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Today's lead stories:
War Carnage
Official War Spin Continues
POW Controversy
UN Under Fire – Humanitarian Crisis Escalates
Filipino Overseas Workers
Bush’s Other War – Drug War
War Carnage
Over the last day fighting has turned gruesome in Iraq,
FSRN Correspondent Gareth Schweitzer just filed this report
from near Najab in Iraq.
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Official War Spin Continues
Meanwhile, the Pentagon and the President have been in overdrive
today telling the American people and the world that the war
may take longer than expected, but they will be victorious.
Ian Forest has been following the story.
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POW Controversy
The Pentagon reports the US/UK invasion forces have detained
more than 3000 suspected Iraqi combatants as prisoners of
war. The Iraqi military has captured at least 13 US or UK
combatants. The US is asking for humane treatment of its troops,
invoking the 1949 Geneva Convention rules of combat. Human
Rights groups say the Bush Administration is applying the
Geneva Convention selectively. With that story, and an update
on the status of detainees at home and in US-occupied Cuba,
Josh Chaffin reports from DC.
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UN Under Fire – Humanitarian Crisis Escalates
As US and British troops advance on Baghdad, international
relief workers are struggling to provide the city's trapped
inhabitants with food and medical supplies, ahead of what
promises to be a long and bloody siege. Elsewhere in Iraq,
humanitarian efforts have suffered setbacks in recent days.
Iraq’s second largest city, Basra, was in chaos after
water supplies were partially cut, and ships carrying aid
to the southeastern port of Umm Qasr are being held up while
troops sweep for mines. Meanwhile, at the United Nations,
the Security Council met behind closed doors today for a debate
over a controversial proposal to use Iraq's oil revenues to
pay for an expanded relief program. Susan wood reports from
the UN, read by Matthew Finch.
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Filipino Overseas Workers
The Bush Administration has labeled the Philippines, as
the second front in the war on terrorism and President Arroyo
has pledged her support in battling terrorism. But Filipino
Overseas workers in the Middle East say their claims are being
put on the back burner. Simba Russeau files this report.
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Bush’s Other War – Drug War
And while the Bush Administration fights its war in Iraq,
it is also maintaining pressure on another war front –
the so-called Drug War. This as activists, legislators, and
tribal representatives from throughout Latin America and the
world recently gathered in Merida, Mexico for the Out of the
Shadows conference. The goal of the conference was to construct
a vision for peacefully ending the so-called drug war. Although
the reasons stated for legalizing drugs varied from person
to person depending on their background, there was one point
of common ground--the war on drugs is not working and it does
more harm than good. Andrew Stelzer reports from the Yucatan.
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