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Today's lead stories:
Israeli incursion into Tulkarem
IDF Denies doctor entry to Nablus
Candidates on Energy and the Environment
Schwarzenegger wants cuts to AIDS Drug Program
US Responsible to Prolonging Uganda Conflict?
A look at Israel’s WMD’s
FSRN Headlines
PEACE ACTIVIST TOM HURNDALL DIES – VIGIL HELD
A vigil was held this afternoon in England to honor the memory
of Tom Hurndall and call for action by the British Government.
Hurndall, a photographer and peace activist, was shot in the
head while trying to shield Palestinian children from Israeli
bullets. He died yesterday – after nine months in a
persistent vegetative state. After an initial IDF investigation
that fully exonerated the Israeli soldier – new evidence
was considered and he was indicted this week on six charges
– including aggravated assault, a lesser charge than
attempted murder. Those charges will likely be amended now
that Hurndall has died – but his family says nothing
short of murder charges will satisfy them. Carl Arindell is
the family’s spokesperson.
UN CALLS CLOSED DOOR MEETINGS ON IRAQ – Haider Risvy
The UN has called a meeting for next Monday with officials
of the Iraqi Governing Council and the so-called coalition
led by the US – Haider Risvy is at the UN.
PENSION PLANS TO ANNOUNCE DEFICIT – John Hamilton
President Bush is asking for a $1 Billion Increase in NASA's
Budget to Fund space mission to Marts and to the moon. And
the federal agency that insures US private pension plans is
post a ten billion dollar deficit when it releases new financial
data tomorrow. John Hamilton has more.
SUMMT OF THE AMERICAS – Vladimir Flores
The two-day Special Summit of the Americas closed last night
in Monterrey with the signing of the "Declaration of
Nuevo León. Vladimir Flores reports from Monterrey.
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Israeli incursion into Tulkarem
This morning a Palestinian woman killed herself and four
Israeli soldiers when she blew herself up at the entrance
to an Israeli industrial Zone in the Gaza Strip. The bomber,
a 22 year old mother of two from Gaza was the first female
suicide bomber who belonged to the Palestinian militant group
Hamas. The bombing led the Israeli army to close the industrial
zone near the Eretz border crossing between Gaza and Israel
and send hundreds of Palestinian day laborers home. Last night
the Israeli army ended a 2 day incursion into the West Bank
town of Tulkarem. There have also been other incursions into
Nablus, Rafah, Ramallah and Hebron. We begin our coverage
with FSRN correspondent Mohammed Ghalayini speaking to a member
of the International Solidarity Movement Flo Raznowsky in
Tulkarem
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IDF Denies doctor entry to Nablus
Meanwhile early this morning On WBAI’s “Wake
Up Call” program, Bernard White and Deepa Fernandes
were interviewing Dr Alan Myers about the lockdown of the
Nablus camp by the Israeli military where Dr Myers and other
members of the Jewish Medical Project were giving medical
attention to sick Palestinians. Dr Myers was stopped and waiting
at checkpoint to enter the camp for hours where he was speaking
to WBAI, when, in the middle of the interview, a soldier ordered
him out of the ambulance he was traveling in.
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Candidates on Energy and the Environment
Though ignored by the Democratic Party, the first votes
were cast yesterday in Washington DC for the Democratic presidential
nominee. Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean won the DC non-binding
primary with 43% of the vote. The Reverend Al Sharpton came
in second with 34% of the vote while former U.S. Senator Carol
Mosley Braun finished 3rd with 12% and Representative Dennis
Kucinich landed 4th with 8% of the vote. The remaining democratic
nominees did not participate in the DC primary. While only
16% of Democrats in DC voted, it was still a higher turnout
than previous presidential primaries. Voting rights groups
in DC moved the primary to before the Iowa Caucus so as to
highlight the lack of representation of DC's citizens in Congress.
Meanwhile, a coalition of energy conservation and environmental
groups released a survey depicting the presidential candidates
views on energy policies and the environment. Mitch Jeserich
reports.
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Schwarzenegger wants cuts to AIDS Drug Program
AIDS Drug Assistance programs (ADAP’s), are the last
safety net, even below Medicaid, for the poor, uninsured and
underinsured who cannot afford the expensive, lifelong regimen
of drugs needed to sustain life with AIDS. The ADAPS are about
80% funded by the Federal Government through the Ryan White
Care Act. But they are run by the states, which add funding
and set patient eligibility requirements. Approximately 25%
of the 40,000 Americans newly diagnosed with HIV each year
will need to access an ADAP. California's ADAP has been among
the nation's most generous. But now Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
is proposing to cap the number of patients the programs serve
to save money. It's a proposal that people living with AIDS
say will cost lives. Kellia Ramares filed this report from
Pacifica station KPFA in Berkeley.
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US Responsible to Prolonging Uganda Conflict?
It’s claimed thousands of lives in northern Uganda,
but a new study on the Lords's resistance rebellion, has blamed
the US for causing the prolonging of the conflict in Uganda
that has raged for 17 years. The report was compiled by the
Human Rights and Peace center of Makerere University in Uganda,
with the assistance from the Canadian based Institute of Global
Issues, the Norwegian Refugee Council, the African Study Centre
and other human rights organizations based in northern Uganda.
The report says that US support of Uganda in fighting the
Islamist regime in Sudan, and Uganda’s support to SPLA
rebels in southern Sudan is what motivated the Sudanese government
to give military assistance to the Lord's resistance army
in northern Uganda. FSRN’s Joshua Kyalimpa reports.
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A look at Israel’s WMD’s.
After the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq, the term
"weapons of mass destruction" has become common
place in the daily media debate, especially in relation to
Saddam Hussein's fallen regime. And while the Bush Administration
talks about the WMD’s of other nations in the Middle
East like Syria and Iran, our correspondent Peter Graff asks,
what about Israel?
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