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Report From Baghdad ICRC Roland
H. Benjamin
Pacifica Correspondent Jerry Quickly Returns from Iraq
The Oil Report
The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. Against the War
in Viet Nam - Riverside Church speech
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Story: Report From Baghdad ICRC Roland H. Benjamin
References to a downed U.S. helicopter in Saddam Hussein's
video message Friday suggest it was made after the strike
aimed at killing him, a U.S. intelligence official said. The
message provided some of the strongest evidence yet that the
Iraqi president survived the attack. The official stopped
short of saying the video message, which was broadcast on
Iraqi television Friday, provided conclusive proof he was
still alive and in command of the Iraqi regime.
With the electricity out for over a day now and all telephone
lines down in Baghdad due to US bombing of the Iraqi communications
facility earlier this week, reports on the humanitarian situation
in Iraq's largest city are getting harder and harder to come
by. Earlier today, Peacewatch was able to reach International
Committee of the Red Cross spokesperson Roland Huganen Benjamin,
who's currently in Baghdad. Speaking to us on his satellite
telephone, Benjamin said that casualties are continuing to
rise, and the constant bombing is clearly taking a toll on
the residents of Baghdad...
Tape: International Committee of the Red Cross spokesperson
Roland Huganen Benjamin
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Story: Pacifica Correspondent Jerry Quickly Returns
from Iraq
As several mainstream media sources continue to report news
and information that makes you wonder whether their reporters
are imbedded or “in bed” with the US military,
Pacifica radio was privileged to have uncensored news reports
from KPFK’s Jerry Quickly. Quickly recently returned
from Iraq, after being deported by Iraqi authorities one day
after bombs began dropping. Pacifica host Michael Slate interviewed
him recently.
Tape: Jerry Quickly, of Pacifica station, KFPK, produced
by Christine Blosdale and edited by Fidel Rodriguez
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Story: The Oil Report
This week, Israel's National Infrastructures Minister, Joseph
Paritzky, requested an assessment of the condition of an old
oil pipeline. The pipeline runs from Mosul, Northern Iraq
to Haifa, Israel, and Paritzky has his eye on renewing its
operation if Saddam Hussein is toppled and a government friendly
to Israel is installed in Baghdad.
Paritzky told Israel's Ha'aretz newspaper that resurrecting
the pipeline to Haifa could save Israel the high cost of shipping
oil from Russia. He said he's certain that the Americans would
respond favorably to the idea, since the pipeline would bring
Iraqi oil directly to the Mediterranean.
Right now, there's only one legal pipeline for Northern
Iraqi oil, with a terminus in Yumartaluk, on Turkey's Mediterranean
Coast. And as Aaron Glantz reports from the pipeline's control
center, exports of Iraqi oil have been suspended because of
the war...
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Story: The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.
Against the War in Viet Nam - Riverside Church speech
Thirty-six years ago today, The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther
King, Jr. made a departure from his usual advocacy for the
rights of poor and Black Americans, and spoke out against
the war in Viet Nam. Exactly one year later, he was slain
by an assassin’s bullet while fighting for the rights
of sanitation workers in Memphis, TN.
We go now to the Riverside Church in New York City exactly
one year before his death, on April 4, 1967, as Dr. King spoke
out against a war of aggression against a small nation with
a dictator that had been put in place by the United States.
The similarities to the U.S. invasion of Iraq are quite apparent.
Tape: The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at Riverside
Church in New York City on April 4, 1967.
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