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Today on Flashpoints:
The former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan accuses the Bush
and Blair administrations of war crimes and crimes against
humanity; also, President-elect of Haiti Rene Preval shunned
in Canada; Israeli tank shellings continue as Gazan economy
is in free-fall collapse, we’ll have a report from the
ground with Laila el-Haddad;
5:01 PM PST
Torture, Oil and Ken Lay
Ambassador Craig Murray,
former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan, winner of the Samuel Adams
Award for Integrity in Intelligence which is awarded by a
panel of former CIA operatives and analysts, discusses widespread
and horrific torture in Uzbekistan, US culpability, and connections
to Ken Lay, Enron and Texas Governor George W. Bush supporting
the regime of terror that pre-date the 9/11 attacks.
As U.K. Ambassador to Uzbekistan from 2002 to 2004 Mr. Murray
learned that the intelligence authorities of the U.S. and
U.K. were receiving and using information extracted by the
most sadistic forms of torture. A book of memoirs Murder in
Samarkand, already banned in Britain, is expected to be published
in June.
Personal appearances in SF Bay Area: 7PM Wednesday May 3rd
at UC Berkeley, 2050 Valley Life Sciences building, and 7:30PM
Thursday May 4th at Stanford, with US Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski.
For more information call 510.253.7037 or visit www.bushcommission.org,
Directions
to UC Berkeley (May 3) & Stanford (May 4)
5:41 PM PST
Continued Shelling in Occupied Gaza
Laila el-Haddad, correspondent, Free Speech Radio News, al-Jazeera
http://a-mother-from-gaza.blogspot.com
5:47 PM PST
Haiti Report
Kevin Pina with Jean St. Ville discuss President-elect Rene
Preval's visit to Canada, and his interview for an Ottowa,
Canada radio broadcast.
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