Pacifica's Peace Watch
Mon. Jan. 27, 2003
Today's Stories:
Hans Blix reports back to the United Nations
Iraq/ Al Qaeda Connection Weak at Best
Political Commentary on US Plans for War in Iraq
Student Activist Conference in DC
Environmentalists Blockade British Military
Anti-War Voices at the World Social Forum
War Planners Arguments Resemble Those of the Peace Activists
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Story: Hans Blix reports back to the United Nations
Chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix issued his much-anticipated
report on the progress of weapons inspections in Iraq to the
UN Security Council today, and the verdict is not the best
news Baghdad could have received. Blix told the council that
Iraq seems to be cooperating with the inspectors, but he described
Saddam Hussein’s cooperation as lackluster, saying Iraq
has not ‘genuinely’ disarmed. Blix once again
urged Iraq, to declare its weapons program components, especially
those that may still exist.
Tape: Chief UN Weapons inspector Hans Blix
International Atomic Energy Agency Director Mohammed El Baradei
Reaction from U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte
Reaction from Secretary of State Colin Powell
Iraqi Ambassador to the UN, Mohammed Aldouri
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Story: Iraq/ Al Qaeda Connection Weak at Best
As it became evident over the weekend that the UN weapons
report would contain no "smoking gun," the Bush
administration reverted to an old but unsubstantiated accusation:
that Saddam Hussein was supplying weapons to Al Qaeda to further
its campaign of terrorism.
Tape: Report from Robert Knight of Pacifica station WBAI
in New York
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Story: Political Commentary on US Plans for War in
Iraq
According to a CBS news report, the US plans for war against
Iraq state that the damage of such attacks will likely be
as devastating as a nuclear attack. Peacewatch commentators
Ralph Shoenman and Mya Shone, co-hosts of "Taking Aim"
on Pacifica station WBAI in New York provide this commentary
Tape: political commentary
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Story: Student Activist Conference in DC
Students from over 60 campus peace groups converged on Washington,
DC recently with the goal of forming a national student organization
to oppose the war against Iraq. Over 400 student delegates
were at Washington, DC’s George Washington University
for the conference, while a similar number gathered on the
West coast.
Tape: report from Tom Gomez of Pacifica station WPFW and
WBIX.org, Refugees and Exiles Radio
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Story: Environmentalists Blockade British Military
The environmental group Greenpeace has blocked a British
military supply ship in Marchwood, Southhampton. Peacewatch
reached spokesman Steven Kindale, one of the protestors, on
his cell phone from the inflatable boat, the Rainbow Warrior
Tape: Steven Kindale, Greenpeace spokesperson
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Story: Anti-War Voices at the World Social Forum
Voices from the United States against the war and imperialism
addressed a packed auditorium Sunday during the World Social
Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Audience members included students
from Colombia, journalists from Palestine and labor organizers
from Germany and Argentina. They came to hear a panel of speakers
that included many of the major organizers involved in the
growing antiwar movement in the U.S.
Tape: Lance Selfa, US Editor of the International Socialist
Review
Rania Masri, Southern Peace Research and Education Center
recorded by Renee Feltz of Pacifica station KPFT, with assistance
from the Brasil Independent Media Center
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Story: War Planners Arguments Resemble Those of
the Peace Activists
A conference in New Mexico recently brought together military,
intelligence and terrorism experts from around the United
States, Israel and India. The federal weapons lab Sandia National
Laboratories brought experienced war-makers together in Albuquerque
to discuss "The Metamorphasis of War" and how to
fight small, clandestine groups. But some of the arguments
these war planners are making strangely seem to resemble some
of the arguments of the anti-war community…
Tape: Peacewatch reporter Joe Gardner Wessely
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