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His Holiness The Dalai Lama Speaks Out On U.S. Foreign Policy,
the Invasion of Iraq and 9/11
Arnold Attends First Gubernatorial Debate & It Breaks
Into Free-for-All
New Investigation Says U.S. Helicopter Gunship Killed ITN
Reporter Terry Lloyd
8:01-8:06 Headlines
8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break
8:07-8:20 His Holiness The Dalai Lama Speaks Out
On U.S. Foreign Policy, the Invasion of Iraq and 9/11
INTRO: Speaking at a media panel in New York City, Nobel
Peace Prize winner his Holiness Dalai Lama expressed his views
on the invasion of Iraq, September 11th and U.S. foreign policy
which ran counter to an earlier New York Times article titled
“Dalai Lama Say Terror May Need a Violent Reply.”
His Holiness the 14th the Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso is the
head of state and spiritual leader of the Tibetan people.
Born to a peasant family, he was recognized at the age of
two as the reincarnation 13th Dalai Lama.
At the age of 15, he was called upon to assume full political
power as the head of State and Government after some 80,000
Chinese soldiers soldiers invaded Tibet. China has occupied
Tibet ever since. At the age of 19 the Dalai Lama was negotiating
with China's Mao Tse-tung over the future of Tibet.
After years of failed peace talks and a violent suppression
of Tibet's resistance movement in which tens of thousands
of Tibetans died, the Dalai Lama fled in 1959 to India, where
he continues to be the spiritual leader of Tibet's people
and heads Tibet's government-in-exile. Some 80,000 Tibetan
refugees followed him into exile.
In the early years of exile, the Dalai Lama appealed to the
United Nations. In successive years, the General Assembly
adopted three resolutions calling on China to respect the
human rights of Tibetans and their desire for self-determination.
In 1989 the Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
for his work on global human rights and his ceaseless efforts
to free his country from Chinese rule. As he accepted the
prize he referred to himself as "a simple monk from Tibet."
Last week the Dalai Lama spoke in New York on the last stop
of a U.S. tour where he met with Tibetan exiles in several
cities and pressed the Tibetan cause in Washington.
The New York Times headline was: “Dalai Lama Says Terror
May Need a Violent Reply.” The Times said the Dalai
Lama believed “it might be necessary to fight terrorists
with violence and that it was ‘too early to say’
whether the Iraq war is a mistake.”
The next day the Dalai Lama’s representative sent a
letter to the Times in response. It said that the Times “gives
the misleading impression his holiness is endorsing violence
as a way to confront terrorism, I am sure, as many of your
readers are aware, his Holiness always advocated nonviolence
as the most effective method of dealing with conflict. More
specifically, with regard to the war on Iraq his Holiness
has publicly issued a statement expressing his opposition
to war as the momentum was building towards an invasion”
. On Tuesday, the town hall in New York Democracy Now! host
Amy Goodman had the rare opportunity to be part of the dialogue
with the Dalai Lama. She sat on a media panel with the Dalai
Lama, Katrina vanden Heuvel editor of The Nation magazine
and actor and activist Susan Sarandon.
- His Holiness Dalai Lama, speaking in New York City on
September 23, 2003.
8:20-8:21 One Minute Music Break
8:21-8:40 Arnold Attends First Gubernatorial Debate
& It Breaks Into Free-for-All
INTRO: A sampling of the debate: Arianna Huffington to Arnold
Schwarzenegger: “Let me finish, let me finish. This
is the way you treat women, we know that.” … Arnold
to Arianna: "I have a perfect part for you in 'Terminator
4’ ”…Moderator to Crowd: "Ladies and
gentlemen, this is not Comedy Central. I swear." The
candidates also talk about balanced budgets, taxes and immigration.
Last night voters in California witnessed first debate that
featured the five leading candidates running to replace Gov.
Gray Davis if he is recalled on Oct. 7. The candidates had
held debates before, but this was the first one that Republican
actor Arnold Schwarzenegger agreed to participate in.
Today we play excerpts from the debate:
Clip One: The candidates, Democrat Cruz Bustamante, Green
Peter Miguel Camejo, Independent Arianna Huffington Republican
Tom McClintock and Arnold Schwarzenegger on the recall of
Gov. Gray Davis
Clip Two: Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger, Independent Arianna
Huffington and Green Peter Miguel Camejo on balancing California’s
budget and taxes
Clip Three: Huffington questions Schwarrzenegger’s
treatment of women while the Republican actor tells Huffington
he has “the perfect part for you in ' Terminator 4’”
Clip Four: The five candidates on immigration policies.
8:40-8:41 One Minute Music Break
8:41-8:58 New Investigation Says U.S. Helicopter
Gunship Killed ITN Reporter Terry Lloyd
INTRO: British reporter Terry Lloyd died near Basra on March
22nd. It was originally believed Lloyd was shot dead in crossfire
between Saddam Hussein’s troops and U.S. Marines. But
new reports allege he died later, when the minibus driving
him to hospital was strafed by a U.S. helicopter gunship.
The United States military may be responsible for the death
of yet another journalist in Iraq. ITN reporter Terry Lloyd
died near Basra on March 22nd - just days after the invasion
of Iraq began. It was originally believed Lloyd was shot dead
in a crossfire between Saddam Hussein’s troops and U.S.
Marines.
On September 10th, six months after Lloyd’s death,
a British paper reported that he was not killed in crossfire,
but died later, when his vehicle was strafed by a U.S. helicopter
gunship.
An Iraqi businessman named Hamid Aglan told the Daily Mirror
that he picked Lloyd up at the scene of the initial ambush
and was driving him to hospital in a civilian minibus when
they came under fire from a US helicopter. Lloyd was wounded
a second time and was dead on arrival at a hospital in Basra.
He was 50 years old.
Aglan said “After the helicopter attack [Lloyd] stopped
moving and was covered in blood. He was dead when we reached
hospital 10 minutes later. Doctors said he was shot in the
head. The helicopter pilot killed him. It shouldn’t
have happened.”
He said he told British forces what had happened after the
war was officially declared over, but was ignored.
Two of Lloyd’s colleagues were traveling with him when
they got caught in the crossfire. Cameraman Fred Nerac and
translator Hussein Osman were never found. Their bodies are
still missing and they are presumed dead by colleagues.
- Aidan White, General Secretary for the International
Federation of Journalists which represents more than 500,000
journalists in 100 countries.
Link: www.ifj.org
8:58-8:59 Outro and Credits
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