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2010-01-20 10:40   Johannesburg – Five people, among them a 60-year-old woman, were pulled out alive from a destroyed hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Tuesday by SA’s Gift of the Givers rescue team, the organisation said on Wednesday.   “After 2.5 hours of intense activity, team leader Ahmed Bham together …

  By URI AVNERY    The Quiet American was the hero of Graham Greene’s novel about the first Vietnam War, the one fought by the French.   He was a young and naïve American, a professor’s son, who had enjoyed a good education at Harvard, an idealist with all the …

By Patrick Martin WSWS, January 8, 2010   The statement made by President Barack Obama Thursday about the Christmas Day attempted bombing of a Northwest Airlines flight over Detroit is a continuation of a government-wide cover-up, aided and abetted by the media, of the actions of US intelligence and security …

  New America Media, News Digest, Jalal Ghazi, Posted: Jan 06, 2010  Forget about oil, occupation, terrorism or even Al Qaeda. The real hazard for Iraqis these days is cancer. Cancer is spreading like wildfire in Iraq. Thousands of infants are being born with deformities. Doctors say they are struggling …

Monday, November 09, 2009 20:43 Mecca time, 17:43 GMT           Palestinians and foreign activists have torn down segments of Israel’s separation wall in a demonstration marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.   In the town of Qalandiya in the occupied West Bank, …

January 7, 2010 Dearborn native says she was told she was singled out by security   ORALANDAR BRAND-WILLIAMS The Detroit News   Detroit — A national Muslim civil rights group is asking the Transportation Security Administration for clarification on whether Muslim women wearing Islamic head scarves, or hijabs, will be …

Mukul Sharma Wednesday, Jan 06, 2010   In the absence of judicial oversight, the detentions in Bagram have been marked by torture and other ill-treatment. Like Guantanamo, Bagram should be closed.   Images of caged and shackled detainees at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, of torture at the …

  Produced by Chip Mitchell on Wednesday, January 06, 2010   A southwest suburban Muslim is praising a deal that ends a felony case against someone who yanked on her headscarf.   Amal Abusumayah says Valerie Kenney, 54, complained loudly in a Tinley Park grocery aisle about a November shooting …

     By Mark LeVine   Guarding against similar attacks could cost tens of billions of dollars [GALLO/GETTY]   Almost immediately after it was learned that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a US airliner using explosives concealed in his underpants, received training in Yemen, …

  WASHINGTON — Before detonating a suicide bomb in Afghanistan last week, a Jordanian militant was considered by American spy agencies to be the most promising informant in years about the whereabouts of Al Qaeda’s top leaders, including Ayman al-Zawahri, the terrorist group’s second-ranking operative.   American intelligence officials said …