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:: ONU - XX Assemblea Generale (1965):
La XX Assemblea Generale dell’ONU (1965) dichiara "la legittimità della lotta da parte dei popoli sotto oppressione coloniale, per esercitare il loro diritto all' autodeter-
minazione e all'indipendenza".
Inoltre, l'Assemblea invita "tutti gli Stati a fornire assistenza morale e materiale ai movimenti di liberazione nazionale nei territori coloniali".

:: ONU - Risoluzione 1514
"L'Assemblea Generale dichiara che: la soggezione dei popoli a dominio straniero, conquista e asservimento costituisce una negazione dei diritti umani fondamentali, è contraria alla Carta delle Nazioni Unite ed è un impedimento alla promozione della pace e della cooperazione mondiali.
Tutti i popoli hanno diritto all' autodeter-
minazione; in virtù di tale diritto essi devono liberamente determinare il loro status politico e liberamente perseguire il loro sviluppo economico, sociale e culturale".

:: Convenzione di Ginevra, Protocollo Addizionale I (1977):
La lotta armata può essere usata, come ultima risorsa, come mezzo per esercitare il diritto all' autodeter-
minazione.

:: Tribunale penale internazionale
In base allo Statuto del Tribunale penale internazionale, sono definiti “crimini di guerra”:
(1) attacchi lanciati intenzionalmente contro popolazione civili in quanto tali o contro civili che non prendano direttamente parte alle ostilità;
(4) attacchi lanciati intenzionalmente nella consapevolezza che gli stessi avranno come conseguenza la perdita di vite umane tra la popolazione civile, e lesioni a civili o danni a proprietà civili ovvero danni diffusi duraturi e gravi all’ambiente naturale che siano manifestamente eccessivi rispetto all’insieme dei concreti e diretti i vantaggi militari previsti.

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'Vote-rigging' clouds Iraq's elections
Morning Star

March 14, 2010 - Iraqi opposition candidates have accused Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's supporters of "throwing ballot papers in the trash" in an attempt to deny former leader Ayad Allawi's party a majority in the country's new parliament. Mr al-Maliki and Mr Allawi were still neck and neck in the early vote counting following the March 7 election for 325 parliamentary seats, with the prime minister's State of Law coalition claiming victory in conservative Shia Muslim cities and the opposition Iraqiya party apparently winning a majority in Sunni Muslim provinces...
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Israel Lands in Public Relations Nightmare
Mel Frykberg

March 14, 2010 - Israeli riot police and soldiers have, since Friday, sealed off the Al Aqsa mosque, Islam’s third holiest shrine, restricting entry to women and Palestinian men over 50. Outside the walled Old City, where the Al Aqsa mosque is situated, and in several West Bank villages, clashes were reported between Palestinian protestors, their Israeli and international supporters, and the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), leaving at least 20 Palestinians wounded. Following a security assessment Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak ordered security forces to stop tens of thousands of Palestinians from entering Jerusalem...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64173] [ 14-mar-2010 23:14 ECT ]

Israel detains 5 Palestinians without food for 48 hours
Pal Telegraph
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March 14, 2010 - Palestinian sources revealed today that Israeli occupation forces detained five Palestinians from the village of Nabi Saleh in Ramallah for 48 hours. The IOF handcuffed their hands and did not give the Palestinians any food or drink. The sources said that the five detainees kidnapped from their homes in the early morning, including four brothers, were: Uday , Loay, Majed and Mustafa Al-Tamimi and Tammen Al-Tamimi. All of them were taken to Halmish camp near the town, and then to Benjamin camp near Ramallah.--

  continua / continued avanti - next    [64172] [ 14-mar-2010 23:06 ECT ]

This Time It's Pregnant Women: Another US Atrocity in the Bush-Obama War in Afghanistan
DAVE LINDORFF

March 14, 2010 - Another night-time raid on a housing compound in Afghanistan. Another bunch of innocent Afghans killed. Another round of lies by the US-led forces of the so-called International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). Only this time, among the dead are two pregnant mothers and a teenage girl. And once again the US media remain mute, accepting the official story, which was of ISAF forces responding to an attack which in reality appears never to have happened...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64171] [ 14-mar-2010 22:30 ECT ]

PFLP: US position on settlements and negotiations is a cover for the crimes of the occupation
PFLP - Fronte Popolare per la Liberazione della Palestina

March 14, 2010 - The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine condemned negotiations of any shape or form with the occupier, saying that what is needed for the Palestinian people is action, not words with the occupier. On March 13, 2010, the PFLP issued a press statement saying that US positions on settlement construction, labeling it as a "negative step" or "non-constructive" no longer work to convince anyone of the U.S. administration's willingness to uphold international law and human rights, saying that so-called "negotiations" do nothing to relieve international bodies of their responsibility to uphold fundamental Palestinian rights and that the US is a fundamental strategic partner of the Zionist regime...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64170] [ 14-mar-2010 17:43 ECT ]

Hizma: A microcosm of a disappearing Palestine
Nour Odeh
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March 14, 2010 - Palestinian women clash with Israeli soldiers at the Qalandia checkpoint between Ramallah and occupied East Jerusalem. To the south, Israeli soldiers clash with youth in Beit Ummar, near Hebron. These are the latest manifestations of boiling tensions in the area, sparked by Israel's announcement of large-scale settlement expansion in Occupied East Jerusalem. Israel has kept the West Bank under lockdown since Thursday night, the punitive measure only serving to increase tension and draw international attention to the devastating potential of a lost political horizon in the region...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64169] [ 14-mar-2010 17:33 ECT ]

West Bank lockdown extended
Ma'an News

March 14, 2010 - Israeli authorities extended a closure of the West Bank on Saturday evening as restrictions on Palestinian entry into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound remain in place. The closure, expected to end on Saturday night, was extended until Tuesday "In accordance with the directives of the Minister of Defense, Mr. Ehud Barak, and following additional situation assessments adopted by the defense establishment," an Israeli military statement read...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [64168] [ 14-mar-2010 17:28 ECT ]

Afghan government says coalition troops killed 12 civilians
BNO NEWS

March 14, 2010 — Coalition troops killed twelve civilians during two recent operations in Afghanistan, according to the office of President Hamid Karzai on Sunday. Karzai’s deputy spokesperson Hamed Elmi said the casualties, which included women and children, occurred during two separate airstrikes in the country’s Kandahar and Kunar provinces. He said the incidents happened earlier this week, but was not able to say on which day or days...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [64167] [ 14-mar-2010 17:13 ECT ]

Children of Gaza: Scarred, trapped, vengeful
By Rachel Shields
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March 14, 2010 - Omsyatte adjusts her green school uniform and climbs gingerly on to a desk at the front of the classroom. The shy 12-year-old holds up a brightly coloured picture and begins to explain to her classmates what she has drawn. It is a scene played out in schools all over the world, but for one striking difference: Omsyatte's picture does not illustrate a recent family holiday, or jolly school outing, but the day an Israeli military offensive killed her nine-year-old brother and destroyed her home...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [64166] [ 14-mar-2010 16:14 ECT ]

Afghan resistance: Australia and Canada Take a Rationale Decision after Holland
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

March 14, 2010 - After the dissolution of Dutch government following its parliament’s hot discussion over the American war in Afghanistan, now Canada and Australia have decided to respect views of their people for unconditional withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. The Americans have been using various ploys and wiles in the last nine years to achieve their colonialist objectives, trying to show that the war in Afghanistan is the war of the West. Otherwise, they claim, the West would have to face harm as result or reap its benefits. The Americans have been able to keep a number of countries entangled in the Afghan war through play of wiles and display of ambitious goals...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64165] [ 14-mar-2010 15:55 ECT ]

Video: Charges on Gaza boy "human shield"
Aljazeera.English

March 14, 2010 - Two Israeli soldiers will face charges in an Israeli court for allegedly using a young Palestinian boy as a human shield during the country's three-week bombardment in Gaza in 2008. Majed Al Rubah, 10, says Israeli troops forcefully took him from his family and made him carry out life-threatening tasks during military operations. Many other Palestinians say they have gone through similiar experiences, but this is only the second indictment Tel Aviv has brought against its own soldiers...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64164] [ 14-mar-2010 15:47 ECT ]

Jail ordeal of hundreds of Palestinian children arrested for throwing stones
Rory McCarthy
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March 14, 2010 - With more than 300 Palestinian children being held in Israeli prisons, human rights groups and Palestinian officials are increasingly concerned about the actions of the Israeli military. The Israeli group B'Tselem said that security forces had "severely violated" the rights of a number of children, aged between 12 and 15, who had been taken into custody in recent months. The family of one 13-year-old boy from Hebron who was arrested on 27 February by a military patrol and detained for eight days have brought a legal case against the authorities...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [64163] [ 14-mar-2010 15:26 ECT ]

UPDATE 5 - Iraq's Elections
Layla Anwar

March 14, 2010 - It's basically a MESS. A HUGE MESS. Too many contradictory statements from the Western Press and Arabic Press. I've been perusing Azzaman, Al-Sharqiya, Al-Jazeera and AP reports and I see no coherence. Let's start with the ridiculous first. Al-Jazeera in a special report on the HEC, (High Electoral Commission) states "it's difficult to convey in words quite how remarkable a place the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC ) is at the moment. Its guiding principles – openness, transparency, accessibility – prevail, even under the pressure of this critical moment in Iraqi politics..." You'd think this is a statement from the White House... oh well, it nearly is... Yet the Iraqiya bloc has affirmed again that "that ballots were dumped in the garbage, nearly a quarter of a million soldiers were denied voting rights and electoral commission workers fiddled with vote counts" but that it also filed complaints with the UN security council and UNAMI because innocent residents of Adhamiya (a Sunni area in Baghdad) are being harassed and arrested by the Iraqi army and that Al-Iraqiya candidates are being threatened, 7 days after the voting has been over. Al Iraqiya is asking that the final results be released immediately, and that this delay is causing a state of chaos...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64162] [ 14-mar-2010 15:17 ECT ]

Jerusalem burns
Malika Malini.

March 13, 2010 - Once again, Muslim worshipers aged over 50 were not permitted to enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the old city of Jerusalem. Palestinian men were obliged to pray on stairs in the large square located in front the Damascus gate, the main access to the Muslim quarter. The whole area was severely restricted to Palestinians. Following the imposition of these restrictions, enforced by Israeli authorities, clashes and confrontations were reported between Israeli border police and Palestinians near the entrance of the Mosque...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64161] [ 14-mar-2010 14:52 ECT ]

U.S. report offers damning picture of human rights abuses in Afghanistan
Conditions are horrific, torture is common and police frequently rape female detainees, the U.S. State Department finds

Paul Koring
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March 13, 2010 - Afghan prison conditions are horrific, torture is common and police frequently rape female detainees, the U.S. State Department finds in its annual survey of human rights..."Torture was commonplace among the majority of law enforcement institutions, especially the police," the U.S. report found, citing the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, the group used by Ottawa to help monitor whether detainees transferred by Canadian troops are abused or tortured. Canadian diplomats compile a similar annual report on selected countries - including Afghanistan - but it isn't made public. Government censors blacked out all references to torture, abuse and extrajudicial killings by Afghan police and prison guards in the last available report obtained under Access to Information...


  continua / continued avanti - next    [64160] [ 14-mar-2010 14:35 ECT ]

Israel Police arrests children aged 12 to 15 in night raids in Silwan, East Jerusalem
B'Tselem

March 13, 2010 - In recent months there have been many cases in which minors aged 12-15 from Silwan, in East Jerusalem, were arrested in the middle of the night by police officers and Israel Security Agency agents accompanied by armed border policemen. The minors were taken out of their beds and brought to the police station in the Russian Compound, in West Jerusalem. Some of them were brought handcuffed, and none of the parents were allowed to accompany them. At the station, the minors were interrogated on suspicion of stone throwing. According to testimonies that some of them gave to B'Tselem, the interrogators beat and threatened them...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64159] [ 14-mar-2010 13:08 ECT ]

Gaza...1000 Days Under Siege
By Shaimaa Mustafa

March 13, 2010 - Pitifully looking at her baby child, Om Yamen is recalling the past 1,000 days of her life under a crippling Israeli siege. "Life has been a living hell," she told IslamOnline.net on Tuesday, March 9, in a broken voice. "We can’t stand this anymore. The siege has exhausted us and broken our backs." The 1.6 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, a costal enclave, are marking 1,000 days since Israel slapped a crippling siege on their territory. "Each night seemed like a thousand days," said the tears-eyed Palestinian ...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64158] [ 14-mar-2010 13:00 ECT ]

AFRICOM’s First War: U.S. Directs Large-Scale Offensive In Somalia
Rick Rozoff
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March 13, 2010 - Over 43 people have been killed in the Somali capital of Mogadishu in two days of fighting between Shabab (al-Shabaab) insurgent forces, who on March 10 advanced to within one mile of the nation’s presidential palace, and troops of the U.S.-backed Transitional Federal Government. The fighting has just begun. The last ambassador of the United States to Somalia (1994-1995), Daniel H. Simpson, penned a column for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on March 10 in which which he posed the question "why, apart from the only lightly documented charge of Islamic extremism among the Shabab, is the United States reengaging in Somalia at this time?"...


  continua / continued avanti - next    [64156] [ 14-mar-2010 12:48 ECT ]

Umm Al-Kheir, Where Freedom Stands For Demolition
Palestine Monitor

March 13, 2010 - Umm al-Kheir means 'Mother of Freedom’ in Arabic. But the eighty residents of this little Bedouin community in the South Hebron Hills aren’t free at all. With the settlers of Carmel as their neighbours, these shepherds have to deal with harassment, warrants of demolition, bulldozers and even gunshots. Written and photographed by FLV...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64155] [ 14-mar-2010 11:46 ECT ]

Afghan family killed as special forces defy night raid ban
Miles Amoore

March 13, 2010 - THE two helicopters swooped low over a cluster of mud homes, whirling in the cold night sky before landing in a wheat field on the edge of the small Afghan village. From his home nearby, 23-year-old Najibullah Omar strained his eyes in the darkness as he made out the faint shapes of armed men pouring from the helicopters’ bellies. A third helicopter circled menacingly in the moonless sky above the village of Karakhil in Wardak province, southwest of Kabul. Then a loud explosion shook the ground and a plume of smoke rose from his cousin Hamidullah’s house 20 yards away. Its guest room caught fire. Omar heard a burst of gunfire before all went quiet. His worst fears were confirmed the moment he walked through the compound gate at first light. The body of his cousin, a 32-year-old construction engineer who had taken a break from his job in a far-off province to visit his family, lay sprawled next to those of his wife and their seven-year-old son. Blood ran in dark pools on the mud floor of the terrace outside their door...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64154] [ 14-mar-2010 10:48 ECT ]

What Torture Is and Why It's Illegal and Not "Poor Judgment"
Andy Worthington
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March 13, 2010 - It's now over three weeks since veteran Justice Department (DOJ) lawyer David Margolis dashed the hopes of those seeking accountability for the Bush administration's torturers, but this is a story of such profound importance that it must not be allowed to slip away. Margolis decided that an internal report into the conduct of John Yoo and Jay S. Bybee, who wrote the notorious memos in August 2002, which attempted to redefine torture so that it could be used by the CIA, was mistaken in concluding that both men were guilty of "professional misconduct," and should be referred to their bar associations for disciplinary action. Instead, Margolis concluded, in a memo that shredded four years of investigative work by the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), the DOJ's ethics watchdog, that Yoo and Bybee had merely exercised "poor judgment."..
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64153] [ 14-mar-2010 10:34 ECT ]

Who’s stealing Afghan cultural treasures?
RussiaToday

March 13, 2010 - Afghanistan’s unique location has made it home to the world's most complex civilizations that left a rich cultural heritage. But the war-torn country has now fallen victim to looters, stealing the nation’s artifacts. Ever since Afghanistan was invaded by Alexander the Great, nearly 2,500 years ago, the country has seen one foreign army after another. In recent times – the British, the Soviets – and now the Americans … And whatever reasons they give – the impact of war continues to leave a cultural scar that runs deep through Afghan civilization...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64152] [ 14-mar-2010 09:57 ECT ]

Saudis deny discussing pressure on China over Iran with US
AFP

March 13, 2010 — Saudi Arabia denied on Friday that its officials had discussed with US Defence Secretary Robert Gates putting pressure on China to back a new round of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear ambitions. An "official source" quoted by the official SPA news agency said reports that Riyadh said it was willing to use its influence to get Beijing to support UN sanctions aimed at convincing Iran to halt its atomic programme were false. "This issue is not true, it was not discussed during the visit of the secretary of defence who was in the kingdom recently," the source was cited as saying...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64151] [ 14-mar-2010 09:46 ECT ]

West Bank: Weekly Protest Video Round-Up
Palestine Monitor
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March 13, 2010 - Nil’in: Hundreds of people from the town and surrounding villages of Ni’lin gathered on the threatened land, where they affirmed the need to resist the aggressive policies of occupation. Villagers were accompanied by their animals, a symbol of their age old connection with the land that they have farmed for generations. Images and posters of Tristan Anderson were prevalent, the American ISM activist now in a coma after being struck with a tear gas canister during a demonstration....
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64150] [ 14-mar-2010 09:01 ECT ]

ISRAEL GOVT TO ENTER US HEALTHCARE PLAN
Irish4Palestine

March 13, 2010 - ...If that's not enough, now Israel wants to start entering into US healthcare. Pretty soon, your wee granny will be under the care of Israel: The CEO of the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, a prominent New York nursing home, visited Israel last month in hopes of including local companies in a business venture he thinks will ultimately benefit Israel’s public image. The Hebrew Home, which has been awarded special legislation by the state of New York to carry out a new cost-savings health-care project as part of the state’s Managed Long-Term Care, is hoping to make Israeli companies the focal point. Dan Reingold, CEO of the Hebrew Home, met with leading technology companies and government officials in an attempt to utilize Israeli innovations for the project, whose goal is to make use of a state grant of $3,600 per month per resident to provide for health-care needs...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64149] [ 14-mar-2010 02:55 ECT ]

Clinton Family Pockets Haiti Assets in Telephone Company Privatization, Says Pumphrey
A Black Agenda Radio interview by Glen Ford
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March 13, 2010 - Backed by the might of the United States military and their own official positions, the Clinton power couple plus brother-in-law have muscled themselves into the Haitian telephone monopoly. This cozy public-private partnership poses huge conflicts of interest, says Paul Pumphrey, of Brothers and Sisters International – and robs the Haitian people of hundreds of millions in revenues a year. But then, that's what empires are for, isn't it?...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64148] [ 14-mar-2010 02:35 ECT ]

The Green Movement
by Mina Khanlarzadeh

March 13, 2010 - The Green Movement is at a juncture, at which, in order to expand deeper into different social layers, it had better incorporate different trade and class demands, in order to change/transfer the focus of the movement from personalities to socio-political and economic demands of different social layers and classes. For example, women have had an extremely active presence in the Green Movement, and it would be good to render this presence more goal-focused by infusing it not only with supra-class demands (such as the eradication of laws discriminatory to all women), but also with class interests. It would be beneficial for the students, journalists, teachers, the unemployed and the rest to raise their trade demands in the Green Movement's discourse...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64146] [ 14-mar-2010 02:13 ECT ]

A Tribute to Sarah Meyer, human rights activist
Andy Worthington
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March 13, 2010 - "Autumn Leaves," a photo by Sarah Meyer of her garden. She wrote on November 1, 2009, "Huge winds and storms. The autumnal leaves on my lawn remind me of the autumn of my life."I have just been informed that Sarah Meyer, a wonderfully supportive friend in the struggle for a better world, recently died of cancer...I had been particularly drawn to Sarah’s work because she covered Afghanistan in extraordinary detail, compiling and commenting on a wide range of reports, but she also covered other aspects of the "War on Terror" — and the crimes of the West that preceded it...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64145] [ 14-mar-2010 01:56 ECT ]

Palestinian Dispossession in East Jerusalem
by Stephen Lendman

March 13, 2010 - For Jews, Jerusalem is its historic capital. Muslims also claim it for the third holiest site in Islam, containing the 35 acre Noble Sanctuary (al-Haram al-Sharif), including the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock. The 1947 UN Partition Plan designated Jerusalem an international city under a UN Trusteeship Council. After Israel's 1947-48 War of Independence, it was divided between Israel and Jordan, and during Israel's 1967 Six-Day War, East Jerusalem was captured and occupied, its current status today. In March 2009, a confidential EU report (now public) accused Israel of using settlement expansions, house demolitions, discriminatory housing policies, restrictive permits, closing Palestinian institutions, the West Bank Separation Wall, and various other ways to "actively pursu(e) the illegal annexation" of East Jerusalem and "increase Jewish presence" in the city...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64144] [ 14-mar-2010 01:45 ECT ]

Haiti: Disaster Capitalism on Steroids
An interview with Robert Roth

Robert Roth

March 13, 2010 - "Two months after the devastating earthquake, the situation in Haiti is downright criminal," says Robert Roth. According to the spokesperson of the activist network Haiti Action Committee, major western players such as the US are more interested in defending their own geopolitical interests in Haiti than truly helping the hardly hit Caribbean country...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64143] [ 14-mar-2010 00:52 ECT ]

Israel tortures Jerusalem minors
Pal Telegraph
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March 13, 2010 - Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights revealed Saturday that Israeli police tortured Jerusalemite children, who were arrested before by Israelis. The Center published two statements made by Loai Rujby, 14, and Mahmoud Dweik,12, both residents of Al-Yemen area of the Silwan neighborhood, who were arrested on January 10, 2010 and in November, last year. Both statements provide accounts of how Israeli soldiers tortured the two children. The center said that the children's accounts were clear-cut evidence of the torture policy adopted by Israeli occupation against the Palestinian minors, which increased by recent arrest campaigns that target children and minors...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64142] [ 13-mar-2010 23:54 ECT ]

Explosions across Afghanistan's Kandahar; 35 dead
Aljazeera.English

March 13, 2010 - At least 35 people have been killed after a series of explosions rocked the centre of the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, an interior ministry spokesman has said. Saturday's attacks also left 45 people, including policemen and civilians, injured. Al Jazeera's Hoda Abdel-Hamid, reporting from Kabul, the Afghan capital, said: "We spoke to the spokesman of the governor to the city of Kandahar [and] it appears to be a co-ordinated attack...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [64141] [ 13-mar-2010 23:43 ECT ]

House arrest term extended for 15-year-old Jerusalemite
Ma'an News

March 13, 2010 – An Israeli court extended the house arrest of a 15-year-old boy to April, during a hearing that sought to overturn the ruling for the boy, confined to his home since October 2009, court documents showed. Abdul Rahman Isaac Muhammad Hassan Az-Zaghal, lived in the Old City of Jerusalem until a court ordered him out of the area and confined him to his brother's home in Tel Aviv, then allowed him to return home and attend school, still under general arrest...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [64140] [ 13-mar-2010 23:20 ECT ]

Settlers Torch Olive Orchard In Hebron
Saed Bannoura
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March 13, 2010 - A group of fundamentalist Jewish settlers burnt on Thursday at night an olive orchard in Safa village, north west of Hebron, in the southern part of the West Bank. Dozens of settlers torched the grove while the Israeli army did not attempt to intervene or stop them. The residents called the local civil defense and firefighters but the army prevented them from reaching the grove...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64139] [ 13-mar-2010 23:14 ECT ]

US General: Combat Troops Might Be Needed in Iraq Beyond August
Jason Ditz

March 12, 2010 - The number of potential excuses for having to back off President Obama’s August "deadline" for having all combat troops out of Iraq continues to grow, with Major General Tony Cucolo, the commander of US troops in Northern Iraq, providing the latest possible reason. According to Maj. Gen. Cucolo, the US may need to keep the combat troops in Iraq past August to maintain the "buffer" along the internal border between the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan and the rest of Iraq...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64138] [ 13-mar-2010 15:50 ECT ]

The Rogue Nation
by Philip Giraldi

March 12, 2010 - ...Three strikes and you’re out, Mr. Obama. Your government stands for preemptive killing and missile strikes on people living in countries with which America is not at war, lets torturers and torture enablers go free, and has asserted the right to assassinate its own citizens anywhere in the world based on secret evidence. Ronald Reagan once described his vision of America as a shining city on a hill. Over the past ten years the shining city has become the ultimate rogue nation, pumped up with power and hubris in spite of the clearly visible signs of decline and moving inexorably towards a catastrophic fall...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64137] [ 13-mar-2010 15:17 ECT ]

Continuing campaign of arrests against civilians in the West Bank
Silvia Nicolaou-Garcia
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March 12, 2010 - The Middle East Monitor (MEMO) has obtained primary evidence of how Israeli forces and Palestinian security services have embarked on a campaign of arrests against Hamas supporters in the occupied West Bank. A list containing details of the political detainees arrested in the months of January and February 2010 is attached. It can be seen how, increasingly, arbitrary political arrests are being conducted in Nablus and Hebron, where there is a high level of Hamas support, as well as other governorates across the West Bank. The detainees include university students, professionals, journalists and political activists...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64136] [ 13-mar-2010 14:53 ECT ]

Censorship in Afghanistan: Death to journalists
by Robert Maier

March 12, 2010 - Since the beginning of the Karzai regime in 2002, twenty Afghan journalists have been murdered, and more than 200 violent physical attacks against journalists have been logged. Scores have fled Afghanistan after receiving threats against them and their families. Journalists have been sentenced to death, and several remain in jail after being arrested for their work. Radio and television stations, print media, and Internet services have been attacked, blocked, damaged, and even burned to the ground by government and other politico-religious agents and gangs. As dozens of governments around the world pour billions of dollars and 100,000+ troops into Afghanistan to defend the Karzai government, it is an appropriate time to explore the human rights and legal issues regarding censorship and freedom of the press there...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64134] [ 13-mar-2010 14:45 ECT ]

Weekly Report on Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (04 – 10 March 2010)
PCHR - Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
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March 12, 2010 - Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law escalated in the OPT during the reporting period (04 – 10 March 2010): Shooting: During the reporting period, 40 Palestinian civilians, including 4 children and 3 journalists, were wounded when IOF used excessive force against peaceful demonstrations organized in protest to the construction of the Annexation Wall and settlement activities in the West Bank. Incursions: During the reporting period, IOF conducted at least 18 military incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank. IOF arrested 14 Palestinian civilians, including two children. IOF also stormed a school in 'Azzoun village, east of Qalqilya. Restrictions on Movement: Israel has continued to impose a tightened siege on the OPT and imposed severe restrictions on the movement of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem...
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PCHR Condemns Recent Israeli Settlement Plans and Calls upon the International Community to Full Its Obligations
PCHR - Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

March 12, 2010 - The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) strongly condemns the recent Israeli settlement plans in the West Bank in general, and in East Jerusalem in particular. PCHR confirms that settlement activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) constitute a war crime and calls upon the international community, particularly the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention, to fulfill their legal and moral obligations, and to ensure Israel's respect the Fourth Geneva Convention in the OPT in accordance with article 1 of the Convention. PCHR believes that if the international community does not take a serious position toward Israel in acting as a State above the law, Israel will be encouraged to commit more violations of the international human rights law and international humanitarian law...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64132] [ 13-mar-2010 14:10 ECT ]

Mayor: Israeli settlers uprooted 40 olive trees
Ma'an News

March 12, 2010 – Israeli settlers uprooted dozens of olive trees in Qaryut, south of Nablus, at dawn on Friday, officials said. The settlers uprooted 40 olive trees in the Al-Batashiyah area of Qaryut, the village's mayor Abdel Nasser Al-Qaryuti told Ma'an. The apparent vandalism was discovered as residents of the village woke up on Friday morning, Al-Qaryuti said...

  continua / continued avanti - next    [64131] [ 13-mar-2010 14:00 ECT ]

Nato ‘covered up’ botched night raid in Afghanistan that killed five (including two pregnant women)
Jerome Starkey, Khataba
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March 12, 2010 - A night raid carried out by US and Afghan gunmen led to the deaths of two pregnant women, a teenage girl and two local officials in an atrocity which Nato then tried to cover up, survivors have told The Times. The operation on Friday, February 12, was a botched pre-dawn assault on a policeman’s home a few miles outside Gardez, the capital of Paktia province, eastern Afghanistan. In a statement after the raid titled "Joint force operating in Gardez makes gruesome discovery", Nato claimed that the force had found the women’s bodies "tied up, gagged and killed" in a room. A Times investigation suggests that Nato’s claims are either wilfully false or, at best, misleading...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64126] [ 13-mar-2010 12:50 ECT ]

Expecting a third Intifada
Khaled Amayreh

March 12, 2010 - Observers in occupied Palestine are increasingly of the opinion that a fresh Intifada or uprising is in the offing as the Israeli authorities keep provoking Palestinians, including stepping up efforts to gain Jewish prayer rights at Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest shrine. The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) has warned that provocative Israeli actions at Haram Al-Sharif (the Noble Sanctuary) could trigger a religious war between Jews and Muslims. The organisation called on the world community to stop Israeli aggression before it was too late...
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Sending a laptop to Gaza
Ahmed Moor writing from al-Arish, Egypt
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March 12, 2010 - I sat outdoors at a cafe on the Mediterranean Sea in al-Arish, a dusty seaside town in Egypt's northern Sinai. I drank a tea and smoked a water pipe; it gave me something to do while I waited for Ismail -- that's not his real name -- an Egyptian Bedouin tunnel smuggler who was going to deliver a package for me into Gaza. It's been nearly ten years since I've been to Palestine. I vividly remember the summer of 2000 when I left Palestine with my family. We passed through the Rafah crossing into Egypt. A long Mercedes taxi -- they're ubiquitous in Egypt and Palestine -- carried us from Egyptian Rafah to al-Arish and finally to Cairo...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64124] [ 13-mar-2010 11:54 ECT ]

Fighting Israeli apartheid
Forget the peace process. Only world public opinion can put an end to Israeli apartheid, just as it did in South Africa

Aijaz Zaka Syed

March 12, 2010 - I am not sure about others, but I really look forward to readers’ reactions after sharing my ramblings with them every week. Each attempt to put across one’s point of view, for what it’s worth, is followed by a breathless wait for the verdict. While many do not understandably agree with my worldview, some of the responses are so interesting and thought provoking that I desperately want to share them with the larger audience. For instance, check out some of these letters I got in response to my piece on the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai, which has Mossad fingerprints all over it with the ever-widening ring of suspicion now encircling the whole globe...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64130] [ 13-mar-2010 13:32 ECT ]

Gaza: relations
Eva Barlett

March 12, 2010 - "My grandmother was Jewish," a voice drifts out from behind the meagre selection of second-hand clothes. The souk al fres, a massive market in Gaza’s old district, Sahaa, carrying just about all one needs used to thrive with second-hand clothes and goods brought through open borders via Israel. It was a thrift-shop-junkies dream. Today, after 1000 days of siege (complete siege, from June 2007, but in reality the siege goes back to Hamas’ election, back to post-Oslo 'peace years’ when the closures began, denying Palestinians in Gaza of freedom, of work, of medical treatment outside, of imports and exports, and now of all but less than 40 items) (painstakingly aquired), the used-clothes market is bare-bones. Wa’el is sitting in a room devoid of nearly all but some scarves and many empty hangers. "My grandfather was from Jaffa. He fell in love with a Jewish woman. This was in the 1940s, before the Nakba, (catastrophe) our expulsion," Wa’el says...
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Military Resistance 8C8: Not Another Life - 12 March 2010
Thomas F. Barton

U.S. Marines carry a member of their unit, who was wounded minutes earlier in a rocket-propelled grenade attack, to a U.S. Army Task Force Pegasus Black Hawk medevac helicopter, in Marjah, Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Feb. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64123] [ 13-mar-2010 09:23 ECT ]
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Surging over the brink
M Shahid Alam

March 12, 2010 - The first dismantling of the Taliban was a cakewalk. In 2001, the US quickly and decisively defeated the Taliban, killed, captured or scattered their fighters, and handed over the running of Afghanistan to their rivals, mostly Uzbeks and Tajiks from the Northern Alliance. Unaware of Pashtun history, American commentators were pleased at the smashing victory of their military, convinced that they had consigned the Taliban to history’s graveyard. Instead, the Taliban came back from the dead. Within months of their near-total destruction, they had regained morale, regrouped, organised, trained, and returned to fight the foreign occupation of their country. Slowly and tenaciously they continued to build on their gains, and by 2008 they were dreaming of taking back the country they had lost in 2001. Could this really happen? Only time will tell, but prospects for the Taliban today look better than at any time since November 2001...
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Abbas blames Iran for blocking Palestinian reconciliation
AFP

March 12, 2010 – Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas lashed out at Iran on Friday, blaming Tehran for being behind the latest failure to reconcile his secular Fatah movement with its Isalamist rival Hamas. Iran doesn't want Hamas to sign the Cairo reconciliation document," Abbas said during a meeting in the Tunisian capital. Fatah and Hamas struggled for months to reach a unity deal under Egyptian mediation, but the efforts collapsed late last year when Hamas refused to agree to a proposal that was signed by Fatah...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64129] [ 13-mar-2010 13:22 ECT ]

Rove ‘proud’ detainees were waterboarded
Agence France-Presse
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March 12, 2010 - A top aide to former US president George W. Bush has defended the use of harsh interrogation techniques, insisting he is "proud" of the methods and they had helped prevent terrorist attacks. Karl Rove also told the BBC in an interview broadcast Thursday that he did not believe waterboarding -- a simulated drowning method -- amounted to torture. "I'm proud that we used techniques that broke the will of these terrorists and gave us valuable information that allowed us to foil plots," he said...
  continua / continued avanti - next    [64122] [ 13-mar-2010 07:56 ECT ]

Israeli police launched arrest campaign among Palestinians
Jerusalem Center for Social & Economic Rights

March 12, 2010 - Israeli occupation authorities conducted a campaign of arrests in occupied Jerusalem, early yesterday morning. In Sur Baher, Israeli police arrested Tareq Bkeirat, 23, who works as a guard inside al-Aqsa mosque from his home. The police confiscated his computer and some documents. Bkeirat was released before one-and-a-half month after serving eight months in prison. He got married before two months. The arrest campaign included Fadi al-Ju'beh, Ahmad al-Jalad, Wisam Sider, Muhammad Muhalwes, Iyad Qiresh, Amar al-Hawash, Omar Muhaisen, Yihya Dweik, Ala' Fakhouri and Rami Fakhouri...
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