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Today on Flashpoints:
A phony investigation by the Haitian Coup Government accuses
President Aristide of absconding with fifty million dollars;
meanwhile Haiti's killing fields continue to claim the lives
of Lavalas leaders and supporters; plus a Congresswoman from
Eastern Congo talks about her country's struggle for self-determination
in the face of IMF and World Bank repression; news headlines
from Palestine; and from exile in southern California, the
Knight Report;
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report: Resistance operations, death squads, and
US incursions into Anbar cost two dozen more lives in Iraq;
London's mayor says the war in Iraq is indeed a cause of terrorism;
the ACLU is suing New York City for racial profiling and ineffective
subway searches; there is turmoil in the new African oil nations
of Mauritania and Sudan; and NATO promises to give the Bush
Administration a break in the military occupation of Afghanistan.
Robert Knight
5:07 PM PST
Report on Haiti: The interim government is using false arrest
and imprisonment to silence opposition voices and intimidate
Lavalas supporters in the leadup to Haitian elections. UN
killings of peaceful civilians continues unreported elsewhere.
Read the letter
from Father Gerard Jean-Juste and visit HaitiAction.org
for more information about the situation in Haiti. Kevin Pina
and Ira Kurzban
5:35 PM PST
Music Break – “Incantations” Babatunde Olatunsi
5:36 PM PST
Palestine Week in Review: Kristen Ess, editor, Palestine
News Network
5:42 PM PST
Congolese Congresswoman on the DRC: Rep. Jacqueline Bisimwa,
Congresswoman, Eastern DRC
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