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Today on Flashpoints:
A Ground Report from Nablus under Siege
in Occupied Palestine; An Activist Detained in Badrus Speaks
about her Experience; More Violence in Afghanistan, as 8 Children
are Killed in a Bombing Raid; New Documents Surface Telling
of a Possible Gulf War in 1973;
5:01 PM PST
Amer Abdel Hadi, Director at sister station Radio
Tariq Al Mahabeh, reports on the 16 deaths and hundreds
injured in the past three week in the ongoing siege of Nablus.
Amer reveals the latest Israeli military tactics for destroying
homes, furniture and historical buildings. Amer and Dennis
also discuss the statements from Ariel Sharon about dismantling
outpost settlements.
5:20 PM PST
Musical Break
5:20 PM PST
Kimberley Lewis, with Union
of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees speaks with Associate
Producer Nora Barrows-Friedman about her arrest and detention
on a recent trip to Badrus in the West Bank with the International
Womens Peace Service to protest the construction of the
apartheid wall. Kimberley describes attacks on the protest
group by Israeli soldiers, including being fired upon with
rubber bullets, assaults with batons, tear gas, and arrests
of Israeli and international peace activists.
5:33 PM PST
Developments in Afghanistan: Roger Normand, Center
for Economic and Social Rights reports on the latest violence
near Kandahar which killed 10 Afghani civilians, including
8 children and injured as many as 45 - just one day after
the Loya Jirga reached agreement on a new constitution. At
the root of the violence are the unfulfilled promises of freedom,
stability, reconstruction and the continued US occupation,
which has earned the US the reputation of being the most powerful
warlord in Afghanistan.
5:40 PM PST
Musical Break
5:41 PM PST
Plans for a 1973 Middle East Oil War: Larry
Everest, author of "Oil, Power & Empire, Iraq
and the US Global Agenda" with a history lesson about
one aspect of the 1973 oil embargo that most of us never learned
about during the Nixon Administration.
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