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Today on Flashpoints:
The Decision by the Israeli Parliament to Deport Yasser Arafat
Brought Tens of Thousands Out into the Streets All Over the
Arab World;
Us Occupying Forces Gun Down 8 Recently Trained Iraqi Police
Officers While on Duty in Pursuit of Thieves;
Afghanistan in Ruins, An Update on the Real Impact of the
US Attack and Intervention in Afghanistan.
5:01 PM PST
Israeli Cabinet Vote to Expel Arafat: Dennis Bernstein speaks
with Amer Abdel Hadi, a Nablus radio manager of the Tarik
al Mahabe station on the West Bank.
5:16 PM PST
More on the Cabinet Decision to Expel Yasser Arafat from Palestine:
Dennis speaks with Ziad Abbas, Flashpoints Special Correspondent.
5:28 PM PST
On the Ground in Iraq: Kathy Kelly, from Voices in the Wilderness.
"Terribly perverse and twisted reality...250 billion
dollars... for a war people don't want. "One atrocity
after another...eight police officers killed and more wounded...
"
5:42 PM PST
Afghanistan in Ruins: Dennis Speaks with Roger Normand, Center
for Economic and Social Rights
Bush is silent on the state of Afghanistan. Depleted uranium
contamination is denied by the US but now throughout the greater
middle eastern area. Systematic repression of women is increasing.
Warlords and their soldiers set up their own "checkpoints"
making the whole country a gauntlet to traverse in the course
of everyday business just as in Palestine. Now the human rights
issues are damaging the quality of life for the victims of
the war. Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel/Palestine, who's next?
Iran walked out of meetings today ...
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