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From: Democracy Now!
Re: Rundown
Date: April 3, 2003
PRSS Channel: A67.7
8:00-8:01 Billboard:
U.S. forces close in on Baghdad from two directions: We
go to the Iraqi capital to talk with umembedded reporter May
Ying Welsh
Kesbeh family arrives in Jordan after being deported from
Houston: We talk with them from a refugee camp where the family
of nine now lives near penniless in a single bedroom
Green you go, yellow you are questioned and red you don’t
fly: As Delta prepares to rate the terror threat of every
passenger, we host a debate on privacy and security.
8:10-8:11 One Minute Music Break
8:11-8:20 U.S. FORCES CLOSE IN ON BAGHDAD FROM TWO DIRECTIONS:
WE GO TO THE IRAQI CAPITAL TO TALK WITH UMEMBEDDED REPORTER
MAY YING WELSH
US troops have reached the Baghdad airport after fierce
fighting with Iraqi forces. US troops are closing in on Baghdad
from two directions. The Pentagon says they are just six miles
from the edge of the city.
US commanders claimed they have effectively destroyed the
Medina and Baghdad Republican Guard divisions defending the
approaches to Baghdad.
Casualty figures are not known. Iraqi forces shot down a
Black Hawk helicopter near Karbala. The Pentagon says it appears
seven people were killed. A fighter plane also went down;
the fate of the pilot is not known. Two US soldiers were killed
in an apparent Iraqi rocket-propelled grenade attack. A BBC
reporter said he saw American dead being tended on stretchers
near the Euphrates.
US officers said some 500 Iraqi troops were killed including
members of the Special Republican Guard, in fighting for a
key bridge some 20 miles southwest of Baghdad.
- May Ying Welsh, independent reporter in Baghdad
8:20-8:21 One Minute Music Break
8:21-8:30 KESBEH FAMILY ARRIVES IN JORDAN AFTER BEING DEPORTED
FROM HOUSTON: WE TALK WITH THEM FROM A REFUGEE CAMP WHERE
THE FAMILY OF NINE NOW LIVES NEAR PENNILESS IN A SINGLE BEDROOM
As the U.S.-led invasion rages in Iraq, the persecution
of Arabs and Muslims continues at home.
For the past six months we have been following the story
of the the Kesbeh family.
The Kesbehs are Palestinian. They came to the U.S. after
fleeing Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War. They lived in Houston,
Texas for 11 years but last year armed INS agents raided their
house. The father and eldest son were arrested and detained
for several months on immigration violations.
When we last spoke with the Kesbeh family on Friday, they
were outside a Houston immigration center. They were deported
last week. Today we speak with the eldest daughter Noor Kesbeh
joining us from a refugee camp in Amman, Jordan.
- Noor Kesbeh. Was deported with her family to Jordan this
Monday and is living in a refugee camp in Amman.
8:30-8:58 GREEN YOU GO, YELLOW YOU ARE QUESTIONED AND RED
YOU DON’T FLY: AS DELTA AIRLINES PREPARES TO RATE THE
TERROR THREAT OF EVERY PASSENGER, WE HOST A DEBATE ON PRIVACY
AND SECURITY
There is a new website that you might have heard of. Its
address is boycottdelta.org.
Its logo is “Less leg room. No privacy.”
It was recently created after news reports that Delta Airlines
would become the first airline to test a new passenger screening
system that attempts to rate the terror threat of each passenger.
The system is called CAPPS II, the Computer Assisted Passenger
Prescreening System. CAPPS II would require background checks
on all airline passengers when they book a ticket, including
checking credit reports, banking and criminal record.
Based on this information, every passenger would be assigned
a color-coded threat level. Greens will pass through security
as normal. Yellows would require additional screening. Reds
would be barred from flying.
The screening program is expected to begin a trial run at
three Delta airports.
Today we are going to have a debate on this and other issues
related to privacy and surveillance.
- David Sobel, general counsel of the Electronic Privacy
Information Center
Link: www.epic.org
- Barbara Simons, fellow and former president at the Association
for Computing Machinery
Link: www.acm.org
- Michael Scardaville, policy analyst with the The Heritage
Foundation and Davis Institute for International Policy
Studies
Link: www.heritage.org
8:40-8:41 One-minute music break
8:41-8:58 Privacy Cont’d
8:58-8:59 Outro and Credits
For a copy of today’s program, call 1 (800) 881 2359.
Our website is www.democracynow.org.
Our email address is mail@democracynow.org.
Democracy Now! is produced by Kris Abrams, Mike Burke, Angie
Karran, Ana Nogueira and Elizabeth Press. Mike Di Filippo
is our music maestro and engineer.
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From: Democracy Now!
Re: Rundown
Date: 04-03-03
PRSS Channel: A67.7
9:00-9:01 Billboard:
Over 60 people dead after US bombs impoverished Iraqi neighborhood
in Hilla: we talk to the AFP reporter who saw cluster bomblets
there
Send in giant, armored bulldozers, Israeli military advises
US troops poised to invade Baghdad: but when confronted by
peace activists, retired Israeli General admits Israeli army
makes “many mistakes” and calls for withdrawal
from Occupied Territories
9:01-9:10 Headlines
9:10-9:11 One Minute Music Break
9:11-9:20 OVER 60 PEOPLE DEAD AFTER US BOMBS IMPOVERISHED
IRAQI NEIGHBORHOOD IN HILLA: WE TALK TO THE AFP REPORTER WHO
SAW CLUSTER BOMBLETS THERE
The London Independent is reporting that over 60 people,
mostly civilians, have now died since the US bombed an impoverished
Iraqi neighborhood in the town of Hilla, south of Baghdad.
Hundreds of people are wounded.
The London Guardian reports unedited TV footage from the
Babylon hospital showed horrifically injured bodies heaped
into pick-up trucks. Relatives of the dead accompanied them
for burial. Bed after bed of injured women and children were
pictured along with large pools of blood on the floor of the
hospital.
An Edinburgh-trained doctor at the hospital Nazim al-Adali,
told the Guardian: "All of these are due to the American
bombing to the civilian homes. He said there were not any
army vehicles or tanks in the area.
And Robert Fisk writes in today’s Independent:
“The wounds are vicious and deep, a rash of scarlet
spots on the back and thighs or face, the shards of shrapnel
from the cluster bombs buried an inch or more in the flesh.
The wards of the Hillah teaching hospital are proof that something
illegal something quite outside the Geneva Conventions
occurred in the villages around the city once known
as Babylon.
“The wailing children, the young women with breast
and leg wounds, the 10 patients upon whom doctors had to perform
brain surgery to remove metal from their heads, talk of the
days and nights when the explosives fell "like grapes"
from the sky.”
Agence France Press correspondent Nayla Razzouk reported
seeing cluster bomblets all over the neighborhood, but the
Pentagon denied using cluster bombs on Hillah. However, the
Pentagon has just admitted U.S. forces are using cluster bombs
elsewhere in Iraq.
Amnesty International yesterday condemned the Hilla bombing
and U.S. use of cluster bombs. The human rights group warned,
"The use of cluster bombs in an attack on a civilian
area of al-Hilla constitutes an indiscriminate attack and
a grave violation of international humanitarian law.”
We are joined now by Agence France Press reporter Nayla
Razzouk.
<sum> Nayla Razzouk, reporter with Agence France Press
in Baghdad
9:20-9:21 One Minute Music Break
9:21-9:30 HILLA BOMBING, CONT’D
9:30-9:35 What our listeners are doing in time of war
<sum> Listener Comments, 4/3/03
9:35-9:58 SEND IN GIANT, ARMORED BULLDOZERS, ISRAELI MILITARY
ADVISES U.S. TROOPS POISED TO INVADE BAGHDAD: BUT WHEN CONFRONTED
BY PEACE ACTIVIST, RETIRED ISRAELI GENERAL ADMITS ISRAELI
TROOPS MAKE “MANY MISTAKES,” AND CALLS FOR WITHDRAWAL
FROM OCCUPIED TERRITORIES
US troops have reached the Baghdad airport after fierce
fighting with Iraqi forces and are closing in on the Iraqi
capital from two directions. The Pentagon says they are just
six miles from the edge of the city.
US commanders claim they have effectively destroyed the
Medina and Baghdad Republican Guard divisions defending the
approaches to Baghdad. They say some 500 Iraqi troops were
killed including members of the Special Republican Guard,
in fighting for a key bridge some 20 miles southwest of Baghdad.
U.S. forces are poised to attack the city of 5 million people.
The Guardian of London reports US forces may try to learn
from Israeli tactics when they launch the largest US attack
on an urban area in decades. Pentagon strategists have poured
over video of the Israeli military assault on Jenin a year
ago. Estimates of Palestinians killed in the raid range from
52 up to several hundred. Of the confirmed Palestinian dead,
over half of them were civilians. 23 Israeli soldiers were
also killed.
1,000 U.S. soldiers were sent to Israel for joint maneuvers
earlier this year.
- Chris McGreal, reporter for the Guardian Newspaper in
London. Wrote an article published in the Guardian yesterday
called “ Send In the Bulldozers: What Israel Told
US Marines About Urban Battles.” He’s speaking
to us from Jerusalem.
Link: www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0402-04.htm
- Shlomo Brom, retired Brigadier General with the Israeli
military. From 1990 to 1998 he served as Deputy Chief and
then Chief of the Strategic Planning Division of the Israeli
Defense Forces. He now workers at the Jaffee Centre for
Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University.
- Will Hewitt, describing how an Israeli bulldozer ran
over and killed US peace activist Rachel Corrie last month,
(recorded on Democracy Now!, March 17, 2003)
- Adam Shapiro, Jewish-American activist with the International
Solidarity Movement who is currently a graduate student
at American University Contact: www.palsolidarity.org
9:58-9:59 Outro and Credits
For a copy of today’s program, call 1 (800) 881 2359.
Our website is www.democracynow.org.
Our email address is mail@democracynow.org.
Democracy Now! is produced by Kris Abrams, Mike Burke, Angie
Karran, Ana Nogueira and Elizabeth Press. Mike Di Filippo
is our music maestro and engineer.
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