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Leeds Coalition Against the War


20072006
The war is already lost
Tariq Ali writes in the Guardian

(News article courtesy of The NZ Herald)
Insider's tale of greatest art theft in history



(News article courtesy of Information Clearing House)
Seen through a Syrian lens
''Unknown Americans' are provoking civil war in Iraq

(News articles courtesy of Alternet
Israel's Gaza Problem

(News articles courtesy of The Guardian/The Observer)

Britain stops talk of 'war on terror'

There has to be equality
If Britons can join the Israeli army, those who fight for
Palestine can't be treated as terrorists

Iraqi rape (US) soldier given life sentence

Timing of Saddam verdict 'deeply suspect'

Beckett signals change on Iraq

Bush threatened to bomb Pakistan, says Musharraf


Chavez attacks 'devil' Bush in UN speech
Venezualan president accuses US of double standards on terror
Bolivian president condemns war on drugs

Iranian president labels US a lawbreaker
Britain and America are accused of aggression
Bush urges 'ordinary people' to shun extremism

Palestinians tell Blair: you are not welcome here
Hundreds sign advert in advance of Ramallah visit
PM to meet Olmert and Abbas, but not Hamas

Cluster bombing of Lebanon 'immoral' UN official tells Israel
Humanitarian chief says civilians are killed daily
Annan urges Olmert to end Gaza blockade

Promoting peace is for wimps - real governments sell weapons
Labour seems to see the escalating dangers in the Middle East as little more than an opportunity for business

Bid to block US bomb flights (to Israel) fails

Hezbollah Official Discusses Blockade

Lebanon's Month-old Oil Slick Sinks
In the aftermath of the Israeli attack on Lebanon - Greenpeace video shows the environmental damage

Pakistan blames West for terrorism
Duncan Campbell reports on the resentment that Pakistan feels when portrayed in the West as the epicentre of terrorism

In a military democracy, it is the warriors who call the shots
The failure of the attack on Lebanon has left the Israeli people less secure, but has done nothing to dent the generals' power

Bush 'helped Israeli attack on Lebanon'

Israel responded to an unprovoked attack by Hizbullah, right? Wrong
The assault on Lebanon was premeditated - the soldiers' capture provided the excuse.
It was also unnecessary


The dead of Qana: 'They found them huddled together'
It was an unremarkable three-storey building on the edge of Qana. But for two extended families, the Shalhoubs and the Hashems, it was a last refuge.

MPs attack government for breaking its own guidelines on arms sales to Israel
attack government for breaking its own guidelines on arms sales to Israel

I, too, am horrified by the awful scenes in Lebanon in the UK, bringing devastation to Lebanon. But wait...

My journey on the highway of fear with families who lost everything

Made in the UK, bringing devastation to Lebanon (and Gaza) - the British parts in Israel's deadly attack helicopters

The call that tells you: run, you're about to lose your home and possessions

Israelis ignored repeated warnings before killing UN observers
16 pleas for firing to stop went unheeded
Furious Annan condemns targeting of post

Frustration as summit fails to end conflict
For an immediate ceasefire: UN, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Greece, Jordan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Canada and Cyprus
Against: US and Britain.
Result: no immediate ceasefire


Israel keeps Hizbullah bodies 'for bargaining chips'

We Europeans must never forget that we created the
Middle East conflict


'Save us,' she screamed as another shell landed

British arms exports to Israel double in a year

Supreme court rejects Bush terror powers

Interactive: Israeli troops in Gaza (June 2006)

Israel enters Gaza (June 2006)

Guantanamo Bay - Special Report

A tunnel without end
The US version of the Guantanamo suicides is disgraceful.
The cause of death was gross injustice


'Killing themselves was unnecessary.
But it certainly is a good PR move'

Bush officials' hard line provokes condemnation 

The battle of Huda Ghalia -
who really killed girl's family on Gaza beach?

Guardian investigation casts doubt on Israeli claim that army was not to blame 

Shot man demands apology

Raid brothers recover from ordeal 

Officials admit doubts over chemical plot
Intelligence behind terror raid questioned as proof remains elusive 

Angry families threaten legal action against police over anti-terror raid
The Muslim man shot by officers protests his innocence and
accuses them of failing to give a warning
 

Officers advised to aim at upper body to incapacitate suspects

Met chief could face charge over Menezes
CPS names Blair in report on shooting
Fresh questions over east London raid
 

Fresh evidence of 'executions' by rogue US marines in Iraq
New photographs lend weight to allegations of revenge killings by US unit under attack in which 24 unarmed civilians died 

Marines may face trial over Iraq massacre
Report likely to say troops shot 24 unarmed civilians
Murder charges likely after killings and cover-up
 

Galloway uses Cherie Blair in his defence

Police seize Parliament Square protester's placards
Police moved in overnight to remove the majority of anti-war placards from Parliament Sqaure - although its lone protestor, Brian Haw, has not been evicted 

Amnesty attacks US 'disappearances'

Iraqi, 15, 'drowned after soldiers forced him into canal'
Four face court martial accused of manslaugher
Aim was allegedly to teach suspected looter a lesson


SAS man quits in protest at 'illegal' Iraq war

BBC's coverage of Israel-Palestinian conflict 'misleading'
Study finds failures in news balance and depth
Reports said to show little to suggest deliberate bias


I,000 secret CIA flights revealed
MEPs' report says member states knew of abductions
Documents show 'strange routes' and stopovers


Britain took part in mock Iran invasion
Pentagon planned for Tehran conflict with war game involving UK troops

No plan B - so could the US ever learn to live with Iran in the nuclear club?

Dead birds, terrorists, Franciscans: it's 15th-century Florence all over again
The age of Savonarola and Machiavelli highlights the dangers of aregime that asserts the supremacy of values or faith over politics

RAF doctor sent to jail for refusing to serve in Iraq
· Judge says sentence a warning to armed forces
· Officer vows to appeal against court's decision

'There was a little girl clinging on to her dead dad screaming her eyes out. We never had time to stop'
James Piotrowski wrote a letter to the Guardian recently from his military prison cell in Colchester. In it he describes the events that he experienced while deployed on the frontline of the invasion of Iraq in 2003

US allies are behind the death squads and ethnic cleansing
Iraq's American overlords at last seem to have grasped the danger posed by their friends' militias. But it may be too late

US plans strike to topple Iran regime - report
· US 'intent on Iran attack'
· Bush accused of 'messianic' mission

If ever there was a nation not to drive to extremes, it is Iran
The US and Britain are goading Iran to acquire nuclear weapons, while Blair's jihadist rhetoric is inciting a fourth crusade

UN report calls for closure of Guantanamo
Guantanamo Bay: Prison 'breaks conventions on torture'

Mr Blair, you sent my son to die in a war based on lies
Occupation has achieved nothing positive. It is time to bring our troops home and let the Iraqi people decide their own future