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  • Moussaoui lashes out at defence lawyers
    Moussaoui lashes out at defence lawyers Last Updated Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:06:31 EDT CBC News Confessed al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui verbally attacked his lawyers Thursday as he testified in his death-penalty trial for his role in planning the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks against the United States. INDEPTH: ...
  • Peace falls off agenda in Israeli vote
    Peace falls off agenda in Israeli vote Last Updated Mon, 27 Mar 2006 12:08:01 EST CBC News With the centrist Kadima Party seemingly headed for a narrow win in Israel's general elections Tuesday, few of the 31 parties in the race have made peace a priority because of the recent Hamas electoral victory. INDEPTH: ...
  • Swedish foreign minister resigns over Prophet cartoon scandal
    Swedish foreign minister resigns over Prophet cartoon scandal Last Updated Tue, 21 Mar 2006 11:47:29 EST CBC News Sweden's foreign minister, accused of lying about her role in shutting down a website that wanted to publish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, stepped down on Tuesday. INDEPTH: ...
  • Canada concerned over Afghan facing death for being a Christian
    Canada concerned over Afghan facing death for being a Christian Last Updated Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:37:37 EST CBC News Canada has joined the list of countries closely watching a court case in Afghanistan, where under Islamic law a man could be sentenced to death for converting to Christianity. INDEPTH: ...
  • Pentagon probes alleged marine 'rampage' in Iraq
    Pentagon probes alleged marine 'rampage' in Iraq Last Updated Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:43:02 EST CBC News The Pentagon has begun a criminal investigation after graphic videotape surfaced suggesting U.S. marines killed at least 15 unarmed civilians in November in the Iraqi town of Haditha. INDEPTH: ...
  • Arab League, Muslim groups blame U.S., Britain for Jericho raid
    Arab League, Muslim groups blame U.S., Britain for Jericho raid Last Updated Tue, 14 Mar 2006 13:47:46 EST CBC News The Arab League and other Muslim countries have condemned an Israeli raid on a West Bank jail that netted six Palestinian militants, blaming both Britain and the U.S. for allowing it to happen. INDEPTH: ...
  • Israel will establish borders in 4 years: Olmert
    Israel will establish borders in 4 years: Olmert Last Updated Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:35:40 EST CBC News Israel will set its own permanent borders within the next four years in the absence of a negotiated settlement, Israel's acting prime minister said in a published interview Friday. INDEPTH: ...
  • Muslim groups praise Canadian response to cartoons
    Muslim groups praise Canadian response to cartoons Last Updated Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:00:45 EST CBC News A coalition of Muslim groups praised Canadians on Friday for their non-violent reaction to caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that have sparked violent protests around the world. INDEPTH: ...
  • Western Canadian magazine publishes Muhammad cartoons
    Western Canadian magazine publishes Muhammad cartoons Last Updated Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:00:28 EST CBC News The publisher of an Alberta-based political magazine is defending his decision to publish controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, saying Western media have been cowed into fear. ...
  • Shia family murdered by Sunni insurgents: police
    Shia family murdered by Sunni insurgents: police Last Updated Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:26:48 EST CBC News At least 11 Shia family members who had been warned to leave the Sunni district south of Baghdad were killed Thursday after assailants broke into their home, police said. * INDEPTH: Iraq There were conflicting reports about how the family members died. Reuters reported the assailants broke into the home, tied up the sev...
  • Catholic patriarch calls for dismantling of Israel's security wall
    Catholic patriarch calls for dismantling of Israel's security wall Last Updated Sat, 24 Dec 2005 20:52:15 EST CBC News Israel's top Roman Catholic has said Bethlehem has become an "immense prison" since the West Bank barrier was built, calling for its dismantling as he joined thousands of pilgrims for midnight mass on Christmas Eve. * INDEPTH: Israel's separation barrier Michel Sabbah stands at the altar during the Christmas Midnight...
  • New threats of violence in Indonesia
    New threats of violence in Indonesia Last Updated Sat, 24 Dec 2005 08:42:14 EST CBC News Thousands of security forces are on guard across Indonesia amid threats that al-Qaeda-linked militants were planning attacks over the holiday period. * INDEPTH: Indonesia Maj. Gen. Firman Gani, Jakarta's police chief, said Jemaah Islamiyah militants might try to retaliate for the death of bomb-making expert Azahari Husin, who was gunned down in a...
  • Church urges PM to demand withdrawal of troops from Iraq
    Church urges PM to demand withdrawal of troops from Iraq Last Updated Thu, 22 Dec 2005 09:08:54 EST CBC News The United Church of Canada wants Prime Minister Paul Martin to help free four western hostages in Iraq by demanding that all coalition troops be withdrawn from the country. * INDEPTH: Iraq The church issued an open letter to Martin on Wednesday saying the foreign military occupation of Iraq must end. "We implor...
  • UK rules out public inquiry into London transit bombing
    UK rules out public inquiry into London transit bombing Last Updated Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:09:13 EST CBC News The British government was on the defensive Wednesday over its decision to not hold a public inquiry into the July 7 bombings in London. * INDEPTH: London Bombing "If we ended up having a full scale public inquiry ... we would end up diverting a massive amount of police and security service time," British Prime Minister Tony Bl...
  • Iranian president calls Holocaust a 'myth'
    Iranian president calls Holocaust a 'myth' Last Updated Wed, 14 Dec 2005 06:15:57 EST CBC News Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stirred up international controversy Wednesday with a speech calling the Holocaust a "myth." * INDEPTH: Iran Ahmadinejad said the myth has been created by Europeans to create a Jewish state in the heart of the Islamic world. "Today, they have created a myth in the name of Holocaust and co...
  • U.S. bans use of torture
    U.S. bans use of torture Last Updated Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:39:09 EST CBC News The United States has made a clear, direct, unequivocal statement about the use of torture. Its official policy now is to honour the United Nations ban on cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment, not just at home, but around the world as well. * INDEPTH: US Security Condoleeza Rice (File photo) Questions about torture, secret prisons and myste...
  • Muslim clerics demand release of captive Westerners
    Muslim clerics demand release of captive Westerners Last Updated Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:21:58 EST CBC News A group of influential Sunni Muslim clerics in Iraq and Palestinian activists issued separate pleas Wednesday for the release of two Canadians and three other Westerners being held hostage in Iraq. Palestinian activists called for the release of Harmeet Singh Sooden, above, and other captives, saying they helped Palestinians in the West Bank. (CP Photo/Chris...
  • Christian agency blames U.S. for kidnappings
    Christian agency blames U.S. for kidnappings Last Updated Wed, 30 Nov 2005 05:28:17 EST CBC News Christian Peacemaker Teams is blaming the U.S. occupation of Iraq for the abduction of four of its members, including two Canadians. * INDEPTH: Iraq James Loney (CP Photo/Christian Peacemaker Teams) In a statement on its website, the agency spoke about how it is saddened by the kidnappings, and how it has long opposed U.S. ...
  • Starved, tortured prisoners found in Iraqi cell
    Starved, tortured prisoners found in Iraqi cell Last Updated Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:54:58 EST CBC News Iraq is investigating the discovery of more than 170 prisoners in a government bunker in Baghdad where many were found starved, beaten and tortured. * INDEPTH: Iraq Iraqi officials made the announcement Tuesday, two days after U.S. troops surrounded the Interior Ministry compound where the detainees were being held in an underground ce...
  • CSIS head says Iraq war 'serious concern' for Canada's safety
    CSIS head says Iraq war 'serious concern' for Canada's safety Last Updated Mon, 31 Oct 2005 18:51:29 EST CBC News Jim Judd, the director of Canada's spy agency, is speaking openly about the way the war in Iraq is creating new dangers for Canada. * INDEPTH: Iraq CSIS says Canadians have joined the Iraqi insurgency. Judd appeared before a Senate committee on Monday to answer questions about the Canadian Security Intellig...
  • Arar was tortured, inquiry fact-finder concludes
    Arar was tortured, inquiry fact-finder concludes Last Updated Thu, 27 Oct 2005 11:21:24 EDT CBC News Ottawa engineer Maher Arar was tortured while in custody in Syria three years ago and he still suffers from the aftereffects of his treatment, a fact-finder appointed by the Arar inquiry concludes in a report released Thursday. * INDEPTH: Maher Arar 'Arar's psychological state was seriously damaged and he remains fragile... Economical...
  • Banish Iran from UN, Peres demands
    Banish Iran from UN, Peres demands Last Updated Thu, 27 Oct 2005 07:27:45 EDT CBC News Iran should be expelled from the United Nations after calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map," Israeli Vice Premier Shimon Peres said on Thursday. * INDEPTH: Iran Shimon Perez "Since the United Nations was established in 1945, there has never been a head of state that is a UN member state that publicly called for the elimination...
  • 4 dead in blast at Israeli market
    4 dead in blast at Israeli market Last Updated Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:10:49 EDT CBC News At least four people were killed on Wednesday in a bombing in the Israeli coastal city of Hadera, said Israeli police and emergency workers. * INDEPTH: Middle East Ambulances rushed to a market area in the Mediterranean coastal city as emergency workers treated people in a nearby field. Police say a Palestinian suicide bomber detonate...
  • Gaza evacuation begins; Israeli gunman kills 3 in West Bank
    Gaza evacuation begins; Israeli gunman kills 3 in West Bank Last Updated Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:26:28 EDT CBC News Israeli security forces began the forcible removal of protesters in the Gaza Strip early Wednesday. Unarmed soldiers broke through burning barricades and marched door-to-door ordering people out of their homes in at least five settlements. * INDEPTH: FAQ on Israeli settlements Also today, An Israeli gunman opened fire on Pa...
  • Jewish settler kills 4 Arab Israelis on bus
    Jewish settler kills 4 Arab Israelis on bus Last Updated Thu, 04 Aug 2005 22:39:37 EDT CBC News A man wearing an Israeli army uniform opened fire inside a bus in an Israeli Arab town and killed four people, in an attack being linked to the country's planned withdrawal from Gaza. 19-year-old Israeli gunman who opened fire killing passengers on a bus in the Israeli town of Shfaram. (AP photo) * INDEPTH: Israeli settlements At le...
  • Hate crimes against U.K. Muslims soar
    Hate crimes against U.K. Muslims soar Last Updated Wed, 03 Aug 2005 13:33:12 EDT CBC News The number of hate crimes primarily affecting Muslims in the United Kingdom soared 600 per cent in the weeks after the London bombings on July 7, police say. * INDEPTH: London Bombing Crime statistics show there were 269 hate-motivated attacks in the three weeks following the bombings that killed 56 people. Similar crimes during the same period ...
  • Man shot by U.K. police not connected to bomb attacks
    Man shot by U.K. police not connected to bomb attacks Last Updated Sat, 23 Jul 2005 23:56:52 EDT CBC News British police say a man they killed on a London subway train wasn't connected to Thursday's attempted bombings in the city's transit system. * INDEPTH: London bombing investigation A surveillance camera image of a suspect taken on Hackney Road bus. (AP Photo/ Metropolitan Police) The man, identified by police as 2...
  • Geneva Convention not for al-Qaeda, U.S. court says
    Geneva Convention not for al-Qaeda, U.S. court says Last Updated Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:06:21 EDT CBC News An appeal court in Washington has ruled that the 1949 Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners does not apply to members of al-Qaeda. The decision clears the way for a military commission consisting of three U.S. colonels to judge Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a prisoner in Guantanamo Bay, who was Osama Bin Laden's driver in Afghanistan. Prisoner...
  • Guantanamo inmate forced to wear bra, act like a dog: report
    Guantanamo inmate forced to wear bra, act like a dog: report Last Updated Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:21:06 EDT CBC News A suspected terrorist was forced to wear a bra, dance with another man and behave like a dog during his interrogation at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military investigators said Wednesday. * INDEPTH: Guantanamo Bay The investigators called for Army Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller to be reprimanded because he did not oversee the interro...
  • Qur'an thrown in toilet by U.S. guards: ex-prisoner
    Qur'an thrown in toilet by U.S. guards: ex-prisoner Last Updated Tue, 28 Jun 2005 12:58:50 EDT CBC News A Muslim cleric once held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has told reporters in Moscow that fellow prisoners told him that guards desecrated the Qur'an by putting it in a toilet. * INDEPTH: Guantanamo A Guantamamo Bay cell block. (AP file photo) Airat Vakhitov, who was released last year, said he did...
  • Torture at Guantanamo Bay: UN investigators
    Torture at Guantanamo Bay: UN investigators Last Updated Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:48:10 EDT CBC News There are reliable reports of prisoners being tortured at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, United Nations human rights investigators said Thursday. * INDEPTH: Guantanamo They say many of the allegations come from declassified United States government documents. The investigators also accused the U.S. of stalling on the...
  • Jewish group wants Kazemi exhibit restored
    Jewish group wants Kazemi exhibit restored Last Updated Fri, 10 Jun 2005 17:56:45 EDT CBC Arts A Jewish group in Montreal is accusing city authorities of censorship over its decision to remove a library exhibit of the work of murdered photojournalist Zahra Kazemi. On Friday, members of the Canada Jewish Alliance Against the Occupation held a mock book-banishing ceremony in front of the Côte-St-Luc library where Kazemi's photos had been on display....
  • No plans to close Guantanamo Bay, Cheney says
    No plans to close Guantanamo Bay, Cheney says Last Updated Sun, 12 Jun 2005 22:27:29 EDT CBC News U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney says there are no immediate plans to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison, which holds hundreds of people accused of links to terrorists. * INDEPTH: Guantanamo Bay "The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people," he said in an interview to be aired Mond...
  • Library removes Kazemi photos after complaint
    Library removes Kazemi photos after complaint Last Updated Tue, 07 Jun 2005 13:05:21 EDT CBC Arts An exhibition of work by slain Canadian photographer Zahra Kazemi has been shut down, following complaints it was too sympathetic to the Palestinian uprising. Last week, a collection of 23 black-and-white photos Kazemi took during her travels in countries like Israel, Iran and Afghanistan opened at a municipal library in the Montreal borough of Côte Saint-...
  • U.S. admits abuses to Qur'an in Guantanamo
    http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/06/03/quran050603.html?print U.S. admits abuses to Qur'an in Guantanamo Last Updated Sat, 04 Jun 2005 07:59:17 EDT CBC News The U.S. Pentagon confirmed Friday a list of abuses involving the Qur'an, Islam's holy book, by American personnel at Guantanamo Bay, but said the incidents were relatively minor. * INDEPTH: Afghanistan A story published in Newsweek last ...
  • The traits of the average person who hates Islam and Muslims, intolerance and ignorance
    We thought we'd cite a common example, that there are many things in common with those who hate Islam and Muslims and spread hate and propaganda.It is clear that many of these people are simply uneducated racists, while others may be a combination of racists, who are also motivated by extreme religious views to destroy Islam.Many are also on an apparent mission to amend the laws of whatever countries Muslims inhabit in order to fight Islam, unfortunately.It is...
  • Canada Makes More Sense
    This is what an educated Canadian said on CBC about Ann McLellan's comment about us not being prepared for transit attacks. It's refreshing to see that many Canadians are educated and rational unlike our Liberal government. (If we chose the NDP we know we would not be involved in any unjust or illegal wars that put us in harms way). What some Canadians had to say about McLellan's comments on CBC view point: I have no desire whatsoever to become "psychologica...
  • Response to Jim Reed's Well Written Article
    My response to a viewpoint comment on the Jim Reed article - The revaluing of a society http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_reed/20050727.html I have to say Mr. Reed's article was well researched and well thought out and is a nice balance compared to American biased media that attempts to paint today's conflicts as a black and white, west versus east or Islam versus the world picture which could not be further from the truth. I also agree with Mr. Zarnett an...
  • Canada In Afghanistan
    Helping Afghanistan will protect Canada, says top soldier http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/07/15/hillier-attack050715.html I am very proud and impressed at the common sense approach our fellow Canadians have responded to these ridiculous statements Mr Hillier made. (people's comments here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/yourspace/hillier_afghans.html) I think every letter I read there got it right and it is comforting to k...

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