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Israel
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society has charged Israel with launching hundreds of attacks against Palestinian medical teams in 2009.
The aid group, also known as PRCS, said that the Israeli troops fired 15 times at ambulances in the West Bank and Gaza last year, killing one medical worker and wounding 10 more.
The PRCS also said that [...]
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Israel
As Israel keeps threatening the regional countries with war, Egyptian maritime sources say the Israeli navy has deployed two missile ships to the Persian Gulf.
Citing the sources, Yediot Ahronot reported Saturday that two Israeli missile ships passed through the Suez Canal en rout to the Red Sea on Thursday morning.
The United Nations is likely to [...]
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Bush to The Hague
Redress
6 February 2010
International Criminal Court complaint filed against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet, Rice and Gonzales
Request for international arrest warrants
A leading US professor of law has filed a complaint with the International Criminal Court prosecutor against former US President George W. Bush and a number of his senior lieutenants alleging crimes against humanity for their policy [...]
Exclusive: Israeli commander: ‘We rewrote the rules of war for Gaza’
Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem/Independent
Civilians ‘put at greater risk to save military lives’ in winter attack – revelations that will pile pressure on Netanyahu to set up full inquiry
A high-ranking officer has acknowledged for the first time that the Israeli army went beyond its previous rules of engagement on the protection of civilian lives in order [...]
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The ‘explosive admission’ in Israel’s Gaza report
Paul Wood, BBC News, Jerusalem
Buried in paragraph 108 of the Israeli foreign ministry’s report to the UN on Gaza is the key fact of the document.
Two senior officers – one the commander of the Gaza ground operation, no less – were reprimanded for failing to follow their own rules of engagement.
The document was slipped out [...]
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Zimbabwe
A secret airstrip is being built in a diamond field illegally seized by the Zimbabwean army 14 months ago which would enable clandestine weapons shipments.
Diplomats and analysts believe that the mile-long runway is intended for arms shipments, probably from China, for which troops loyal to President Robert Mugabe would pay on the spot with gemstones [...]
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UN Asks U.S. To ‘Stop Secret Detention and Abuse’
Badriya Khan/ Global Research / IDN
The UN has called on U.S. and other countries to put an end to their secret detention policies and human rights abuses in their so-called global war on terrorism. It has failed, however, to demand the immediate closure of two major U.S. “public” detention centres — Guantanamo and Bagram, where [...]
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International Criminal Court Complaint Filed Against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Tenet, Rice, Gonzales
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INTERNATIONAL ARREST WARRANTS REQUESTED
Professor Francis A. Boyle of the University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign, U.S.A. has filed a Complaint with the Prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (I.C.C.) in The Hague against U.S. citizens George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George Tenet, Condoleezza Rice, and Alberto Gonzales (the “Accused”) [...]
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Afghanistan
* The people of Afghanistan don’t want to be saved by us. They want to be saved from us. ~ Dennis Kucinich
* President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he was dispatching 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, accelerating a risky and expensive war buildup, even as he assured the nation that U.S. forces will begin coming home [...]
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