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Today's lead stories:
US Warfare Kills Journalists in Iraq
Bush in Northern Ireland
Congo Massacre
A Texas Conscientious Objector
Haitian Refugee Freed
US Warfare Kills Journalists in Iraq
The Guardian is reporting that US commanders claim that
significant enemy fire was coming from both the Palestine
Hotel and Al-Jazeera building in downtown Baghdad, attacked
earlier today by US forces, killing three journalists and
injuring several more. The US military claims its forces were
using "inherent right of self-defense" and says
it was unfortunate the buildings were being used by Journalists.
One of the journalists killed, Tayab Ayoub was a colleague
of FSRN correspondent Oula Farawati and a cameraman for Al
Jazeera. Séverine Cazes, head of the Middle East Desk
for Reporters Without Borders, spoke with KPFK saying the
US is purposefully targeting the media outlets in Iraq. Also
joining us from Baghdad where he too was inside the Hotel
Palestine which the US bombed this morning is Swedish Independent
Journalist Urban Hamid.
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Bush in Northern Ireland
Meanwhile President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony
Blair just concluded their two day meeting in Belfast. Bush
crossed the Atlantic, ostensibly, to pay Blair back for his
unwavering political support and to talk about the Northern
Ireland Peace process. The War on Iraq and the Middle East
peace process figured high on their agenda. Nadja Middleton
reports.
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Congo Massacre
Late last week the United Nations began reporting that a
massacre had taken place in the north eastern region of the
Democratic Republic of Congo, they estimated some 1000 people
had died. The UN characterized the massacre as the result
of ethnic conflict, yet as Dena Montague, recently reporting
from Congo capital Kinshasa tells us, the international community
could be doing more to stop such massacres.
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A Texas Conscientious Objector
Applying for conscientious objector status in order to avoid
military combat can take a long time for enlisted men and
women as a soldier stationed at Ft. Hood, Texas recently discovered.
Monday morning, his division shipped into the Iraqi war zone
before he could file the proper paperwork, leaving him in
the precarious position of fighting on the front lines for
a war he believes is unjust. From KPFT, in Houston, Texas
Renee Feltz has more.
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Haitian Refugee Freed
As the political crisis continues in Haiti and high level
delegations from the Organization of American States scramble
to find a resolution to the situation there, many from the
last set of Haitians immigrants to come ashore in Florida,
still suffer in detention at Krome. Recently Human rights
groups secured one success by getting one of them free. Ian
Forrest has the story
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