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Bush Administration Allied With Sudan Despite Role in Darfur
Genocide
Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg Blasts U.S.
Nuclear Proliferation Policies
Students Occupy Univ. of Hawaii Building to Protest Construction
of Military Center
Bush Administration Allied With Sudan Despite Role
in Darfur Genocide
The Los Angeles Times has revealed that the U.S. has quietly
forged a close intelligence partnership with Sudan despite
the government's role in the mass killings in Darfur. We speak
with Ken Silverstein, the reporter who broke the story, Salih
Booker, the director of Africa Action as well as Rep. Donald
Payne (D-NJ). [includes rush
transcript]
In the days after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush issued
an ultimatum to the world: "Either you are with us, or
you are with the terrorists." Three and half years later,
it has been revealed that the Bush administration has allied
itself with a government listed as a state sponsor of terrorism
and one that the administration has accused of committing
genocide against its own people - Sudan.
A major expose in the Los Angeles Times on Friday revealed
that the U.S. has quietly forged a close intelligence partnership
with Sudan despite the government's role in the mass killings
in Darfur. The Sudanese government has since publicly confirmed
it is working with the Bush administration and the CIA.
Eight months ago, former Secretary of State Colin Powell
accused the Sudanese of carrying out a genocide in Darfur.
Already 180,000 have died in the region from fighting or hunger.
But relations appear to have since changed -- for the better.
One senior Sudanese official the LA Times that the country
had achieved "complete normalization" of relations
with the CIA.
The Times reported that the CIA sent an executive jet last
week to Khartoum to ferry the chief of Sudan's intelligence
agency to Washington for secret meetings sealing Khartoum's
sensitive and previously veiled partnership with the administration.
The Sudanese intelligence chief - Major General Salah Abdallah
Gosh - has been accused by members of Congress of directing
military attacks against civilians in Darfur. He also had
regular contacts with Osama bin Laden during the 1990s.
Last month, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sent a letter
to the Sudanese government calling for steps to end the conflict
in Darfur. But the letter, reviewed by the Times, also said
the administration hoped to establish a "fruitful relationship"
with Sudan and looked forward to continued "close cooperation"
on terrorism.
Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg Blasts
U.S. Nuclear Proliferation Policies
It's been 60 years since the dawn of the nuclear age. Thirty
years since the end of the Vietnam War. We speak with a man
who helped end that war - Vietnam whistleblower, Daniel Ellsberg.
Representatives from nearly all the governments in the world
convened at the United Nations Monday for the start of a month-long
conference to review the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
It's been 60 years since the dawn of the nuclear age. Thirty
years since the end of the Vietnam War.
On April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese tanks rolled through
the gates of the presidential palace in Saigon - marking the
end of the Vietnam War. Today we are joined by a man who helped
end that war. Daniel Ellsberg.
He was once described by Henry Kissinger as "the world's
most dangerous man." During the Cold War, Daniel Ellsberg
was a U.S. Marine company commander, a Pentagon official and
an analyst at the Rand Corporation.
In October of 1969 he began smuggling out of his office and
xeroxing the 7,000 page top-secret study of U.S. decision
making in Vietnam, known as the Pentagon Papers.
He did so with the intent of revealing these secrets to Congress
and the American public and in so doing, he set in motion
actions that would eventually topple the Nixon presidency
and end the Vietnam War.
Students Occupy Univ. of Hawaii Building to Protest
Construction of Military Center
A group of students at the University of Hawaii have been
occupying the administration building to protest the construction
of a Navy Military Research Center on their campus. We speak
with one of the students occupying the building. [includes
rush
transcript]
Since last Thursday, a group of students at the University
of Hawaii have been occupying the administration building
to protest the building of a Navy Military Research Center
on their campus. This is the same campus where the deadly
chemical - Agent Orange - was developed in the Sixties, using
classified military research similar to what is being proposed.
- Ikaika Hussey, Political Science Graduate Student at
University of Hawaii.
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