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Today's lead stories:
Latest of War on Iraq
Turks Against War
Activists Speak Out Against CNN
Texas Executes a Schizophrenic
Small Pox Vaccine Kills
Latest of War on Iraq
The U.S. today sent some 12,000 extra troops to the Persian
Gulf, this as the war enters its second week and the numbers
of civilian casualties is growing. Overnight around 1,000
US paratroopers landed in an airfield near the Kurdish city
of Arbil as the invasion from the north has begun. And as
President Bush and PM Blair today told the UN to resume the
Oil for Food program, Nadja Middleton reports that the carnage
and destruction from the war is mounting.
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Turks Against War
Tens of thousands of Turkish workers walked off the job
today in the first general strike to hit Turkey since the
start of George Bush's war on Iraq. Teachers, doctors, architechts,
engineers, and government workers all joined the strike --
taking to the streets in anti-war demonstrations around the
country where they were met by equal numbers of riot police
equipped with automatic weapons and armed personnel carriers.
As Aaron Glantz reports from Ankara, the battle lines in Turkey
are clearly drawn -- with big business supporting the American
Army and organized labor siding with the more than 90 percent
of Turks who oppose the war.
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Activists Speak Out Against CNN
This week in San Francisco and Washington DC, protesters
picketed the offices of CNN, calling on the network to start
showing the damage wrought by the US war in Iraq. Protesters
say the media are cheerleading for the pentagon, and keeping
the images of civilian casualties from an ignorant US public.
Josh Chaffin has this report on the media landscape at wartime.
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Texas Executes a Schizophrenic
Last night Texas executed paranoid schizophrenic, James Blake
Colburn, after his post-conviction remedies were finally exhausted.
From KPFT in Houston, Texas Eric Thompson reports.
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Small Pox Vaccine Kills
A second health care worker died after receiving a small
pox vaccination. The unidentified healthcare worker, an employee
of Peninsular Regional Medical Center in Maryland, collapsed
from a heart attack. Some high profile officials have been
vaccinated against smallpox in recent weeks, including CDC
director Dr. Julie Gerberding, Surgeon General Richard Carmona,
and Outgoing Federal bio-terrorism adviser D.A. Henderson.
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, Republican of Tennessee
and a surgeon, not only received the vaccine, he's being trained
to vaccinate others. But the program is still far below its
goal of 450-500,000 vaccinated health care workers. Kellia
Ramares has an update.
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