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Today's Stories:
Voices in the Wilderness's Kathy Kelly speaks from Baghdad
Dead U.S. Soldier's Family Says He Was Killed in an 'Unnecessary
War'
Relevance of the U.N. in a post-Saddam Hussein Iraq
How Supportive is the American Public of the War?
Refugees Pass Through Jordanian/Iraqi Border
Homeland Insecurities
Arab Americans Weary on Crackdown on Civil Liberties
DC Veterans March for Peace
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Voices in the Wilderness's Kathy Kelly speaks from
Baghdad
U.S. and British planes targeted the Iraqi Republican Guard
forces just south of Baghdad today in perhaps the largest
assault to date on Saddam Hussein's highly trained troops,
according to U.S. officials.
Meanwhile, the Army's 3rd Infantry Division advanced north
today toward the Shiite holy city of Karbala, only 50 miles
south of Baghdad, but was stalled by a sandstorm that blew
out of the desert.
While Iraqi paramilitary units attacked coalition troops
from the rear, U.S.-led forces tried to maintain their advance
on Baghdad. The troops made a rapid advance under heavy U.S.
and British air protection that hit a column of charging Iraqi
armor and reportedly sent some of Saddam Hussein's outer defenses
withdrawing toward the capital.
As the U.S. military advances on Baghdad, the city's 5 million
residents are preparing for the worst.
Tape: Kathy Kelly of Voices in the Wilderness and the Iraq
Peace Team, speaking with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!
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Dead U.S. Soldier's Family Says He Was Killed in
an 'Unnecessary War'
Ten U.S. troops suffering battle-related injuries from the
war in Iraq were in stable condition today, including two
in intensive care, according to doctors at a U.S. military
hospital in Germany. According to Capt. Norris Jones, a spokesman
for U.S. European Command six Marines and two Army soldiers
were flown to Germany from Kuwait early Monday.
Five U.S. captives appeared terrified as they were seen
over the weekend on Iraqi TV.
The footage also showed at least four bodies. U.S. officials
confirmed that 12 soldiers were missing after Iraqi forces
ambushed an army supply convoy around An Nasiriyah, a major
crossing point over the Euphrates northwest of Basra. Relatives
in New Mexico and Kansas identified two of the soldiers.
The family members of one of the first U.S. casualties of
the war are trying to deal with the grief of losing a loved
one. Kendall Waters-Bey was one of the four U.S. Marines killed
in a helicopter crash in Kuwait Thursday. His grief stricken
father, Micheal Waters-Bey-- devastated by the loss of his
first-born and only son-- had a message for the President.
"This was not your son or daughter," said the Marines
father. "That chair he sat in at Thanksgiving will be
empty forever."
Tape: Towanda Poteit, the first wife of Kendall Waters-Bey
and the mother of his 10-year-old son
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Relevance of the U.N. in a post-Saddam Hussein Iraq
Tape: John Cavannaugh, a fellow with the Institute for Policy
Studies and co-author of report, "Coalition of the Willing
or Coalition of the Coerced"
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How Supportive is the American Public of the War?
Despite protests of several hundred thousand people in the
streets of New York City this weekend, and recent demonstrations
of tens of thousands across the country, polls show that a
majority of Americans still support the war. Peacewatch spoke
earlier today with John Zogby of Zogby International Polling
to help us interpret some of these statistics…
Tape: Renowned pollster John Zogby
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Refugees Pass Through Jordanian/Iraqi Border
Five days after the start of the military conflict in Iraq,
the expected exodus of refugees to Jordan's border town of
Roweished has not yet materialized as had been predicted by
the United Nations. To date, around 600 people have crossed
the Jordanian-Iraqi border. Many are of various African nationalities,
but none are Iraqi.
Tape: Oula Farawati reports from the Jordanian-Iraqi Border
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Homeland Insecurities
The Bush administration has used the tragic events of September
11th to launch a war against terrorism that is so broadly
defined that it includes a preemptive war against Iraq and
a domestic intelligence operation that will be capable of
intercepting every American's phone, fax, credit card and
e-mail message, searching for terrorist patterns. Independent
journalist Eddie Becker recently attended a variety of Homeland
Defense conferences and exhibitions in Washington, DC, and
he spoke to the top people involved in developing the technology.
Tape: Peacewatch reporter Eddie Becker
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Arab Americans Weary on Crackdown on Civil Liberties
The Justice Department and the FBI have dramatically increased
surveillance of private citizens since September 11th, 2001,
under the guise of fighting terrorism. And no one has been
affected by this more than the Arab American community, which
perceives this as a crackdown on civil liberties and democratic
freedoms.
Tape: Laila Al Qatami of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination
Committee
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DC Veterans March for Peace
Despite claims made by the Washington Post on Sunday that
veterans are united in their support for war in Iraq, hundreds
of veterans converged on the nation's capital this weekend
demanding an end to the US led war on Iraq. The three-day
event began Saturday at American University with a teach-in
and a speak-out. On Sunday, the veterans assembled near the
Vietnam Memorial and marched on the White House.
Tape: Report from Tom Gomez from WBIX.org, Refugees &
Exiles Internet Radio
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