At least 10 people have been killed and over 50 injured by a female bomber in a crowded part of central Moscow.
The blast on Tuesday follows a series of similar attacks over the past year, including near simultaneous plane crashes exactly a week ago, all of them linked by officials to Chechen fighters seeking independence from Russia. Read more »

On March 21 – the day after American and British troops began their illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq – an “embedded” CNN correspondent interviewed an American soldier. “I wanna get in there and get my nose dirty,” Private A.J. said. “I wanna take revenge for 9/11.”
To be fair to the correspondent, even though he was “embedded” he did sort of weakly suggest that so far there was no real evidence that linked the Iraqi government to the September 11, 2001, attacks. Private A.J. stuck his teenage tongue out all the way down to the end of his chin. “Yeah, well that stuff’s way over my head,” he said.
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About 4000 to 5000 Nationalists from all over Europe gathered in the Germany town of Wunsiedel to commemorate the 17 anniversary of the death of Rudolf Hess. This is probably the biggest openly National socialist gathering in Germany and maybe Europe since World War II. Read more »

Five US soldiers have been killed in Iraq and another wounded following a series of attacks in the last 24 hours.

The military issued a statement on Sunday confirming that the last of the five fatalities occurred in the northern city of Mosul when a roadside bomb exploded at around 12:45 GMT.

Three more marines were killed in separate attacks in the western province of al-Anbar earlier on Saturday, one in action and two from wounds received in separate attacks on the same day. Read more »

Charlotte, N.C. — It was a scientific discovery that no scientist wanted to make, an outbreak one likened to a looming genocide of young, black men.

In November 2002, North Carolina health officials began a new form of blood testing designed to catch HIV infection far sooner than standard screening, which often doesn’t detect the virus for two or three months after it enters the body. They quickly found five HIV cases in people with infections so fresh they had tested negative in conventional screenings. Read more »

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has approved construction of 1,000 more homes in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, officials said today, violating a U.S.-backed peace plan that calls for a building freeze.
Sharon’s aides said they had Washington’s tacit approval for the plan, because the houses would be built inside existing settlements that are among the enclaves Israel insists on keeping under any peace settlement with the Palestinians.

U.S. reaction was muted compared to earlier criticism of settlement building. In Washington, State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said, “Our concern is to determine whether these tenders are consistent with Israel’s commitments” to freeze settlements.

Palestinians denounced the plan, while Israel’s moderate opposition Labour party, mentioned as a possible partner in Sharon’s coalition, demanded that the project be cancelled. continued>>>

Three US soldiers have been killed in Iraq’s Najaf province, scene of clashes between occupation forces and Shia Muslim fighters, amid fresh efforts to stop the fighting.

“Three US soldiers attached to the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit were killed as a result of enemy action in Najaf province 15 August,” said a US military statement, issued on Monday.

Thick smoke rose from Najaf on Monday morning before an expected major military assault on Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr’s al-Mahdi Army fighters. Read more »

Have you checked your child’s summer reading list? Beware: Some lame-brained school officials have decided to ditch the sonnets of Shakespeare for the tripe of Tupac.

That’s slain gangsta rapper Tupac Shakur — the drug-dealing, baseball bat-wielding, cop-hating, Black Panthers-worshiping, convicted sexual abuser who made a fortune extolling the “thug life” before he was gunned down in Las Vegas eight years ago.continued>>>

The United States plans to withdraw about 70,000 soldiers from Europe and Asia in a major restructuring of military forces.

According to US officials on Saturday, the move is prompted by the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the “War on Terror”.

President George Bush is to unveil the realignment in a speech on Monday to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Cincinnati, said the officials - who spoke on condition of anonymity. Read more »

Governor McGreevey of Jew Jersey took his instructions to kiss I$raeli butt literally and now he has decided to resign because he will be found out this week. McGreevey travelled to I$rael in 2000 and picked up a gay lover there and managed to sneak him not only into the US, but into a high paying government security director position, and into his personal sex life as well. Read more »

Teen Salim Kusa was shot dead by Israeli soldiers after Palestinian teens objected to the Israeli army invading the homes of civilians in Nablus, West Bank.

A bomb has exploded at an Israeli checkpoint in the area of Jerusalem, leaving 2 Palistinians dead and a 2 year old Palestinian in critical condition. 3 Israeli soldiers are also in critical condition and about 14 other persons are injured. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the bombing which was believed to be triggered remotely. “We have done this in response to the genocide that the Israeli authorities are perpetrating in the Gaza Strip and West Bank,” - Zakaria Zubaidi, leader of the Brigades in Jenin Read more »

If it can be called anti-Semitic a simple case of vandalism will be big news in the western world. In Lyon, France a Jewish war veteran memorial and 56 headstones were defaced with swastikas and Adolf Hitler’s name. In the Czech city of Hranice, 80 headstones were overturned. The French incident will be attributed as a reaction to Israeli Prime Minister Sharon’s comment last month that French Jews move to Israel to escape “wild anti-Semitism”. If Sharon thinks living in France is rough for Jews he should see life in America for Whites.

A British occupation soldier was killed when his convoy came under fire in Basra.

A British military spokesman in London said the soldier died when two British army vehicles came under fire from resistance fighters in the southern Iraqi city . Read more »

Aljazeera has aired a videotape showing a group of masked armed men belonging to a Shia Muslim resistance group holding an Iraqi police officer captive in Baghdad.

According to the captors, who belong to Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr’s al-Mahdi Army, the captive is Brigadier Raad Muhammad Khidr - the former director of Baghdad’s al-Rusafa police department. Read more »

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, bills itself as not only a pro-Israel lobby, but as a group that is consistently ranked as the most influential foreign-policy lobbying organisation on Capitol Hill.

Many Middle East analysts in Washington seem to agree.

By almost all accounts, AIPAC is the vanguard of what is widely considered to be a well-oiled network of pro-Israel interest groups and thinktanks with enormous influence in Congress and electoral politics. Read more »

An Iraqi political group says more than 37,000 Iraqi civilians were killed between the start of the US-led invasion in March 2003 and October 2003.

The People’s Kifah, or Struggle Against Hegemony, movement said in a statement that it carried out a detailed survey of Iraqi civilian fatalities during September and October 2003.

Its calculation was based on deaths among the Iraqi civilian population only, and did not count losses sustained by the Iraqi military and paramilitary forces. Read more »