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Today's lead stories:
Baghdad Blast: On the Ground Report
Goss: CIA Needs Domestic Spying Capabilites
Rejecting Roadless Rules
Anyone Courting the Poverty Vote?
Peaceful Indigenous Resistance in Colombia
FSRN Headlines
Turkey Threatens to Leave Coalition
Turkish government officials threaten to take troops out of
Iraq if the U.S. military continues to strike at the Turkmen
minority in the northern part of the country. Turkmen officials
say the U.S. military is being duped into attacking them by
Kurds in northern Iraq. U.S. military officials say one town,
Tal Afar, has been reportedly taken over by militants who
regularly attack U.S. and Iraqi troops. For their part, the
Kurds, who were massacred under Saddam Hussein’s regime,
have been able to gain more land and control under the U.S.
occupation. Turkey’s Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said
he told U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell that Turkey would
end its partnership with the U.S. if they continued the attack
on Tal Afar, according to the Anatolia news agency.
WTC Clean Up Workers Sue
Recovery workers who cleaned up the World Trade Center site
after September 11th filed a class action lawsuit claiming
they were sent into an unsafe working environment without
proper precautions. Leigh Ann Caldwell has more from WBAI
in New York City.
US Government Pension Net Faces Bankruptcy
The U.S. government’s pension backup plan will be bankrupt
by the year 2020 according to a report by the Center of Federal
Finance Institutions. The report says corporate bankruptcies
took the fund’s balance sheet from a 19-million dollar
surplus to an 11 point 2 billion dollar deficit. Sarah Turner
with the Workers Independent News Service reports.
Immigrant Students DREAM
Immigrant students and supporters across the nation are fasting
to raise awareness of the DREAM Act. Aura Bogado explains
from KPFK in Los Angeles.
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Baghdad Blast: On the Ground Report (3:22)
Al Jazeera is reporting today that a British lawyer says
he has uncovered evidence that US troops mistreated detainees
in the Iraqi city of Mosul, signaling that the abuse is occurring
far beyond the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. Lawyer Phil Shiner
sent Reuters statements by two Iraqis who said they were hooded,
stripped naked, beaten and doused with cold water at lengthy
torture session. One said he had seen a 14-year-old boy bleeding
from his anus. The other said he was threatened with sexual
assault. The allegations appear to be the first reports of
abuse in Mosul. Meanwhile, an explosion ripped through a crowded
market near a police building in Haifa Street. We are joined
by Salam Talib, a computer programmer in Baghdad who was at
the scene.
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Goss: CIA Needs Domestic Spying Capabilites
(4:13)
Today President Bush's nominee for the new chief of the
CIA Porter Goss said, at his Senate confirmation hearing,
that it's time for the country to have a serious debate on
whether the CIA should be allowed to conduct domestic spying.
Mitch Jeserich reports from Capitol Hill.
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Rejecting Roadless Rules (3:24)
A coalition of conservationists and outdoor enthusiasts
gathered in Houston, Texas today to announce that 1.4 million
Americans oppose efforts by the Bush administration to repeal
the federal so-called ‘Roadless Rule’ that protects
millions of acres of American wilderness. From KPFT in Houston,
Erika Mc Donald files this report
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Anyone Courting the Poverty Vote? (3:17)
With less than two months before the elections, the United
States presidential campaigns are in full swing. George Bush
and John Kerry are making lofty claims, attacking each other's
personal and profession histories, and appealing to what they
think the American people demand. Low-income families and
workers say that they have been left out of this political
melee. Sarah Olson and Renita Pitts of the Welfare Radio Collective
report.
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Peaceful Indigenous Resistance in Colombia
(3:00)
In Colombia, an expected 40,000 indigenous Paez people and
their allies today embarked on an intercity march, demanding
territorial autonomy while rejecting a proposed free trade
treaty with the United States. This comes as last week, the
Paez's own Indigenous Guard succeeded in rescuing five of
their leaders two weeks after they were kidnapped by FARC
guerilla. Dan Malakoff has the story.
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