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Today's lead stories:
Liberian Situation Remains Volatile
AIDS cause concern in Bagdad
Released Guantanamo Prisoner Sues
Islamists Strike in Kashmir
War Resistors League Holds 80th Annual Conference
Liberian Situation Remains Volatile (3:31)
After a five day sustained military attack on the Liberian
capital of Monrovia, approximately 4500 American troops are
headed towards the region. However, America, and indeed the
rest of the world, have been reluctant to send troops to enforce
a ceasefire. As Brendan Sweeney reports, despite a slight
break in hostilities, the situation remains volatile…
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AIDS cause concern in Bagdad (4:21)
US Central command in Iraq confirmed this afternoon that
Saddam Hussein’s son’s Oday and Qusay, are among
four Iraqi’s killed in a raid on a home in the Northern
City of Mosul. Meanwhile, US forces came under further attack
today. One soldier was killed and another wounded in an ambush
north of Baghdad. The number of US troops killed in Action
since President Bush declared major combat over on May 1 now
stands at 39. The rising cost of the military occupation in
lives and dollars is prompting efforts by the Bush Administration
to internationalize the occupation, but other countries are
insisting on progress toward Iraqi self-rule. This as HIV
and AIDS a well-kept secret in Iraq during the Hussein is
now of concern to the international community. Many of the
former patients who were under specialized hospital care are
now scattered across the Iraqi population. Authorities now
fear the spread of the pandemic. Fariba Nawa reports from
Baghdad.
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Released Guantanamo Prisoner Sues (4:08)
A Pakistani prisoner, Mohammed Sagheer, who was released
last November, has demanded $10.4 million compensation from
the US government departments for illegally detaining him
at Guantanamo Bay for 10 months. His lawyer, Mohammed Ikram
Chowdry who sent a legal notice to the Defence, State and
Justice departments through the US embassy in Islamabad on
July 9 says he is going to wait for a response until August
15 after which he will file a law suit against the US government
either in Pakistan or the United States. Another batch of
eleven Guantanamo Bay prisoners, who arrived on July 17, have
been jailed by the Pakistan authorities for 90 days. Legal
experts in Islamabad today claimed their detention was absolutely
illegal Masror Hussain reports from Islamabad.
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Islamists Strike in Kashmir (4:04)
Today 3 Islamic fighters struck in a suicide attack on an
Indian Military Garrison in Kashmir, killing at least 8, including
a brigadier and injuring among others the general in command
of the Indian Presence in Kashmir, a territory whose ownership
is disputed by the Nuclear neighbours of Indian and Pakistan.
For Kashmiri’s commemorating Martyr’s day this
week, various initiatives towards peace launched earlier this
year has seen little change with the continued disappearance
of their sons. From Srinigar, Kasmir, Miranda Kennedy reports.
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War Resistors League Holds 80th Annual Conference
(4:00)
Over the weekend the war resisters league held its 80th
annual conference in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The WRL was
founded in 1923 by people who had opposed World War 1, many
of whom had been jailed for refusing military service. About
two hundred people traveled from all around the country to
learn about the WRL's tradition of conscientious objection
and non-violent resistance to war. The theme of the conference
was the globalization of militarism. Daniel Costello reports
from Colorado Springs.
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