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  • International notes

    International notes

    July 23, 2004

    Nigeria: U.S. seeks closer security ties General Charles Wald, deputy commander of the U.S. European Command, met with Nigerian government and military officials last week in an effort to build closer security ties in West Africa....

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  • Children tortured at Abu Ghraib

    Children tortured at Abu Ghraib

    July 23, 2004 By William Rivers Pitt

    The biggest story of the Iraq war is not about missing weapons of mass destruction, or about deep-cover CIA officers getting their covers blown by vengeful White House agents, or even about 900 dead American soldiers.

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  • Stop thief! Demand grows to safeguard 2004 vote

    Stop thief! Demand grows to safeguard 2004 vote

    July 23, 2004

    WASHINGTON – A request for United Nations observers to prevent the theft of the 2004 elections has sparked an outpouring of support in the face of Republican attacks. Florida Rep. Corrine Brown, one of 13 House...

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  • Palestinians press for UN action on wall

    Palestinians press for UN action on wall

    July 23, 2004

    Palestinians are calling for swift action by the United Nations to enforce the July 9 ruling by the World Court that Israel’s apartheid-like “separation wall” along the West Bank is illegal and should be torn down....

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  • Groups mount challenge to U.S. travel ban

    Groups mount challenge to U.S. travel ban

    July 23, 2004

    BUFFALO, N.Y. – Ninety-plus members of the Venceremos Brigade, the African Awareness Association, and the U.S.-Cuba Labor Exchange triumphantly returned July 19 from Cuba to U.S. soil here in defiance of the Bush administration’s recent tightening...

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