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Today's headlines:
Rape, murder, kidnapping and checkpoint killings under US occupation in Iraq. The proposed oil pipeline from Iraq to the Israeli port city of Haifa;
Is Tony Blair on his way out for lying about the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction;
The Knight Report

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5:01:04 PM PST
The Knight Report with Robert Knight

Peace brings more fighting to Liberia...More American deaths than during combat in the Iraq invasion...Rwanda has a new president and an electoral challenger...Israel botches another remote-control helicopter and missile assassination...George W. Bush wants to reverse his father's ban on nuclear weapons testing.

5:05:54 PM PST
Dennis Bernstein talks with Caoimhe Butterly with Occupation Watch.

A special front-line report from Baghdad from Occupation Watch's Caoimhe Butterly. Caoimhe talks about what daily life is currently like in Baghdad.

5:33:27 PM PST
Music Break

5:34:46 PM PST
Dennis Bernstein talks with Robert Fisk, award-winning journalist with the London Independent.

Haaretz, the Israeli daily, reported this week that the US has asked Israel to explore the possibility of pumping oil from Iraq to Haifa. Robert Fisk talks with Dennis Bernstein from Beruit, Lebanon about this and also about the current Hutton Inquiry taking place in London.

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