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Today's lead stories:
Attacks on Iraqi Army Continue: Report from Baghdad
Bush Nominee Chertoff Has Alarming Record
Debt Relief for Tsunami Countries?
UN Meets to Discuss Tsunami Relief
African Nations not Recieving Needed Aid
Israeli Occupation Continues Despite Abbas Election
Can a Connecticut Execution be Stopped?
FSRN Headlines
Washington Governor Inaugurated Despite Controversy
Mark Taylor Canfield reports.
Pentagon Slashes Chemical Weapons Disposal Budget
Stephanie Edgerly reports.
UN Debates Haiti
Haider Risvy reports.
IL Passes Gay Rights Measure
Rita Sand reports.
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Attacks on Iraqi Army Continue: Report from Baghdad
(2:45)
U.S. Representative Lynn Woolsey (D-Petaluma) today joined
12 Members of Congress in sending a letter to President Bush
requesting that U.S. soldiers be brought home. Woolsey stated
in the letter, “It has become clear that the existence
of more than 130,000 American troops stationed on Iraqi soil
is infuriating to the Iraqi people – especially because
Saddam Hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction
and did not have a connection to the tragic events of September
11th, 2001 or to the al Qaeda terrorist organization.”
Meanwhile, in Iraq today, three Iraqi army soldiers traveling
with U-S troops were killed when gunmen ambushed their convoy
near Mosul, two hours north of Baghdad. As the war continues,
the newly-reconstituted Iraqi army has fared far worse than
its US counterparts, and as Iraqi leaders struggle to boost
the numbers of the army in time for elections, other rifts
may be exacerbated. David Enders has this report from the
Iraqi capital.
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Bush Nominee Chertoff Has Alarming Record
(3:40)
Immigrant rights activists are alarmed over the nomination
of federal judge Michael Chertoff to head the Homeland Security
Department. As an assistant attorney general in the months
after the 9/11 attacks, Chertoff helped oversee the detention
of over 700 immigrants who were never charged with anything
related to terrorism. And as Mitch Jeserich reports, Chertoff
has recently called for a national debate over whether suspected
terrorists who are US citizens could also be detained for
non-terrorism crimes.
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Debt Relief for Tsunami Countries? (2:31)
In the aftermath of one of the world’s worst natural
disaster, many of the very poor countries affected by the
December 26 tsunami are finding it impossible to channel aid
dollars to its victims because of crippling debt payments
to wealthy nations. However as Jenny Johnson reports, today
it seems that debt relief has come to these countries from
a group of nations called the Paris Club.
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UN Meets to Discuss Tsunami Relief (2:09)
According to yesterday’s UN ministerial meeting on
humanitarian aid to the victims of the tsunami, international
aid has so far averted the second wave of death and destruction
due to hunger and disease. But as Julia Steinberger reports
from Geneva, the UN is worried that some regions are not receiving
aid and that donor countries may be slow in making good on
their pledges.
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African Nations not Recieving Needed Aid
(2:34)
As the world's attention focuses on the Asian nations that
have been so devastated by the tsunami, there are grave concerns
that affected African nations wont get the aid that they so
desparately need. Sam Olokoye reports from Nigeria.
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Israeli Occupation Continues Despite Abbas Election
(2:28)
Israeli troops began a new incursion into the West Bank
town of Ramallah today using troops, tanks and helicopters
and so far two Palestinians have been killed. These are the
first reported deaths since Mahmoud Abbas was elected president.
As our correspondent in Gaza, Mohamed Omar reports, during
and after Sunday's presidential election, the Israeli occupation
has shown little sign of abating.
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Can a Connecticut Execution be Stopped?
(3:04)
The State of Connecticut is moving toward its first execution
in almost half a century -- in fact, the first execution in
more than 40 years in all of New England. Michael Ross, who
admits killing 8 young women in the early 1980s, after raping
several of them, is scheduled to die by lethal injection on
January 26. It seems unlikely that anything can stop the wheels
of the machinery of state-sponsored death, but the very imminence
of the execution date has encouraged a rush of activity in
the judicial, legislative and public arenas by death penalty
opponents. Melinda Tuhus reports from New Haven, Connecticut.
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