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A Day of Mourning: Spain Marks Anniversary of March 11 Madrid
Train Bombings
Juan Cole and Osama Siblani on Middle East Politics, U.S.
Media Coverage of the Region, and the Arab American Landscape
Arab American Publisher Says Bush Told Him in May 2000 He
Planned to "Take Out" Iraq
A Day of Mourning: Spain Marks Anniversary of March
11 Madrid Train Bombings
Across Spain today, people are marking the first anniversary
of the March 11 Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people
and left more than 1,800 wounded. We go to Madrid to speak
with Democracy Now! correspondent, Maria Carrion.
Across Spain today, people are marking the first anniversary
of the March 11 Madrid train bombings that killed 191 people
and left more than 1,800 wounded.
Some 650 churches throughout the Madrid area rang their bells
for five minutes from 7:37 a.m. the time that 10 bombs began
exploding on four packed trains in what Spaniards refer to
as "our September 11th".
The explosions came three days before a general election,
in which the Socialists headed by Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
ousted the right-wing Popular Party of then-Prime Minister
Jose Maria Aznar.
Responsibility for the attack was claimed by a Moroccan cell
with links to al-Qaeda, and most of those who have been arrested
are Moroccan citizens.
Meanwhile, Muslim clerics in Spain issued what they called
the world"s first fatwa, or edict, against Osama bin
Laden, urging other Muslims to denounce the Al Qaeda leader.
The ruling was issued by the Islamic Commission of Spain,
the main body representing the country's 1 million Muslims.
- Maria Carrion, Democracy Now! correspondent.
Special thanks to Nina Rosenblum
for providing footage from her new film, "Zahira's Peace"
on the Madrid attacks.
Juan Cole and Osama Siblani on Middle East Politics,
U.S. Media Coverage of the Region, and the Arab American Landscape
We broadcast from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor
- home to the first antiwar teach-in forty years ago this
month. Also, the region surrounded by Detroit and Dearborn
is home to one of the largest Arab communities in this country.
We spend the rest of the hour looking at issues surrounding
the Middle East, both in terms of U.S. foreign policy as well
as here at home and how Arab Americans and Arab immigrants
have been affected by the Bush administration's so-called
war on terror. We speak with University of Michigan professor,
Juan Cole and Osama Siblani, publisher and editor-in-chief
of "The Arab American" newspaper. [includes rush
transcript - partial]
Juan Cole is a Professor of Modern Middle East and South
Asian History at the History Department of the University
of Michigan. He runs an analytical website called "Informed
Comment" in which he provides a daily round-up of
news and events in Iraq and elsewhere in the Arab world. Juan
Cole speaks fluent Arabic and Farsi and has lived all over
the Muslim world for extended periods of time.
We are also joined by Osama Siblani, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief
of the Dearborn-based weekly bilingual newspaper, "The
Arab American." He helped found the Arab American
Political Action Committee in Dearborn and the Congress of
Arab American Organizations. Osama Siblani's influence extends
abroad and he has met with several Middle East leaders, including
Syrian President Bashar Assad and Lebanese President Emile
Lahoud.
Arab American Publisher Says Bush Told Him in May
2000 He Planned to "Take Out" Iraq
Osama Siblani, publisher of "The Arab American"
newspaper, says George W Bush told him in May 2000 - before
he was nominated as the Republican presidential candidate
- that he is going to "take out" Iraq and Saddam
Hussein. [includes rush
transcript]
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