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Today's lead stories:
Michael Brown Questioned on Capitol Hill
Puerto Ricans Prepare to Bury Filiberto Ojeda Rios
Condaleeza Rice Visits Haiti
The Philippines Creates First Wind Power Farm in Southeast
Asia
A Look at Child Violence in Kashmir
"Navy Town" Calls for an End to the War in Iraq
FSRN Headlines
Sudanese militias have crossed into the border with Chad
and killed at least 36 villagers and stolen livestock. The
incident comes as peace talks resume in Nigeria to end the
Sudanese crisis. Sam Olukoya reports:
Retaliatory attacks and arrests continued in the West Bank
ordered by Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Meanwhile
Sharon's opponents vow to continue their campaign to unseat
him. Manar Jibreen reports:
The state officials in Australia cleared the way for controversial
new anti-terrorism laws to be passed through federal parliament.
Erica Vowles reports from Sydney:
U.S. Soldier Lyndie England was found guilty for 6 of 7 counts
of detainee abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Her sentence
is expected to be handed down as early as today, where she
can receive a maximum of 10 years. She is the last of several
plea bargains or trials of low level soldiers accused of abusing
detainees. No ranking officers have been handed criminal charges.
Tony Blair and his Defense Secretary John Reid have been
lobbying Saudi Arabia on behalf of Britain’s biggest
arms manufacturer BAE Systems in order to secure a $70 billion
arms deal. Naomi Fowler reports from London:
CUT FOR TIME: A group of 229 Vietnamese refugees left the
Philippines for the United States. They are the first group
of 1600 Vietnamese boat people who will be resettled in the
U.S. in the next 6 months. Girlie Linao in Manila reports:
CUT FOR TIME: Protestant leader Ian Paisley is skeptical
of the Irish Republican Army's move to give up their arms.
Paisley, leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, said he
has seen no detailed records or pictures of the decommissioning
which leads him to believe that they are hiding their weapons
with connected organizations. The Independent International
Commission on Decommissioning said yesterday the IRA did dispose
of their weapons. The Unionists position complicates the negotiation
process with the IRA and it's ally Sein Finn.
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Michael Brown Questioned on Capitol Hill (4:00)
The House Bipartisan Select Committee to investigate the
preparation for and response to Hurricane Katrina met for
the second time on Capitol Hill today. The 11 member committee
heard testimony from former director of the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA), Michael Brown. The committee has
been largely boycotted by democrats, who say that they want
an independent commission to investigate Hurricane Katrina
response. Washington Correspondent Selina Musuta was at the
hearing, where Brown spent hours answering questions on what
he thinks went wrong.
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Puerto Ricans Prepare to Bury Filiberto Ojeda Rios
(3:50)
As we reported yesterday in the headlines, Puerto Rican
nationalist Filiberto Ojeda Rios was killed on Friday by the
FBI at his home in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico. Ojeda was born
in 1933. By 1967, he founded the Armed Revolutionary Independence
Movement, which was disbanded by police. They re-grouped and
eventually became the Ejército Popular Boricua-Los
Macheteros, whose members believed the only way Puerto Rico
would be free from the US rule it has endured since 1898 was
through fighting. By 1981, Los Macheteros attacked a US National
Guard base on their land, killed 2 marines and destroyed 9
combat aircraft. Ojeda was wanted by the FBI for a 1983 armored
truck robbery in Connecticut, and for skipping bond in 1990.
An autopsy now reveals that Ojeda did not die immediately,
as the FBI waited nearly 24 hours to enter the house where
he lay wounded. Puerto Rican nationalists are calling his
death a targeted assassination. We’re joined on the
line by Zulma Oiveras from the Committee to Free Political
Prisoners. She’s in Puerto Rico
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Condaleeza Rice Visits Haiti (1:45)
US Secretary of State Condaleeza Rice visited Haiti today
in a show of support for the interim government with less
than two months before presidential elections. Rice’s
visit was the first by a US secretary of state since Colin
Powell made a similar one-day trip in December of last year.
While Powell was at the palace, gunfire erupted outside and
a police crackdown at the nearby penitentiary left at least
10 prisoners dead and dozens wounded. As FSRN’s Reed
Lindsay reports, today, downtown Port-au-Prince was quiet.
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The Philippines Creates First Wind Power Farm in
Southeast Asia (4:05)
The global increase in oil prices has led to soaring electricity
bills for consumers in many countries. Asia is particularly
hard hit by this dependency on fossil fuel, with rising pollution
levels as well as widespread hardship on account of surging
electricity costs. Yet, in the Philippines, an alternative
renewable energy source could be offering a solution. Rupert
Cook reports on the first commercial wind-farm in South East
Asia.
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A Look at Child Violence in Kashmir (3:40)
An Amnesty International report says that children in Indian
administered Jammu and Kashmir are at risk of having their
human rights violated from both state agents and through abuses
from armed groups. Amnesty International urged both the state
government and armed groups to respect the rights of children.
As Shahnawaz Khan reports from Srinagar, the 16 year old armed
conflict in the region has taken its toll on children in various
forms.
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"Navy Town" Calls for an End to the War
in Iraq (2:29)
People rallied across the nation on Saturday in their communities
to call for an end to the war in Iraq. In San Diego about
2,000 people came together and called for US Troops to be
brought home now. San Diego is a "Navy Town", with
about a fifth of the entire US Navy and Marine Corps stationed
there. Miles Ashdown reports.
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