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February 2002
World News
Posted: Wednesday, February 27, 2002
• Arabs say Arafat freedom key to peace with Israel
• Camp X-ray prisoners start hunger strike
• Milosevic Says Victim List Is Fake
• Israel Launches Assault On Refugees
• Bosnia Village Blocked in Possible Karadzic Move
• Secret Nixon tapes to be heard
• Palestinian Gunmen Say They Trap 14 Israel Soldiers
• Bomb rocks Spains Basque region
• Cuban asylum seekers ram embassy
• Cuba blames US for embassy gatecrash
• Fresh Violence Threatens Mideast Peace Moves
• Gun battles rage in West Bank
• Pope says abortion could lead to down fall of democracies
• Jiang says strong China to be at peace with neighbors
• India braced for anarchy after fatal train attack
• Indian mobs avenge train fire, at least 40 dead
• Grammy Wire...
• Big Brother 'Chips' Away at Civil Liberties
• Russia Tells US to Keep Out of Its Backyard
• British Troops to Stay in Afghanistan
• Russia Sees Red as US Moves Troops to Its Neighborhood
• Iran Extradites Al-Qaeda Suspect
• Muslim firebomb attack on train leaves 57 dead
• India Braced for More Violence After Train Attack
• Saudis Play Down Peace-Broker Role
• European Commission Faces New Corruption Scandal
• Video footage shows discussion about Mugabe's elimination
• Daschle Says U.S. War Effort Lacks 'Clear Direction'
Will Chávez Strike Out?
Posted: Wednesday, February 27, 2002
WORLD PRESS REVIEW - The uncommon show of business and labor unity in mobilizing a general strike that effectively shut down Caracas and other major Venezuelan cities on Dec. 10 poses the most serious political challenge to President Hugo Chávez since his accession to power three years ago.
Mariela Leon, correspondent for El Universal (Dec. 11), reported that leaders of the nation’s leading business chambers and trade unions estimated that the strike halted more than 90 percent of all productive and labor activity in the nation. "We are no longer weak or imperceptible, we are a force in the country that must be taken into account-and things must be set right," strike organizer Pedro Carmona told Leon. MORE
World News
Posted: Wednesday, February 27, 2002
• Doomsday Clock Creeps Forward
• US Buying More Iraqi Oil, Despite 'Evil' Tag
• Despite clamor, fallout study still unreleased
• Historian Goodwin on Leave From PBS's 'NewsHour'
• Court says gang speech protected by First Amendment
• Rumsfeld Blames Media for Demise of Disinfo Dept.
• India: Religious tensions escalated after 57 people were killed
• Another Female Suicide Bomber Strikes Israel
• Aid workers in food for child sex scandal
• US May Send Troops to Georgia Republic
• Serb Villagers Organize for Protection Against Militants
• Concern and Criticism Replace Post-9/11 Solidarity in Europe
• Americans Regularly Infiltrate Northern Iraq
• Man Shot 25 Times While Taking Wife to Hospital to Give Birth
• Violence-Wracked Africa is Dumping Ground for World's Arsenals
• Rocket Attack Threat on Pearl Suspect Jail
• Russia: No Elections For Chechnya
• Milosevic Clashes With War Crimes Court
• Hindu activists killed as train torched in India
• Pentagon: US Lacks Evidence for Tribunals
• Pakistan refuses to extradite Pearl murder suspect
• Bush backs Saudi plan for peace in the Middle East
• Not Good Enough, Mr. Rumsfeld
• Police Say Palestinian Kills Israeli Near Jerusalem
• Clueless about Kabul
World News
Posted: Tuesday, February 26, 2002
• U.N.'s Iraq Aid Effort Faces Crisis
• Nine Shi'ite Muslims killed in Pakistan
• Child refugee sex scandal
• Cuba Accuses U.S. of Dozens of 'Biological Attacks'
• Bush orders closure of propaganda office
• UK Sending More Peacekeepers to Afghanistan
• Split Over British and US-Trained Afghan Armies
• Blair Angers Germans by Backing US Iraq Strike
• North Korea Still Open to Talks With South
• Tehran Split Over Axis of Evil?
• Ashcroft's Police State Tightens Grip
• How American Dream faded in downtown Mogadishu
• The latest targets amid the blood and violence: Pregnant women
• Colombian army locates abducted presidential candidate
• Hindu Fundamentalists Suffer Another Electoral Defeat in India
• Powell seeks to calm European fears over 'axis of evil'
• 18 dead, serious infrastructure damage as Colombia rebels strike back
• Belgrade opens way for arrest of warlord Mladic
• Zimbabwe opposition leader charged with treason
• Sharon ready to discuss Saudi peace initiative
• India rules out border de-escalation, dialogue with Pakistan
• Zimbabwean opposition leader charged with plot to kill Mugabe
• Report says exports of old computers pollute Third World
• Ten murderers serving life in Scottish prisons get review
• In Meeting With Leader Karzai Calls For Iran's Support
• Arafat backs new security talks
• Swiss Right fights UN 'threat' to neutrality
• US Congress questions efficiency of Colombian anti-drug program
• Ruin Marks Blood, Honor in Kosovo
Venezuelan military officer hints at coup, demands Chavez resign
Posted: Monday, February 25, 2002
sg.news.yahoo.com
A Venezuelan Air Force general became the fourth military officer in less than a month to ask for the resignation of President Hugo Chavez and accuse him of causing grave damage to the country.
Appearing at a news conference in his gold-embroidered uniform Late Monday, General Roman Gomez Ruiz did not issue a direct appeal for a military coup, but he reminded members of the military they have a larger role in Venezuelan society than serving an officeholder.
"Remember that the people are above all else," he said. "Our loyalty is to the nation, not with the current administration if, through its actions, it attacks the welfare of the people and the development of the country."
The general said he was asking Chavez to "leave power peacefully for the good of the country and the love of the armed forces." MORE
World News
Posted: Monday, February 25, 2002
• Pan-African Black World Declares War On Racism
• Death of Jonas Savimbi puts Africa's conflict centre stage
• Afghan Interim Leader Praises Iran
• Pentagon: War Costs $30B for Year
• Rumsfeld has doubts about Iraq inspections
• U.S. Gen. Defends Afghanistan Raid that killed 16 'friendly' Afghans
• Palestinian gunman wounds 10 near Jerusalem
• Angola ceasefire talk grows after Savimbi death
• Crew Missing in Md. Tug Collision
• Pregnant Palestinian woman is wounded and her husband shot dead
• Violence flares in Madagascar
• U.S. eyes expanding Afghan role
• Four Islamic militants in court in Pearl murder case
• Middle East braced for new desert storm
• Indian coalition hit by state polls
• Two killed after Israel eases blockade
• Khatami calls for transparent ties between Iran and Afghanistan
• India rules out Pakistan talks
• FBI: Anthrax Suspect in Wash., DC Area
• Rockets Fired at US Base in Afghanistan
• Anti-Iraq Rhetoric Outpaces Reality
• Killing of Savimbi will not end war
• '9/11' inducted in dictionary
• British troops raid 'arms lab'
• US warns of Afghan warlord threat as Karzai visits Iran
• Tories fear troops are stuck in Kabul
• KGB's secret tricks still beset Afghans
• "Axis of evil" can be renamed, but still poses threat: Rumsfeld
• US to waive Afghanistan narcotics sanctions
• British militant sought by US two weeks before journalist seized
• Shortage of 'smart bombs' holds up air strikes on Iraq
• US envoy warns that warlords pose serious threat
• Elite German commandos in first ground action since WWII
• Deputy Shoots 2 Soldiers In Training
• Bush agenda is nothing less than the re-assertion of American power
• Baltic states 'are US favourites' in race to join Nato
• Karzai urges Iran, US to cooperate on Afghan reconstruction
• Net effect of computer rage
• CNN Exec Sees Fees for Online News
Blair and Bush United
Posted: Sunday, February 24, 2002
Tony Blair and George Bush are to hold a specially meeting MORE
• 'Evil' Iraq must face action says Blair
World News
Posted: Sunday, February 24, 2002
• Canada Wary of U.S. Anti-Terror Plan
• Five more civilians killed in Aceh violence
• Israel to deploy Patriot missiles against terror
• Bush-bashing alive in Democrat stronghold
• Rumsfeld attacked over Cuba prisoners
• Hole Under U.S. Embassy in Rome Fuels Terror Probe
• Journalist's killing 'link to Pakistan intelligence'
• New Clues Suggest Bin Laden Is Alive on Afghan Border
• Colombian presidential kidnapping confirmed by spokeswoman
• U.S. sends troops to former Soviet state to take on al-Qaida
• Blair and Bush to plot war on Iraq
• Kuwait Opposes Military Strikes on Iraq
• Sharon Brings Only Insecurity
• Pearl's father: 'Israeli connection' could hinder investigation
• Pakistanis 'will stop Pearl suspect being sent to US'
• US harnesses hi-tech to 'predict' terrorism
• They Talk of Peace But Prepare for War
• Fake slaves con aid agencies in Sudanese liberation scam
• Sen. Clinton visits terror attack site, blames Arafat
• Japan defuse World War II bomb
• Camp X-Ray inmates 'may go home'
• Senator Says 100 Al-Qaeda Inside US
• A Disinfo Office is the Last Thing a Democracy Needs
• Motorcycle Gangs Clash in New York
• Savimbi's Death in Angola: Few Mourn
To The Brink Of Nuclear War: The Deadly Fallout Of U.S. Terrorist Attacks On Afghanistan
Posted: Saturday, February 23, 2002
by Rohini Hensman
What are we talking about? I've said it before, but it bears repetition, given the way political leaders constantly come out with bombastic tautologies, such as 'Terrorism is terrorism,' in order to conceal the self-serving nature of their implicit definitions: we cannot fight against, much less eliminate, terrorism, unless we define it rigorously and explicitly. Acts of terrorism are acts or threats of violence against ordinary, unarmed civilians, carried out in the pursuit of a political objective. MORE
Returning to the core
Posted: Saturday, February 23, 2002
Israel is divided on the occupation, Palestinians are united in the resistance. Is this a turning point in the Intifada? Graham Usher writes from Balata refugee camp in Nablus MORE
World News
Posted: Saturday, February 23, 2002
• Journalists are now targets - but who is to blame for this?
• Drubbing for Hindi Fundamentalists
• Sharon's Doomsday Scenario
• Strike shuts down Nepal after Maoist attacks
• U.S. Debating Wider Assault on Colombia Rebels
• Milosevic trial is a circus: Serbian PM
• Crackdown on Palestinians Fuels Militancy
• Cabinet split threatened over Arafat 'release'
• Pakistan Won't Release Pearl Tape
• Russia's nuclear arms deemed vulnerable
• Racists target mother of murdered black teenager-UK
• Israeli/Palestinian conflict claimed more than 40 lives this week
• Angola 'to display' rebel leader's body
• Tension rises in Madagascar
• Case against Milosevic falters
• French court asked to ban Paris Scientology church
• Israelis desert Sharon as credibility dives
• Elite Colombian troops pour into Farc stronghold
• Brits Hunting Bin Laden in Kashmir
• Sharon's buffer zones: dogs, ditches and mines
• Italy (Accidentally) Frees Cyanide Attack Suspects
• Hermit Bosnian convinced war still on
• US Pays Afghans for Botched Raid
• Saddam to US: Take Me But Don't Strike Iraq
• Mugabe supporters defiant after U.S. sanctions
• Returning to the core
• Congress and White House clash over Enron
• Bush tells China that he will defend Taiwan
• Pearl's dismembered head was shown...
• Pearl's father: 'Israeli connection' could hinder investigation
World News
Posted: Friday, February 22, 2002
• What's wrong with Black Hawk Down
• Bush's 'axis of evil' talk got North Korea's attention
• U.S. Tobacco Accused of Terrorist Ties And Iraqi Sanctions-Busting
• US Expands War to Russia's Border
• Courting another Beirut bombing
• NATO takes control over Norway's defence, admiral says
• Angolan Army Kills Rebel Leader
• Anthrax at Fort McPherson 6 treated for possible exposure
• Ceasefire raises Sri Lankan peace hopes
• Madagascar Challenger Declares Himself President
• Colombian army bombards rebel bases
• US Drops Pledge Against Using Nukes
• W.House vows battle over principle against GAO
• Again! Russians Challenge Skating Results
• Move to Ban Net 'Hate Speech' Draws Praise, Concern
• Gag Order As Corpse Count Nears 300
• Rep: Enron Pushed Stock on Workers
• Reporter beheaded by kidnappers on video
• Colombian troops mass for attack...
• Palestinian bomber killed in supermarket...
• Sharon found wanting as crisis spirals
• Geneva Conventions are outdated, says US envoy
• Middle East slips towards war as Arafat peace offer rebuffed
• Russia angry at US war plan for Georgia
• Afghanistan risks new civil war, CIA warns
• China shipped missiles to Iran in January...
• White House wants Saddam out of power by 2005
• Two survive U.S. chopper crash -Philippine officer...
• Robertson Calls Islam a Religion of Violence, Mayhem
• U.S. military denies rumours that troops in Iraq
• Bush Team Split Over Afghan Role
• Sharon asks Israelis to hold firm
• China Rebuffs Bush on Terror War
• `We are at war,' Sharon tells U.S. Jews
• Opposition leader 'ready to support liberation of Iraq'
• Kidnapped US journalist is dead
• Israel finally faces up to the cost of endless conflict
• The Pentagon's 'Ministry of Truth'
• Afghan governor pledges Taleban foreign minister release
• Pashtuns flee to Pakistan fearing violence
• Sharon Slams Rebel Israeli Soldiers
• US Commandos Deploy to Take Rebel Philippines Island
• Deweaponization drive resisted in Afghanistan
• American Editors Say No to Pentagon's disinformation
• Rocket attacks spread panic in West Bank
• US May Expand Afghan Mission
• Lies can come back to hurt you
• What has war brought us so far?
• Kmart hopes Spike Lee ads do the right thing
• Charley Reese: Wrong to call terrorists cowards
• Defense Firms Feast on the War on Terror
What's wrong with Black Hawk Down
Posted: Thursday, February 21, 2002
Earlier this month, Brendan spoke out about Black Hawk Down at an antiwar forum at Columbia University in New York. MORE
World News
Posted: Thursday, February 21, 2002
• To The Brink Of Nuclear War
• Rumsfeld Expresses Confidence In Saudi Backing On Iraq
• U.N. police stoned in Kosovo
• The Philippines: "Second Front" in the U.S.'s Global War
• US Troops Reported Operating in N. Iraq
• Rumsfeld Admits Raid Killed Innocents, Not Taliban
• Sharon announces new Israeli buffer zones
• 48 Maoists killed in Nepal clashes
• Witness questioned on Milosevic's behalf
• Straw supports an EU 'constitution'
• Washington blocks $5bn supplies to Iraq
• US halts peace talks with Khartoum
• Journal Says That Kidnapped Reporter Is Dead
• Jimmy Carter Rips Bush on 'Axis' Label
• U.S. Army helicopter crashed in the Philippines
• U.S. may pay ransom for hostages under new policy
• Site claims bin Laden's message
• Clinton helped Enron finance projects abroad
• Israeli troops storm into Gaza
• Israel Attacks Gaza Strip, Missiles Hit Arafat HQ
• US says troops to stay in Afghanistan till Taliban, al-Qaeda go
• Fiercest 24-hour periods of the 17-month intifada
• Israeli tanks raid Gaza City and blow up TV center; four killed in south
• Israel launches fierce strikes on Palestinian targets; 18 killed
• Israeli cabinet backs greater use of death squads
• Bush looks into North Korea at the 'axis of evil'
• Striking Saddam: Some Stocks Could Soar
• Pentagon To Help ABC Brings Home Battlefront Reality
• EGYPT 'HELL' TRAIN: Passengers crept under the seats and waited to die
• Nato plans army of 250,000 to fight 'anywhere'
• Heroin Dealers find £2.3bn market in Britain
• Colombia's peace process with FARC rebels suspended
• Sharon pledges 'different course' as Palestinian raid panics Israelis
• UK demands huge shake-up for Europe
• A prospect of one war after the other
• Richard Perle – Prince of Darkness
• US Arms – Into Whose Hands?
Venezuela Faces U.S. Coup Plot
Posted: Wednesday, February 20, 2002
Venezuela Faces U.S. Coup Plot:
Washington Seeks End to World's Truest Democracy
By Kim Alphandary
Special to the Narco News Bulletin
INSTABILITY IN VENEZUELA
The democratically elected, progressive government of Venezuela has been overtaken by the winds of turmoil in recent months as the plotting to suffocate the economy and discredit Chavez have begun to take effect. The situation in Venezuela has become very precarious, both economically and politically. MORE
Treat this seriously, all evidence points to either the assassination of Chavez or a Coup. Check the history here...
They Slit His Throat
Posted: Wednesday, February 20, 2002
• Journal Says That Kidnapped Reporter Is Dead
• Reporter beheaded by kidnappers on video
• Police identify key link in abduction of US journalist
• Reports of Wall Street Journal reporter discovered dead prove false
• Wall St. Journal Believes Missing Journalist Alive
The fate of kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was unknown Friday as one group claimed to have killed him, and another reportedly demanded money for his safe release.
• Deadline passes for US journalist
• Deadline Extended for WSJ Reporter
• Pakistan probes death threat against U.S. reporter
• Key arrest made in WSJ reporter kidnapping
• India behind abduction of US journalist Daniel Pearl
• Pakistan group threatens to kill U.S. reporter
• WSJ Editor Appeals to Kidnapped U.S. Reporter
• Pakistani Militants kidnap US journalist
Lies, damned lies and Pentagon briefings
Posted: Wednesday, February 20, 2002
by Oliver Burkeman
Fresh from dropping anti-Taliban leaflets over the mountains of Afghanistan, the secretive propaganda arm of the US military is planning to bring the battle for hearts and minds closer to home, by planting fake news stories in the media outlets of America's allies, it was reported yesterday. MORE
The Pentagon is Not Rushing to the Transcaucasus, It's Already There
Posted: Wednesday, February 20, 2002
By Vasily Streltsov
Reprinted from Nezavisimaya Gazeta
For a third day high-placed Russian and Georgian politicians have been pronouncing loaded phrases, in the deparaging sense, which are not acceptable in diplomatic protocal. In reply to the suggestion of Igor Ivanov that bin Laden might be hiding in the Pankisi gorge, a more than insulting answer followed from President Eduard Shevardnadze, with the proposal to seek out the terrorist in Ivanov's mother's house. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov and Georgian Security Minister Valery Khaburdzania quickly jumped into the frey, while the barbs of the Georgian side continued to carry a very offensive tone.
People who understand international politics understand that Tbilisi has found a serious argument, which would allow an absolutely economically weakened country to speak with Moscow, if not from a position of strength, then from something similar to that. Sources are informing NG that such an argument has indeed been found. Yesterday American military personnel arrived in Georgia. It is a small group, possibly Army communications specialists or simply advisors who are preparing the introduction of fundamental allied forces into the Pankisi gorge. In any case, one can affirm with confidence that the Americans have got their feet onto Georgian soil, and it is forever.
International society has already had the opportunity to be convinced that the singular argument for speaking from a position of strength in modern geopolitics is an American military presence. This was demonstrated by the situation in Afghanistan, who was deserted by all of her allies, including Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. And this is demonstrated by the case of Gerogia, where a small and weak republic allows itself to speak with Russia in an offending tone.
The US is once again playing a very complex combination play with many moves, in which the accent is clearly placed on the struggle with illegal terrorist organizations, and as a result of which Russia turns out to be in a losing situation. Russia faithfully supported the struggle with the Taliban and formally it has won from this. But Russia has lost in the strategic sense, as all of the southern tier has been blockaded by the USA. In order to completely dominate on the territory of the former Soviet Union, the Americans needed a military presence in the Caucasus. The best pretext for this was the struggle with illegal armed formations. Afterwards a spreading of influence to Azerbaijan and Armenia will follow.
It is very nice that preparations have already begun in Georgia for fall exercises within the framework of the NATO "Partnership for Peace" program, "Cooperative Partner-2002," in the course of which the actions of international forces will be worked out in the conducting of a complex anti-terrorist operation. Applications for participation came from 16 countries, including all of the states of the south Caucasus. And if for Baku the further drawing together with NATO is a continuation of the traditional policies of recent years, then for Yerevan this could mean a definite change in foreign policy priorities which, it seems, would be fully justified by the emerging competition.
Russia, hopelessly losing, is feverishly searching for a Nato save face. Events of recent days have demonstrated that Russia has been carrying on a search for a pretext to withdraw from Georgia legally in the context of diplomatic canons for a while now. In this context, the recent proposal voiced by General Staff head Anatoly Kvashnin to withdraw the Transcaucasus Group of the Russian military from Tbilisi "in a slapdash fashion" becomes understandable. If this operation had actually been carried out in a condensed period, then it could forever have been said that the Americans arrived in Georgia already after the Russians withdrew, not giving a toss about their presence.
(C) Nezavisimaya Gazeta 2002 * Reprinted for Fair Use Only
Pentagon's new propaganda unit
Posted: Wednesday, February 20, 2002
By Rupert Cornwell
The Pentagon is developing a major covert news and disinformation campaign to help Washington win the propaganda war against terrorism in the Islamic world. MORE
World News
Posted: Wednesday, February 20, 2002
• Threatening Saddam
• Wolfowitz And The Axis Of Evil
• US Money-Transfer Firms Raided to Stop Funds to Iraq
• U.S. Security Depends On Space Assets
• Rumsfeld: No Lies just deception in Pentagon Plan
• UK vows to help Nepal fight Maoist rebels
• Euros Want To Spy On Worldwide Communications
• Kosovan tells trial of murder
• No plot behind murder of Afghan minister: Abdullah
• Afghans Live and Die With U.S. Mistakes
• Ashcroft Invokes Religion In U.S. War on Terrorism
• Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right
• U.S. government orders airlines to close VIP lines
• Israeli Troops Blow up Palestinian Radio Station
• Egyptian train fire kills 350
• EGYPT: Surviver Gives Account of Train Fire
• Ain't no stopping US now
• Lies, damned lies and Pentagon briefings
• 20:02/20.02/2002 Turn back time tonight
• 'Cyanide attack' foiled in Italy...
• Hyper-rich get holidays for life on luxury liner
• Enron Probe Spreads to Wall St.
• 31 Yemeni Residents Detained at JFK
• Al Qaeda target over 6 feet and wearing Arab clothing
• Indian War Planes Begin Exercises Along Border
• US Orders Strikes on Anti-Karzai Warlords
• Pentagon 'ready to lie' to win War on Terror
• The Pentagon's New Black Propaganda Unit
• 22 Killed in Single Day of Mideast Attacks
• Russia, US could fail to sign disarm deal: US official
• Two Pentagon Missile Tests Fail to Hit Target
• China to go ahead with port construction in Pak
• UN: Taliban Still Strong Enough To Give It Another Go
• Hague Judge Upset as Milosevic Mounts a Defense
World News
Posted: Tuesday, February 19, 2002
• Lax security persisted at biowar labs
• The military busts the 2003 federal budget
• How The Hague Defines Justice And Tolerance
• US Special Forces Poised for Somalia Strike
• Wolfowitz Says More Strikes Coming
• Pentagon Propaganda Plan Is Undemocratic, Possibly Illegal
• Milosevic Says Bosnian Serb Leaders Acted on Their Own
• Police: Brits Were Not Shot at Before Attacking Afghan Taxi
• Iran working with Afghan rebels
• US Targeting of Afghan Vehicles is Detailed
• Philippine Gov't Broadcasts Beheadings
• Protests Greet Bush in S. Korea
• US Shifts Bombing Campaign to Strengthen Karzai Government
• Bush Seeks a New Generation Of Weapons, Delivery Systems
• Israel halts Gaza demolition
• ‘Axis’ missiles fall short
• Bush Dismisses Critics of 'Axis of Evil' Rhetoric
• US Military Chief: Afghan War 'Just Beginning'
• Nepal King Struggling To Keep Maoists at Bay
• 24 Die As Mideast Violence Flares
• FBI Said To Have Suspect in Anthrax Letters
• NYT: Pentagon News Service; 'False Stories' to be created
• Ohio: John W. Byrd Jr Executed
• Ohio Killer Awaits Appeal Decision
• Special Forces train for Somalia duty
• British Soldiers in Kabul Shooting Sent Home
• Somalia Braces for US Attack
• Israeli Reserve generals back unilateral withdrawal
• Montenegro to Drop Independence Bid
• Brits Apologize for Invasion: 'Not Trying to Take Spain'
• Germany and France warn Bush on Iraq
• Police arrest 'sheikh of race hate'
• EU impose targeted sanctions on Zimbabwe
• Bush calls on Koizumi to lean on Iran
• Perhaps a Russian-British lobby against war on Iraq?
• Four more crematory vaults found packed with bodies -US
• Israel hits back after suicide attacks
• Gunman on rampage in Germany
• New Software Raises Privacy Concerns
• Belarus Skater Leaves in Drug Flap
• US Court to Decide on Web Copyrights
• Global Crossing Deals Questionable
• Grid Project to Wed Web Services
• Defiant Milosevic Cross-Examines First Witness
Fiji coup leader spared death penalty
Posted: Monday, February 18, 2002
George Speight, the Fijian coup leader who stormed parliament with armed men in June 2000, was sentenced to death in the early hours of the morning but then had his sentence commuted to life in prison. MORE
• Fiji coup leader sentenced to die
World News
Posted: Monday, February 18, 2002
• Congress Should Question Administration's Intent on Iraq
• US Annoyed By French Criticism
• Albright Inserting Herself Into Ukraine Elections
• US crematorium scandal deepens
• GM mouthwash 'could banish tooth decay' scientists claim
• Japan's Devaluation? Bush sends the Yen falling
• Milosevic: west fuelled nationalism
• EU agonises over Mugabe sanctions
• George Speight death sentence reduced to life in prison
• Fiji coup leader sentenced to die
• Pope has performed 3 exorcisms to ward off devil
• Bush 'devaluation' gaffe sends yen lower
• Bin Laden's No 2 'captured in Iran'
• DNC chairman has 'two Enrons'
• Bush eases rhetoric for tour of Far East
• Afghan mine kills Australian soldier
• Israelis lose faith in military solution
• Claims of British soldiers firing on Afghan family
• Five hit as British Paras open fire on taxi
• US crematorium gives up grisly secret
• Britain Could Approve Prescription Cannabis Drugs
• S. Arabia Man to Get 4,750 Lashes
• Hong Kong to kill more chickens as virus spreads
• U.S. Green Berets Land on Philippine Rebel Island...
• UK New laws to suppress academic research
• Smugglers in wildlife 'are wiping out species'
• Britain is again white
• Taiwan assured of US backing against China
• German, US Troops Begin Training In Kuwait
• Bush Visit Stirs Anti-American Feelings in South Korea
• Saddam Hussein Is the All-American Bogeyman
• Kostunica Blasts Unfair Hague Trial
• Whites pick Lincoln, Blacks choose Clinton as tops in History
• Bush, Powell Back Axis of Evil Policy
• US to Fly Patrols Over Philippines Rebel Island
• Journalism's dangerous patriotism
• Rockets Found Aimed at US Base in Pakistan
World News
Posted: Saturday, February 16, 2002
• Chechens are victims of the war on terror
• 200,000 Gulf Vets File for Disability
• Bush administration acts like Israel’s puppet
• Lebanese daily: U.S. has already decided to attack Iraq
• Israeli aircraft attack Nablus governor's HQ
• Louis Farrakhan condemns U.S. war on terrorism
• Berkeley sexuality class under fire
• Bush Encouraging Rift With Allies Over Evil Axis
• America 'chasing phantoms' in Iraq says arms expert
• Who hijacked our war?
• Anti-war rally ahead of Bush's visit to Japan
• FBI accused of botching crucial 'confession' from American Taliban
• US Troops Move on Filipino Militants
• AK-47 training held at London mosque
• America's laser of death cleared for take-off
• British paratroops shoot man dead in Kabul gun battle
• Drug laws revolution set for UK
• Israeli F-16 jets and helicopter gunships attack West Bank
• OAU Endorses Mugabe's Rejection of Foreign Observer Teams
• US economist: 'SA Must Help to Topple Mugabe'
• Bush to Offer Bribe to N. Korea to Halt Missile Program
World News
Posted: Friday, February 15, 2002
• Japanese unimpressed by Bush
• Elite Israeli soldier dies as bulldozer raid goes wrong
• Karzai accuses six leaders in killing
• U.S. Tightening Rules on Keeping Scientific Secrets
• Two Israelis Die in Suicide Blast in West Bank
• Report blames CIA blunder for allies' deaths
• UK: Breakout and blaze throw asylum policy into chaos
• Baby with selected gene born in Britain
• Afghan Drug Money Financing Albanian Rebels
• U.S. terror claim is blow to Iran reformists
• Britain Backs US Plans Against Iraq
• Rioting outside stadium mars 'Game of Unity' in Kabul
• More bobbies on beat will not cut crime
• Major Break Reported in Arms Probe
• US Agency Sues 'Miss Cleo' Hot Line
• Milosevic wants to call Western leaders to testify
• Bush holds firm on N Korea as he heads east
• Gung-ho and alone in Iraq
• Arab Nations Lost in a Pit of Desperation
• US Lumps Palestinian Authority With 'Axis of Evil'
World News
Posted: Friday, February 15, 2002
• Enron Is the Largest Corporate Bankruptcy in American History
• Bosnia's bloody history rewritten
• Bankrupt Global Crossing Was Major Washington Donor, Lobbyist
• International Peacekeepers Quell Afghan Soccer Riot
• Should We Have Spotted the Conspiracy?
• Karzai Pleads for More Troops to Protect His Gov't
• Karzai Calls Minister's Slaying a Plot
• Israeli Warplanes Pound Gaza
• In first, Palestinians destroy Israeli tank
• Powell: We're Working To Topple Saddam
• Milosevic Says US Was Ally of Al-Qaeda in Kosovo
• Is US jingoism tarnishing the Olympic ideal?
• Russia Weighs in on Skate Scandal
• Three Die in Suspected Plague Outbreak in India
• Kurdish parties reject US moves to unseat Saddam
• Angry Mob Kills Afghan Official
• New al Qaeda leader reported to plan more U.S. raids
• Olympic: A U.S. Coach Alleges Widespread Corruption
• US 'ready to tackle Saddam alone'
• Saddam's destruction is now a matter of honour
• US planes rain dollars on Afghanistan
• Sharon war crimes case 'to be closed'
• France opposes US action against Iraq
• Stay away from S Asia, Pakistan warns Israel
• Chinese official eyed in bugging of plane
• New al Qaeda leader reported to plan more U.S. raids
• US To Boost Reconnaissance With Powerful New Birds
• The First Amendment: A Wartime Casualty
Bosnia's bloody history rewritten
Posted: Thursday, February 14, 2002
by Ian Traynor
A gorgeous spring day in the Balkans in April 1992 and we were on the move from Belgrade to Bosnia. So was Slobodan Milosevic's military machine. The war was just beginning and the dilemma for reporters was where to go. MORE
World News
Posted: Thursday, February 14, 2002
• Iraqis fear it can only get worse
• Milosevic defence transcript
• CIA Conducts Its Own War in Afghanistan
• Kidnap Suspect: Wall Street Journal reporter Is Dead
• Slobodan Milosevic today launched his defence against charges
• U.S. making plans for war against Iraq this year
• America will not act alone on Iraq, says Bush
• It's sick to ignore our part in the making of Milosevic
• Powell says US wants the best for people of Iran
• Britain is al-Qaida's 'revolving door'
• Al-Qaeda Suspect Blows Himself Up in Yemen
• A passing drama in the daily life of Palestinians
• Tsvangirai smear adds to Zimbabwe election turmoil
• Cold War Spin on Olympic Skating Dispute
• Arafat dismisses threats from Hamas missiles as a joke
Can the US be defeated?
Posted: Wednesday, February 13, 2002
by Seumas Milne
America's global power has no historical precedent, but its room for manoeuvre is limited MORE
World News
Posted: Wednesday, February 13, 2002
• US raids against 'hold-out' regions stir Afghan anger
• U.S. Considers Military Action to Remove Skating Judges
• Chomsky publisher cleared in Turkey
• U.S. attack killed children, Afghan survivors say
• Return of the Military-Industrial Complex
• State sues to unmask alleged TV psychic 'Miss Cleo'
• The Politics of Dead Children
• Some of the detainees at this American base are Christians
• Colombia rules out U.S. ground forces
• U.S. Trade Package for Pakistan Scaled Back
• Alert issued for potential teddy bear bombs
• Bin Laden in hiding near US missile strike
• Severed Penis Found in Nebraska Car Wash...
• Italian police swoop on Mafia suspects
• Israel has vowed to keep launching large-scale assaults
• Olympics: Sources say Russian and French judges made deal
• Millions of butterflies killed by freak storm
• Bush Lines Up Support for Iraq Strike
• US has no plans for another war: Powell
• US: We'll Oust Saddam With or Without Allies
• America questions Israeli strikes
• Milosevic attacks legitimacy of war crimes tribunal
• British Marines Head to Somalia
• 300 Palestinian Prisoners Released in Expectation of Israeli Strikes
• Mission Hegemony, outlook uncertain
• Risky Rhetoric on North Korea
• UK judge frees terror plot suspect
• Territories lost in the treaty translation
• Children kidnapped to fight for Tamil army
• Arrested ex-LSE student 'admits to seizing Pearl'
• Two men 'having sex in plane toilet spark terror alert'
Faking Nuclear Restraint
Posted: Tuesday, February 12, 2002
WASHINGTON (February 13, 2002) -- After a year in office the Bush administration has completed the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) mandated by Congress in the fall of 2000. The NPR establishes the broad outline of Pentagon planning for U.S. nuclear strategy, force levels and infrastructure for the next 10 years and beyond. It also endorses significant revisions to the nuclear war planning process to enhance its flexibility and responsiveness, which would allow the Pentagon to generate new nuclear attack plans and have them approved quickly in a crisis. MORE
World News
Posted: Tuesday, February 12, 2002
• Ted Turner says Sept. 11 attacks were an act of desperation
• Fairfield University Says Former Student Holding Hostages
• Reuters Sheds Another 200 Jobs
• China Cracking Down On Religious Groups
• RUSSIAN OFFICIAL: U.S. Should Leave Asia...
• Afghan prisoners complain of US brutality
• Gore says Bush treats allies with 'disdain'
• Pakistan arrests key kidnap suspect
• Afghans are still dying as air strikes go on
• Robbers flee with £4.6m in Heathrow airport heist
• Watergate lawyer hits out at Cheney
• Prosecution under fire as Milosevic trial begins
• Khatami Urges Immature U.S. Leaders to Wake Up
• Putin Urges U.S. to Buy Russian Oil
• Al-Qaeda fighters hiding in Georgia: US envoy
• Milosevic is the Scapegoat in a Show Trial
• Reports cast damaging light on US methods in Afghanistan
• Men Hit in U.S. Missile Strike Were Scavengers
• Congress plans unusual look at U.S. intelligence
• Freeing of Taliban soldiers a 'good thing', say Afghans
• Laden financing Chinese separatists: Ambassador
• Puff Daddy's label has matured from a celebrity spin-off
Afghans Still Dying
Posted: Monday, February 11, 2002
by Ian Traynor
Fardin's world caved in on a bright Sunday morning last October when an American bomb came through the roof of the room where he was sleeping. He was spared physically. But the six-year-old has not uttered a word nor taken a step since. MORE
World News
Posted: Monday, February 11, 2002
• US picks Saddam's successor: Report
• Confusion Reigns in Afghanistan, U.S. Says
• Bush Issues New Threat to Iran, Iraq, N.Korea
• War Powers and the war on terrorism
• Afghan Victims of CIA Missile Strike Described as Peasants
• Zimbabwe: EU Awaiting Accreditation for Observers
• FBI Issues New Terror Warning
• Iranians Rally Against United States
• Daschle: Bush's 'Axis' Phrase Wrong
• SEC Subpoenas Qwest on Global Crossing
• Saddam objects to any US attack on Iran
• Regional giants wary of US digging in
• Israeli jets pound Gaza after troops shot dead
• Enron executive may face perjury charge, says investigator
• Taliban are regrouping, warns Foreign Minister
• Robbers Steal $6 Million Cash From Secure Heathrow
• Putin warns Washington against any unilateral attack on Iraq
• Caustic dust blankets World Trade Center area
• Violence against Jews escalates in France
World News
Posted: Sunday, February 10, 2002
• The world now thinks the U.S. has lost its mind
• Bush's Team Targets Hussein
• Ousted Afghan governor threatens bloodshed
• Arafat? 'Hang him,' Cheney tells Israelis
• Iraq logical next target, says US adviser
• US Having Trouble Telling Taliban From Al-Qaeda
• US targets Colombian rebels as war against terrorism escalates
• Is America too powerful for its own good?
• Foreign media frown on patriotic Olympic ceremony
• Unknown Toll in the Fog of US attack on Afghanistan
• Thousands of Milosevic supporters demand his release
• Britain reveals increasing irritation with America's war
• US has been accused of openly flouting the Geneva Conventions
• Musharraf sees Indian connection in reporter's kidnapping
• Bush stranger to America outside his own upper-class
• Meet the President as The Cutup in Chief
• Ashcroft Hit Over Reported Remarks
World News
Posted: Friday, February 8, 2002
• Why Bush is scarier than Kim Jong-il
• Critics worry Canada caught in U.S. military vortex
• Musharraf, Karzai agree major oil pipeline in co-operation pact
• EU commissioner lays into Bush's America
• France's PM Renews Attack on U.S. "Unilateralism"
• Iran Will Give Strong Response If Threatened: Leader
• Karzai helpless as warlords fight over spoils
• Alarm bells ring over US overseas military spending
• US and Iran accused of bribing rival warlords
• Nothing Saddam does can save him, says Powell
• NBC's Opening Night Coverage Is More Limp Than Olympic
Fury at Bush's speech
Posted: Friday, February 8, 2002
Saturday February 9, 2002 The Guardian
Chris Patten, the EU commissioner in charge of Europe's international relations, has launched a scathing attack on American foreign policy - accusing the Bush administration of a dangerously "absolutist and simplistic" stance towards the rest of the world. MORE
• France's PM Renews Attack on U.S. "Unilateralism"
• Bush counts on the war without end
• Bush Got Carried Away With Axis Of Evil
• Bush's 'Axis Of Evil' Crumbles Under Scrutiny
• U.S. Government Gangsterism At Work
• North Korea calls Bush a moral leper
• Arab states seethe at 'slap in face' from Bush
• Khamenei: US is ‘the greatest evil’
• Bush's `axis' charge limits diplomacy
• North Korea slams "aggressive" Bush speech
• Bush Names Iran, Iraq, North Korea as 'Axis of Evil'
• Iraq, Iran and North Korea dismiss Bush accusations
• Hate of the union
• America serves notice on Iraq and Iran
World News
Posted: Friday, February 8, 2002
• War Party's setting Washington's agenda
• Taliban Foreign Minister Surrenders -U.S. Official
• N Korea says US is 'empire of the devil'
• Police in Pakistan charge three over kidnapped reporter
• Men from Enron opted to 'take the Fifth'
• Blunkett attacking Asian culture?
• Palestinians free 32 militants during attack by Israeli jets
• Iran arrests Taliban infiltrators
• Powell: Bush weighing how to topple Hussein
• U.S. Frees 27 Afghans Held in Raid
• Kabul Warned Against Imposing Rule
• China lets Bush talk
• Condemning Islam isn't Racist
• Deported Iranian is executed by the Islamic Regime
CIA plot to assassinate Pres Hugo Chavez Frias
Posted: Thursday, February 7, 2002
vheadline.com - Highly-placed diplomatic and IC sources, speaking exclusively to VHeadline.com on the strictest condition that their identities will not be revealed, have told us of a Washington-iniated plot to assassinate Venezuela's democratically-elected President Hugo Chavez Frias.
Spanish-speaking US military operatives are already present in Venezuela lending logistic support to several anti-government terror cells in what's described as "a fail-safe plan" to dislodge Chavez Frias and to win US control over strategic oil supplies. US planners are also lending support to one or more anti-Chavez Frias plotters who are to be installed as Washington puppets in the event of a successful bid to kill the President.
World News
Posted: Thursday, February 7, 2002
• Where Israel's 'Guns of Navarone' lie silent
• Hariri tells of growing impatience with Washington
• 1,300 People May Sue NYC
• Olympic Committee Rejects Accusations It Banned Afghan Flag
• US: Geneva Convention applies to Taleban not al-Qaeda detainees
• Iran warns US against attack
• Arafat Suggests Potential Successors in two posts
• Ebola Death Confirmed in C. Africa
• China buys U.S. satellite data to target Taiwan...
• US: Iraq Needs 'Regime Change'
• Sharon and Bush to Meet on Moves Against Iraq
• Bush Orders $8 Billion Sweetener for War Allies
• Powell Predicts Large Expansion of NATO
• U.S. Mistakes Cost Innocent Lives, Afghan Leader Says
• U.S. faces dangers beyond al Qaeda, director warns
• US not pressing to end targeted killings: Sharon
• Israeli F-16s bomb Nablus after shooting spree
• Bush Wants $98 Mil. to Protect Colombia Pipeline
• Musharraf Says God Made Him President
World News
Posted: Wednesday, February 6, 2002
• Beyond warmongers and peaceniks
• Iraq Rejects U.S. Weapons Claims
• Bush Got Carried Away With Axis Of Evil
• The fraud of $750m (£530m) at Allied Irish Banks (AIB)
• FBI hunts new 'rogue trader' after £530m bank fraud
• Bush requests a copy of BBC Two's Smallpox 2002 programme
• Belgium Apologises for role in Lumumba Killing
• Armey Blasts Bush's AmeriCorps Plan
• US Athletes to Carry WTC Flag
• Afghans worth $1,000 each: US pays for killing civilians
• Saudi Arabia has acknowledged that 15 hijackers were its countrymen
• Iran Asks US to Help Catch Al-Qaeda
• Rumsfeld: 'No Question' Al-Qaeda in Iran
• Americans defiant over growing divisions with Europe
• Iraqi Terror Hasn't Hit U.S. in Years, CIA Says
• Attack on Iraq is unavoidable: US official's warning
• 4 Iraqis killed in US/UK air strikes
• Blair heckled by girl as he defends Afghan bombing
• Pakistani police arrest three over missing US journalist
World News
Posted: Tuesday, February 5, 2002
• Central Asia/Russia Race for oil, gas pipelines heats up
• Bush counts on the war without end
• Powell: US Will Not Attack Iran, Iraq or N Korea
• Bush rejects special counsel for Enron
• WTC Flag Barred at Olympics Opening
• Rove Asked to Itemize Enron Contacts
• Americans told not use Olympics to exclusively promote the U.S.
• Mexico Evacuates Villagers as Volcano Spews Lava
• BUSHWHACKED: $5B Slashed From Pledged WTC Aid
• Police identify key link in abduction of US journalist
• Osama bin Laden's location is as mysterious as ever
• Norton calls fear of terror threat to liberty
• USA is prepared to make Iraq its next target
• Iraq says it will reopen talks with UN
• European leaders warned Bush over 'axis of evil'
• Kabul fails to end the local fight for power
• US loses trillions to 'ghost army'
• Alliance that drove out Taliban unraveling
• Kisses & cajolery to woo an Afghan warlord
• Palestinians are ready to end the conflict, but...
• BRITAIN and Spain talks on sharing sovereignty over Gibraltar
• The War Party and the 'Axis Of Evil'
World News
Posted: Monday, February 4, 2002
• 'Enronitis' sweeps through Wall Street
• Turning the screw of suffering means more suffering
• U.S. Stocks Crumble on Accounting Fears
• Arafat blames Israel for death of five militants
• Israel: Iran Has Revolutionary Guards in Lebanon
• Ethnic Clashes in Lagos Claim At Least 20 Lives
• The Saudi gov't: Victim of orchestrated campaign by the U.S.
• Bush Unveils $2.13 Trillion Budget
• HIV/Aids Kills 7500 Malawian Teachers Annually
• Lay Stays Away: Will Not Testify...
• Report fuels fear that Enron chiefs face prison
• Gaza blast kills four Palestinians
• The Fog of War
• Four killed as warlords clash in Mazar-i-Sharif
• Factional fighting reaches into Kabul administration
• Karzai calls for end to warlords in Afghanistan
• Iran finds unity in dismissing US charges and wooing Europe
• Rumsfeld Says Iran Helping Al-Qaeda, Taliban Flee
• U.S. warns NATO about Iraq: Europeans bristle at leaders' request
• The deadly job of training demining dogs in Afghanistan
• Global Crossing Faces SEC Probe of Accounting Practices on Leases
World News
Posted: Sunday, February 3, 2002
• Jesse Jackson, Jr. Blasts Bush Address
• Defense, new tax cuts focus of Bush budget
• Bush and Sharon Agree on Crusade Policy
• Pashtuns Arming For Second Try At Gardez
• Reports of Wall Street Journal reporter discovered dead prove false
• Sex-slave trade flourishes in Thailand
• Innocent Muslims killed as Bush allies 'crusade'
• US official: Anti-terror fight may mean shifting alliances
• U.S. ready for pre-emptive strikes in terror war
• Pakistan accuses India of firing across de facto border in Kashmir
• Taliban shadow still looms as war turns against Afghan royalists
• Top Executives Blamed in Enron's Fall
• Getting the Ear Of Dick Cheney
World News
Posted: Saturday, February 2, 2002
• US 'Ready To Go It Alone' in Terror War
• White House To Save Enron Records
• Crisis looms for Sharon: More army reservists refuse to serve
• US eyes Russian base in Vietnam
• Enron: not the only bad apple
• The US Government Has Switched Sides...Again
• Israeli intelligence misled Bush on Iran
• Israeli generals propose widescale invasion of Palestinian territories
• Israeli gov't 'never officially adopted' Mitchell report
• White House Admits Differences With Saudi Arabia Over Israel
• Israeli gunships rocket Gaza naval police HQ
• Blair's great African sell-off
• Britain's Prince Charles Linked to Enron Execs
• UK: Jack Straw warning Bush against expanding its war
• Bush has betrayed hopes of a kinder and gentler globalisation
• Al-Jazeera: Interview with Bin Ladin Done Under Duress
• If Israel gets its way, the next target could be Iran
• New Enron scandal link to Bush
• Rival warlord have routed the incoming governor of Paktia province
• U.S. military cannot account for 25 percent of what it spends
• Enron's curious Croatian client
• Wall St. Journal Believes Missing Journalist Alive
• News channels at war: Al-Jazeera accused of hiding Bin Laden tape
World News
Posted: Friday, February 1, 2002
• Arab states seethe at 'slap in face' from Bush
• Khamenei: US is ‘the greatest evil’
• Deadly Dengue Epidemic Grows Ahead of Rio Carnival
• GAO says the vice president is "misrepresenting" the facts
• Bush's 'Axis Of Evil' Crumbles Under Scrutiny
• U.S. Government Gangsterism At Work
• U.S. troops likely killed anti-Taliban forces by mistake
• Combating Terrorism: 'It Starts Today'
• Albright Criticizes Bush Foreign Policy
• White House Must Save Enron Papers
• CNN: E-mail claims U.S. reporter in Pakistan killed but...
• Caller Demands Ransom for WSJ Writer
• Rebellion grows among Israeli reserve officers
• It falls to the victim to show new paths of resistance
• US Claims 'Free Hand' to Choose Targets
• Bush steps up verbal assault on "axis of evil"
• North Korea calls Bush a moral leper
• Philippines exercise seen as preparation for war
• Rumsfeld Wants Billions More for Military Revamp
• EU challenges US over Israel
• Bin Laden warns of 'unbearable hell'
• Deadline passes for US journalist
• Intricate Screening Of Fliers In Works
• Oscar-nominated actress charged with theft
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