Aftershock and awe
Posted: Wednesday, September 15, 2004

Three Beheaded Bodies Found in Iraq

Old Dog, Same Tricks? The CIA Then and Now
Fifty years ago, in June 1954, the Central Intelligence Agency committed one of the cardinal sins of US foreign policy. That month, the democratically elected president of Guatemala, Jacobo Arbenz, was deposed in a coup planned and coordinated by CIA operatives. Arbenz, a moderate, had proposed that uncultivated plots held by large landholders like the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita) be distributed among poor farmers.

Nablus, Jenin raids kill Palestinians

Moroccan FM calls for urgent intervention
to make Israel abide by international law
Morocco's Foreign Minister, Mohamed Benaissa, called on Tuesday the international community for an urgent intervention to make Israel abide by international law and halt its assassination of Palestinian leaders.

Israel Wants $350 Million From US For New Bases

Bush to divert Iraq rebuilding cash

Iraq: a descent into civil war?

Distraught Iraqis blame US as more blood is shed

Aftershock and awe
Bloodshed, mayhem and horror in Baghdad and Falluja are the daily fare of post-Saddam Iraq, but fallout from the war continues to spread far beyond. The latest sign came as Spain got together with France and Germany, demonstrating that the "Old Europe" so disparaged by Donald Rumsfeld is alive and kicking - and no more willing now than it was last year to back a US strategy that is manifestly not working.

The Age of Mercenaries Not Over in Africa

African jail is the right place for heir behind a failed coup
The conspiracy was classic African stuff: a planeload of mercenaries flying across Africa, picking up a consignment of weapons as they went, to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea, a tiny dictatorship that is Africa's third-largest oil exporter.

Ambulance torn apart in Fallujah
as US launches 'precision' strikes

Russia rejects Powell's criticism, joins forces with Israel



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