Monthly Archive: August 2002

August 16, 2002

Download MP3 FBI and INS Arrests of South Asians and Muslims Continue  (4:28) A federal judge ruled yesterday that the US government does not have to reveal the names of those detained in the investigation...

August 15, 2002

Download MP3 US Tells Colombia: Don’t Send Us to ICC  (3:21) The State Department wants the newly-elected government of Columbia to promise never to send any American to the new International Criminal Court in the...

August 14, 2002

Download MP3 Mexican National to be Executed Tonight (3:52) Despite overwhelming international pressure, thirteen nations have now joined with Mexico in supporting a United States Supreme Court review of the case of Javier Suarez...

August 13, 2002

Download MP3 Police Brutality Trial moved to White Suburb Two white police officers caught on tape beating a young unarmed black man in Inglewood will not go on trial in that primarily black LA...

August 12, 2002

Download MP3 Colombian State of Emergency  (3:51) Colombia’s new President, Alvaro Uribe, has declared a state of emergency in Colombia in an attempt, his administration says, to quell the violence of both the left wing...

August 09, 2002

Download MP3 British MP Says Britain Won’t Join an Attack on Iraq  (4:18) A top US military chief today said that resuming weapons inspections in Iraq would be ineffective because its most feared arsenal could...

August 08, 2002

Download MP3 Interview with U.S. Activist in Palestinian Refugee Camp  (3:39) Yasser Arafat today gave approval for an Israeli proposal that it would begin pulling its troops out of Palestinian areas in return for a...

August 07, 2002

Download MP3 Colombian President Inaugurated  (4:35) Today, in Bogotá, independent right-wing Alvaro Uribe was inaugurated President of Colombia. His predecessor, Andres Pastrana started his term by initiating peace talks with the guerrillas and conceding a...

August 06, 2002

Download MP3 European Leaders Hesitant About War on Iraq  (4:05) General Tommy Franks, who oversaw the war in Afghanistan and is the general who would command an invasion of Iraq yesterday presented President Bush and...

August 05, 2002

Download MP3 Victims in Nablus  (3:50) The United Nations General Assembly is today holding the 10th Emergency Special Assembly on the Illegal Israeli Actions in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. It is a closed session with...