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Today's lead stories:
Powell, Paige, Abraham & Veneman resign
Fallujah ~ A Humanitarian Disaster
Could the OH Recount Give Presidency to Kerry?
DC Residents Urge Vote Against New Stadium
Texas Death Row Inmate Speaks to FSRN
Benetton vs Mapuche Indians: Argentina
FSRN Headlines
CIA Purges Bush Adversaries
Central Intelligence Agency staffers say Bush administration
officials have ordered a purge of political adversaries in
the agency. Matthew Swope reports from D.C.
New Immigration Plan Starts Today
Federal agents in three cities along the Mexican and Canadian
borders began the first part of a new immigration security
program that critics say uses the wrong techniques. From KPFT,
Renee Feltz has more.
US Flights to Torture
A British newspaper reports that an executive jet is being
used by US intelligence agencies to fly terrorist suspects
to countries that routinely use torture in their prisons.
From London, Naomi Fowler reports.
Interim Palestinian Leader Uninjured
Interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas was uninjured after
a minor gun battle erupted during his visit to the occupied
Gaza Strip. Two of his security guards however were killed.
The gunmen reportedly object to the eventuality of Abbas winning
the post of President in January’s election and consider
him to be a tool of the Israeli’s. Abbas has called
for more talks with the Israelis and condemns militant violence.
Today, Israeli Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said the country
might rescind their offer to withdraw from the Gaza strip
and place conditions on reversing the occupation. It is the
first sign the Israelis may change their stance since the
death of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat. Interim leader
Abbas is scheduled to meet with representatives of the various
Palestinian factions in the occupied territories today.
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Powell, Paige, Abraham & Veneman resign
(4:19)
Today four members of President Bush's cabinet resigned,
including Secretary of State Colin Powell. Powell has been
known as a moderate within the Bush administration who had
the most reservations about invading Iraq unilaterally. Still,
Powell argued to the UN in his famous February 5th 2003 address
that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. Other cabinet
resignations come from Education Secretary Rod Paige, Energy
Secretary Spencer Abraham, and Agriculture Secretary Anne
Veneman. Mitch Jeserich reports from Washington DC.
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Fallujah ~ A Humanitarian Disaster (3:59)
US forces today dropped two 500-pound bombs on what they
said were suspected insurgent targets in the southern outskirts
of the Iraqi city of Baquba. The attack was coupled with five
artillery strikes and the US military say they killed 20 Iraqi
insurgents. This comes as the US military and the Iraqi government
declared victory in Fallujah over the weekend, saying the
coalition forces control all but a few tiny pockets of the
city. The Iraqi Red Crescent, who have leveled stinging criticism
at the US military for not allowing them to bring humanitarian
aid into the city, say that Fallujah is far from won. Our
correspondents in Baghdad Salam Talib and Dahr Jamail report.
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Could the OH Recount Give Presidency to Kerry?
(2:42)
President Bush's small 136,000 vote victory in Ohio has
come firmly into question after mounting pressure has forced
a recount of sorts. The Ohio Secretary of State's office is
now counting at least one hundred and fifty five thousand
provisional ballots and an undetermined number of overseas
absentee ballots cast in the November second presidential
election. And the approximately five and a half million votes
already counted will now be officially recounted, at the request
of the Green and Libertarian parties. Should a majority of
votes in the new counting turn out to be for John Kerry, the
electoral vote count would then give him the presidency. But
however the vote count turns out, there are thousands of Ohio
voters who say that the election was stolen. Pacifica Radio's
National Affairs correspondent Larry Bensky reports from Columbus,
Ohio, where a citizens forum this weekend heard testimony
from Ohio voters.
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DC Residents Urge Vote Against New Stadium
(2:04)
The clock is ticking in DC for final approval of a baseball
stadium deal. Community activists are working steadily to
convince their city council members to vote down the current
proposal for the city to fully fund the half a billion dollar
stadium. Darby Hickey reports.
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Texas Death Row Inmate Speaks to FSRN (3:43)
Last week, a federal magistrate recommended that Texas death
row inmate Anthony Graves be denied a new trial. The judge
ruled exculpatory evidence suppressed by prosecutors during
a 1994 trial was not material to the case. KPFT reporter Erika
McDonald spoke with Anthony Graves,
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Benetton vs Mapuche Indians: Argentina (3:10)
Luciano Benetton, the Italian textile magnate, has agreed
to give up 6,200 acres of land in Argentina to end an indigenous
land rights controversy that risked wrecking his company's
caring image. Mat Goldin and Zula Warken report from Buenos
Aires.
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