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Today's lead stories:
Nader Announces Candidacy as Independent
The Hague Hears Case on Israeli Wall
From the Ground: An Olive Field Divided
South Korea Now Iraq’s 3rd Biggest Occupier
Security Still Pressing Issue For Iraqi’s
An “All Africa Stand By Force” is Created
FSRN Headlines
US Marines to Haiti
50 U.S. Marines are on their way to supposedly protect the
country’s embassy in Haiti. Sylvio Juste reports from
Haiti on the unrest.
SC Takes Case on Deportation
The Supreme Court announced today they will clarify when the
U.S. can deport someone, even if that person’s country
of origin has no formal government or may be in the throws
of war. Jay Tamboli has more from D.C.
University of Colorado Co-Ed Sports and Assault
Today, various groups at the University of Colorado plan to
rally around women who accuse football players and recruiters
of implicitly allowing sexual assaults to occur over the past
3 years. Joel Edelstein reports from KGNU in Boulder.
Nigeria Aims to Curbs Western Abuse
The Nigerian government initiates a plan to curb dishonest
and corrupt practices among western oil companies operating
in the country. Sam Olukoya reports from Lagos.
Bush to Fast Track CAFTA
President Bush sent a letter of intent to Congress saying
that he would sign another so-called free trade treaty --
the Central American Free Trade Act also known as CAFTA. Selina
Musuta reports from D.C.
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Nader Announces Candidacy as Independent
(3:58)
On Sunday Ralph Nader announced his candidacy for president
of the United States. Nader declared that Washington D.C.
is corporate occupied land and that neither Democrats nor
Republicans will liberate the U.S. Capitol from big money.
Nader's candidacy reopens a fierce debate amongst progressives
as to whether to support Nader, felt by many to be the most
progressive candidate, or to support the Democratic nominee
so to defeat President Bush. Today Nader outlined his campaign
platform, which includes targeting disenfranchised conservative
voters, at a DC press conference. Mitch Jeserich was there
and he brings us this report.
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The Hague Hears Case on Israeli Wall (0:40)
Today the International Court in the Hague started hearing
the case about the legality of the concrete wall Israel is
building in Palestinian territory in the West Bank. Sami Aburoza,
PLO Legal Advisor, gives us an update on the case from the
Hague.
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From the Ground: An Olive Field Divided (4:03)
Palestinian leaders say they don't object to the Israeli
wall as such, but rather the fact that it's being built on
Palestinian land and not on the border. Meanwhile a suicide
bombing on a bus in Jerusalem yesterday has brought all the
issues in the case into sharp focus. Palestinian leaders condemned
the attack in which eight people died and sixty were wounded.
Israel said that it needs a wall to protect itself from such
attackers. Irris Makler in Israel has talked to two families
-- Israelis who were the victims of a shooting attack in which
their seven year old daughter died -- and Palestinians in
a village which is being cut off from Jerusalem - and where
the wall will come between a husband and wife.
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South Korea Now Iraq’s 3rd Biggest Occupier
(3:41)
South Korea's Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon is in Egypt today
as part of his whirl-wind tour of the Middle East designed
to promote his country's deployment of more than 3,000 troops
to Iraq's Northern oil-rich city, Kirkuk. The Bush Administration
had pushed for the troops, which will make South Korea the
third biggest occupying power in Iraq after America and Britain
- but as Aaron Glantz reports from Turkey's capital, Ankara,
Bush wasn't the only one pressuring South Korean President
Roh Muh-Hyun.
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Security Still Pressing Issue For Iraqi’s
(3:37)
As Donald Rumsfeld arrived in Iraq today a car bomb exploded
at an Iraqi police station in northern Iraq killing at least
eight Iraqi officers. The attack in the northern city of Kirkuk
underlines one of the gravest problems facing both the occupying
forces and the Iraqi police who are receiving the brunt of
recent attacks. And ordinary Iraqi’s are also the targets,
not only of bomb blasts, but also the general lawlessness
that still prevails in across Iraq. Following the American
occupation of Iraq, personal safety and protection has become
an obsession for the majority, especially after the dissolution
of the old Iraqi army and the security apparatuses. FSRN’s
Ahmed Al-Rawi, has this report from Baghdad.
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An “All Africa Stand By Force” is Created
(2:50)
In Uganda, rebels of Joseph Kony’s Lord's Resistance
Army (LRA) have killed at least 190 people in a town in the
north of the country. Yesterday’s attack took place
at a refugee camp and in response government troops today
swept through the area looking for LRA members. The LRA is
blacklisted as a terrorist organization by the US, and the
International Court of Justice in the Hague is due to probe
the accusation that the group has bases inside the Sudan.
Yesterday’s attack comes as African defense ministers
made the first step towards the formation of an All Africa
Stand By Force (ASF), to act as an alternative to UN peacekeeping
missions. Army chiefs from at least 13 East African nations
have agreed on a plan, which creates five regional brigades
that will constitute about 4000 soldiers. This ambitious program
is being put in place after disappointments with the international
community and the United Nations, which Africans accuses of
often responding late or not at all in times of trouble. But
as Joshua Kyalimpa reports while the idea may be well conceived,
it's likely to meet several hurdles on the way.
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