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Today's lead stories:
Troops Unloading in Turkey
Racism in US Military
Palestinian Death Toll Rises
Computer Linked Murders in Mexico
Bear Butte Shooting Range
Troops Unloading in Turkey
Despite Saturday’s majority vote of NO by the Turkish
Parliament to allow US troops into the country, today the
U.S. military is unloading equipment and troops in Turkey,
they say as part of an agreement to modernize the country's
military bases. Correspondent Aaron Glantz joins us from Ankara,
the Turkish Capital.
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Racism in US Military
As US troops set up shop in Turkey against the wishes of
the Turkish Parliament, there are now upwards of 250,000 men
and women of the United States Armed Forces situated around
Iraq poised to invade that country. And military recruiters
around the country are working overtime as they seek out young
men and women at universities, college campuses and even at
the high school level. An "Army of One," the recruiting
posters say, "Be All You Can Be." Yet as Michael
G Haskins reports, dreams of making a career are seen by many
young people of color as a viable option in an economy that
offers few choices, yet reports are emerging that life inside
the military smacks of race and gender discrimination.
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Palestinian Death Toll Rises
While many inside Israel characterize the suicide bomb blast
yesterday in Haifa which killed 15 Israelis, as shattering
the a calm in the region, Palestinians say they have suffered
more violence from the hands/attacks of the Israeli military,
particularly since the new Israeli cabinet ministers took
office last Sunday. Since Sunday, a raid earlier this week
in Gaza claimed the lives of 6 Palestinians including a pregnant
woman and her unborn child. Last night's attack against the
Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip claimed 11
lives and left 140 injured. Witnesses say 8 of the 11 were
killed when an Israeli Apache helicopter shot into a crowd
of Palestinians onlookers as they were watching a fire being
put out. FSRN producer Kata Mester spoke with correspondent
Awad Duaibes.
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Computer Linked Murders in Mexico
Three-and possibly four more -victims of suspected serial
killers were found recently in and around Ciudad Juarez in
Mexico. Recent reports on NPR and other media outlets have
presented the rape and murders of young working class women
as a bizarre mystery. The death toll , now in its tenth year,
could well be more than one hundred women. Although these
cases remain unsolved, a connection exists in the backgrounds
of some of the victims in Juarez and at least two other Mexican
cities: private computer schools that cater to low-income
students. Kent Paterson has this exclusive report.
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Bear Butte Shooting Range
Bear Butte, located just outside Sturgis, South Dakota,
has been a sacred site for American Indians from across the
country for countless generations. Plans to build a shooting
range four miles north of the butte have brought objections
from American Indian tribal members as well as non-Indians
from the area. Opponents of the shooting range are planning
to take the City of Sturgis, the state of South Dakota and
the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to
court to stop the $800,000 project that they say will not
only violate their peace and quiet but also violates federal
law. A request for an injunction was officially filed last
week and announced yesterday by four of the tribes that use
Bear Butte - the Crow Creek, Rosebud and Yankton Sioux tribes,
and the Northern Cheyenne tribe - for violation of the National
Historic Preservation Act, the National Environmental Policy
Act and the Religious Land Use Act. Jim Kent has more from
Bear Butte, South Dakota.
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