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Today's lead stories:
Iraqi Handover Two Days Early
Allawai – A Profile
US Supreme Court
Greens Choose David Cobb
70,000 Rally in Argentina
FSRN Headlines
On Sunday, in Mexico, an estimated 350,000 people, according
to the ‘Salt Lake Tribune’, took part in a peaceful,
silent protest march through the heart of Mexico City, to
protest kidnappings, violent crimes and the failures of law
enforcement to stop or fully investigate these crimes. The
march was the largest in Mexico’s recent history. Marchers
wore black ribbons in memory of victims killed during kidnappings
and robberies – and rather than chant, protesters shared
stories of people who had been victims of violent crime. Human
rights groups say there has been a rise in the number of deaths
of kidnap victims in the country - one estimate puts the number
of those kidnapped at 4,000 between 1997 and 2003. Local reports
say that the administration of President Vicente Fox is pushing
for congress to give kidnappers longer jails terms and revamp
the justice system.
Eleven states have filed a formal challenge to the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency's proposed mercury emissions reduction rule,
which backs away from minimum requirements in the federal
Clean Air Act and slows the timetable to achieve significant
reductions of the highly toxic pollutant. Kathryn Krupnik
has more:
At least 3 Israelis and 4 Palestinians were killed in a series
of back and forth attacks today. Laila El Haddad reports:
This week, Secretary of State Colin Powell travels to Sudan
under increasing pressure to recognize the genocide taking
place in the country’s Darfur region. Andre Banks has
more on this story:
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Iraqi Handover Two Days Early
A surprise ceremony marking the transfer of some powers
of state from the occupation authority to an appointed Iraqi
government took place this morning. U-S administrator Paul
Bremer left the country by early afternoon, by which time
interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi was on television vowing
continued action against anti-occupation guerillas. David
Enders has this report from Baghdad.
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Allawai – A Profile
The man who'll be running Iraq's new government, Iyad Allawi,
is a former Ba'athist and CIA Agent. Beginning in 1991, with
an order signed by the first President Bush, Allawi and his
organization the Iraqi National Accord were promoted by the
Saudi Governement as the answer to Saddam Hussein and were
funded by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Allawi, a
former Iraqi intelligence chief, attempted a military coup
in 1996, also funded by the CIA, but failed. FSRN's Aaron
Glantz has more on Iraq' new Prime Minister.
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US Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court issued its first major ruling effecting
President Bush's war on terror today. The High Court dealt
the administration a set back in its detention policies with
U.S. citizens and the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. While
the court did rule the administration has the right to detain
U.S. citizen Yasser Hamdi and 600 detainees at Guantanamo
Bay, the Justices also ruled the detainees have the right
to challenge their detainments in U.S courts. Mitch Jeserich
has more from the Supreme Court.
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Greens Choose David Cobb
In a closely fought race for the presidential endorsement
of the Green Party, California lawyer David Cobb narrowly
defeated Ralph Nader. In his acceptance speech at the convention
this past weekend in Milwaukee Cobb said that Americans are
living under a legal, economic and political system that is
literally destroying the planet. (FSRN also speaks with Donna
Warren – Coordinator with Green’s for Nader and
member of the Pacifica National Board of Directors).
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70,000 Rally in Argentina
More than 70.000 people took to the streets calling for
justice on the second anniversary of the massacre of the Bridge
Pueyrredon when the police murdered two piqueteros. Mat Goldin
has more From Buenos Aires.
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