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Today's lead stories:
Iraq Under Siege: Part 1: Diala, Iraq
Iraq Under Siege: Part 2: Baghdad, Iraq
Iraq under Siege: Part 3: Capitol Hill
Anniversary of Oakland Dock Protests
R2K Cases Acquitted
Rwandan Genocide 10 Years Later – Part 2
FSRN Headlines
9/11 "Plotter" Released from German Jail
A German court in Hamburg has released from prison the only
person in the world ever convicted of involvement in the September
11 terrorist attacks. Mounir El Motassadeq, a Morrocan, was
released today on bail pending a retrial in Germany’s
High Court. From Germany FSRN correspondent Guy Degen has
more.
CA Voters Just Say No to Walmart
Wal-Mart’s efforts to open up its first superstore in
Los Angeles County hit a snag as thousands turned out to reject
the retailer’s move into their neighborhood. Ngoc Nguyen
reports.
China Controls Reform in Hong Kong
China has ruled that Beijing will have the final say on any
political reform in Hong Kong. Severine Bardon reports from
Beijing.
Generic HIV/AIDS Drugs For Developing Nations – Despite
Bush
Former US President Bill Clinton announced a plan to provide
cheaper generic AIDS drugs to the Third World after the Bush
administration said they would only foot the bill for the
more expensive brand name medications. Na’eem Jenna
reports from Johannesburg.
Update on Haiti
Tensions between political factions continue to carve a deep
and violent divide among Haitians. Since the U.S. backed ouster
of President Aristide, Haitians remain unsure of their county’s
future, whose fate relies on a series of hypocrisies. Leigh
Ann Caldwell has the story from WBAI in New York.
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Iraq Under Siege: Part 1: Diala, Iraq (4:24)
The uprising in Iraq is spreading quickly with as many as
6 Iraqi cities experiencing fierce battles between Iraqi’s
and US led foreign troops. Ukrainian forces were forced to
evacuate the city of Kut, southwest of Baghdad, during clashes
with Shiite cleric al-Sadr's al-Mahdi Army, while there were
clashes with Polish troops in the holy city of Karbala. The
city of Najaf is now totally under the control of supporters
of al-Sadr, while in the Sunni Muslim stronghold of Fallujah,
U.S. Marines bombed a mosque compound, and witnesses said
as many as 40 people were killed. We begin our coverage with
FSRN correspondent Aaron Glantz in the Iraqi city of Diala.
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Iraq Under Siege: Part 2: Baghdad, Iraq
(2:57)
The US Army has confirmed that 12 more troops have died.
They were killed in fighting in Ramadi, near Fallujah earlier
today. Iraqi over the last few days are now in the hundreds,
with many civilians among the dead as Eman Ahmed Khammas,
co-director of the Iraq Occupation Watch Center in Baghdad
tells host Deepa Fernandes.
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Iraq under Siege: Part 3: Capitol Hill (2:59)
Meanwhile, our DC Editor Mitch Jeserich today questioned
lawmakers on Capitol Hill about the weaponry the US forces
are deploying and the latest lost of civilian life in Iraq.
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Anniversary of Oakland Dock Protests (1:50)
A year ago today police attacked anti-war protesters and
workers at the docks in Oakland, California. As criminal charges
and civil suits work their way through the courts, the UN
has cited the incident in its annual report on state repression,
and protesters vow that they¹ll return to the docks today.
Ed Rippy reports.
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R2K Cases Acquitted (2:20)
The last surviving court cases from the August 2000 Republican
Convention protests in Philadelphia were tried in court this
week, and as Susan Phillips reports, all three defendants
who were facing felony charges were acquitted.
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Rwandan Genocide 10 Years Later – Part 2
(4:28)
In Rwanda national ceremonies are taking place to mark the
10th anniversary of the genocide with the notable absence
of any foreign leaders from Western countries. Close to one
million Tutsis and moderate Hutus where killed by Hutu militias
after a plane carrying then Rwanda's Hutu president Juvenal
Habyarimana and that of Burundi Faustino Ntibatunganya was
shot down. But ten years later, there are still thousands
of displaced people. From the Rwandese refugee camp at Nyakivale
in western Uganda, Joshua Kyalimpa brings us Part two of our
special series examining Rwanda ten years on.
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