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Today's lead stories:
US Marine Shoots Wounded & Unarmed Iraqi ~ On Tape
Horror Stories Emerging from Fallujah
Rice to Replace Powell
Report from Last Session of 108th Congress
Young Guatemalan Death Row Inmates Graduate
Free Speech in Question at Boulder High
Abortion Right Questioned by Australian Religious Right
FSRN Headlines
Violence in Ivory Coast
Peace must be “imposed” on the Ivory Coast according
to the French Foreign Minister if the people of the Ivory
Coast are unable to stop hostilities. Yesterday, the United
Nations Security Council unanimously approved an arms embargo
over the African nation. France, the former colonizer, presented
the proposal. Officials with the Gbagbo government immediately
condemned the vote and said they were unable to present their
perspective on the situation to the council. However, rebel
forces now controlling the north are pleased with the decision.
According to UN sources in the Ivory Coast, the Gbagbo government
has cut off water and electricity to the rebel held north.
The UN official also said that a planned government military
offensive was scrapped after French forces decimated the Ivory
Coast’s air force. The official said however that in
the Ivory Coast, “the French have no friends, only business
interests.”
2,000 US Soldiers Resisting "Back Door Draft"
Over 2-thousand former soldiers are resisting a call up by
the U.S. Army, according to a report by the New York Times.
Katie Murry has more from D.C.
War Crimes Trial at The Hague
Three Kosovo Albanians went on trial at the International
War Crimes Tribunal, the first ethnic Albanians to be tried
for alleged war crimes committed during the 1998-1999 conflict.
Melik Keramian reports from Prishtina.
Nigerian Strike on Hold
An indefinite nationwide strike schedule to start today in
Nigeria has been suspended. Sam Olukoya explains from Lagos.
Boeing Official Give Pentagon Official Job
A former Boeing executive admitted in a federal court that
he hired a top Pentagon official while the two of them were
negotiating a government contract. Leigh Ann Caldwell has
the story from WBAI.
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US Marine Shoots Wounded & Unarmed Iraqi ~ On
Tape (:07)
A cameraman with NBC captured on tape a US Marine shooting
dead an unarmed and wounded Iraqi prisoner in a mosque in
Fallujah. The Marine is heard on tape claiming the wounded
Iraqi man was faking his death. A marine can be heard saying
"He's [expletive] faking he's dead. He faking he's [expletive]
dead." NBC’s Kevin Sites, who shot the footage,
said the Iraqi man who was killed was one of five Iraqis who
had been injured after the US raided the mosque in Fallujah
where 10 other Iraqis had already been killed. After exclaiming
the man was faking his death, the marine raises his rifle
and shoots the man in the head.
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Horror Stories Emerging from Fallujah (3:30)
The US military says they are investigating the shooting
which human rights groups have called a war crime. Meanwhile,
we go to our correspondents in Baghdad Salam Talib and Dahr
Jamail who report that those fleeing Fallujah have horrific
stories to tell.
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Rice to Replace Powell (2:13)
This afternoon President Bush announced the nomination of
Condoleeza Rice as Secretary of State to replace Colin Powell.
Selina Musuta reports from Capitol Hill.
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Report from Last Session of 108th Congress
(4:02)
The 108th Congress has returned for a lame duck session
in which it will attempt to pass several spending bills. Today
Senate Democrats chose Senator Harry Reid from Nevada as their
new leader. Reid is a moderate Democrat and opposes abortion
for most cases. Reid's leadership comes as conservative religious
leaders swarm the capitol to urge the Senate Republican leadership
not to appoint Senator Arlen Spector to the chairship of the
powerful Judiciary committee because he is pro-choice. Our
Capitol Hill Correspondent Mitch Jeserich takes a look at
this last session of the 108th Congress.
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Young Guatemalan Death Row Inmates Graduate
(3:51)
Weeks after year-end vacations started at schools all over
Guatemala, inmates at one of Guatemala's maximum security
prisons held their graduation yesterday. One of the students
who graduated elementary school, two who graduated junior
high, and two of their teachers are on death row. Activists
and those on death row in Guatemala hope their education program
adds a new dimension to a growing death penalty debate in
one of the last countries in the region that still has capital
punishment. Catherine Elton attended the graduation and has
this report.
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Free Speech in Question at Boulder High
(2:24)
A talent show at Boulder High School came under scrutiny
by the Secret Service last week, over a potential threat to
the President prompting debate among students about free speech.
Maeve Conran reports from Boulder Colorado.
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Abortion Right Questioned by Australian Religious
Right (3:52)
The Australian parliament sat today for the first time since
the Coalition's Government's decisive victory on October 9,
and some politicians will be using this week's session as
an opportunity to place abortion back on the national agenda.
Women have been able to access legal abortions in Australia
for the past 30 years, however, this right is being called
into question following suggestions by newly elected Family
First senator Steve Fielding, that there should be a national
forum on the issue. The new party, Family First, reportedly
has links to Pentecostal Church, "The Assembles of God".
Mr. Fielding is not alone in calling for public debate on
the issue. A number of government ministers preempted Fielding's
calls, claiming that state funding of abortions should be
debated. Erica Vowles reports from Sydney.
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