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Today's lead stories:
INS Special Registration Deadline Today
Bush: No WMD in Iraq
DU Effects on Soldiers & Civilians
Argentine Presidential Elections
Native Americans Respond to Iraqi Occupation
School Shooting: Whose to Blame?
Colombian Prisoner Exchange Heats-up
INS Special Registration Deadline Today
Today was the final day of immigration registration for
men over 16 from 25 Muslim countries, including Bangladesh,
Egypt and Indonesia. At INS buildings across the country human
rights monitors were on hand to advise signees of their legal
rights. In New York City, the numbers of men lining up to
beat the registration deadline were less than anticipated,
yet as Ama Buadi reports from 26 Federal Plaza of the many
who went in to register, few came back out.
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Bush: No WMD in Iraq
President Bush yesterday was pressuring Congress to quickly
approve a tax cut of no less than $550 billion, he publicly
demanded an explanation from lawmakers in his own party who
have been opposing his proposal. And as the US announced today
that they have captured Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tariq
Aziz, saying he gave himself up to authorities in Baghdad,
President Bush admitted that the US has found no weapons of
mass destruction in Iraq. Susan Wright a senior research fellow
at the UN Institute For Disarmament Research, she speaks with
Deepa Fernandes.
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DU Effects on Soldiers & Civilians
The US claims the war in Iraq to be over, but the suffering
by Iraqi Citizens and American Solders may have only begun.
Depleted Uranium poisoning is causing infant deformations
and cancer rates to skyrocket in Iraq and Hundreds of thousands
of Gulf War 1 Veterans are suffering from a set of illnesses
known as Gulf War Syndrome. FSRN's Charles Michael Ray has
this story on the possible long term impacts from this second
war in Iraq.
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Argentine Presidential Elections
This Sunday Argentine's will go to the polls to elect a
new president. Since the popular uprising of December 2001,
the government has been elected by the national assembly formed
by senators and deputies. This election sees 5 candidates,
3 coming from the Peronist Party, yet as Tomas Eliaschev reports
from Buenos Aires, it seems none of the candidates offer any
real changes to a system that to many Argentine’s seems
broke.
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Native Americans Respond to Iraqi Occupation
Without explanation, yesterday three federal appeals judges
suspended a lower court official who vocally criticized the
U-S department of Interior’s over a century-old mismanagement
of nearly 40 billion dollars of Native American money. Interior
Secretary Gale Norton is the third cabinet member held in
contempt for mismanagement of funds. This as many Native Americans
continue to endure poverty at unprecedented levels and as
Jim Kent reports, Native Americans remember the countless
broken promises the federal government has made to them. He
files this report from South Dakota's Pine Ridge Reservation.
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School Shooting: Whose to Blame?
Yesterday a high school student in the Red Lion School district
in Philadelphia, fatally shot his principal, and then himself.
The shooting comes as pressure if being leveled at lawmakers
to hold gun manufacturers responsible for such shootings.
After a recent act of the House to immunize gun makers from
lawsuits, the NAACP is currently in NY Federal court charging
that the gun makers should be more accountable. Ian Forrest
has the story.
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Colombian Prisoner Exchange Heats-up
This week in Colombia, a cross-fire of words concerning
a prisoner exchange heated up between the Colombian government
and the leftist guerrilla group - the Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia, the FARC. For the third time this month,
FARC leader Manuel Marulanda released a communiqué
expressing the FARC's desire to hold talks with the government
to enact a humanitarian accord. Currently the FARC are holding
23 prominent politicians and 40 Colombian soldiers and police
that they want to exchange for nearly 900 imprisoned guerrillas.
Three US defense contractors, being held as prisoners of war
by the FARC since February 13, would be included in this exchange.
From Bogotá, Nicole Karsin has more.
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