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THE ROAD TO GUANTANAMO
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A young
man’s contemporary Calvary
February 2,
2007
BACK in September 2001, Asif Iqbal
left the UK Midlands town of Tipton for his father’s
house in Pakistan to meet his future bride. Once
there, he contacted his friends Shafiq, Ruhel and
Monir back home in England to join him in Karachi
and they did. The four of them – certain religious
and cultural practices aside – were typical of their
generation of British youth: into fashion, food,
travel and adventure, having had their minor brushes
with the police but touchingly innocent of global
political realities.
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More than
20 U.S. soldiers die in Iraq
Lethal reception for
U.S. strategy
January 22,
2007
WASHINGTON, January 21.— The deaths
of another 20 U.S. soldiers this weekend was coupled
with the arrival in Baghdad of more than 3,000
troops sent by President George W. Bush as part of
his new strategy to neutralize the Iraqi resistance.
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Israel
planning nuclear attack on Iranian installations
January 8,
2007
LONDON, January 7.—Israel is
planning a nuclear strike on installations within
the Iranian nuclear development program, according
to The Sunday Times of Britain. Two Israeli
Air Force squadrons are currently training to attack
an Iranian enriched uranium plant in Natanz with
tactical nuclear bombs, states the newspaper,
quoting Israeli sources.
The Sunday Times
affirms that Israeli pilots have gone to Gibraltar
in recent weeks to train for the return flight over
the 3,200-plus kilometers involved in that mission.
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U.S.
Congress members negotiate with countries scorned by
Bush
January 5,
2007
WASHINGTON -- Frustrated with the
Bush administration, members of Congress are
traveling to countries with poor diplomatic
relations with the United States to conduct their
own negotiations with leaders the president has
refused to meet. In recent weeks, representatives
and senators -- including three from Massachusetts
-- have gone to places including Syria, which the
United States has denounced for its interference in
Lebanon and Iraq, and Cuba, where travel by US
citizens is severely restricted. Representative
William D. Delahunt...
• Car bombs
in Iraq: 13 dead, 22 injured
January 4,
2007
BAGHDAD, January 4 (PL) .—At least 13
people died and another 22 were injured when two car
bombs exploded in unison in the Sunni neighborhood
of West Al Mansur, the police reported. The cars
blew up when dozens of people were waiting in line
at a gas station, witnesses said, adding that the
detonations caused a lot of material damage to
buildings and vehicles parked in the area.
Meanwhile, the execution this Thursday of senior
officials linked to the government of Saddam
Hussein, his stepbrother Barzan al Tikrit and Judge
Awad al Bandar, was postponed by the Cabinet of
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki.
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The year
begins with U.S. casualties in Iraq
January 3,
2007
BEIRUT, December 2. — The first
two deadly casualties, one on Monday, and another on
Tuesday, were acknowledged by the U.S. military
command in Baghdad, which said in a press release
that they were both caused by ambushes with
explosives. The communiqué, according to PL,
acknowledged that three other soldiers were injured
during the second clash in a town southeast of
Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, where disturbances with
an unknown cause occurred.
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Mercenaries, option for the United States in Iraq
December
28, 2006
WASHINGTON, Dec 28 (PL).—The United
States could have recourse to hiring mercenaries to
cover its troop requirements in Iraq and
Afghanistan, according to official sources quoted by
The Boston Globe. The news emerged in the
daily shortly before a meeting that President George
W. Bush is having with the National Security Council
on the situation in Iraq, in which the issue of
troops will occupy a predominant place. The White
House is studying options for new tactics in the
Persian Gulf nation, where analysts estimate that a
larger troop presence would help to check the
violence.
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Another three U.S. soldiers died in Iraq in the last
two days, stated the U.S. army on December 25
December
26, 2006
One soldier died in a bomb attack
in Baghdad yesterday, while the other two died from
injuries suffered during a confrontation on Sunday,
stated the army in a communiqué.
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Resistance intensifies attacks on occupying forces
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Another four U.S. soldiers die in
Iraq: 74 in December
December
22, 2006
BAGHDAD, December 22 (PL) .—The Central Command of
the U.S. occupation forces stated today that four of
its soldiers died on Thursday during an operation in
the war torn province of Al Anbar.
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BAKER COMMISSION
Between the lines and muddled
December
22, 2006
SHORTLY after the publication of the long-awaited
and apparently fruitless Baker-Hamilton Commission
report, The New York Times published an
editorial noting that “we should not be confused,”
that the report is a resounding criticism of Bush’s
failures in Iraq and in Washington, but its
recommendations are sufficiently vague to prevent
the president from shaping that new strategy that
his aides are talking about. Reading the report
confirms the daily’s assertions. None of its 79
recommendations refers to the fact that the United
States...
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Robert Kennedy, also victim of a
conspiracy?
December
22, 2006
THE
BBC in London and The Guardian newspaper
announced sensational film footage and photos
depicting three high-ranking CIA agents at the
Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, where the
presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy was
assassinated in 1968. The
former attorney general had just won the Democratic
Party presidential nomination on June 5, a few
months before the election that polls showed he was
likely to win. The high-ranking agents held
positions of authority in the CIA’s gigantic secret
operations against Cuba during the 1960s...
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U.S.
military officials disagree on more troops for Iraq
December
20, 2006
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.— The White
House wants to add thousands of troops to those it
currently has in Iraq in an attempt to stop the
insurgency, but this strategy is being questioned by
the Pentagon’s top officials, according to The
Washington Post today.
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Attacks leave 15 dead and dozens of
Iraqis injured
December
20, 2006
BAGHDAD, December 20 (PL) —.
After several days of relative
calm, the capital awoke today under the effects of
two car-bomb attacks that left at least 15 dead and
dozens of injured.
One of the actions
occurred on one of the main capital boulevards, when
a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a car loaded
with explosives.
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Washington is losing in Iraq, Colin Powell affirms
December
19, 2006
WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—
The situation is “grave and deteriorating” and “we
are not winning, we are losing,” affirmed Colin
Powell, former secretary of state and former head of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, referring to the war in
Iraq begun in March 2003, in statements to the CBS
television network.
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Losses
of U.S. troops and collaborators in Iraq
December
18, 2006
BAGHDAD, December 17.— In the
last few hours, the Iraqi resistance caused the
death of nine U.S. and native forces, while 76
deaths were reported in various points of the
capital of this Arab country.
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New
head of Pentagon, former CIA director, to be sworn
in
December
18, 2006
THE former director of the Central
Intelligence Agency, Robert Gates, assumed his new
post as head of the Pentagon on Monday, December 18,
replacing Donald Rumsfeld, while President George W.
Bush ponders a new strategy for Iraq, EFE reported.
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British premier interrogated
December
15, 2006
LONDON, December 14.—British
Prime Minister Tony Blair was interviewed today by
Scotland Yard in the context of an investigation
into donations to his party in exchange for
peerages, which has submerged Labourism in an
internal crisis.
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Military
recommends strategy change in Iraq for Bush
December
14, 2006
WASHINGTON.— The U.S. military high
command has privately recommended to President
George W. Bush that he change the principal military
mission in Iraq from fighting the resistance to
training Iraqis and arresting terrorists, reports
The Washington Post.
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Unidentified armed group kidnaps dozens in downtown
Baghdad
December
14, 2006
BAGHDAD, December 14 (PL) —. A group
of unidentified armed men dressed in police uniforms
burst into a popular marketplace in this capital
city and kidnapped at least 30 people, according to
news reports. The hostages included both Sunni and
Shiite Muslims, which rules out the motive of
clashes between the two tendencies that are
occurring. The action lasted for more than half an
hour without any intervention by police, who were
stationed nearby, leading some to think that a
connection exists between the kidnappers and the
authorities.
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Deadly bombing shakes Baghdad: dozens killed
December
12, 2006
BAGHDAD (PL).— An attack that
left close to 60 people dead in Iraq’s capital,
according to initial estimates, in a situation where
chaos has taken over and neither the government nor
foreign troops seem to be in a position to control
the situation. Preliminary investigations
determined that the action was planned using a
car-bomb and a suicide commando that traveled in a
truck; both devices exploded simultaneously.
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President
Bush admits U.S. failure in Iraq
December
8, 2006
WASHINGTON, December 7
(PL).—President George W. Bush today admitted that
things are going badly for the United States in Iraq
due to the deterioration of the situation in that
Arab country, where close to 3,000 U.S. troops have
died. In a press conference at the White House in
the presence of British Prime Minister Tony Blair,
Bush stated that as a consequence of that complex
panorama in the Persian Gulf nation that he will
begin to withdraw his troops from Iraqi soil
starting 2008.
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56.3% of
Russians lament fall of the Soviet Union
December
8, 2006
MOSCOW, December 7.—The
disintegration of the Soviet Union 15 years ago has
revived controversial political debate with wounds
still open in sectors that supported the maintenance
of the conglomerate of nations. The Bieloviezhski
agreement, signed on December 8, 1991 by the then
president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin; of Ukraine,
Leonid Kravbchuk; and Belorus, Stanislav Shushkevich,
erased the Soviet Union from the world map, where it
had figured since 1922.
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CLIMATE CHANGE
A
political issue or not?
December
7, 2006
WHILE there is avoidance of the word
“failure,” no other can be used to describe the
meeting on the Kyoto Protocol held in Nairobi. Kofi
Annan, now completing his mandate as UN secretary
general, said that a “terrifying lack of leadership”
was evident at the meeting in the Kenyan capital.
Two weeks of dialogue among 190 nations took place
without difficulty, while more or less academic
details predominated regarding environmental risks
and damage...
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Iraq
commission warns that the situation is serious and
deteriorating
December
7, 2006
WASHINGTON, December 6.— The strategy
of President George W. Bush in Iraq “is not
working,” according to a special commission this
Wednesday in an plain and simple evaluation that
also urges the government to adopt diplomacy in
order to stabilize the country and allow the
withdrawal of the majority of troops by the
beginning of 2008, reported AP.
After almost four years of war and
the deaths of more than 2,900 U.S. soldiers, and
hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, the
commission warned that the situation is serious and
deteriorating, explaining that the United States’
capacity for influencing events in Iraq is
dwindling.
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Lethal weekend for United States in
Iraq
December
5, 2006
BAGHDAD, December 4.— The deaths of 12 U.S. soldiers
in Iraq this past weekend has increased the number
of U.S. casualties just prior to a meeting between
the head of the Iraqi Shiite coalition, Abdel Aziz
Hakim and U.S. President George W. Bush in
Washington, the AFP reported.
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Nine U.S.
soldiers killed in Iraq
December
4, 2006
BAGHDAD, Dec. 4 (PL) —. The number of
U.S. troops killed in Iraq rose this weekend to
2,900 with the deaths of nine of them on Saturday
and Sunday, according to information from the
occupation forces’ central command on Monday. With
their deaths, 10 U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq
during the first four days of December, and the
average rate (2.5) remains similar to that of the
previous month, when 70 of their troops were killed.
If this tendency continues, it is highly probable
that the year will end with 3,000 dead – even more
than in similar periods previous to March 2003, when
the invasion and subsequent occupation began.
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U.S. tank kills five girls in Ramadi
with a cannon shot
November 29, 2006
BAGHDAD, November 28.— Five Iraqi girls and a man
were killed on Tuesday by cannon fire from a U.S.
tank that aimed at a house in Ramadi, west of
Baghdad, ANSA reported.
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US
appoints intelligence chief for Cuba and Venezuela
November 28, 2006
WASHINGTON, November 27.— John
Negroponte, the U.S. national director of
intelligence, announced this Monday that Norman
Bailey is to be the chief of an intelligence
“mission” for Cuba and Venezuela.
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Intense fighting between insurgents and U.S. troops
November 28, 2006
BAGHDAD, November 27.—U.S. forces
and insurgents were involved in intense fighting in
Al Anbar province, 35 kilometers northwest of
Baghdad during which witnesses say three U.S.
helicopters were brought down, EFE reports.
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U.S.
command in Iraq acknowledges three more deaths
November 27, 2006
BAGHDAD, November 27 (PL) —. The U.S.
military command acknowledged the loss of three of
its troops, raising the number of fatal casualties
this month to 58, despite efforts by the Iraqi
government to strangle the resistance.
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Wave
of attacks in Baghdad leaves at least 160 dead and
257 injured
November 24, 2006
BAGHDAD, November 23.— Six
car-bomb explosions and mortar attacks resulted in
160 people killed and 257 injured in a Shiite
neighborhood of Sadr City, Baghdad, in one of the
bloodies attacks in Iraq since the U.S. invasion of
March 2003, ANSA reported.
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ELECTION OUTCOME
The
winds of change are blowing in Miami
November 23, 2006
MIAMI (November 12).— The outcome of
the recent elections in Miami-Dade County are
extremely revealing, particularly with respect to
the three U.S. Congress members who are
Cuban-American and who represent what is most vile
about the counterrevolution: Lincoln and Mario Díaz-Balart
and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen.
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Iraqi leader condemns deaths of
civilians killed by U.S. soldiers
November 23, 2006
BAGHDAD, November 23 (PL).— Rebel Iraqi leader
Moqtada al Sadr has once again expressed his
opposition to the presence of U.S. troops whom he
accused of murdering four civilians on a bus this
Thursday.
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UN rejects coercive measures against
human rights violations
November 23, 2006
UNITED NATIONS (PL) —. The UN General Assembly this
Tuesday, November 21 rejected the use of coercive
measures as a tool for political or economic
pressure against any nation for impeding the
complete fulfillment of its citizens’ human rights.
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Fired
at with stun guns at California library
November 23, 2006
THE fascist ambience
imposed on U.S. society by the Bush administration
was once again illustrated some days ago when Los
Angeles police officers fired a Taser stun gun on a
student who was not carrying his ID card in the
library at the University of California (UCLA).
• Lebanon
Pierre Gemayel murdered
November 22, 2006
BEIRUT, November 21 —. Pierre
Gemayel, Lebanon’s minister of industry and a leader
of the Maronite community, was shot to death while
he was in his car, on a street in Chtaide, a suburb
of this capital, in an event that Prime Minister
Fuad Siniora called “sedition,” according to the
Associated Press.
According to witnesses, another auto charged at
Gemayel’s, and then a gunman got out and fired at
close range at the minister.
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Bush: I
would understand if Israel chose to attack Iran
November 21, 2006
The United States lacks sufficient
intelligence on Iran's nuclear facilities at this
time, which prevents it from initiating a military
strike against them, Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice has told European politicians and diplomats
with whom she has recently met.
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Bush arrives in Indonesia amidst large-scale
protests
November
20, 2006
JAKARTA, November 20 (PL).— U.S.
President George W. Bush arrived in the Indonesian
city of Bogor this Monday from Ho Chi Minh City in
the midst of large scale protests rejecting his
aggressive and hegemonic policy toward the world.
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Non-aligned countries in UN request meeting on
Palestine
November
17, 2006
UNITED NATIONS, November 16 —. The
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is proposing to obtain a
UN General Assembly condemnation of the recent
massacre of Palestinian civilians carried out by
Israeli troops, according to diplomats from that
bloc.
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Legislators call for U.S. travel to Cuba
November
16, 2006
WASHINGTON, November 15. —
Democratic Congressman William D. Delahunt called
for greater freedom for U.S. citizens to travel to
Cuba. Delahunt emphasized that U.S. citizens have
the constitutional right to travel anywhere in the
world, including Cuba.
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Non-aligned countries in UN request meeting on
Palestine
November
16, 2006
UNITED NATIONS, November 16 —. The
Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is proposing to obtain a
UN General Assembly condemnation of the recent
massacre of Palestinian civilians carried out by
Israeli troops, according to diplomats from that
bloc.
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U.S. active-duty soldiers demand total withdrawal
from Iraq
November
16, 2006
A petition to Congress signed by
active-duty soldiers in Iraq is asking them to
support withdrawal of U.S. troops, according to the
website www.Appealforredress.org.
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Mel “Bacardí” Martínez, hotshot of CLC and Bush’s
party
November
16, 2006
AT the same time that the USAID
scandal and millions of “anti-Castro” dollars are
circulating around Miami, George W. Bush has chosen
Senator Mel Martínez – one of the politicians who
contributed the most to this immense waste of
taxpayers’ money – as leader of the Republican
Party.
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Ridiculous sentence for protector of
Posada Carriles
November
15, 2006
FORT LAUDERDALE, USA, — A
federal court in Florida on Tuesday sentenced
terrorist Santiago Álvarez, benefactor of his buddy
Luis Posada Carriles, to just four years in prison
for conspiracy to possess illegal weapons.
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OTTO REICH
Funeral
for a liar
November
10, 2006
IF lying was a life-threatening
disease, Otto Reich would have been on his deathbed
long ago: his latest feats of deception, along with
his grotesque personality, show how an individual
with a proven criminal past can continue to make
headlines and manipulate the U.S. public, with the
complicity of the media.
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USA to
try and halt condemnation of Israel at the UN
November
10, 2006
UNITED NATIONS.— The UN Security
Council met today in an emergency session called by
Qatar to tackle the situation in the Palestinian
occupied territories, reported EFE.
Qatar – the only Arab nation
represented on this UN body – has proposed a motion
condemning Israel and ordering a ceasefire.
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Democrats also take control of Senate
November
9, 2006
WASHINGTON, November 8.— The triumph
of the Democrats in the mid-term elections has sent
shock waves through the United States because of the
overwhelming rejection at the polls of George W.
Bush’s policies.
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At The Close Of This Edition
Rumsfeld resigns after Democratic Party victories
November
9, 2006
WASHINGTON.— U.S. President
George W. Bush announced at a press conference on
Wednesday November 8 that Secretary of Defense
Donald Rumsfeld was resigning, and that former CIA
director Robert Gates had been appointed to replace
him.
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AT THE CLOSE OF THIS
EDITION
Rumsfeld resigns after Democratic Party victories
November
8, 2006
WASHINGTON.— U.S. President George W. Bush announced
at a press conference on Wednesday November 8 that
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was resigning,
and that former CIA director Robert Gates had been
appointed to replace him.
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Bush’s
record leads to Republican electoral defeat
November
8, 2006
WASHINGTON, November 7 — The
Democratic Party recovered a majority of seats in
the U.S. House of Representatives, ending 12 years
of Republican control and opening the doors to what
is expected to be strong opposition to President
George W. Bush, whose policies will surely be the
object of Congressional investigations this coming
year.
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U.S.
soldiers petition for withdrawal from Iraq
November
7, 2006
WASHINGTON —
Several hundred U.S. soldiers have signed a petition
appealing for a withdrawal from Iraq, which will be
presented to Congress in January, campaign
organizers announced on Monday, November 6.
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Calls for UN intervention following
slaughter of Palestinians
November
5, 2006
GAZA CITY, November 5.— Israeli soldiers murdered
seven Palestinians today, while another two died
yesterday, the fourth day of an Israeli offensive
against this legally autonomous territory, according
to information from AP.
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The New
York Times endorses Democratic Party candidates
November
5, 2006
WASHINGTON,
Nov. 5 — The influential daily The New York Times
today threw its complete support behind the
Democratic Party for the mid-term elections on
Tuesday, blaming Republicans for doing “a terrible
job” in the current government.
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Baghdad
is under siege
November
2, 2006
November 1, 2006
Sunni insurgents have cut the
roads linking the city to the rest of Iraq. The
country is being partitioned as militiamen fight
bloody battles for control of towns and villages
north and south of the capital.
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USA
increases anti-Cuba subversion via airwaves
November
2, 2006
COMMANDO Solo, the aircraft used by the U.S.
government to illegally broadcast the anti-Cuba
programming of Radio Martí and TV Martí, has been
replaced by a modern, twin-engine Gulfstream G-1,
which it intends to use to increase those aggressive
broadcasts.
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Congressional Elections
USA: For
worse or more of the same?
November
2, 2006
THE U.S. congressional elections have
become a sort of referendum on Iraq. Bush’s paltry
rate of support (34%) is due to disagreement with
that war, including a good part of the Republican
electorate.
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Republicans fear they must pay the price for the war
in Iraq
November
2, 2006
WASHINGTON — The Republicans,
concerned about paying the price for the war in Iraq
by losing their control over Congress, have begun to
criticize President George W. Bush’s stance on that
conflict, removing his support base just a week
before congressional elections.
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NATO planes massacre Afghan civilians
October
27, 2006
KABUL, October 26.—At least 63 civilians died in an
aerial bomb attack by NATO forces in the south of
Afghanistan, according to the Provincial Council of
Kandahar and witnesses speaking to EFE.
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Iraq: bad statistics for the USA
October
27, 2006
THE number of troops who have died in Iraq is now
perilously and rapidly approaching 3,000 in the
period March 2003, when the invasion began, to the
present date.
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New York Times describes the
situation in Iraq as a disaster
October
25, 2006
WASHINGTON, October 24 (PL).—The influential daily
The New York Times today described the social
scenario in occupied Iraq as a veritable disaster
and called for the resignation of Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld.
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Troops
call on Congress for withdrawal from Iraq
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REPORTERS SANS FRONTIERES
Ménard’s accomplices feign ignorance
over his Miami connection
October
25, 2006
WITH a budget from the million dollar funds set
aside by the Bush Plan for the annexation of Cuba,
Reporters Sans Frontières is currently developing
its latest cycle of attacks against the island, with
the complicity of the mainstream media channels that
are feigning ignorance over RSF’s grubby financing
and its permanent links with the Cuban-American
extreme right.
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Israeli Army massacres entire Palestinian family
October
24, 2006
GAZA, October 23.—The Palestinian
president, Mahmoud Abbas, has described as a
“despicable massacre” the death of seven of his
compatriots in an attack by the Israeli Army in the
locality of Beit Hanun, north of the Gaza Strip.
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15
NATO troops killed in Afghanistan
October
24, 2006
KABUL, October 23.—An insurgency
attack on a military convoy in Zabul, southern
Afghanistan, left 15 dead and two wounded, according
to NATO.
The attack came after Talibans
prepared an ambush for a column of NATO troops
deployed there to control the prevailing insurgency
in that part of the country, PL reports.
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U.S. elections
October
24, 2006
QuarterlyWASHINGTON, Oct. 15
.— Senior Republican leaders have concluded that
Senator Mike DeWine of Ohio, a pivotal state in this
year’s fierce midterm election battles, is likely to
be heading for defeat and are moving to reduce
financial support for his race and divert party
money to other embattled Republican senators, party
officials said.
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Israel
admits it used phosphorus bombs in Lebanon
October
23, 2006
LONDON, October 22.— For the first time, Israel has
admitted that it used illegal white phosphorus bombs
during its attacks on Lebanon last July and August,
according to a report by the BBC.
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US losses in Iraq rise to 2,798
October
23, 2006
BAGHDAD, October 23 (PL) The announcement today of
the death of another U.S. soldier, the sixth this
Sunday, has brought the total of fatalities from
this country’s Iraqi campaign to 2,798.
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October toll in Iraq: 68 U.S.
soldiers dead
October
18, 2006
BAGHDAD, Oct. 18 (PL). — At least nine U.S. soldiers
died in Iraq on Tuesday, according to the occupation
forces’ central command, bringing the total number
of occupation troops who have died to date in
October to 68.
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US President announces law approving
torture
October
18, 2006
WASHINGTON, October 17.— This Tuesday President
George W. Bush announced a new law that approves the
use of torture when interrogating persons suspected
of terrorism and allows the U.S. government to
initiate instant trials before military commissions.
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Chief
of British Army calls for withdrawal of troops from
Iraq
October
13, 2006
LONDON,
October 13 (PL).— In a direct challenge to the Labor
government and the United States, General Richard
Dannatt, chief of the British Army, today caused a
tremendous outcry by warning that British troops
should be withdrawn from Iraq as soon as possible.
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US
troops shot British journalist to death in Iraq
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Tensions continue after North Korean nuclear test
October
12, 2006
WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 — While
President George W. Bush refused to rule out any
option against the People’s Democratic Republic of
Korea (PDRK) to prevent the Asian country from
continuing with its nuclear program, Pyongyang
expressed its commitment to the denuclearization of
the Korean Peninsula and accused Washington of being
the reason for the need to carry out a nuclear test.
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UN
without agreement on North Korean nuclear test
October
11, 2006
UNITED NATIONS, October 10.—The
Western powers, headed by the United States,
unsuccessfully pursued severe reprisals against the
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in
response to its recent nuclear test.
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UN
Security Council to discuss resolution against North
Korea
October
10, 2006
ON October 3, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the
People’s Democratic Republic of Korea announced that
it intended to carry out a nuclear test.
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Aznar hoping to rise from his
political grave at the cost of Latin America
October
10, 2006
NOW a political corpse
in his own country, right-wing former Spanish
President José María Aznar is hoping to rise from
his grave by meddling in Latin America’s internal
affairs, where he is apparently receiving the
juiciest subsidies from his war-mongering ally and
leader of the U.S. regime, George W. Bush.
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U.S. loses 29 soldiers in eight days
in Iraq
October
9, 2006
BAGHDAD (PL).—The U.S. forces have lost 20 soldiers
in just eight days in Iraq, where this Sunday the
resistance continued with its actions against the
foreign occupiers and their collaborators in
different points of the country.
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Demonstrations planned in 175 cities to protest
criminal U.S. policies
October
5, 2006
WASHINGTON, October
4.—Marches and demonstrations have been planned in
175 U.S. cities to demonstrate popular discontent
with the criminal policies approved by Congress at
the White House’s initiative.
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Number of US soldiers dying in Iraq
on the rise
October
3, 2006
BAGHDAD.— Nine US soldiers have died during recent
attacks in and around Baghdad, according to US
military sources this Tuesday, and reported by AP.
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Fifty-four people affected in
resistance attack on Afghan Ministry of the Interior
October
2, 2006
KABUL, October 1.— Despite a significant rise in the
number of occupying troops, the resistance has
increased its attacks throughout Afghanistan and in
the center of Kabul, where it was responsible for a
bomb attack outside the headquarters of the Ministry
of the Interior, causing the deaths of 12
collaborators – two of them from high-ranking posts
within this...
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Another scandal shakes U.S.
Republicans
October
2, 2006
WASHINGTON, October 2 (PL). — The Republican Party
in the United States is being shaken by another
scandal, leading up to the November 7 elections and
the party’s attempt to hold on to its majority in
both houses of Congress.
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THE
SCANDAL OF RADIO AND TV MARTÍ
RSF, Montaner and Posada on the side
of Pedro Roig
September 25, 2006
PEDRO Roig,
director of Radio and TV Martí, who defended in a
recent interview the "ethical principles" of the
state anti-Cuba propaganda firm that he directs,
apparently forgot his active participation in
terrorist activities when he was in charge of the
Inter-American Military Academy of Miami, cradle of
terrorists during the...
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Evidence emerges of further ties between the corrupt
Abramoff and Bush
September 22, 2006
WASHINGTON (PL).— Associates of
former lobbyist Jack Abramoff, now in prison after
being convicted of corruption, met many times with
advisors to U.S. President George W. Bush, according
to a September 21 article in The
Washington Post.
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IAEA qualifies U.S. report on Iran as
outrageous and dishonest
September 15, 2006
VIENNA, September 15 (PL).— The
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) qualified
as outrageous and dishonest a report presented by a
U.S. congressional intelligence committee on Iran’s
nuclear program, according to diplomatic sources.
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Bush: one truth and a thousand lies
September 8, 2006
MURAT Kurnaz, a young Turkish
resident, returned to Germany with his hands and
feet in shackles and his eyes blindfolded. It was
impossible for him to attend the first press
conference called by his lawyers because he was
still under the effects of the trauma inflicted by
the five years he spent in a cage, tortured and
subjected to powerful lights on a permanent basis.
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Explosion in Kabul kills two U.S. soldiers
September 8, 2006
KABUL, September 8 (PL).— A car bomb
hit a U.S. military convoy outside the United States
embassy in the Afghan capital today, killing 10
people and injuring 26.
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Republicans maneuver to delay immigration reform in
the United States
September 8, 2006
WASHINGTON, September 8 (PL).—
Republicans in the House of Representatives are
maneuvering to delay the passage of immigration
reforms in the United States until after the
November elections.
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Actions
by the resistance double in Iraq
September 7, 2006
BAGHDAD, September 7 (PL).— Several
explosions shook this capital today, killing 20
people and injuring 60, in a show of force by
resistance forces a few hours before the government
takes command of various Army units.
•
THE
CIA AGAINST CUBAN LIBRARIES
The deflated plot
September 5, 2006
THE CIA’s
plan to use the recent World Congress of the
International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)
in Seoul, Korea to assault Cuba has once again
backfired.
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Murder suspected in death of Latino soldier in U.S.
Army
September 5, 2006
WASHINGTON (PL).— The father of a
Hispanic soldier who died in Afghanistan believes
that his son was murdered, after discovering signs
of corruption within the U.S. Army, according to
press reports in that country.
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CANF responsible for attack on Por
Esto
September 4, 2006
MEXICO,
September 3.—This Sunday, Mario Menéndez, proprietor
of the opposition daily Por Esto, charged the
Cuban-American National Foundation (CANF) of Miami
and Mexican state officials with responsibility for
the grenade attacks on the newspaper offices in the
last few days.
•
Chávez and Al Assad emphasize
rejection of hegemony
August
30, 2006
DAMASCUS, 29 August.— President Hugo Chávez assured
this Tuesday that the governments of Venezuela and
Syria are firmly united against the aggression and
hegemonic intentions of the U.S. empire.
•
Bosch boasts of his terrorist deeds
in Miami
August
30, 2006
ORLANDO Bosch, the mastermind behind of the sabotage
of the Cuban airplane off of Barbados, confessed
that in 1971 he counted on the active complicity of
General Manuel Contreras, Pinochet’s intelligence
chief, in an assassination attempt on President
Fidel Castro in Chile.
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Israel utilized white phosphorus in
its bombardments of Lebanon
August
28, 2006
BAALBEK, LEBANON, (August 27).—At
least three corpses with clear signs of having been
attacked with white phosphorus, a chemical weapon
banned for use against human beings, were taken to a
hospital in the Lebanese city of Baalbek during the
war, according to medical sources.
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Nine U.S. casualties in Iraq over the
weekend
August
28, 2006
BAGHDAD, 28
August (PL)— The U.S. Central Command confirmed
today that there were nine casualties among their
ranks this weekend in Iraq, where the resistance has
intensified its actions against the occupation.
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Washington
supporting subversion in Venezuela in the run-up to
the presidential elections
August
28, 2006
CARACAS, August
27.—The detection of detonators and cables used for
explosives in a cargo for the U.S. embassy is
heightening suspicions that that country’s
intervention in Venezuela is moving beyond rhetoric
and financing the opposition.
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Big Sugar
plays rough in governor race
August
26, 2006
Of all the ''special interests'' that Jim Davis
bashes on the campaign trail, none has caused him so
much trouble as the agricultural and political
juggernaut that is U.S. Sugar.
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Three U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq in
the last 24 hours
August
24, 2006
BAGHDAD, August 24. —
Three U.S. soldiers have died during the last 24
hours in southern Baghdad, according to the U.S.
Army, ANSA reported. One of the soldiers died as a
homemade bomb went off as his vehicle passed by.
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Doubts in USA as to Bush’s capacity
August
23, 2006
WASHINGTON, August
22.—Conservative U.S. editorial writers and
commentators are beginning to doubt the capacity of
President George W. Bush to lead the United States
and are questioning his foreign policy, particularly
in Iraq, AFP reports.
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Israeli violation of ceasefire in
Lebanon
August
22, 2006
BEIRUT, August 21.—The
Israeli army has carried out another incursion into
Lebanese territory, thus violating the ceasefire,
with the toll of three Lebanese and four Israeli
soldiers injured in the Bekaa Valley, according to
ANSA.
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Lebanese prime minister accuses
Israeli government of crimes against humanity
August
21, 2006
BEIRUT, August 20.—Lebanese
Prime Minister Fuad Siniora accused the Israeli
government this Sunday of committing crimes against
humanity after bombing his country for more than 30
days.
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More than 2,600 U.S. losses in Iraq
August
21, 2006
WASHINGTON, August
20.—Two Infantry Marines from New York died at the
hands of the resistance while patrolling streets in
Anbar province, the Pentagon stated. Pentagon losses
are now more than 2,600 and to date this month 30
U.S. troops have lost their lives in that Arab
country.
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U.S.
soldiers killed in Iraq totals 2,604
August
18, 2006
BAGHDAD,
August 18 (PL).— The U.S. occupation forces command
in Iraq today reported the death of another of its
solders, bringing the total killed to 2,604 since
Washington initiated its war on this Arab country.
•
Pernod files against Bacardi for
Havana Club sales
August
18, 2006
ONE week alter Bacardi
began to sell Havana Club rum in Florida, Pernod
Ricard has filed another suit to prevent the company
selling the product in U.S. stores.
•
Senator Mel Martínez accused of
complicity with Bacardi company
August
17, 2006
THE decision by the
discredited government of George W. Bush allowing
the Bacardi company in the United States to take
over the well-known Havana Club rum brand comes at
the same time as accusations that the administration’s
former housing secretary illegally accepted funds
from that powerful company, owned by Cuban-born
businessmen.
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President of Lebanon rejects
disarmament of Hizbollah
August
17, 2006
BEIRUT.— Lebanese
President Emil Lahud stated on Monday that it is "shameful"
to demand the disarmament of Hizbollah, "the only
Arab force in the world to face up to Israel", AFP
reports.
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Israeli Army begins withdrawing from
Lebanon
August
16, 2006
THE Israeli Army is
withdrawing from the positions it took during its
offensive south of the Litani River, as laid down in
UN Security Council Resolution 1701, to give way to
the Lebanese soldiers and UN peacekeeping troops who
will monitor the ceasefire.
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Lebanese resistance in the face of
Israeli technological superiority described as
patriotic
August
7, 2006
BEIRUT, August 7 (PL).—More than 1,000 people, 30%
of them under 12, have died as a result of the
Israeli aggression of the Lebanon that began 27 days
ago, and where the resistance is making the
occupation of this Arab state impossible.
•
177
children killed in the Lebanon by Israeli attacks
August
3, 2006
UNITED NATIONS, August 2.—At
least 177 children have been killed in the Lebanon
as a result of the Israeli attacks and innocent
child victims constitute one third of the 3,000
injured in the criminal bombardments, according to
UN figures.
•
HUMAN RIGHTS
The FBI agent who arrested the Five was a
‘consultant’ in Guantánamo
August
2, 2006
HECTOR Pesquera, head of the
Miami FBI who arrested the five Cuban anti-terrorist
combatants who infiltrated Florida’s criminal groups
acting against the island, advised the military
heading the interrogations on the Guantánamo base.
•
Blood Wedding
in Qana
August
1, 2006
QANA is a small, irregular and
dusty town in the south of Lebanon, an enclave in
the many peaks that make up the landscape of that
region, 10 kilometers from the Mediterranean and
less than 30 from the border with Israel.
•
57
Lebanese civilians killed in Israeli aerial attack
on shelter
July
31, 2006
BEIRUT (PL).—Israeli planes bombed a
Lebanese civilian shelter this Sunday in the town of
Qana, killing 57 of the 63 people inside, including
25 children, according the Health Minister Mohamed
Jalife.
• 1,600
victims in Lebanon in 15 days
July
28, 2006
BEIRUT,
July 27.—More than 400 dead and 1,200 injured – in
their majority civilians – is the result of 15 days
of Israeli air and artillery attacks on the south
and east of Lebanon, according to official estimates,
PL reports.
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Journalists convoy attacked
• Strong
resistance by Hizbollah to Israeli invasion
July
27, 2006
BEIRUT, July 26 .— Hizbollah has caused heavy losses
to the Israeli forces that are attempting for the
fourth day to take over a crucial mountaintop town
in southern Lebanon, with 14 soldiers killed,
according to news reports.
• Israeli
planes bomb more than 70 locations in Lebanon
July
24, 2006
BEIRUT, July 23 .—
Israeli troops have penetrated deeper into Lebanon’s
southern region, where they had already taken over
the village of Marun al Ras the day before, ordering
residents of 13 towns to leave the area, which they
began bombing, as well as parts of Beirut that have
not as yet been attacked.
• More
than one million people flee their homes in Lebanon
July
19, 2006
GENEVA/BEIRUT, July 18
.— More than one million people have fled their
homes in Lebanon, and "the city of Beirut and
southern Lebanon have been left practically empty,"
affirmed Marie Heuzé, UN spokesperson in Geneva, who
warned that those figures could increase if the
Israeli attacks continue.
• Bush
extends suspension of application of Title III of the
Helms-Burton Act
July
18, 2006
WASINGTON, July 17.—U.S.
President George W. Bush has extended for six
months starting August a regulation that suspends
cases being brought against Cuba by U.S. Americans
for properties nationalized on the island, which is
contemplated in Title III of the Helms-Burton Act.
• More
than 200 Lebanese civilians killed by Israeli bombs
July
18, 2006
BEIRUT, July 17 — At least 208 Lebanese civilians
have been killed by Israeli bombardments of their
territory, after a sixth day of aggression left at
least 80 dead and dozens of injured following the
destruction by Tel Aviv’s aviation of southern and
eastern sectors of this capital, and attacks on the
cities of Sidon, Tyre and Ba’albek.
• POSADA
CASE
Santrina
owner arrested
July
17, 2006
ERNESTO Abreu, president of the Cuban Patriotic
Junta, affiliated to Alpha 66, and the registered
owner of the Santrina vessel that illegally
transported Luis Posada Carriles to the United
States has been detained in El Paso, Texas after
refusing to testify before a Grand Jury regarding
the matter.
• Intense
day of aggression and death in the Lebanon
July
17, 2006
BEIRUT, July 17
(PL). — An intense day of more than 60 Israeli air
and artillery attacks on Lebanese positions resulted
in at least 19 people dead and 53 injured, while a
mass withdrawal of foreigners has begun.
• Israel
bombards Lebanon and threatens Syria
July
12, 2006
BEIRUT, July
12.—Israeli military forces have penetrated into
southern Lebanon, while their U.S.-manufactured
hunters attacked some 20 civilian locations and
installations under the pretext of punishing those
responsible for the death of eight of their soldiers
and rescuing a further two from Hizbollah
guerrillas.
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dead and more than 100 injured in Israeli aggression
of Lebanon
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U.S. combat helicopters brought down
in Iraq
July
7, 2006
BAGHDAD (PL).—Two U.S. Apache combat
helicopters were brought down yesterday over the
town of Al Dur, northeast of this capital, according
to the national Al Sharqiya TV. The U.S. command has
not made any comments on the event.
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Israeli invasion: bloody Thursday in
Gaza
July
7, 2006
RAMALLAH, July 7 (PL).—Israeli
supersonic hunters today bombarded residential areas
in the north of the Gaza Strip, a few hours after
the announcement that this Thursday was the
bloodiest to date in the invasion of this area.
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Cuba still holding out a friendly
hand to Africa
July
6, 2006
FOREIGN Minister
Felipe Pérez Roque has confirmed "Cuba’s unvarying
solidarity with the African peoples and governments
in their battle against poverty and underdevelopment
inherited from centuries of slavery, rapine wars,
colonialism and a profoundly unjust and exclusive
international economic order.
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Israeli tanks advance toward northern
Gaza
July
6, 2006
GAZA (PL).—This
Wednesday Israeli tanks penetrated dozens of meters
further into the territory of the Gaza Strip via the
Erez border post and took up positions in the former
settlements of Elei Sanai and Nisanit, witnesses
affirm.
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The Plan Bush for "Assistance
to a Free Cuba"
Chronicle
of a war foretold
July
5, 2006
ON May 20, 2004, with
all pomp and ceremony, George W. Bush announced his
Plan for the annexation of Cuba. The interminable
monster document – of more than 450 pages – provoked
a volley of criticism from all sides.
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SPAIN
Is it possible that Ambassador
Aguirre was unaware of the illegal CIA flights?
July
4, 2006
UPON arriving in Spain
as "George Bush’s personal representative" — as he
identified himself, U.S. Ambassador Eduardo Aguirre
Jr., a Cuban-born nationalized U.S. citizen, said he
was "anxious" to work in a country that was a "friend
and great ally."
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Israel attacks Palestinian Prime
Minister’s office
July
3, 2006
GAZA (PL).—Israel has
escalated the level of its aggression against this
autonomous Palestinian area by attacking the office
of prime Minister Ismael Haniye and announcing that
leaders of the Islamic movement are to be tried.
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Aznar charged with receiving payments
from U.S. company
July
3, 2006
MADRID, June 28 .—
The Spanish government, the governing PSOE Party,
the United Left (IU) and Spanish nationalists have
called on José María Aznar, the conservative former
prime minister, to explain the payments he has been
receiving since 2004 from the Murdoch media group on
behalf of a company he formed while still a member
of the Council of State.
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U.S. Supreme Court declares trials in
Guantánamo prison illegal
June
30, 2006
WASHINGTON .—
This Thursday the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that
President George W. Bush does not have the authority
to order military trials for detainees in
Guantánamo.
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Palestinian president condemns
Israeli kidnapping of ministers, legislators and
other members of Hamas
June
29, 2006
RAMALLAH, West
Bank, June 29 (PL).—Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas today condemned the detention of approximately
100 members of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas),
including ministers, deputies and mayors, in an
Israeli army operation.
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Scams and scandals among Miami
terrorists
June
28, 2006
THE Cuban American National Foundation (CANF) has
thrown down an early challenge to the McClatchy
Company, which recently bought the well-known Knight
Ridder publishers, owner of the Miami Herald
and...
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Israel
prepares large-scale offensive against Palestinians
June
26, 2006
TEL AVIV
(PL).— On Sunday the Israeli Army deployed it troops
in the Gaza Strip, in what could be a large-scale
offensive against the Palestinian people, a military
spokesman affirmed.
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Scandal among Miami terrorists
June
23, 2006
JOSE Antonio Llama, former director
of the Cuban-American National Foundation (CANF), is
considering bringing fraud charges against several
of his colleagues whom he is accusing of having
seized funds of close to $1.5 million earmarked for
a terrorist plot against Cuba, according to Miami
sources.
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Israel to continues air strikes
against Palestinians
June
22, 2006
TEL AVIV, June 22 (PL).— Israel plans to continue
its air strikes, bombing Palestinian positions
despite what it called errors during such operations
resulting in the deaths of civilians, a local public
radio station said.
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Parliamentary deputies demand closure
of Guantánamo prison
June
22, 2006
MORE
legislators throughout the world have joined in the
demand to shut down the prison on the U.S. naval
base in Guantánamo, located on Cuban territory
illegally occupied by the United States.
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Spanish Congress asks for closure of
Guantanamo prison and condemns torture
June
21, 2006
MADRID, June 21. — The Spanish Congress today
unanimously approved a resolution condemning the
torture committed on the U.S. naval base in
Guantanamo and asking the United States to shut down
that prison, EFE reported.
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Another U.S. massacre in Iraq
June
21, 2006
BAGHDAD— U.S. forces killed three Iraqi farmers and
wounded four during an air raid Tuesday over
Buchahin, to the northeast of the capital.
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