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- "Image ethics" in and about Africa
- The thoughts to follow are inspired by a number of recent works in art history and visual culture, most of which concern parts of the world other than Africa. The excellent essays of Photography's Other Histories (2003) edited by Christopher Pinney and Nicolas Peterson and the chapters of Raw Histories:...
- Research articles 2008-06-22
- Qutbism: an ideology of Islamic-Fascism
- The recently published National Military Strategic Plan for the War on Terrorism (NMSP-WOT) is to be commended for identifying "ideology" as al Qaeda's center of gravity. (1) The identification of an ideology as the center of gravity rather than an individual or group is a significant shift from a "capture...
- Research articles 2007-03-22
- CIA agents ordered to face Italy trial over imam's kidnapping
- MILAN, Italy AFP — An Italian judge ordered 26 Americans to stand trial for the kidnapping of an Egyptian imam, setting up the first criminal examination of the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" program. Two former Italian intelligence chiefs were also among those indicted by Milan judge Caterina Interlandi. Osama...
- Research articles 2007-02-16
- CIA allegedly kidnapped two Muslims resident in Austria in 2002-03
- VIENNA AFP — The CIA kidnapped at least two Muslim residents in Austria, including one with links to a former imam in Italy who was similarly abducted, a magazine reported. According to Profil magazine, US secret service agents grabbed Gamal Menshawi, an Egyptian doctor and an eminent member of...
- Research articles 2006-08-20
- US-Italy row over CIA abduction flares up on July 4
- ROME AFP — Italy angrily reiterated it had no prior knowledge of the CIA's abduction of a Muslim cleric in Milan in 2003, rejecting assertions by a former CIA agent in a newspaper interview that Italy's secret service chief had personally consented to the operation. The allegations stoked fresh...
- Research articles 2005-07-04
- Iraqi forces find items belonging to murdered British hostage
- BAGHDAD AFP — Iraqi forces have found items belonging to British aid worker Margaret Hassan who was taken hostage last year and believed to have been slain by her abductors, an interior ministry official said. The items, including documents and clothes, were found on Sunday during a police raid...
- Research articles 2005-05-01
- Suspects confess to murder of British hostage in Iraq
- BAGHDAD AFP — Five suspects arrested by Iraqi forces have confessed to the kidnapping and murder of British aid worker Margaret Hassan, an interior ministry official told AFP. "They have confessed to taking part in the kidnapping and death of Margaret Hassan," the official said Sunday. Hassan, 59,...
- Research articles 2005-05-01
- Iraq says suspects confess to murder of British hostage
- BAGHDAD AFP — Five suspects arrested by Iraqi forces have confessed to the kidnapping and murder of British aid worker Margaret Hassan last year, an interior ministry official said. "They have confessed to taking part in the kidnapping and death of Margaret Hassan," the official told AFP Sunday. ...
- Research articles 2005-05-01
- 25 dead in funeral bombing, Australian feared kidnapped in Iraq
- MOSUL, Iraq AFP — A suicide car bomb ripped through a Kurdish funeral in northern Iraq, killing 25 people and wounding 30, as a new hostage crisis erupted with an Australian pleading for his life in a new videotape. Another 14 Iraqis were killed in relentless violence around the...
- Research articles 2005-05-01
- Iraq detains five over murder of British hostage
- BAGHDAD AFP — Iraqi troops detained five suspects in the murder of British hostage Margaret Hassan after recovering some of her belongings in a raid in a rare coup for the country's under-fire security forces. Five police were among 11 Iraqis killed Sunday in a new flurry of violence...
- Research articles 2005-05-01
- US "doing everything possible" to find US hostage
- BAGHDAD AFP — The US government raced to find hostage Jeffrey Ake, who was shown pleading for his life in a video aired on Arab satellite television channel Al-Jazeera the previous day. "We remain actively engaged," in trying to find Ake, a US official in Baghdad said on condition...
- Research articles 2005-04-14
- US soldier found guilty of murdering unarmed Iraqi
- CAMP TAHREER, Iraq AFP — A US soldier who said he shot dead an unarmed and wounded Iraqi civilian to "put him out of his misery" was found guilty of murder at a court martial in Baghdad. Staff Sergent Johnny Horne was convicted of the unpremeditated murder of a...
- Research articles 2004-12-10
- Hassan's Irish Kin Beg for Mercy
- Carey, Mairead Irish Voice 11-09-2004 THE family of kidnapped aid worker Margaret Hassan made an emotional appeal on Tuesday for her release as it was revealed that her captors have laid down a new ultimatum threatening to kill her if their demands...
- Research articles 2004-11-09
- Iraq poll may help democracy across Arab world: Jordan prince
- AMMAN AFP — Successful elections in Iraq would help the entire Middle East region and boost democracy across the Arab world, according to Jordan's Prince Hassan, former crown prince and uncle of King Abdullah II. "A comprehensive election process is the objective of any administration during a period of...
- Research articles 2004-11-05
- Car bomb rocks Baghdad, more foreign hostages snatched
- BAGHDAD AFP — At least nine people were injured after a car bomb punched another hole into battle-scarred Baghad, while militants kidnapped more foreigners and shot dead a top oil ministry official. Fires were raging near major oil wells in northern Iraq after attacks on a pipeline network halted...
- Research articles 2004-11-03
- Aid worker's captors give 48-hour deadline for British troops to quit Iraq
- DUBLIN AFP — The kidnappers of aid worker Margaret Hassan threatened to hand her over to the group led by Iraqi militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a new video which also reportedly showed the British-Irish woman in a distressed state. The captors said they would turn Hassan over to...
- Research articles 2004-11-02
- British hostage begs Blair to call off Iraq redeployment: Al-Jazeera
- DOHA AFP — British aid worker Margaret Hassan, kidnapped in Iraq, begged Prime Minister Tony Blair to save her life by calling off the planned redeployment of British troops close to Baghdad, in a video broadcast by Al-Jazeera. "Please help me, please help me, these might be my last...
- Research articles 2004-10-22
- British hostage asks Blair to pull out troops from Iraq: Al-Jazeera
- DOHA AFP — British aid worker Margaret Hassan, kidnapped in Iraq, pleaded to the British people for help to secure her release by asking Prime Minister Tony Blair to pull British troops out of the country, in a video broadcast by Al-Jazeera. "Please help me, please help me, these...
- Research articles 2004-10-22
- Palestinians savour rare chance of victory by West Bank crooner
- SALFIT, West Bank AFP ? His portraits line walls alongside the "martyrs" killed by Israeli forces but reverence for Ammar Hassan stems not from his exploits in the Palestinian uprising, but for his voice which could propel him to victory this weekend in a hugely popular television talent show. ...
- Research articles 2004-08-25
- Jordan's Prince Hassan urges more democracy in Arab world
- BERLIN AFP ? Arabs must do more to instil democracy in their own countries and fundamentally reform monarchies and the patronage system, Prince Hassan of Jordan said. In a German newspaper interview, the prince, the uncle of Jordan's King Abdullah, called on the West not to work with "neo-nationalist"...
- Research articles 2003-11-25
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