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Today on Flashpoints:
An extended interview with award-winning Middle East correspondent
Robert Fisk on the escalating bloodbath in occupied Iraq;
also, it's Fat Tuesday in New Orleans, but only the rich are
getting fatter; and the Knight Report;
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report:
* More than a thousand are dead in continuing clashes between
Sunni, Shia, occupation, and resistance forces inside Iraq
* Muqtada Al Sadr calls for religious and national unity,
and the eviction of US occupation troops
* Saboteurs bomb the grave of the father of deposed Iraqi
president Saddam Hussein
* Indians call President Bush the world's number one terrorist
on the eve of his arrival
* A prison siege continues in Afghanistan
* Three quarters of US troops in Iraq are demanding to be
pulled out, according to a new Zogby poll
5:07 PM PST
US Formula Foments Civil Strife in Iraq - Award-winning correspondent
for the Independent
of London and author of the 1,100-page book The Great War
for Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East, Robert
Fisk describes the repeating pattern of US imperial plunder
and blunder from Vietnam to South America to the Middle East.
Read more...
5:38 PM PST
Musical Break
5:39 PM PST
Fat Tuesday in New Orleans - Common
Ground Relief spokesperson Sakura Kone and SF
Bayview writer/reporter CC Campbell-Rock on the situation
in New Orleans. Read more
about conditions on-the-ground in New Orleans.
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