By Nick Meo in Kabul
The Afghan government is to request the return of the "Dead Sea Scrolls of Buddhism" from the British Library, amid concerns the priceless manuscripts were looted during civil war in the early nineties.
Afghanistan’s Minister of Culture will formally ask for the 2000-year-old scrolls to be sent from London to the newly restored Kabul Museum in the next few weeks as part of a campaign to bring home stolen treasures from foreign collections.
The British Library, (...)
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Afghanistan wants its ’Dead Sea Scrolls of Buddhism’ back from UK
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Arafat’s death a major test for Bush
14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON - The death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat will test whether US President George W Bush intends to maintain his staunch support for Israel’s right-wing government at the risk of further alienating the US’s European allies and Muslim public opinion.
It will also provide an early insight into whether the hardline coalition that has dominated US foreign policy since September 11, 2001 - aggressive nationalists, neo-conservatives who support Israel’s governing (...) -
The conflict in Iraq has become a holy war. In both directions.
14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
A Distant Mirror of Holy War
By Norman Solomon
On the surface, the most prominent headline on the New York Times front page Nov. 10 was simply matter-of-fact: "In Taking Fallujah Mosque, Victory by the Inch." Yet it’s not mere happenstance that American forces have bombed many of Fallujah’s mosques.
For public consumption, U.S. military officers — like their civilian bosses and American journalists — usually discuss this war in secular, even antiseptic terms. When the Times quoted (...) -
U.S. use of depleted uranium under fire
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By LORI MATSUKAWA
Alvin Clark, of Tacoma, developed aplastic anemia he believes is related to his exposure to depleted uranium dust after he was hit by friendly fire in Saudi Arabia.
Shells and armor used by U.S. tanks, gunships and helicopters are often made of depleted uranium because depleted uranium, or D.U., is a heavy metal, able to pierce armored vehicles or resist being pierced. But it’s also radioactive, a waste product of nuclear enrichment plants like Hanford.
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I have just witnessed a murder on my TV screen
14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsby Matt Hamon
As I sit here and write this I have tears streaming down my face, I am shaking and my heart is pounding. I have just witnessed a murder on my TV screen.
While watching Lateline on Australian ABC television there was a report from Fallujah. In the story they showed a marine saying, “I’ve just injured one, he’s between the two buildings”. At that moment another marine walks over to the gap between the two houses, he then climbs on a forty four gallon drum aims his gun at (...) -
VANUNU RE-ARRESTED BY DOZENS OF ARMED POLICE; LATER RELEASED TO HOUSE ARREST
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2 commentsIsraeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu was released from custody that evening, following his arrest in a dramatic and excessive show of force early Thursday morning, November 11, at St. George’s Cathedral in East Jerusalem. He has been punished yet again, and placed under house arrest for seven days. His cell phones were returned to him, but he is still waiting for his laptop computers to be returned.
Vanunu was warned that he is still bound by the severe restrictions placed on (...) -
The First Casualty of War is: the Casualty Figures
12 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
“And when it is said unto them: Do not make mischief in the earth, they say, we are only peacemakers” (Al-Koran 2:11)
by Yamin Zakaria
In the name of peace they have been terrorising the innocents, committing mass murder and pillaging their resources as billions of oil revenue are still unaccounted for. In occupied Palestine, the same story, the ones who constantly cries wolf about being victims and desiring peace have been busy ethnic cleansing the natives to pave the way for God’s (...) -
Falluja resident tells of trauma
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14 commentsMohammad and Ayisha in Britain Mohammad and Ayisha Saleem arrived in Britain six days ago. A five-year-old Iraqi girl has arrived in Britain, having been orphaned when a US missile destroyed her family’s home in Falluja.
Ayisha Saleem was brought here six days ago by her uncle, Mohammad, who decided to leave after the 4 October attack.
The US military says it used precision strikes to take out insurgents loyal to Abu Musab al-Zaqawi.
The attack happened before it stepped up its (...) -
Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction
12 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
In honor of Veterans Day we would like the troops to have a little background on why they are in Iraq instead of home with their families so here is a report from the UK outlining the history of the Iraq WMD that Saddam Hussien posessed, it has not been in the mainstream press in the United States and has been overlooked in the story of why we are fighting a war in Iraq over WMD. This is a meeting in the UK parliament during July of 2004 less than 6 months ago, and the truth will soon be (...)
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Fallujah: US Will Lose More by ’Victory’
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12 commentsby Dahr Jamail
BAGHDAD - A military victory for U.S. forces in Fallujah seems set to lead to a huge political loss for the U.S.-backed interim Iraqi government.
Strong anti-government reactions have set in already as reports come in from Fallujah of bombed hospitals, high civilians casualties and denial of access to medical care. The political fallout could fall far beyond Iraq.
Several governments and international groups have warned that military action is likely to undermine (...)