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Today on Flashpoints:
An on-the ground report from Iraq, where basic infrastructure
is in shambles and people are suffering from environmental
disasters;
we continue our reporting on the story of Maria Suarez, her
niece Patricia Valencia speaks on her struggle to have her
aunt released from the INS detention facility;
and the former Mexican ambassador to the UN speaks out on
American imperialism and the rush to war on Iraq;
the Knight Report.
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report: More turmoil in occupied Iraq and Afghanistan
with 6 more US deaths and 4 soldiers wounded in multiple resistance
bombings in and around Baghdad; 2 CNN employees were killed
in a shooting south of Baghdad; a UN team is dispatched to
evaluate the viability of free elections to establish a pre-sovereign
legislature in Iraq; and more news from Robert Knight in New
York.
5:05 PST PM
Portrait of Iraq Under Occupation: Freelance journalist and
contributor to ElectronicIraq.net,
Dahr Jamail is interviewed by Nora Barrows-Friedman, and delivers
a very different description of the conditions in Iraq than
we hear from the Bush Administration: daily struggles for
food, water and energy, inadequate security, daily violence
and kidnappings, cholera outbreaks, rampant diahrrea, unrepaired
communications and infrastructure, unavailability of medical
care, radioactive contaminated land and water supplies, soaring
incidences of cancer, tumors and birth defects. In spite of
billions of US dollars being spent in Iraq, conditions continue
to deteriorate and work is even harder to find than under
Saddam Hussein's regime. Read Dahr
Jamail's report
5:20 PM PST
Musical Break
5:21 PM PST
A Life Denied, the Unresolved Case of Maria Suarez: Solange
Echeverria interviews Patricia Valencia, neice of INS detainee
Maria Suarez. Brought to the US as a sex slave by 68 year-old
Anselmo Covarrubias, Maria Suarez survived a five year nightmare
of domestic violence and sexual abuse, followed by 23 years
in prison for conspiracy to commit murder for being present
when a neighbor killed her abuser. Now as she faces deportation
for a crime she did not commit, her neice is fighting for
a full unconditional pardon from Governor Schwarzenegger.
Learn the astonishing details of this miscarriage of justice
and how you can help Maria at womaninprison.org
5:37 PM PST
US Imperialism and Iraq - a UN Perspective: Former Mexican
Ambassador to the UN, Adolfo Aguilar Zinser speaks with Solange
Echeverria. Ambassador Zinser was one of the UN Security Council
targets monitored by US intelligence agencies as revealed
by a top-secret National Security Administration document
leaked to low-level British intelligence employee Katherine
Gun. Learn how Colin Powell and the Bush Administration orchestrated
his removal from the Security Council.
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