Al-Ahram Weekly Online   26 Dec. 2002 - 1 Jan. 2003
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Raising a voice
Anti-globalisation and anti-war activists from around the world closed ranks with their Arab peers in Cairo in pursuit of a 'different world'. Omayma Abdel-Latif reports

Democracy first
The anti-war campaign is as much about democracy as about stopping the war. Harald Schumann, an outspoken German advocate of democracy spoke to Gamal Nkrumah

'People should be outraged'
Rasha Saad talks to two guests of the Cairo conference, Ramsey Clark and Saad Qassem Hammoudy, about US manipulation of the UN and the consequences of another war on Iraq

The sacrifices of war
Saad Qassem Hammoudy, a leading member of the Ba'ath Party and secretary-general of the Iraqi Conference of Arab Popular Forces, discusses allegations that Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction and explains why he thinks the US and Britain are intent on war

The policy of punishment
ROGUE CHIEFS: They believed in the system -- and it failed them. On the fringes of last week's conference, Nyier Abdou catches up with former UN humanitarian co-ordinators for Iraq Hans von Sponeck and Denis Halliday to talk about warmongering, doublespeak and life after the UN

Scylla and Charybdis
Denis Halliday navigates dangerous waters between a cruel system and a brutal regime

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