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Today's lead stories:
Shock And Awe Officially Begins
Displaced Peoples Due To Bombing
Turkey on Nevroz
People Rally Around The World
Tax Cuts From Capitol Hill
Seeking Out Iraqi Nationals
Water Access In Japan
Shock And Awe Officially Begins
Defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld announcing that the US
has officially begun their so-called Shock and Awe arial bombardment
of Iraq. Explosions have reverberated in downtown Baghdad,
there have been great columns of smoke shooting into the night
sky as cruise missiles and warplanes dropped bombs over the
capital city. Deepa Fernandes reports as Rumsfeld addressed
the nation.
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Displaced Peoples Due To Bombing
As the Bush administrations military campaign dubbed Shock
and Awe got underway, Iraqi refugees have already begun to
flee. Along Turkish borders Turkish troops have turned away
Kurdish refugees, while camps along the Jordanian border have
already accepted some 400 Iraqis today. Oula Farawati has
more from the Jordanian-Iraqi border.
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Turkey on Nevroz
As US War-planes continue to bomb Iraq from Kuwait and air
craft carriers stationed in the Persian Gulf the head of the
Turkish Army gave the final okay for US war-planes to cross
his country and initiate Northern bombing runs. This on the
biggest holiday of the year for Turkey’s Kurdish minority
population. From Diarbakkir Aaron Glantz reports.
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People Rally Around The World
Since the attack against Iraq began yesterday, people around
the word have taken to the streets to condemn the military
campaign. In the Occuppied West Bank and Gaza, In spite of
the bad weather and the fear of Israeli military intervention,
hundreds of Palestinians gathered in down town of Ramallah,
joining the international protests against the war in Iraq.
Awad Duaibes has more from Ramallah.
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Tax Cuts From Capitol Hill
As the "Shock and Awe" bombing campaign begins
over Iraq, the US Congress continues work on a budget resolution
for 2004. Congress has no idea what cost of the war in Iraq
will be, but the President is asking for tax cuts in the hundreds
of billions of dollars. Josh Chaffin reports from Capitol
Hill.
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Seeking Out Iraqi Nationals
Yesterday the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(BICE) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced
that teams of agents began seeking out Iraqi nationals that
they said were unlawfully in the US. Reports last night from
community organizations around the country confirmed that
some 40 Iraqis have already been picked up. And as community
outrage mounts over this homefront assault on Iraqis, Today
was the deadline for male foreign nationals from Pakistan
and Saudi Arabia to register with the INS, as part of the
National Security Entry Exit System, or NSEERS. Several civil
rights and civil liberties organizations, such as the Arab
American Anti-Discrimination League and the National Lawyers
Guild, have raised concerns about the implementation of NSEERS
since it was launched by John Ashcroft last year.The Muslim
Public Affairs Council has deployed hundreds of volunteers
to act as human rights monitors during the registration process
to bring attention to the program, and to provide support
for immigrants and their families. Ingrid Drake has this report
from Washington, DC.
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Water Access In Japan
Water activists demonstrate at a CEO panel of the world's
largest privatization companies today to demand that water
be accessible for everyone. Simba Russeau files this report
from Kyoto
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