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Today's lead stories:
Turkish role in Iraq
Update from Mosul
Indians Lingering in Gulf
Welfare Victory in NYC
AIDS in Niger
Turkish role in Iraq (3:03)
US military officials today announced they have secured
all of Northern Iraq’s main oil facilities. The oil
under the city of Kirkukk in Northern Iraq, is estimated to
be some of the most valuable and untapped resources in the
world. British Petroleum estimates its worth to be $100 billion
U-S dollars. This as Turkish Nationalist Protesters hit the
streets in Ankara demanding the Turkish Army invade Iraq to
oust Kurdish fighters who took North Iraq’s two largest
cities, Kirkukk and Mosul, from Saddam Hussein. Turks and
Kurds have a history of ethnic tensions, just 3 years ago,
Turkish and Kurdish separatist fighters ended a 20 year war,
killing at least 30,000 people. But as Ezgi Siritas reports
form Ankara, initial reports say the Kurdish fighters are
pulling out of Kirkukk and are preparing to leave Mosul.
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Update from Mosul (3:28)
As the new US run television station “Toward Freedom”
started broadcasting images of President Bush and Blair with
messages of “liberation and freedom”, lawlessness
still grips Iraq. In Breaking NEWS the BBC is reporting renewed
fighting along the Syrian border at Qaim. The BBC also reports
that there is widespread looting still throughout Baghdad
and now the Northern Iraqi city of Mosul. US secretary of
Defense today said “looting is a part of the transition
process in Iraq”. We go now to independent Journalist
Rex Wempen who joins us from Mosul.
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Indians Lingering in Gulf (3:08)
The attack on Iraq is personal for many Indian Muslims,
many of whom have relatives working in Middle Eastern countries.
Thousands of Indians migrate every year to the Middle East,
due to economic necessity. While most returned to India when
the US attacked Iraq, there are some who remained. Members
of one of India's Muslim sects, the Dawoodi Bohra community,
say they will not return back to India from the Gulf until
they are given orders by their spiritual leader. Binu Alex
reports from the town of Lunawada in Gujarat, where more than
thousand Dawoodi Bohra families await news of their relatives.
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Welfare Victory in NYC (3:10)
It has been a week of victories for welfare recipients around
the country. A federal court declared Michigan's sweeping
drug-testing program for welfare recipients unconstitutional
while in NY, the City Council passed a landmark welfare bill
that will allow people receiving public assistance to access
training and education as part of their work requirement that
mandates all welfare recipients to work in menial jobs. Ama
Buadi reports from WBAI.
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AIDS in Niger (5:35)
The House International Relations Committee has approved
the International AIDS bill that would authorize $15 Billion
over 5 years to fight global AIDS. In one month this bill
will be before the full floor of the US house of Representatives.
Although many AIDS activist organizations are pleased that
the bill passed out of the Republican controlled committee,
they worry that the Bush Administration will under-fund the
Global Fund that has been created to fight AIDS. In fact,
with the epidemic spreading at alarming rates worldwide, critics
charge that the US contribution to the fund does not come
close to addressing the grave needs. Dena Montague reports
from the West African country of Niger
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