 |
Free Speech Radio News lineup - Thursday, December 06, 2001 |
 |
Thumbnail |
 |
Download |
 |
Web page |
|
|
|
ASHCROFT DEFENDS HIS RECORD 3:43 |
|
Attorney General John Ashcroft defended Bush |
|
administration measures to today declaring the nation |
|
must not let down its guard against threats that present |
|
``a daily chronicle of the hatred of Americans by |
|
fanatics.''Ashcroft's appearance came in an atmosphere of |
|
mounting criticism by Senate Democrats that the Justice |
|
Departmentmoved too far, too quickly, to implement a host |
|
of stern investigative measures in the wake of the Sept. |
|
11 terrorist attacks. Kata Mester reports from Capitol |
|
Hill. |
|
|
|
HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS SUE ASHCROFT 1:05 |
|
19 civil rights groups have gone to court to force |
|
Attorny General John Ashcroft to release the names and |
|
the charges of the hundreds of immigrant detained sinced |
|
September 11th. Lori Fioch reports from Washington. |
|
|
|
COLLEGE STUDENTS BEHIND BARS IN ORANGE COUNTY 4:09 |
|
As John Ashcroft testifies before the Senate Judiciary |
|
Committee, he is certain to face question about the more |
|
than one thousand people ? mostly muslims from the middle |
|
east and south asia ? detained in the wake of september |
|
11th. More than 600 remain in custody ? most of them for |
|
immigration violations. Among them are two 19 year old |
|
Orange County, California men ? Pakistani students who |
|
attended a local community college. They?ve been held for |
|
2 months ? and questioned about possible links to the al |
|
qaeda terrorist network and the taliban. The two men, |
|
along with their friends and family say they are |
|
innocent. They say their detention - like that of others - |
|
is the result of racial profiling. Robin Urevich reports: |
|
|
|
NO DEAL IN AFGHANISTAN 3:36 |
|
The Taliban agreed Thursday to surrender their last major |
|
bastion Kandahar to tribal forces under a deal |
|
guaranteeing the safety of their supreme leader Mullah |
|
Mohammed Omar, officials of both sides. But the Pentagon |
|
says such a deal would be unacceptable. Robert Knight |
|
reports. |
|
|
|
FAST TRACK GETS OKAY 3:08 |
|
It's a huge victory for big business and a giant set-back |
|
for labor and the environment. The House of |
|
representitives today voted 224 to 202 to give President |
|
Bush Fast Track Trade Authority. Many in Congress support |
|
the measure saying the fast-track is critical to |
|
international trade talks. However, a number of critics |
|
have voiced concern that previous free trade agreements |
|
have resulted in the loss of thousands of American jobs |
|
and a ballooning trade defecit. Gareth Schweitzer reports |
|
from Washington. |
|
|
|
ANNIVERSARY OF RACE RIOTS IN INDIA 3:51 |
|
Today is the ninth anniversary of the destruction by |
|
Hindu extremists of a centuries old mosque in northern |
|
Indian city of Ayodhya is being marked as a black day by |
|
peace groups and secular forces in India. The demolition |
|
triggered nationwide Hindu-Muslim bloodletting. Police |
|
are on alert nationwide to steer off protest rallies by |
|
Muslim groups. The temple-mosque issue is high on the |
|
agenda of the Hindu chauvinist BJP party which heads |
|
India's coalition government, as it heads for crucial |
|
polls in the country's most populous state, Uttar |
|
Pradesh. More from Sputnik Kilambi in Hyderabad. |
|
|
|
|
|
Date Published: 2006-06-21 13:01:48 |
|
Identifier: fsrn_20011206 |
|
Item Size: 28892097 |
|
Media Type: audio |
|
|
|
# Topics |
|
9-11;afghanistan;al-qaeda;attorney ge... |
|
|
|
# Collections |
|
freespeechradionews |
|
audio_news |
|
|
|
# Uploaded by |
|
@ttk_ciar |
|
|
|
# Similar Items |
|
View similar items |
|
|
|
PHAROS |
|
