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Today's lead stories:
Powell's Plagiarizes!
Iraqi's React to Powell Speech
Arabs React to Powell Speech
NY's Protest Drive to War
Post Powell: Europe Responds the Same
UK: Race Crimes Soar
North Korea Threatens Attack
Powell's Plagiarizes!
An intelligence dossier released on Monday by the British
government that was read by Colin Powell yesterday at the
UN as part of his so-called new and secret evidence has been
found to be plagiarized from an article that was published
back in September last year in an academic journal. Ibrahim
al-Marashi is a Research Associate at the Center for Nonproliferation
Studies (CNS) of the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
Al-Marashi is the author of the work that Colin Powell read
yesterday at the UN, he is speaking here with Deepa Fernandes.
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Iraqi's React to Powell Speech
The Iraqi government officially responded to yesterday's
charges by Secretary of State Colin Powell at the UN, we go
now to correspondent Jeremy Scahill who is just returning
from a press conference in Baghdad.
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Arabs React to Powell Speech
Saudi foreign minister, Prince Saud is asking for what he
calls a last chance and a time extension for Arab governments
to mediate a peaceful solution to the stand off between George
Bush and Saddam Hussein. Prince Saud told reporters that the
UN Security Council is not a body charged with making war
but rather a body charged with bringing peaceful solutions
to crisis. Prince Saud's comments came as US Secretary of
State Collin Powell was making the case for war at the UN
Security Council. From Amman, Jordan Aaron Glantz has Arab
reaction to the speech.
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NY's Protest Drive to War
The Australian Prime Minister John Howard received a vote
of no confidence from the Senate for sending troops to fight
in any war against Iraq "without a proper explanation
to the Australian people." Meanwhile, while the US drive
to war continues to play out at the Security Council, as Ian
Forrest reports, Powell failed to convince many NY's who took
to the streets outside the United Nations.
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Post Powell: Europe Responds the Same
Colin Powell's presentation to the U-N doesn't seem to have
meant a decisive change of mind for European countries who
are reluctant to go to war. But there may be a subtle shift
in their stances. Tony Cross reports from Paris.
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UK: Race Crimes Soar
Today the British government has reported soaring figures
in racially related crime for the last year. This is partly
blamed on the threat of war and the after effects of September
11, but the prognosis could be poor for racial relations in
the UK. Anastasia Kershaw reports from London.
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North Korea Threatens Attack
The BBC reported today that North Korea is warning that it
will launch a pre-emptive attack on United States forces if
Washington sends more troops to the Korean peninsula. This
comes as US officials have said the Pentagon ordered B-52
and B-1 bombers to prepare for deployment in the western Pacific
to back up US forces in South Korea. Karin Lee, Senior associate
at the East Asia Policy Education Project at the Friends Committee
on National Legislation, says North Korea fears it will be
next after Iraq on the US list of terrorist countries to be
attacked.
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