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Today's lead stories:
Criminal Charges Filed Against Saddam Hussein
FBI Monitoring ACLU and Other Lawful Groups
EPA Under Fire for Spending Thousands on Publicity Campaigns
60th Anniversary of First Atomic Blast Observed in Albuquerque
Thousands March for Gallo Wine Workers in San Francisco
Medical Marijuana Advocates Rally in Santa Cruz
FSRN Headlines
Two cases will be immediately returned to a military tribunal
at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
said. The decision comes after an appeals court overturned
a previous ruling on Friday that military tribunals are with
in reach of the constitution and do not violate the Geneva
Convention on prisoners rights. The AP is reporting that the
two cases are those of David Hicks, an Australian accused
of fighting with the Taliban in Afghanistan, and Salim Ahmed
Hamdan, the defendant in the trial that was overturned on
Friday.
U.S. President George Bush shifted his stance on Karl Rove's
involvement in the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Responding
to a reporter's question during a news conference with Indian
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, President Bush said lawbreakers
will not be tolerated.
(Bush Audio)
On the Sunday morning talk show, Meet the Press, and also
written in this week's Time Magazine, Time Magazine reporter
Mathew Cooper, said the first time he heard Valeie Plame's
name was from Karl Rove. Cooper also said that he received
information regarding Plame from Vice President Dick Cheney's
Chief of Staff, Scooter Libby, and that there might be other
sources.
Twenty thousand Israeli police have been deployed to Southern
Israel where 100,000 anti-evacuation settlers are expected
at a march and rally. Israel has deemed the march illegal.
Meanwhile, a series of attacks between Israeli's and Palestinians
have threatened the peace talks. Manar Jibreen reports.
A respected British independent think tank on international
affairs, Chatham House, has today launched a scathing report
that finds Britain's involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
contributed to the recent terrorist attacks in London. The
British government has disagrees with its findings. Helen
Kelly reports from London.
Iraq's new Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari is in Iran this
week. Aaron Glantz explains why.
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Criminal Charges Filed Against Saddam Hussein (3:45)
At least eight police and Iraqi government employees were
killed today across Iraq following a weekend that saw one
of the deadliest suicide bombings since the US invasion, killing
more than 70 in the city of Mussayib, south of Baghdad. Meanwhile,
an Iraqi judge on Sunday announced the first charges to be
brought against former dictator Saddam Hussein for the massacre
of Shiite Muslims. David Enders reports from Baghdad.
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FBI Monitoring ACLU and Other Lawful Groups
(4:26)
The Justice Department has acknowledged the FBI has thousands
of pages of documents related to civil rights and environmental
groups. Due to a lawsuit by the ACLU and Greenpeace, the FBI
admits it has compiled over a thousand pages of records on
the ACLU and over two thousand on Greenpeace. The FBI has
not indicated what the records reveal. The ACLU has expressed
serious concern saying the disclosures show the FBI is monitoring
organizations that operate within the law. On Capitol Hill,
meanwhile, the House is expected to vote on the reauthorization
of the Patriot Act by the end of the week: at the heart of
that debate is how much surveillance the FBI can conduct with
little or no judicial review. Mitch Jeserich has the story.
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EPA Under Fire for Spending Thousands on Publicity
Campaigns (2:06)
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is coming under
fire from environmentalists and government watch-dogs for
spending thousands of dollars on publicity campaigns. Critics
say the EPA is shifting toward doing more corporate research
and less work in the public interest. Darby Hickey has more
from DC.
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60th Anniversary of First Atomic Blast Observed in
Albuquerque (3:40)
On July 16, 1945 the United States detonated the first atomic
bomb in world history. The blast was a test to confirm scientists'
theory that the energy of the fission of atoms would create
a bomb unprecedented in its fury. To mark the 60th anniversary
of the blast, the National Atomic Museum in Albuquerque, New
Mexico, organized 2 days of events. Leslie Clark reports.
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Thousands March for Gallo Wine Workers in San Francisco
(3:37)
105 degree heat claimed the life of Salud Rodriguez, a farm
worker in Bakersfield, California last week. Rodriguez, who
worked at a bell pepper field, died from prolonged exposure
to extreme heat. His death has prompted United Farm Workers
President Arturo Rodriguez to demand Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
issue an emergency regulation to prevent further tragedies.
Meanwhile, this past weekend, thousands of workers, labor
activists, politicians and others gathered in Dolores Park
in San Francisco's Mission District yesterday, to march in
support of 300 farm laborers in Sonoma County. United Farm
Workers, which sponsored the march, is calling for higher
wages and better working conditions for workers at the Gallo
Winery in Sonoma. Allison Raaum has the story.
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Medical Marijuana Advocates Rally in Santa Cruz
(2:26)
Medical marijuana advocates rallied in Santa Cruz, California
Saturday, to protest last month's Supreme Court decision allowing
DEA raids to continue on patients and caregivers who use the
drug to alleviate suffering. Vinny Lombardo reports.
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