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Coalition partners pull out from Iraq
The US coalition in Iraq saw its size dwindle today as Ukraine and Bulgaria said all of their troops had left the country while Poland said it would remain, but reduce its number of troops by 600 next year.
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Rice authorized National Security Agency to spy on UN Security Council in run-up to war, former officials say
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Peru/Chile: Fujimori Implicated in Serious Crimes - Evidence Justifies Former President’s Extradition to Peru
A body of evidence implicating former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori in serious human rights crimes and corruption warrants his extradition from Chile to Peru, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.
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Exclusive Interview with MAS’ Vice-Presidential Candidate - Two Opposing Views of Social Change in Bolivia
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U.S. Airstrikes Take Toll on Civilians
RAMADI, Iraq — U.S. Marine airstrikes targeting insurgents sheltering in Iraqi residential neighborhoods are killing civilians as well as guerrillas along the Euphrates River in far western Iraq, according to Iraqi townspeople and officials and the U.S. military.

Just how many civilians have been killed is strongly disputed by the Marines and, some critics say, too little investigated. But townspeople, tribal leaders, medical workers and accounts from witnesses at the sites of clashes, at hospitals and at graveyards indicated that scores of noncombatants were killed last month in fighting, including airstrikes, in the opening stages of a 17-day U.S.-Iraqi offensive in Anbar province.

“These people died silently, complaining to God of a guilt they did not commit,” Zahid Mohammed Rawi, a physician, said in the town of Husaybah. Rawi said that roughly one week into Operation Steel Curtain, which began on Nov. 5, medical workers had recorded 97 civilians killed. At least 38 insurgents were also killed in the offensive’s early days, Rawi said.
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Activists clash with Japanese Whaling Fleet
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"Brokeback Mountain"
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Jeff "Free" Luers Legal Update and Dispatch
...With activist networks spanning the globe with the intelligence and knowledge I know we possess, there is only one reason things have not changed. We have yet to dedicate ourselves to the task. I’ll believe "we will win" when you show it to me. I’ll have hope for our future when you give it to me. If we aren’t in this together then we are in this alone. One is an awfully lonely number. But I wrote about that already.

-Jeffrey Free Luers