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Today's lead stories:
Brits Say NO to War!
Small Towns, USA, Say NO to War!
British Firefighters Renew Strike
INS Third Wave of Special Registration
FSRN Speaks With the Deported
Brits Say NO to War!
A report released this week in London's Observer newspaper
highlighted that multinational oil corporations Chevron, Exxon,
BP and Shell doubled their imports from Iraq from 0.5m barrels
in November to over 1 million barrels per day to solve the
apparent problem of reduced oil imports from Venezuela. Opponents
of a war against Iraq say this shows a true aim of military
action, citing that Iraq has the world's second largest proven
reserves - some 112 billion barrels of oil according to the
US Department of Energy. Meanwhile, tomorrow, President Bush
and the British Prime Minister Tony Blair get together for
talks about military action in Iraq. With both countries intent
on military action, preventing attack could come down to public
opinion. Anastasia Kershaw reports from London about the pressures
bearing upon Tony Blair to stop being Bush's main supporter.
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Small Towns, USA, Say NO to War!
Former South African President Nelson Mandela issued a stinging
criticism of US President Bush saying that the only reason
Bush is pushing so hard for war is to gain control of Iraqi
oil. Mandela called the US stance on Iraq "arrogant"
saying a war would cause "a holocaust." Mandela
is not the only Nobel Laureate to publicly oppose the United
States and Great Britain. Earlier this week, 41 Nobel peace
prize winners signed a declaration denouncing a unilateral
US military campaign into Iraq, saying it would undermine
the security of the United States. This, as thousands of anti-war
protesters took to the streets again in over 100 cities and
towns nationwide last night. And as Dave Lippman reports from
Indianapolis, community organizing against a military campaign
into Iraq is growing in smaller cities and towns across the
states.
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British Firefighters Renew Strike
The British government has turned up the heat on firefighters
as the latest in a series of 48 hour strikes got underway.
The deputy Prime Minister wants to push through new legislation
allowing the government to step in and force the firefighter's
union to accept a pay deal. Charlotte Parsons filed this report
from London.
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INS Third Wave of Special Registration
With the detention this week by INS officials of a prominent
Pakistani editor, a visiting scholar to the Brookings Institute,
a greater mainstream spotlight has been shed on the ever increasing
ethnic profiling by the Justice Department and the INS. This
as the INS began its third wave of special registration for
immigrants from Muslim nations on January 13. The Exit-Entry
Registration System is supposed to prevent terrorism by keeping
track of foreign nationals once they enter the United States.
But as Adam Saytanides reports from Chicago, ordinary Pakistanis
are afraid that they will be caught in the dragnet.
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FSRN Speaks With the Deported
Meanwhile, 2 south Asian men held in US jails for more than
a year in the crackdown following September 11 are now back
in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. Azmet Javed and
Ayub Ali Khan were deported after being ultimately charged
with credit card fraud. The two men now have to answer to
Indian officials on charges of acquiring passports on the
basis of false information. Both men have been granted bail
and are now reunited with their families. But the relief of
being back home is offset by the trauma they underwent in
the US. Sputnik Kilambi caught up with one of them in Hyderabad.
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