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Today's lead stories:
Bush Calls for More International Presence in Iraq
Inquiry Open in Death of Weapons Inspector Dr. Kelly
South Korean President Denies North Korea Built a Second Plant
for Plutonium
Arab-Americans Under Attack in Chicago
Mexican Police Accuse American Woman of Murder
Meeting African Leaders Affirm Women's Rights
Free Speech radio News Headlines produced
by Nell Abram
Escalating violence in Liberia -- Sam Olukoya
Annan asks Secuirty Council to endorse interim Iraqi Council
-- Susan Wood
Former Guantanamo detainee intends to sue US - Masror Hausen
Justice Dept reports says employees violated civil rights
of Patriot Act detainees -- Karen Engle
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Bush Calls for More International Presence in Iraq
(3:47)
Today another US soldier was killed along with an Iraqi
interpreter, bringing the total number of US military deaths
in Iraq to 38 since President Bush declared May 1 the end
of combat. And at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, Bush responded
to the news of additional US casualties by calling for more
international presence in Iraq during his meeting with Italian
Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, this as the controversy
over the US president’s pre war claim that Iraq was
in the process of procuring uranium from Niger is putting
renewed attention on other now debunked claims the white house
made in the run up to the Iraq invasion. However, Progressive
media outlets covering the run up to the war are wondering
why the white house evidence on Iraq is only now coming under
mainstream media scrutiny. Josh Chaffin reports from DC.
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Inquiry Open in Death of Weapons Inspector Dr. Kelly
(1:03)
An inquiry is opened today in to the death of Dr. David
Kelley and the BBC confirms that he was the main source for
a controversial report alleging that the British government
exagerrated the threat posed by Saddam Husseini in a dossier
published last September. Ama Buadi reports from England.
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South Korean President Denies North Korea Built a
Second Plant for Plutonium (3:02)
South Korea's President used the word "groundless"
today to describe a New York Times report quoting senior US
and Asian intelligence officials saying strong evidence has
emerged indicating North Korea has built a second secret plant
for plutonium, a key ingredient for building nuclear bombs.
South Korean President Noh Muh Young's spokesperson told reporters
the Times report was quote "low in reliability"
and said Noh "experessed concern about the phenomenon
of unclear and groundless media reports throwing cold water"
on South Korea's economy. The statement comes amid renewed
hopes for a negotiated settlement of the North Korean nuclear
crisis as Aaron Glantz and Ngoc Nguyen report from Seoul.
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Arab-Americans Under Attack in Chicago (4:04)
Recently, a federal magistrate denied bond to suburban Chicago
newspaper publisher Khaled Abdel-Latif Dumeisi, who has been
charged with acting as an unregistered agent of a foreign
country -- Iraq. However members of Chicago's Palestinian
community say the charge is nakedly political, and note that
the last time this type of case was prosecuted in the area
was more than 40 years ago, when federal officials charged
a man rumored to be a member of the Communist Party with being
a foreign agent of the Soviet Union. Chris Geovanis reports
from Chicago.
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Mexican Police Accuse American Woman of Murder
(3:47)
An American citizen living in Mexico is alleging that she
is being framed by Mexican police for the murder of a teenage
girl in Chihuahua city. The case of Cynthia Kiecker is one
of the stranger twists in the long string of women’s
murders that have haunted Northern Mexico for the past decade.
FSRN reporter Kent Paterson interviewed Kiecker and has this
exclusive report.
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Meeting African Leaders Affirm Women's Rights (3:45)
Over the weekend, 4 years after Libyan president Maa-mar
Khaddafi announced the idea of an "Africa Union"
African presidents gathered in Maputo for the second summit
of the institution. Issues discussed among the leaders was
situation in Liberia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and
Cote D’ivoire. With the leaders affirming the right
of women to participate in the building of their continent.
From Senegal, Ndiaga Seck reports.
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