's happening -- and therefore impossible to judge whether the action is justified. [delve]
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| Robert Fisk: 8 Oct, 2001 |
The most powerful military force on earth has now begun its bombardment of the world's poorest, most ravaged Muslim nation. And no matter how many loaves of bread are dropped with our bombs, will there be a Muslim who will approve? [delve]
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| The return of Colin Powell? |
Ridiculed as the Bush administration's "odd man out" on the eve of the terror attacks, he has neutralized the hawks -- for now. By Ben Barber. Oct. 4, 2001 Salon.com [delve]
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| America Not Yet Ready to Pounce |
Constant claims that the United States has already deployed massive military forces to the region around Afghanistan in readiness for a large retaliatory strike are misguided, according to a Massey University senior lecturer in Defence Studies. On the contrary, says Dr Joel Hayward, America's build-up of forces in the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf region has not been noticeably large or quick. [delve]
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| Human tide threatens to engulf Pakistan |
September 21, 2001. More than 1m refugees are expected to flood into Pakistan, bringing an overwhelming humanitarian crisis within days of a US military offensive against Afghanistan, aid workers say [delve]
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| John Pilger on US terrorism |
| If the attacks on America have their source in the Islamic world, who can really be surprised? John Pilger discusses the news that never touched public consciousness in the west.
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| An Afghan View, by Tamim Ansary. |
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"The Taliban and Ben Laden are not Afghanistan. They're not even the government of Afghanistan.
We're flirting with a world war between Islam and the West. And guess what: that's Bin Laden's program. That's exactly what he wants." [delve]
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| A Sri Lanka News Bulletin 6 - 20th April 2001 |
Peace Process - UK Journalist Wounded - Budget Passed - Rival Shows on JVP - Sexual Violations By the Security Forces - Death Threats to Mannar Journalist - Judicial process impaired - Mental Health in Jaffna - Landmine Deaths. [delve]
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| Eisenhower ordered the killing of Patrice Lumumba |
Police officers from Belgium, the former colonial power, are understood to have overseen the killing of 35-year-old Lumumba on 17 January 1961. But the evidence that Eisenhower told the Central Intelligence Agency to kill the radical liberation politician confirms that the West could not tolerate a major African country potentially being led by a man seen to have Soviet leanings.
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| The colonial past of Belgium still haunts the country |
Belgium has a long and dark history in Africa. Earlier this month, four Rwandans, including two nuns, went on trial in the Brussels Palais de Justice for their part in the 1994 genocide. A special parliamentary commission in Belgium, that began investigating the 1961 killing of the then Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba exactly a year ago. Its findings, which are due out in the coming northern hemisphere autumn, are likely to cause deep embarrassment. But at least they will finally set the record straight. [delve]
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| Aid workers killed in Congo |
Six workers for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) have been killed in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the worst attack on the ICRC since 1996 when six nurses were killed in Chechnya, the workers were killed while driving in clearly marked vehicles on their way to the northeastern town of Bunia on a road that was considered safe. The bodies were found by officials of the Ugandan army which has troops deployed in this part of the country. [delve]
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| Sri Lanka: |
Attempting to increase their support among Sri Lanka’s Muslim population, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have backed away from their demand for a pure Tamil state [delve]
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| Sri Lanka: COLOMBO: |
Police here has sounded an alert for the suspected involvement of a teenage LTTE cadre in this week's suicide bombing incident [delve]
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| Sierra Leone: |
As Jordanian and Indian troops prepare to pull out of the UN mission, British forces increased [delve]
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