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Today's lead stories:
Civilians in the South of Baghdad
The Direction of Oil Flow in Turkey
Scott Hain's Execution
Young People of Color are Educated on Police Misconduct
US Agency for International Development
Civilians in the South of Baghdad (1:53)
After bloody fighting, the United States declared the southern
Iraqi city of Nasariyah, to be "in its control"
and "liberated,". The Independent reported today
that Iraq’s largest city is anything but safe for its
Iraqi inhabitants. According to the Independent, gangs of
looters have full run of the city creating an environment
of lawlessness unchecked by US or UK forces. The Independent
is also reporting that Thursday a gang of 20 looters raided
Nasariyah’s Saddam Hospital and picked clean several
ambulances. This as doctors from Nasariyah’s Saddam
Hospital say at least 250 people were killed, at least 1000
injured. Embedded Free Speech Radio News Correspondent, Gareth
Schweitzer files this report 30 miles south of Baghdad.
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The Direction of Oil Flow in Turkey (3:53)
Israel's National Infrastructures Minister Joseph Paritzky
requested an assessment of the condition of the old oil pipeline
from Mosul to Haifa this week, with an eye toward renewing
the flow of Iraqi oil to Israel if Saddam Hussein is toppled
and a government friendly to Israel is installed in Baghdad.
Paritzky told Israel's Haaretz newspaper resurrecting the
pipeline to Haifa could save Israel the high cost of shipping
oil from Russia. He told the paper he's certain that the Americans
would respond favorably to the idea, since the pipeline would
bring Iraqi oil directly to the Mediterranean. Right now there's
only one legal pipeline for Northern Iraqi oil with a terminus
in Yumartaluk on Turkey's Mediterranean Coast. Aaron Glantz
reports from the pipeline's control center.
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Scott Hain's Execution (3:28)
Last night Oklahoma man Scott Hain was executed after his
case went before the Supreme Court which ruled 5-4 to vacate
a stay that was put in place by the 10th Circuit court of
appeals at the request of Hain’s lawyers. Hain was only
17 when he murdered 2 people in 1987. His execution last night
has drawn sharp criticism, as the US remains one of the few
countries in the world to execute minors. La Veda Jno Baptiste
has more.
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Young People of Color are Educated on Police Misconduct
(3:46)
Today marks the 35th anniversary of the assassination of
Martin Luther King Jr and it was 36 years ago that King gave
his famous anti-war speech given during the Vietnam war. Meanwhile,
tomorrow thousands of people of color students across the
United States will be participating in anti-war protests they
have organized in their communities. Many of the young people
involved in these demonstrations will face confrontations
with the police, and possible arrest. Yet even when they are
not involved in mass mobilizations, young people confront
increased police harassment and even brutality, particularly
young people of color. Ingrid Drake reports, that in Washington,
DC, youth are educating each other about their legal rights,
the US Patriot Act, and how to deal effectively with police
misconduct.
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US Agency for International Development
(4:55)
Today protests were held outside Halliburton in Washington
to denounce Dick Cheney’s potential profit incentive
as post-war reconstruction contracts go to his former company.
Meanwhile the US Agency for International Development is the
governmental organization in charge of handing out billions
of dollars in contracts for the rebuilding of Iraq. Critical
attention has focused in recent days on the corporate cronyism
at the heart of this issue, with only a handful of politically
connected corporations being asked by US-A-I-D to bid on contracts.
From KPFK in Los Angeles, Patrick Burke has more.
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