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Today's headlines:
Iraqi Victims File a War Crimes Lawsuit Against US General
Tommy Franks for Atrocities Committed During the Recent Invasion;
Donald Rumsfeld Visits Iraq While US Troops Open Fire on Unarmed
Protesters for the Second Time in 48 Hours;
The Situation on the Ground in Iraq; An Evaluation the US
Roadmap for Peace in Palestine;
The Knight Report
8:00:00 PM PST
Dennis Bernstein: introduction: AUDIO LINK burial in FalloujaIraqi
war victims to file a lawsuit in Belgium against Tommy Franks..
Rumsfeld visits Iraq, while US troops open fire on unarmed
protestors for the second day in a row.. FAIR's Normon Solomon
on mainstream media's biggest lies.. US proposes a Roadmap
to Peace, or another Roadmap to Hell?..
8:00:53 PM PST
AUDIO LINK Robert Knight and the Knight Report.. Robert: BBC
photo: bloody street Rumsfeld a surprise visit to Baghdad
today, surrounded by bureaucrats and soldiers.. says the US
came 'not to conquer, not to occupy, but to liberate'.. two
crowd shootings this week alone.. eyewitnesses said there
was no provocation.. except six stones tossed by grammar school
children.. Arabs say US troops bad influence on their people..
in Belgium, a lawsuit promised against Tommy Franks for shooting
at ambulances, and using cluster bombs.. meanwhile in the
UN.. still no weapons of mass destruction.. Bush says it ain't
over yet.
8:04:30 PM PST
AUDIO LINK Dennis: on May 13th the first war crimes lawsuit
will be filled against US general BBC photo: wounded boy Tommy
Franks in Belgium, for failing to prevent looting of hospitals
and sacred historical centers, and bombing a crowded marketplace..
now w Belgian attorney, Jon Furman.. Jon: my clients, 19 people,
have been victims of serious violations of international law..
want an independent inquiry.. (describes how his clients were
injured and describes their injuries).. Jon: three injured
when US troops shot at Red Cross ambulances.. some were victims
of cluster bomb used in civilian areas..
8:18:46 PM PST
music break
8:19:41 PM PST
AUDIO LINK Dennis: Rumsfeld today announced in Baghdad the
end of the rein of Saddam Hussein, as US troops opened fire
on unarmed protestors, killing three (Amnesty International)..
US introduced a 'Roadmap to Peace'.. now w Lamese Santoni
(sp?), writer for the Financial Times, and the Christian Science
Monitor.. Lamese: with everyday that passes the Iraqi people
realize this is really an occupation.. speaking from one of
Hussein's old palaces.. a manifestation of conquest.. BBC
photo: angry crowd about the crowd shootings.. about the about
the charge that the soldiers saw people shooting at them,
not consistent with eyewitness testimony.. the protestors
were asking for their school back.. an emmense rage building..
Arab TV is interviewing Iraqis.. they say we not accept the
occupation and will fight.. Aljazeera TV went to the funerals,
and the women were angry, saying that the Americans will see..
[no further review this segment tonight].
8:43:46 PM PST
music break Rock the Nation, Spearhead
8:45:20 PM PST
AUDIO LINK Dennis: the information coming from the mainstream
media has been propagangized.. now w Norman Solomon, to discuss
the stories not reaching us, author of Target Iraq, What the
News Didn't Tell You, Target Iraq - book coverand executive
director of the Institute for Public Accuracy.. Norman: about
a quote of mine used in an editorial by the Houston Chronicle..
the craven willingness to go along with the slaughter of innocents..
in the US government.. Dennis: I was upset hearing the reporting
on NPR.. Norman: the credibility is usually given to the US
government although the military has often lied.. like the
shooting of journalists at the Palestine Hotel.. eyewitnesses
said no one fired on the US.. the US shooting people they
are supposed to be liberating.. about the NPR reporting..
about MSNBC's Ashleigh Banfield the other day, saying some
of the gore of the war had been hidden from the US public,
and she was almost immediately reprimanded.. about the biggest
unreported stories.. the use of cluster bombs is a war crime..
Norman: I think Tariq Aziz should go on trial for war crimes,
and so should Powell, and Rumsfeld, Bush and Cheney.. cluster
bombs are a gratuitous gift to the people of Iraq, that keep
on killing.. the US didn't need to drop 1500 cluster bombs
on Iraq.. where is the US media?.. another unreported story,
the lawsuit being filed in Belgium against General Tommy Franks..
and about Maurine Dowd's column in the NY Times today.. Dennis:
another unreported story, who has weapons of mass destruction?..
Norman: Flashpoints has been a very good source of information..
Israel has a least 200 nuclear bombs in its arsenal.. the
US media talks a lot about WMDs, and ignores Israel's terroristic
brandishing of these weapons at its neighbors.. when Dennis
Kucinich said that oil has a huge factor in the war on Iraq,
a media war was launched on him.. yet now, Iraq being annexed
by US oil company officials serving in government.. and about
the security apparatus being chosen by the US, tapping Saddam's
old people.. and what did the US choose to protect from looting,
the Oil Ministry and the Interior Ministry, not the hospitals,
or the museums.. Norman: what you can do: visit FAIR.org and
Accuracy.org and raise hell with the corporate media..
8:58:15 PM PST
Dennis: wrapup:
8:58:55 PM PST
End today's show. today's review by John Lionheart
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