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Today's lead stories:
Mosque Blast Kills Shiite Leader
Six Way Talks Conclude – Little Progress
People Pressure for Clean Air
Free Trade Sends More Jobs OS
Amina Lawal Appeals Death by Stoning
FSRN Headlines Produced by Randi Zimmerman
Protesting Yale Workers Arrested - Melinda Tuhus
DNA Evidence Not Good Enough for Innocence - Sally Watt
1 in 5 Women Assaulted at Academy - Daniel Costello
UN Considering Multi-National Force in Iraq - Haider Risvi
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Mosque Blast Kills Shiite Leader (3:00)
Soon after Friday morning prayers began in a mosque in the
Shiite holy city of Najaf in Iraq, a powerful car bomb exploded
outside the mosque killing some 75 and injuring scores more.
Among the dead is influential Shiite leader Ayatollah Mohammed
Baqir al-Hakim. Our correspondent Ahmed al Rawi spoke to us
from Baghdad shortly after the blast.
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Six Way Talks Conclude – Little Progress
(4:06)
The Bush Administration still refuses to sign a non-aggression
pact with North Korea. That at the conclusion of three days
of talks between the US, North Korea, South Korea, Japan,
China, and Russia. At the Summit in Beijing, North Korea repeated
its position that it would scrap its nuclear weapons program
if the Bush Administration guaranteed in writing that America
would not attack, but US negotiators refused. From Seoul,
Aaron Glantz has more.
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People Pressure for Clean Air (3:59)
In the aftermath of August 14th power outage, utilities
successfully lobbied President Bush to weaken clean air rules.
Power plants, including the dirtiest in the country, can upgrade
without installing pollution controls. But in Minnesota, grassroots
organizing is defying the Bush administration. Bowing to public
pressure, the state's largest supplier of electricity has
submitted a voluntary proposal to convert its two oldest,
and dirtiest, coal burning plants to natural gas, but as FSRN's
Ann Alquist reports from Minneapolis, communities are asking
"at what price?"
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Free Trade Sends More Jobs OS (4:39)
Over the next 15 years, 3.3 million US service jobs and
$136 billion in wages will be sent offshore to places such
as Russia, China, India, the Philippines and Canada. Until
now, the practice has managed to stay under the radar but
it could meet serious opposition, as more and more companies
like GE, Cisco Systems, Boeing and IBM search for cheaper
labor to cut costs and increase shareholder value. Martha
Baskin looks at the larger picture of free trade and free
trade agreements of which the moves overseas by US corporations
is an integral part.
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Amina Lawal Appeals Death by Stoning (4:00)
A woman sentenced to death by stoning under Islamic law
has appealed against the sentence to a higher Islamic appeals
court in Northern Nigeria. The woman, Amina Lawal, had earlier
lost an appeal against the death sentence at a lower appeals
court. Her battle to stay alive is coming as President Olusegun
Obasanjo who is under pressure from western countries, is
planning legislation to abolish the death penalty. Human rights
groups have hailed this move. But in the predominantly Muslim
north of the country, there is outrage. Muslims say the death
penalty should not be abolished because it is an important
aspect of Islamic law. Sam Olukoya reports from Lagos.
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