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Today on Flashpoints:
US Forces kill 16 more Iraqi civilians in sweeping aerial
bombardments in Fallujah and Baghdad; We'll have two reports
from on the ground on the ongoing crises. A new book by Pulitzer
Prize winner Seymour Hersh states there was knowledge of abuse
and potential war crimes at the highest level of the Bush
Administration as early as Autumn 2002. We'll hear excerpts
from an interview broadcast earlier today on WNYC in New York
City. And the Robert Knight Report;
5:01 PM PST
Robert Knight Report. One hundred twenty eight civilians killed
by the US Occupation in Iraq since Sunday, including an Arab
journalist who reported his own death from a US crowd seeking
missile. US Secretary of State Colin Powell finally recants
his status of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq only a year
and a half after brow beating the United Nations with his
delusion. Seymour Hersh has new information on the Bush Administration's
use of torture, assassination and wrongful detentions in Iraq,
Afghanistan and Guantanamo.
5:07 PM PST
Nora with Luke Harding of the UK Guardian recounting recent
events in Fallujah, Iraq.
5:12 PM PST
Music Break – Tears for Allah – Misty Rhythms
5:14 PM PST
Pacifica correspondent Salam Talib. Reports on US weapons
used in Baghdad. Cluster bombs instead of the pretense of
a US cease fire. Video taped and witnessed by this reporter.
A Bridge to Baghdad update as well as events surrounding the
upcoming elections.
5:28 PM PST
Music Break – Children and the Wolf – Marcel Khalife
5:31 PM PST
Seymour
Hersh WNYC Interview. The evidence that the US has used
torture in its so called War on Terrorism took another leap
today with the release today of Pulitzer Prize winning reporter
Seymour Hersh's book: Chain
of Command. Hersh who won the Pulitzer for breaking the
My Lai Massacre story. He states the Bush Administration based
on a Presidential finding signed by GW Bush traded secret
extra-legal kidnapping and torture squad within the framework
of a special access program, otherwise known as SAP. SAP's
'operational details' were known only to a few inside the
Pentagon, the CIA and the White House. These kidnapping squads
swept their victims off to friendly falling countries known
for their willingness to participate in programs where torture
is known to be part of interrogation. These SAP squads also
had the power to assassinate their targets. A growing number
of international law experts believe that the US has in fact
reached the level of war crimes. Hersh also makes the strong
case that sexual humiliation of Arab men was at the center
of all interrogations and that the photography was not just
the result of a few freelancers on the night shift.
Today on Flashpoints we play excerpts of an interview with
Hersh that was broadcast earlier today over WNYC New York
public radio on the Leonard
Lopate Show. The New Yorker writer and colleague Jeffery
Toobin conducted the interview with Seymour Hersh. We
pick up the interview after Hersh was asked how Bush's war
on terror distinguishes itself from the way previous wars
were fought.
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