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The January 9 announcement that 1550 Australian Special Air Service (SAS) and other troops will be sent to the Gulf in coming weeks is further confirmation that Australians will take part in an attack on Iraq. In fact, some may already be.
BY EVA CHENG In late December, two leaders who took part in organising a 17,000-strong workers' protest last March in Liaoyang, Liaoning province, and have been in detention ever since, were charged with "subversion". They could be executed if
Around 30,000 people staged a candlelight rally at Gwanghwa Gate, Seoul, on New Year's Eve to protest the killing of two high school students, Shin Hyo-Soon and Shim Mi-Sun (inset), by US soldiers driving an armoured vehicle in June. The
Our World is Not For Sale Peter Hicks and Geoff Francis CD and multimedia e-book, $25 Order at <http://www.trump.net.au/~glazfolk> REVIEW BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE Songwriters Peter Hicks and Geoff Francis justifiably believe their
BY JONATHAN STRAUSS SYDNEY — NSW police officers subjected the Mufti of Australia and Imam of the Lakemba mosque, Sheikh Taj el-Din al Hilaly, to demands for a body search on January 6. According to al Hilaly's lawyer, Stephen Hopper, as a
The following resolution was unanimously adopted by the 20th Congress of the Democratic Socialist Party, held in Sydney from December 28, 2002, to January 1, 2003. This 20th Congress of the Democratic Socialist Party: 1. Reaffirms our
BY ROHAN PEARCE A report in the December 26 Washington Post has revealed that US forces are torturing Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners at its Bagram air base in Afghanistan. According to the report, "Those who refuse to cooperate inside this secret
BY ALEX BAINBRIDGE Gay rights activist Rodney Croome believes that the Tasmanian government's proposed changes to relationships laws will give Tasmania one of the best set of lesbian and gay human rights laws in the world. As evidence of this,
BY JIM MCILROY BRISBANE — I have recently experienced a serious operation within the public health system of Queensland. After a period of angina I was referred for cardiac investigation to the Prince Charles hospital in the northern suburbs of
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Only attack those who can't hit back "There are countries which are developing weapons of mass destruction and we will deal with them appropriately. One country is Iraq... if they won't [disarm], we'll lead a coalition to disarm them. Another
BY ROHAN PEARCE "Well, the problem with guns that are hidden is that you can't see their smoke", White House spokesperson Ari Fleischer told journalists at a January 9 press briefing. Fleischer was responding to the interim report delivered to the