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US BOMBS AFGHANISTAN, AGAIN 1:46 American pilots bombed Afghanistan day and night today. As Aaron Glantz reports, one of the targets hit was a United Nations office charged with removing land mines in Afghanistan. Four aid workers were killed. Aaron Glantz has the story. US WAR-PLANES FLY OVER TURKEY 2:13 NATO ally Turkey's government is asking parliament for permission in principle to send soldiers abroad. The vote could lay the ground for a possible troop deployment beyond Turkey's borders as...
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DEMONSTRATIONS ROCK PAKISTAN 2:58 United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson today called on the United States to suspend of air strikes against Afghanistan in order to provide aid to civilians before the onset of winter. Robinson made the statement as Angry Muslims took to the streets around the world after the first Friday prayers since President Bush launched military raids on Afghanistan, which the Taliban says have killed nearly 300 people.. ? Verna Avery Brown speaks with...
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Tony Cross reports on the APEC meeting in Shanghai.(4:00) Verna Avery Brown spoke to Fariba Nawa, a journalist in Pakistan.(5:28) Sputnik Kilambi reports from India. (4:44) Aimee Pomerloau reports on the thousands who came out to support Oakland Congresswomen Barbara Lee in her lone vote against giving Bush the power to go after terrorists however he liked. (6:30 including some music, 5:02 without it)
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U.S. WILL DELIVER BOMBS FOR RAMADAN (2:29) B-52 bombers pounded the front line north of Kabul in one of the strongest attacks so far, blasting a Taliban field headquarters. Afghan opposition forces said the bombing appeared directed by U.S. forces on the ground. Strong U.S. attacks were also reported Friday against Taliban positions defending the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif.The attacks against both the Kabul and Mazar-e-Sharif fronts showed increased U.S. support for the opposition Northern...
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BUSH TALKS TODELEGATES IN POLAND The United States has confirmed it is using 15 thousand pound bombs against Afghanistan. These so called daily cutters are some of the most devastating weapons in the US arsenal short of nuclear weapons. This as President George W. Bush adressed a summitt of Central and European leaders in Warsaw, Poland. In his adress, Bush accused the Al-Qaeda network of attempting to aquire nuclear weapons. Jeremy Scahill has more on the developments. WOMEN LEFT OUT OF...
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BILLIONAIRE MAYOR FOR NEW YORK 3:50 Republican billionaire Michael Bloomberg was elected New York's 108th Mayor last night after a very close race against Democrat Mark Green that went long into the next morning. Bloomberg parlayed a 50 million dollar bankroll on his campaign that helped him pull ahead of Green by forty thousand votes. But political analysts say the democratic party was also weakened by infighting and racial undertones that cost the party votes in the final days of the...
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NORTHERN ALLIANCE TAKES KEY CITY (2:06) As this program went to air, leaders of the CIA-backed Northern Alliance claimed they took the key Afghan city of Mazar e- Shareef. If true, it could prove to be a pivitol turningpoint in the US war against Afghanistan. Jeremy Scahill reports. WHAT THE OFFENSIVE MEANS (1:16) Free Speech Radio News Correspondent Fariba Nawa is in Islamabaad. She explains the importance of Mazar e-Shareef. FAST TRACK OFF FAST TRACK? (2:51) A vote is scheduled next week in...
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LONG GUERRILLA WAR LIKELY 3:00 Eight foreign aid workers held hostage by the Taliban are free now -- air-lifted to Islamabaad. This after anti-Taliban fighters stumbled upon them in a jail where they were being held on charges of spreading Christianity.The Western aid workers were in Afghanistan on assignment for the German-based Shelter Now International charity. The charge of spreading Christianity in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan carries the death penalty. The head of the aid group, told...
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MASSACRE IN NORTHERN AFGHANISTAN OVER 2:43 A massacre carried out by Afghan troops opposing the Taliban is over. Hundreds of Taliban supporters are dead. Over a hundred opposition forces perished, too as a result of US bombs that reigned down on the fort over the past few days. Jeremy Scahill has more. THE FUTURE OF AFGHANISTAN 4:18 The UN talks on Afghanistan opened today just outside Bonn.4 leading factions from Afghanistan, Including representatives of the Exiled King, the Northern Alliance...
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WOMEN AND THE NEW AFGHAN GOVERNMENT 4:14 The Afghan Women?s Peace Summit in Brussells is now underway.A colaition fo Wommens groups form around the world and A group of about 50 Afghan Wommen are at the meeitng calling for womens rights and full participation in the new governemnt that is being formed.FSRN?s Charles Michael Ray has this story from Brussells. SHARING POWER HARD INSIDE AFGHANISTAN 3:35 Delegates from four Afghan factions have signed an agreement on a transitional government to...
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ASHCROFT DEFENDS HIS RECORD 3:43 Attorney General John Ashcroft defended Bush administration measures to today declaring the nation must not let down its guard against threats that present ``a daily chronicle of the hatred of Americans by fanatics.''Ashcroft's appearance came in an atmosphere of mounting criticism by Senate Democrats that the Justice Departmentmoved too far, too quickly, to implement a host of stern investigative measures in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Kata...
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WHY IS BUSH HOLDING THE BIN LADEN TAPE? The Administration has been priming the american public for the release of the bin Laden videotape for the last several days. Bush claims the tape shows bin Laden?s undeniable role in the sinister plot to attack the World Trade Centers. Yet the Administration has waited until today to release the tapes for public viewing. Verna Avery Brown reports. MILITARY COURTS AND CONSPIRACY CHARGES The French government today demanded United States spare a French...
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US INTO SOMALIA? 4:53 Police in Somalia said today they had arrested four Iraqi Kurds and one Palestinian for questioning over possible links to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. This comes as the Bush administration indicated this week that Somalia could be its next target in the so called war on terror. Free Speech Radio News Correspondent Jeremy Scahill looks at what Washington may be after in Somalia. EXAMINING ARGENTINA?S ECONOMIC CRISIS 4:11 Argentina's Congress has accepted the...
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AFGHAN REFUGEES (6:47) Pratap Chatergee talks with Verna Avery Brown about the serious refugees situation in and around Afghanistan.He is currently monitoring the humanitarian aid moving from Uzbekistan into Afghanistan. BUSH'S BUDGET (3:41) President Bush announced that due to the government's war on terrorism he may not even try to submit a balanced budget, contrary to the standard conservative rhetoric about fiscal responsibility and the economic health of the nation.Meanwhile, he is also...
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TALIBAN SHACKLED AND SEDATED, SENT TO CUBA 20 prisoners from the military action in Afghanistan arrived at the US naval base on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba today. It is the first stage of a large-scale operation to move an estimated 300 people to the small island nation, for detention and expected interrogation. Yesterday, 40 specially trained military police officers watched over the prisoners who marched single file to the waiting transport plane in Kandahar, Afghanistan hooded, and shackled....
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POWELL SAYS U-S IN AFGHANISTAN TO STAY (1:39) For the first time in a quarter of a century, a US Secretary of State has stepped foot on Afghan soil. Colin Powell was in Kabul today for meetings with the new US-installed government. He told reporters today that the US would continue its bombing and military campaign as long as Washington believes that it is necessary. He also said that American troops would remain in Afghanistan for the foreseeable future but that they would not participate in...
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Senate Debates Big Tax Cuts for Big Donors In the wake of the collapse of Enron, the Texas based energy corporation which donated liberally to Republicans and Democrats in recents years?.The House of Representatives has taken the unusual step of forcing a vote on campaign finance reform, despite opposition from Republican party leaders. Last Spring the Senate passed it?s own version of campaign finance reform banning soft money contributions, but the house proposal remained stalled in...
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Bush Won?t Give Up Enron Documents Bush Administration told newspapers the President won't touch the Enron issue in his first state of the union speech tonight. Instead he'll make a plea for corporate responsibility. But questions remain regarding the White House's relationship with the bankrupt energy trading company and the US General Accounting Office is threatening to sue the administration tommorrow to force the release of documents concerning meetings the administration held with energy...
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Is Congress Ready to Reform Campaign Finance? (5:02) On the day former Enron President Kenneth Lay invokes his fifth ammendment rights before Congress, the House of Representives prepare to vote on campaign finance reform. There are at least three campaign finance proposals. And as Kata Mester reports from Capitol Hill, advocates say none of them will clean up the political system. Milosevic Trial Begins (3:49) Yugoslavia's former president Slobodan Milosevic went on trial for war crimes in a...
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Enron "Whistleblower" Before Congress Kata Mester reports from Capital Hill on the testimony of Sharon Watkins before the House of Representitives Milosevic: Clinton?s the War Criminal The Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has hit back at his accusers, on the third day of his trial at the UN war crimes tribunal at The Hague. He told the court Nato justified its 1999 conflict with Yugoslavia with an "ocean of lies". Geraldine Coughlan was in the courtroom????.....
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Bush: "No Wonder I Think They?re Evil" President Bush toured the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea today. He reiterated his belief that North Korea is evil but said the United States has no intentions to invade the nation. However, he also said North Korea must demonstrate it does not intend to threaten its southern neighbor or as the US will honor its commitment to defend South Korea. Alan Lewkovitz files this report from the Korean DMZ. The Legality of Executing...
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Israeli Army Occupies Nablus Apartment Building, Evicts Residents (this and next story combined 4:37) Early this morning, Israeli forces took over two apartment buildings on the outskirts of Nablus in the Occupied Territories. The residents were forced into one apartment on the ground floor of the building and have been denied relief supplies. Host Nell Abram speaks to Shawan Jabarin is the Human Rights Officer for al-Haq, a human rights organization based in Ramallah. Sharon Promises...
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NYPD Cop, Torturer Walks Free (2:33) Charles Schwartz, a former New York City police officers previously convicted in the torture of Abner Louima, is free on bail today. Louima was brutally beaten and sodomized in a police station bathroom following his arrest outside a nightclub in 1997. Last week, a federal appeals court ordered a new trial for the ex-officer after overturning his two earlier convictions. Ginger Otis reports from New York. Defense Presents Its Case in the Al Amin Murder Trial...
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Candidates in Zimbabwe made a last campaign sweep through their party strongholds on Friday following a court ruling that barred tens of thousands of black farm workers from neighboring countries from voting in that country's most contested presidential race. The Supreme Court, largely made up of judges loyal to Mugabe, ruled late yesterday to ban those who hold dual citizenship from voting. As the countdown to Zimbabwe's presidential election draws to a close, there've been scattered reports...
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Will Ariel Sharon Back Down? (4:44) At one Palestinian refugee camp today, hundreds of teen-age boys and men have been standing in line, stripped to the waist, hands held to their heads -- waiting to be blindfolded and hand cuffed by Israeli soldiers. They're among the one thousand Palestinians being detained by Israeli troops as Israel presses ahead with its military campaign against Palestinian militants. Five Palestinians were killed. Meantime, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon announced...
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Israel Invades Ramallah (5:43) The Israeli army sent thousands of troops backed by tanks and helicopter gun ships into Palestinian areas of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in a massive operation to round up militants. Thirty Palestinians are reportedly dead and hundreds taken into custody in Israel's biggest ground offensive in twenty years. Palestinian gunmen killed seven Israelis. The Israeli army said its aim is to arrest militants and dismantle what it calls the "infrastructure of...
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Israeli Army Kills Italian Journalist (3:54) The Israeli government continues the largest ground offensive in Palestinian controlled areas of the West Bank and the Gaza in two decades. The Palestinian Authority says a ceasefire would be impossible as long as Israeli forces were in Palestinian areas. This just hours after the UN passed a resolution calling for a recognized Palestinian state alongside Israel. The US-sponsored resolution also calls for an immediate cease-fire in the...
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?Zinni Arrives in the Middle East (1:59) U.S. special envoy Anthony Zinni arrived today in the Middle East and met immediately with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. As Zinni arrived, Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer ordered a gradual pullback of Israeli troops from the West Bank town of Ramallah, where fighting earlier in today killed four Palestinians. Ben-Eliezer provided no details on the timing or extent of the withdrawal. Palestinian Authority officials say they will not take part...
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Palestinian Authority "Fully Ready" for Ceasefire (1:29) Palestinian security officials say a cease-fire declaration is possible after a joint security meeting later today. The Palestinian Authority said yesterday it is "fully ready" to begin implementing the Tenet plan. The areas from which the Israeli Defense Force withdrew remained quiet yesterday, but there were incidents in other areas of the West Bank and Gaza. Awad Duaedes has more from Ramallah. Mumia Abu Jamal...
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Bush Goes to South America to Talk Drugs In Lima Peru this weekend, President Bush will meet with South American leaders including Colombian president Andres Pastrana. The White House is asking Congress for more money to expand the anti-narcotics program known as Plan Columbia. Among other components, President Bush wants to expand arial fumigation of illegal drug crops. A group of Colombian farmers told Congress last week the fumigation is a failure and that it's poisoning their families and...
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No Power at Arab League Summitt Saudi analysts tell the Guardian of London that the US Air Force has begun preparations to move its Gulf headquarters from Saudi Arabia to Qatar to bypass Saudi objections to military action against Iraq. The independent Saudi Information Agency based in Washington reports that US military trucks have been seen leaving the base at al Kharj and arriving at the border with Qatar. The vast al-Udeid air base in Qatar has become increasingly important to the US air...
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Israeli Troops Shoot Unarmed Peace Observers Earlier this morning listeners of Pacifica station WBAI in New York city awoke to chilling sounds from the streets of the Bietshalla refugee camp in Bethlehem. WBAI?s morning show, Wake Up Call, had connected live to an Italian photo journalist with the Italian Independent Media Center who identified himself as Manolo. He is part of the delegation of foreigners that are currently in the occupied territories as Human Shields against the Israeli...
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? Hundreds of Palestinian Dead in Jenin Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres disputed Palestinian claims of a massacre at refugee camps in the West Bank town of Jenin. Over 100 Palestinians died in Jenin today, but Peres says Israeli troops faced fierce resistance from Palestinian militants holed up in a small pocket in the Jenin refugee camp. The Palestinian Authority has compared the casualties in Jenin to the massacre by Israeli-allied Lebanese Christian militia of hundreds of Palestinians...
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Powell's Trip Ends In Failure (3:53) Us Secretary of State Colin Powell has wrapped up what the white house called a peace mission to the middle east. Before leaving Israel Powell told reporters he was departing without a cease-fire agreement. And as Jeremy Scahill reports, Powell?s visit is being seen widely in the Arab world as a boost to Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon. Civil Rights Group Sues Ashcroft (3:22) A class action lawsuit filed today by the Center for Constitutional Rights...
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Report from Jenin In Jenin, attention is now focusing on the rescue and salvage efforts asIsraeli officials desperately scramble to explain the alleged war crimes committed in the Jenin refugee camp as the international anger over the devastation rose to new heights yesterday.With this report from Jenin is International Peace Observor Kristen Shurr. Fascists Rise in France The far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen snatched second place in the French presidential election yesterday, eliminating the...
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"Freedom Summer for Palestine" Activists are inviting thousands of people from the all over the world to participate as international peace observers in the Occupied Territories, calling it Freedom Summer. International Peace Observers, like Adam Shapiro who just returned from Ramallah, say the observers perform vital services like deliver food and escort wounded palestinians to hospitals in a time when international governmental agencies are not. However, a number of peace observers...
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Postcard from Gaza (2:58) South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu has accused Israel of practising apartheid in its policies towards the Palestinians. The Nobel peace laureate said he was "very deeply distressed" by a visit to the Holy Land, adding that "it reminded me so much of what happened to us black people in South Africa". The Israeli military, meanwhile, began withdrawing from the West Bank town of Hebron today, a day after troops entered the Palestinian city, killing...
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May Day Special. There are problems with this program, many of the host tracks are impared, but it is airable. We are sorry, we tried to fix it but unfortunatly that wasn't possible. Over a Million March for May Day in Paris There's been an enormous response in France today to calls to turn traditional May Day demonstrations into a huge " no " to far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen becoming president.Le Pen beat Socialist Prime Minister Lionel Jospin in the first round of the country's...
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Still No UN Mission to Jenin The UN Security Council remains deadlocked today over Israel's rejection of a fact-finding mission to the Jenin refugee camp, as Palestinians reject a U.S.-backed proposal for an international peace conference on the Middle East. Susan Wood reports from the United Nations. What Now for the United Nations? We go now to Phyliss Bennis who is a fellow for the New Internationalism Project at the Institue for Policy Studies in Washington DC. She has been studying the...
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Aung San Suu Kyi Free The Burmese pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been released from nearly 20 months of house arrest by the military junta who has power in Burma. Thousands of cheering supporters mobbed her as she arrived at the headquarters of her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD). According to Suu Kyi herself, in a statement made hours ago, her release is unconditional and she is free to go anywhere she wants. Inside the Church of the Nativity The Director of the...
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Negotiations Stall in Bethlehem (3:28) The U.N. General Assembly scheduled an emergency session today as a draft resolution introduced by Sudan on behalf of the Arab Group of nations and by South Africa on behalf of the Nonaligned Movement of developing countries would ask Secretary-General Kofi Annan to submit a report on events in Jenin and other Palestinian cities within two weeks. This as the Israeli military said today that an end to the 36-day standoff at the Church of the Nativity was...
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More Bombings in the Middle East Host Deepa Fernandes speaks with Free Speech Radio News Correspondent Awad Duades in Ramallah. House Votes for Nuclear Waste Dump Site at Yucca Mountain The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly today to override Nevada?s safety concerns and force the state to take over 40,000 tons of nuclear waste which would be dumped for thousands of years under theYucca Mountain. This despite a recent general accounting office report citing 293 unanswered questions...
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Is the Stand-off Over at the Church of the Nativity? (3:21) The European Union has agreed to a sponsor a deal aimed at ending the standoff at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem whereby EU states will take in suspectedPalestinian militants, an Italian government source said today. This as talks between Palestinian and Israeli negotiating teams aimed at ironing out the last few sticking points in the 38-day standoff at the Church of the Nativity broke down this morning. Joining us from...
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Peace Rally in Israel (4:10) In the biggest rally inside Israelduring nearly 20 months of Palestinian-Israeli violence close to 100,000 Israelis crowded Tel Aviv's central square Saturday night challenging their government's occupation abd invasion of the West Bank and Gaza.Unfazed by the heavy police , a broad range of people attended the demonstrationwaving flags and carrying banners.Peace activists say more will turn out as the violence escalates more Israelis will protest the occupation....
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Carter Calls for an End to Cuban Embargo (5:06) Speaking in Spanish in a live, uncensored broadcast, Jimmy Carter appealed for America to drop its embargo, and for the Cuba government to respect internationally recognized human rights. Cuban President Fidel Castro offered applause as Carter finished his speech and smiled as Carter expressed gratitude for the chance to speak. More from Sasha Lilley in Havana. Congress to Vote on Bush Welfare Plan (4:04) Republicans were pushing tougher work...
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East Timor: Days to Independence Sunday is the day East Timor will be handed the baton of independence by Kofi Annan. Bill Clinton, Richard Hollbrook, and Australian Prime Minister John Howard are guests of honor. And after receiving a personally delivered invititation by President Xanana Gusmao, Indonesian president Megawati Sukarnpoutri will also be present. So as the Timorese leadership courts these world leaders who were so complicit with the Indonesian occupation, Timorese wonder if the...
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Former Klansman Guilt in Church Bombing A mostly white jury found 71 year old Robert Frank Cherry guilty of murdering four black girls in connection with the bombing the Six Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama over 30 years ago. The Church was a gathering spot for blacks protesting segregation in Birmingham in the early 1960s.It was bombed on Sept. 15, 1963, just five days after the city's public schools were integrated.Jack Hickey was in the courtroom. Fast Track Poised for Senate OK...
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Is the FBI in Your Bread Box? The FBI will soon be able to monitor internet websites, and enter places of worship and public libraries...without having to first present evidence of criminal activity.Attorney General John Ashcroft announced a new set of FBI guidelines today, which allow field agents to commence investigations without the permission of their superiors.Joshua Chaffin reports from DC. Mumia Abu Jamal Commentary Death Row Journalist Mumia Abu Jamal offers this commentary on the...
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Rumsfeld, US Arms to India, Pakistan The White House is sending high-level officials--including defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld to south Asia to help avert a nuclear war between India and Pakistan. The Pentagon says tens of millions could die if something isn't done. But critics see a contradition in the US trying to forge peace between India and Pakistan while simultaneously helping the two countries arm themselves. Joshua Chaffin reports from Washington: Student Activist Detained in...
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?Arundati Roy on India, Pakistan, the US and War Musharaf: ?For the past several months, tension along our border and the line of control are high, causing deep fears around the world over the real possibility of conflict.? Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf speaking at a joint meeting with Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajapyee in Kazakhstan. And as the two leaders respond to the each other?s threats and international pressure, award winning author and activist Arundati Roy says the...
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