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AFGHANISTAN: Interview with RAWA spokeswoman

01-12-2001 11:54

ISLAMABAD, 29 Nov 2001 (IRIN) - Marina Mateen, a Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) spokeswoman in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, told IRIN on Thursday that women in some Afghan cities were beginning to relive a nightmare, and were running scared, following news of the Northern Alliance takeover.

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Was it a war crime?

01-12-2001 09:44

Canadian evening news makes the link between Rumsfeld's psychotic genocidal rant and Mazar-e-Sharif slaughter

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Newsweek: Hail to the Chief

01-12-2001 09:20

If there's a propaganda hall of fame, Newsweek has surely earned a place in it with its interview with George W. and Laura Bush (12/3/01) Another astounding example of how the world is in the hands of a half baked cretin with the I Q
lower than dead moth. It's like a fairy tale, what makes it worse is that, if he is a jerk what does that make the rest of us ?? He has a free hand to do what ever he likes with our world our future our lives, it's beam me up time ..

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CBC Reports Extensive Civilian Casualties

01-12-2001 01:40

A Canadian journalist visited a hospital today, near the border with Afghanistan in Pakistan where a steady stream of civilian wounded are showing up as a result of bombing directly on the city of Kandahar.

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Exeter Stop Causes of War March

30-11-2001 23:40

Exeter Stop War
Stop the Causes of War March
Sat 15th December
10:30am Belmont Park, Exeter

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THE MAKING OF THE WORLD'S MOST WANTED MAN

30-11-2001 21:58

What drove a rich Saudi boy to become a terrorist mastermind? After months of interviews, and gathering startling new testimony from al-Qaeda associates and enemies around the world, Afghanistan specialist Jason Burke sifts fact from rumour to provide the fullest account yet of the life of Osama bin Laden.

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George Harrison tributes (BBC)

30-11-2001 21:34

"...it is not dying".

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America's History in Middle East (my title)

30-11-2001 20:27

Before we celebrate the bombings of Afghanistan with hope of their expansion to other countries, let's pause and take a look back on the past fifty years of U.S. folly in the Middle East

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Report says US killed 67 Pak POWs in school bombing

30-11-2001 20:09

With details of the shocking massacre of pro-Taliban prisoners of war in Mazar-i-Sharif still coming in, there are now unconfirmed reports that about 67 Pakistani Taliban captured in Kunduz were jailed in a school by Northern Alliance troops and then bombed to death by US warplanes.

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Fast in Solidarity

30-11-2001 20:02

Fast for justice: 8 - 15 December

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Pro Euro campaign in chaos

30-11-2001 19:53

Pro Euro campaign in chaos, imploding under personal rivialries and animosities. Majority of people (66%) do not support the Euro

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Internet Security for Activists and Citizens

30-11-2001 17:41

Document I wrote detailing how to preserve your anonymity and privacy online. It will be put up on the web very shortly - the address is forthcoming.

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Win mediaplayer Audio GORTA fighting famin in the 3rd world

30-11-2001 17:10

Audio - 3min 20sec - needs Windows mediaplayer
Gorta is a Irish charity set up to fight famin in the 3rd world by helping local and community based projects specialising in farming and the Aids crisis... listen on...

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Realplayer Audio GORTA fighting famin in the 3rd world

30-11-2001 17:07

Audio - 3min 20sec - needs realplayer
Gorta is a Irish charity set up to fight famin in the 3rd world by helping local and community based projects specialising in farming and the Aids crisis... listen on...

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EU 'failing its people'

30-11-2001 17:05

BBC Article today on divisions between the EU and it's citizens.

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Micro$oft XP 'Hacked' in Bristol and London

30-11-2001 16:53

Micro$oft XP 'Hacked' in Bristol and London
Subvertising the Paradigm - Microsoft's new operating system XP, gets its advertising campaign rebooted by creative linux pixies....

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Stop Esso Protests this Saturday

30-11-2001 15:54

On Saturday 1st December, at hundreds of Esso garages across the UK, protestors will be asking motorists to join the boycott of Esso.

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The Contradictions of the Brit Left in Wales

30-11-2001 15:46

This is a fairly theoretical piece by members of Cymru Goch - the Welsh Socialists - about the current parlous state of the SAs sister organisation in Wales, the WSA, and why we feel we may no longer have a part in it...

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Brixton on the Brink?

30-11-2001 14:38

Brixton community is once again angered by death in custody.

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South London Action Group

30-11-2001 14:28

Oi SLAG!

South London Action Group is holding it’s inaugural shindig on Saturday 8th December from 4.30pm onwards.