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Today's lead stories:
Mosque Attacked
Protest Outside White House Over Nov 2 Results
Iran the Next Iraq?
Investigation of Muslim Deaths in Thailand
Annual SOA Protest this Weekend
FSRN Headlines
A Venezuelan prosecutor pressing charges against hundreds
of the nation’s richest and most powerful who are allegedly
involved in a failed coup attempt has been murdered. An explosion
tore apart Danilo Anderson’s truck as he was driving
through the capitol of Caracas late last night. Free Speech
Radio News Correspondent William Camacaro says Anderson was
a strong supporter of leftist president Hugo Chavez and an
honest man who may be irreplaceable. (TAPE 0:32) Opposition
politicians, lawyers, businessmen and ex-military officers
asked for amnesty for any role they may have played in the
two day removal of democratically elected President Hugo Chavez.
Venezuelan Attorney General Rodriguez said those Anderson
was investigating would become suspects.
Thousands of protestors marched in Santiago, Chile today
against George W. Bush’s foreign policy and his visit
to the South American nation. Security has practically closed
down the city of 5 point 5 million and most businesses called
a holiday during the Asia Pacific Economic summit. Leaders
of 21 foreign nations, including Mr. Bush, and more than 500
corporate elites are scheduled to discuss so-called free trade
over the weekend. One eyewitness said that the demonstrators
represented a wide variety of organizations, political groups,
ages and social classes.
Sudanese government officials and southern rebel leaders
pledged yet again to cease hostilities in the 21 year old
civil war. Representatives with the United Nations say they
are also hopeful this peace negotiation will help ease the
fighting in the troubled Darfur region where nearly 2 million
people have been displaced and an estimated 70-thousand have
been killed.
Officials with the UN refugee agency are pleading for more
help in nations in the vicinity of the Ivory Coast. Rupert
Cook reports from Sierra Leone.
One Senator is trying to curb the injustice of journalists
being sent to prison for refusing to reveal their sources.
Mitch Jeserich reports from Capitol Hill.
A campaign called “ReDefeat Bush” took to the
streets around the White House. Ed Stevens was there.
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Mosque Attacked - 5:01
The US is paying close to $5.8 billion per month for the
occupation of Iraq, a substantial increase on earlier estimates,
according to the website: Antiwar.com. Quoting military generals,
the website says that the army alone is spending $4.7 billion
per month in Iraq, while the air force is spending some $800
million and the marines close to $300 million. Meanwhile,
as the clean up begins in Fallujah, where the US attack reduced
many homes to rubble and caused acute housing and food shortages,
the US says it will offer the people of Fallujah engineering
experts to help rebuild. And fighting in other Iraqi cities
continues as FSRN correspondents in Baghdad, Dahr Jamail and
Salam Talib report.
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Protest Outside White House Over Nov 2 Results
- 1:57
The group Re-Defeat Bush held a rally in front of the White
House today in an effort to keep the November 2nd election
on the agenda. Contesting the outcome in Ohio is their main
goal. Jenny Johnson reports.
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Iran the Next Iraq? - 3:33
The Washington Post today accused the U.S. Secretary of
State Colin Powell of making unsubstantiated allegations about
Iran's nuclear program. The Post said Powell’s intelligence
about Iran's nuclear capabilities was unverified and based
on an "unvetted, single source". One of the biggest
foreign policy issues facing the Bush Administration's second
term will be how the United States approaches Iran. In the
face of the costly US-led invasion of Iraq, European nations
are trying to avoid a military conflict with Iran by crafting
a nuclear nonproliferation agreement with the Iran government.
Ingrid Drake from Washington, DC reports on efforts by Iranian
dissidents to urge the Bush Administration to avoid diplomacy
and take a hard-line against the Iranian government.
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Investigation of Muslim Deaths in Thailand
- 3:20
Thailand has rejected a UN request to investigate an incident
between demonstrators and police which left more than 85 Thai-Muslims
dead on October 25th. Most of the people died of suffocation,
after they were arrested and apparently stacked into trucks
en route to detention centers. The violence occurred in the
Kingdom’s majority Muslim provinces in the deep south,
where more than 500 people have been killed this year. Doualy
Xaykaothao traveled to the region and has this update
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Annual SOA Protest this Weekend - 5:10
This weekend marks the 15th annual demonstration outside
the gates of Ft.Benning, Georgia, to protest a US training
school for military and police officers from Latin America.
Some graduates have been accused of committing rape, torture
and murder when they return to their own countries. The facility
used to be called the School of the Americas, or SOA, and
is now called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security
Cooperation, or WHINSEC. While the Army denies any causal
relationship between enrollment in the school and subsequent
abuses committed by some graduates, opponents of the school
– including many in Congress – say US taxpayers
shouldn't be footing the bill. Reporter Melinda Tuhus brings
us this preview of this weekend’s annual protest by
the School of the Americas Watch.
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