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Today's lead stories:
Request for Detainee Information
Bush II, The Worst Ever?
Vietnam – Still Coping with Unexploded US Bombs
Who Owns River Nile Water?
FSRN Headlines with Randi Zimmerman
CA Recall In Progress
Long lines greeted poll workers at key locations in California
as other election officials braced to count millions of absentee
ballots in the hyped recall election. Max Pringle reports
from KPFA in Berkeley.
Chicago Garbage Collectors on Strike
Chicago’s garbage is piling up as more than 3,000 private
trash collectors continue their strike. Tom Robb with WZRD
reports from Chicago.
Turkey Approves Troops to Iraq
The Turkish parliament approved a resolution to send troops
to Iraq – a move that insures continued financial support
from the United States. Ezgi Sirtas reports from Ankara.
Australian PM Censured Over Iraq
Australia’s Prime Minister John Howard today was censured
by the nation’s Upper House for misleading the Australian
people over the invasion of Iraq. From Sydney, Guy Degen has
more.
Syria Goes to UN Over Israeli Attack
After international outcry over the Israeli strike into Syria,
President Bush stood by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon saying
Israel has the right to “defend itself.” Syrian
officials said Israeli warplanes hit a civilian site. Even
so, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said on Tuesday the
Jewish state was ready to hit its enemies anywhere. This as
Palestinian President Yasser Arafat appointed an emergency
cabinet of 8 in Ramallah. Rabab Abdulhadi is a professor at
New York University and a specialist in Middle East affairs,
she tells Deepa Fernandes that there are many Palestinian
victims as well.
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Request for Detainee Information
Civil rights and Veteran groups filed a formal request today
for the federal government to release information on how detainees,
captured during the so- called war on terrorism, are being
treated. This follows several reports that U.S. authorities
have conducted inhumane acts when interrogating the detainees.
Though the U.S. Government has been quiet with informal information
requests so far, this latest request will require the Bush
Administration to publicly respond. Mitch Jeserich has more
from Washington D.C.
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Bush II, The Worst Ever?
Commentary by Mumia Abu Jamal.
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Vietnam – Still Coping with Unexploded US Bombs
The Associated Press reports today that Republicans in the
House of Representatives want to add more than $250 million
to President Bush’s occupation budget for Iraq to include
extra body armor and clearance of unexploded ordnance. Before
he was toppled, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein laid mines
to fight Iraqi Kurds, Shiâ’ites, Iran, and the
US Army. On top of that, the US Army itself laid 120,000 mines
in the 1991 Gulf War. And whole the count is still pending
on how many tons of bombs the US dropped on Iraq in the most
recent war, during the Vietnam war, the US dropped 8 million
tons of bombs on that country. As Aaron Glantz and Ngoc Nguyen
report from Khe Sahn, VietNam, the country is still littered
with unexploded bombs.
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Who Owns River Nile Water?
The UN peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of
the Congo is reporting today that some 55 people, most of
them women and children, were killed in the Katshelli area
of the northeastern country yesterday. While details are still
unfolding, it appears to be a continuation of the war over
the precious minerals that Congo has. And while some analysts
say poor African countries will continue to suffer from wars
over their valuable natural resources, some are predicting
water may be the future cause of conflicts in the African
continent. In Uganda, a parliamentary select committee on
natural resources his recommended that the Uganda government
asks both Egypt and Sudan to pay Uganda for the waters from
River Nile which has its source in Uganda. As FSRN’s
Joshua Kyalimpa reports, negotiations are set to begin between
the Nile basin states for a new treaty to regulate the utilization
of River Nile waters.
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