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3166 Saudi women & girls may have died because of religious cops -- rank: 106

... Rights Watch <hrwatchnyc at igc.org> Subject: Saudi Arabia: Religious Police Role in School Fire Criticized Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 ... igc.topica.com/lists/hrw-news/read> Saudi Arabia: Religious Police Role in School Fire Criticized (New York, March 15, 2002 ... tragedy has focused attention on the role of the religious police as well as the state agency responsible for the education ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Mar 15 12:33:24 PST 2002

3167 Peace Now...Freedom of Speech Later... -- rank: 106

... by several anti-occupation organizations, Peace Now went to the police and got several activists arrested over 2 signs Peace Now ...

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Author:	Bryan Atinsky
Date:	Sun Mar 17 10:32:26 PST 2002

3168 KLA in Le Monde Diplomatique -- rank: 106

[This article complements Chris Hedges' article in Foreign Affairs. He concentrated on the last two years and telescoped the 15 years preceding. This one concentrates on the 15 years preceding and telescopes the last two years. And where they overlap, they concur. A friend says this one was written by ...

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Author:	Michael Pollak
Date:	Sun Jun 6 04:56:53 PDT 1999

3169 The CIA, Maj. Gen. Babar and the Taliban -- rank: 106

The following piece (url and full text below) is written from an Indian perspective. It appeared late 1998. One of the most startling charges, at least for some, would be that the CIA in collaboration with Gen. Babar was directly responsible for setting up the Taliban in Afghanistan as part of ...

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Author:	Charles Jannuzi
Date:	Wed Mar 20 07:15:40 PST 2002

3170 [lbo-talk] Austin crowd kills man at Texas Juneteenth celebration -- rank: 106

... he was riding in struck and injured a young girl, police said Wednesday. Police believe 2,000 to 3,000 people were in the ... help the driver, but the crowd turned on him, said police Commander Harold Piatt. Morales was beaten to death by as ...

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Author:	B.
Date:	Wed Jun 20 12:52:18 PDT 2007

3171 NPR Broadcast of David Brock Interrupted -- rank: 106

... was interrupted by a so-called "amber alert" from area police. The police pre-empted the station. The police broadcast that a child in Forney (east of Dallas) had ... to be suspicious, but I am. It looks like the police knowingly and deliberately interfered with NPR's broadcast of the ...

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Author:	John K. Taber
Date:	Tue Mar 26 18:23:08 PST 2002

3172 "ascriptions jostling forward" -- rank: 106

... Mayer wrote: >Please. "Cop" here appears to mean, metaphorically, "ideological >police", surely this usage has been seen before? But it fits ... same by pretending to have been charged with being >actual police agents. And then, demanding the "expulsion" of >individuals. > >These two ... debasement of >political debate without the redundancy of actually being "police >agents". Right. Max Sawicky and Chip Berlet shrink from political ... basically agree with each other? The "redundancy of actually being 'police agents'"? I don't know whether the adjective that leaps ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 27 15:36:30 PST 2002

3173 words, words, words -- rank: 106

... is set in Detroit (more specifically "Old Detroit") and the police force has just been privatized by a company that boasts ... where everything is a commodity. The company that runs the police force is in the process of privatising all of Detroit ...

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Author:	Kevin Robert Dean
Date:	Thu Mar 28 20:35:31 PST 2002

3174 Russia's second Vietnam: Mutiny, death, and corruption in Chechnya -- rank: 106

Moscow dispatch ------------------------------------ >From Chechnya with love http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4383838,00.html Mutiny and military bungles are key features of the war in Chechnya - a far cry from the victorious scenes depicted by Russia's TV and film industry, writes Ian Traynor Ian Traynor Thursday March ...

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Author:	Hakki Alacakaptan
Date:	Fri Mar 29 00:11:48 PST 2002

3175 [lbo-talk] Japan draws up guidelines to cut suicide rate -- rank: 106

Reuters.com Japan draws up guidelines to cut suicide rate http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUST14235020070608 Fri Jun 8, 2007 By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan set a target on Friday for cutting its suicide rate, one of the highest among industrial nations, by more than 20 percent over the ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Sat Jun 9 07:55:01 PDT 2007

3176 [lbo-talk] Pakistan Arrests 300 Workers from Opposition + Protests Rage against Musharraf -- rank: 106

... From Opposition By CARLOTTA GALL ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 6 The police have arrested more than 300 political party workers over the ... Fazal Khan, told the independent channel GEO Television that the police had arrested 312 local political leaders and workers throughout the ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Jun 8 08:40:47 PDT 2007

3177 [lbo-talk] Occupy Oakland Move In Day -- rank: 106

... defend the action, a way to counteract the force that police

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Wed Jan 25 09:09:22 PST 2012

3178 [lbo-talk] Bangladesh -- rank: 106

<http://himalmag.com/> Wariness and weariness As Bangladesh teeters on the brink of what could be called a 'civic war', the military-backed interim government is trying hard to prove that it is still in charge. For a while, it looked as though the regime might actually do what it ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Jun 7 05:57:38 PDT 2007

3179 Terror Inc. -- rank: 106

... to be treated as a crime, with an appropriate > international police response, especially since the alleged > offender wasn't a state ... is it > unsatisfying. But what would be an "appropriate international police response"? I mean, if it meant going in and ridding ... ve seen plenty of people say they'd support a "police action" but they never say how it would differ from ...

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Author:	Dennis Perrin
Date:	Sat May 4 07:54:07 PDT 2002

3180 Terror Inc. -- rank: 106

... like us who suported the idea of a non-unilateral police type action under some international auspices. Play fair. -Chip > -----Original ... Dennis Perrin wrote: > > > > But what would be an "appropriate international police > response"? I mean, if > > it meant going in and ridding ... ve seen plenty of people say they'd support a > "police action" but > > they never say how it would differ from ...

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Author:	Chip Berlet
Date:	Sat May 4 09:47:39 PDT 2002