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Today's lead stories:
Bush Nominates Harriet Miers
3 Coordinated Bomb Attacks Hit Bali
Anti-Recruitment Student Racially Harassed, Assaulted and
Arrested at George Mason University
Commemorations for Mexico’s 1968 Massacre Highlight
the Country’s Impunity
Tijuana Workers Suing US-Based Cardinal Health
Mumia Abu Jamal Comments on Bill Bennett’s Hypothetical
Holocausts
FSRN Headlines
The Palestinian parliament has voted to urge President Mahmoud
Abbas to dissolve his cabinet for failing to manage factional
violence in the wake of Israel’s pullout from the Gaza
strip. The vote comes after armed clashes between Palestinian
police and members of the armed resistance group Hamas killed
three Palestinians yesterday, including a police commander.
Each parties blamed the other for initiating the conflict.
Abbas is walking a political tightrope, trying to show Israel
that he can maintain calm inPalestinian-controlled territory,
while trying to convince armed resistance groups that he’s
makingprogress toward ending the Israeli occupation. Saed
Bannoura is a news editor at the International Middle East
Media Center Project . He says Abbas needs to find a way to
end the internal clashes without stirring up resentment by
suppressing armed groups:
[Saed Audio]
Al Jazeera reports that, after Sunday’s violence, theleaders
of several armed resistance groups agreed toend clashes in
the streets. But today dozens ofPalestinian Authority police
officers stormed Gaza’sparliament building to demand
a crackdown on Hamas.Meanwhile, Israeli soldiers arrested
dozens ofPalestinians in early morning raids today. Israelclaims
they’re involved with armed groups--Palestinianactivists
say they’re mostly political leaders, andIsrael is trying
to weaken Hamas going into thiswinter’s Palestinian
elections.
In Luxembourg today, Foreign ministers of the EuropeanUnion
reached an agreement which will allow membershipwith Turkey
to proceed. The negotiations were nearlyderailed by objections
from Austria’s right-winggovernment. Tony Cross has
more from Paris.
More violence in Iraq today. Occupation forcescontinued their
assault on resistance strongholds inthe Syrian border region,
and U.S. troops injured atleast 5 civilians when they fired
a tank round into abuilding in SI’Ida. Meanwhile, Iraq’s
oil ministernarrowly avoided an assassination attempt, when
aroadside bomb blasted his motorcade. Many fear suchattacks
will escalate until the elections scheduledfor October 15.
Finally, Al Qaeda in Iraq announcedthat it had captured and
killed two U.S. Marines—aclaim the U.S. military is
denying.
On October 1, the first civil union law created by astate
legislature took effect. Now same-sex couples inConnecticut
can enjoy all the rights, obligations andbenefits of marriage.
Melinda Tuhus reports from NewHaven.
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's proposalfor electoral
reform has drawn calls for mass protestfrom the country's
left-wing parties, who say thechanges would stack the deck
against them going intothis spring’s election. Diletta
Varlese reports fromItaly:
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Bush Nominates Harriet Miers (3:23)
President Bush nominated Harriet Miers, his former personal
attorney, this morning, to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor
on the Supreme Court. Miers has never served as a judge, and
little is known about her public record. Ingrid Drake reports
from Washington, DC.
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3 Coordinated Bomb Attacks Hit Bali (2:37)
Three near-simultaneous suicide bomb attacks exploded in
2 coffee shops and 1 restaurant in Bali over the weekend,
27 people have been reported killed and more than 100 injured.
The Saturday night bombings were the second since a 2002 attack
claimed 202 lives, most of them Australian. Indonesian government
officials say they suspect that two Malaysians – Dr.
Azhari and Nurdin Moh Top, masterminded the attack. The 2
are suspected to be members of Jemaah Islamiya, an Al-Qaeda
cell in South East Asia. From Jakarta, Meggy Margiono has
more.
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Anti-Recruitment Student Racially Harassed, Assaulted
and Arrested at George Mason University (2:12)
US Army recruitment efforts fell 7,000 recruits short of
its 2005 goal, according to reports marking the end of the
Fiscal year on Sunday. Recruiters face their worst shortfall
since 1979, with a downward trend which continued from last
year, and appears will prolong into 2006. Meanwhile, students
protesting military recruitment on college campuses were assaulted
in at least three incidents over the past week. Darby Hickey
reports from Fairfax Virginia, where a student was arrested
for expressing his views at George Mason University.
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Commemorations for Mexico’s 1968 Massacre Highlight
the Country’s Impunity (3:36)
Sunday marked the 37th anniversary of one of the most notorious
massacres in modern Mexico. This year, the annual nationwide
commemorative marches took place in the context of failed
attempts to put ex-officials on trial for alleged ties to
the slaughter. As Vladimir Flores reports from Oaxaca, the
2nd of October has now come to symbolize the climate of impunity
in Mexico.
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Tijuana Workers Suing US-Based Cardinal Health
(4:02)
Just south of the US-Mexico border, Tijuana is home to about
2 million people. 125,000 Mexicans work in foreign-owned factories,
or maquiladoras. A group of women is now demanding compensation
in court for unpaid severance and overtime pay from US-owned
Cardinal Health, a company that in 2003, made gross earnings
of $285 million. Combined, the six women are asking for about
$100,000 in damages. In Tijuana, Miles Ashdown has more.
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Mumia Abu Jamal Comments on Bill Bennett’s
Hypothetical Holocausts (3:48)
And now, from his cell on Pennsylvania’s Death Row,
Mumia Abu Jamal comments on Bill Bennett’s remarks last
week, when he stated that crime would be eradicated if all
black babies were aborted.
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