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Today on Flashpoints:
The killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi aids and abets the US
killing fields in Iraq; the Center for Constitutional Rights
sues a former high-level Israeli official for war crimes and
human rights violations; on Earth Matters, Karen Pickett of
Earth First! talks about the Green Scare, the latest FBI witch
hunt for environmental activists; and the Knight Report;
5:01 PM PST
The Knight Report
The Bush administration announces yet another reported "death"
of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and this time the Pentagon is hoping
his death is permanent.
Robert Knight
5:06 PM PST
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi “Killed,” US Continues to
Spin Propaganda
US tries to deflect attention from mounting atrocities like
Haditha. Who will be blamed for resistance to the US occupation
now?
Dahr Jamail, FP Special Correspondent – www.dahrjamailiraq.com
5:16 PM PST
Music Break
5:17 PM PST
More on Iraq and US Policy
Ayad al-Qazzaz, professor of sociology at California State
University, Sacramento, discusses the minor role of Zarqawi
in the broadbased domestic Iraqi resistance movement, which
should be expected to continue as long as US occupation forces
remain in Iraq. Professor al-Qazzaz also points out that it
was the US invasion that brought al-Zarqawi into Iraq from
Jordan.
5:33 PM PST
Music Break
Al Soug; About Bagdag Soundtrack
5:36 PM PST
Prosecuting Extra-Judicial Killings of Civilians in Palestine
- On December 8, 2005, the Center for Constitutional Rights
and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) brought
a class action lawsuit against Avi Dichter, the former Director
of Israel’s General Security Service (GSS), on behalf
of the Palestinians who were killed or injured in a 2002 air
strike in Gaza. The attack occurred just before midnight on
July 22, 2002, when the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) dropped
a one-ton bomb on al-Daraj, a residential neighborhood in
Gaza City in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
Visit the CCR
International Human Rights website.
Maria LaHood, Center for Constitutional Rights, www.ccr-ny.org
5:45 PM PST
Earth Matters - On December 7th, 2005 federal and local law
enforcement began the largest roundup of alleged environmental
and animal liberation activists in American history. Amanda
Bellerby and Karen Pickett discuss the "Green Scare",
a federal program to criminalize dissent to round up and immobilize
young activists on property destruction charges to make protest
a terrorist activity.
Music clip: "23 Years" by David Rovics, www.davidrovics.com
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