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Today's lead stories:
Photos Tell Gruesome Tale
Powell in Turkey
Congress on $ for War
Labor Against the War
Egyptian Volunteers to Fight in Iraq
Israel Steps up Assault on Palestinians
Photos Tell Gruesome Tale
US forces have begun a major attack on the outskirts of
Baghdad today, this comes as early in the day US marines today
shot dead another unarmed driver and badly wounded his passenger
at a roadblock in the southern town of Shatra, south of Baghdad.
Meanwhile yesterday 33 are reported to have died when US helicopter
gunships hit a residential neighborhood in the city of Hilla.
And today, reports from Baghdad say US-UK aircraft have bombed
a Red Crescent maternity hospital in the Iraqi capital. Mark
Harold a researcher for the independent organization counting
civilian deaths in Iraq, iraqbodycount.org and author of “Blown
Away, Myth and reality of American Precision Bombing”
received photos of the attack this morning.
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Powell in Turkey
Colin Powell leaves Turkey this evening with the promise
of a written document from Turkish officials allowing for
ground transport of fuel from Turkey to US Troops being airlifted
to Northern Iraq. The document will also explicitly state
the United States will not station any additional troops on
Turkish soil. From Ankara, Aaron Glantz and Ezgi Saritas report.
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Congress on $ for War
Debate continues at this hour over the President's supplemental
request for military funding. Most of the seventy five billion
dollars Bush has asked for would go to pay for the invasion
of Iraq, but the final package could include military assistance
Columbia and the Philippines. Against the President's will,
Congress looks likely to pass a more expensive package with
greater funding for domestic counter-terrorism efforts, and
for veterans. Josh Chaffin reports from the Capitol.
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Labor Against the War
Meanwhile outside the halls of Congress, hundreds of union
members from the DC area held an unpermited march to the White
House on Tuesday. Every day since the start of the US led
invasion of Iraq, now in its fifteenth day, anti-war actions
have been held in the nation's capital. This action, led by
unions in the DC metropolitan area, focused on price being
paid at home for war overseas. For the first time in US history
labor has come out against a US war. In response workers across
the country have organized anti-war committees in their unions.
While national labor organizations have yet to call for any
nation-wide actions, that has not stopped locals in New York,
San Francisco, and Washington DC from taking to the streets
to march in protest to the ongoing war in Iraq. Tom Gomez
has more from Washington.
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Egyptian Volunteers to Fight in Iraq
Officials reports in Baghdad said over 5,000 Arab volunteers
from all Arab countries have arrived in Iraq to fight against
the US and British troops. Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin
Ramadan urged more volunteers to come promising martyrdom.
Raphael Krafft met with Egyptian volunteers at the Iraqi embassy
this morning
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Israel Steps up Assault on Palestinians
While all eyes continue to remain fixed on Iraq, today marks
the one year anniversary of the Israeli siege of the Church
of the Nativity in Bethlehem, and the Israeli military rounded
up at least 1000 Palestinian men and boys between the ages
of 18 and 40 in the West Bank city of Tulkarem. Armored personnel
carriers supported by tanks and backed by Apache helicopters
attacked Tulkarem and the adjacent refugee camp, and then
imposed a 24 hour curfew on the area. This as a 14 year old
Palestinian boy died today after being shot by the Israeli
troops outside of his village near Ramallah. Awad Duaibes
reports from Ramallah that Palestinians have been afraid since
the beginning of the US led invasion into Iraq of a potential
Israeli military escalation in the occupied territories.
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