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Today's lead stories:
Where is all the Iraq Money Going?
Divisions between Iraqi Kurds and Arabs
Preparing for the European Social Forum
Mumia Abu Jamal commentary: Afghan History
Women of Color behind Sunday’s March for Women’s
Lives
New Mexico's Homeless Women Speak Out
FSRN Headlines
NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, has
confirmed that it practiced hijack scenarios in the two years
before the September 11th attacks. More from Kellia Ramares.
The United Nations has sent a fact finding mission to Sudan
to investigate what many describe as ethnic cleansing of black
Sudanese by Arab Sudanese militias. Haider Rizvi reports from
the U.N.
All the local newspapers in Beijing read the same thing:
SARS is back. From Beijijng, Severine Bardon reports.
Doctors Without Borders are being denied access by the Italian
government to people who attempted to immigrate to Europe,
now being held on a small island in the Mediterranean. Diletta
Varlese in Brescia.
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Where is all the Iraq Money Going?
As funds run low for the U.S. military in Iraq, the U.S.
Congress has reportedly begun working on a plan to send billions
more dollars to the region. Estimates of a new appropriation
varies, from a low of 4 billion to a high of 75 billion dollars.
Our Capitol Hill reporter Mitch Jeserich looks at what happened
to the 87 billion Iraqi package passed just 6 months ago that
the White House said would last into 2005.
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Divisions between Iraqi Kurds and Arabs
The Pentagon is angry that photos of the coffins of dead
US service men and women have been published, breaking a Pentagon
policy prohibiting media coverage of human remains. The photos
were released last week under a freedom of information request.
Activists argue that if the American public could see the
body-bags and the numbers of dead American’s, that support
for the occupation would drop dramatically. On the ground
in Iraq, today Shiite Cleric Muqtada al-Sadr condemned the
Basra suicide bombings but promised that if American troops
attempt to attack the holy city of Najaf, he would not be
able to control the anger of the people who may commit other
such attacks. And while the US Army continues to lock-down
Fallujah, there remains deep divisions between Iraqi Kurds
and Arabs in the way they view the occupation. While most
Arabs have come to despise their American overlords, Kurds
continue to support the US military. From Northern Iraq, FSRN's
Aaron Glantz helps explain why.
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Preparing for the European Social Forum
A preparatory assembly for the third European social forum
was held in Istanbul to discuss agenda items for the upcoming
October European Social Forum. Ezgi Saritas reports.
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Mumia Abu Jamal commentary: Afghan History
Tomorrow is the 50th birthday of Mumia Abu Jamal, and anti-death
penalty activists, human rights groups and civil rights activists
from around the world will gather in Philadelphia to celebrate
the strength of the death row journalist and commentator and
call for his freedom. Assata Shakur calls Mumia the Malcom
X of our day, and we here at FSRN want to thank Mumia and
the Prison Radio Project for his regular contributions to
our newscast. With another commentary from his death row cell,
this is Mumia Abu Jamal.
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Women of Color behind Sunday’s March for Women’s
Lives
For the first time in history, women of color have been
included in the organizing of the march for reproductive justice,
in Washington DC, but not without a struggle. When women from
around the country rally in DC on Sunday, they will be demonstrating
for access to health and child care, job security for pregnant
women, and the right to choose to have a child. These developments
are thanks to a strong influence from organizations serving
women of color around the country. Shanina Shumate from the
Welfare Radio Collaborative at the National Radio Project
in Oakland, California has more
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New Mexico's Homeless Women Speak Out
And we close our newscast today, we bring you voices of
women who are homeless in Albuquerque, produced by Rogi Riverstone
from KUNM.
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