Monthly Archive: April 2003

April 30, 2003

Download MP3 Rumsfeld in Baghdad  (1:34) U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrived in Baghdad today, nearly six weeks after the Washington-led military coalition invaded that country to overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein. He is...

April 29, 2003

Download MP3 Detainee Dealt Set-back Dealing a setback to civil liberties groups,  a divided U.S. Supreme Court today upheld a law requiring that legal immigrants who commit certain crimes in the US to be detained...

April 28, 2003

Download MP3 Argentina: Menem Wins 25% (3:18) Former Argentine President Carlos Menem won Sunday’s presidential elections with just 25% of the votes. As none of the candidates were able to secure more than half...

April 25, 2003

Download MP3 INS Special Registration Deadline Today Today was the final day of immigration registration for men over 16 from 25 Muslim countries, including Bangladesh, Egypt and Indonesia. At INS buildings across the country...

April 24, 2003

Download MP3 Can Moussoui Interrogate Guantanamo Bay Prisoners? A U.S. District Court Judge says that 9-11 terrorist suspect Zacarias Moussoui has a right to interrogate prisoners at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay,...

April 23, 2003

Download MP3 Shia Muslims with Vision for Iraq   (2:15) As US news agencies brought images of looting Iraqis to the American public just days after the US entered Baghdad, it is now emerging that...

April 22, 2003

Download MP3 Iraqis Search for Relatives “No Sunnis, no Shias, Islamic Unity,” a large crowd chanted in the Iraqi city of Karbala where today hundreds of thousands of Shia Muslims gathered to commemorate the...

April 21, 2003

Download MP3 Iraqis Caught in the Middle Retired General Jay Garner arrived in Baghdad today where he begins his job of running Iraq, as Iraqi cries for an end to the US occupation of...

April 18, 2003

Download MP3 Chaos in Baghdad (1:56) Tens of thousands of Iraqis took to the streets of Baghdad today following morning prayers to protest the US occupation as the United states works to install an...

April 17, 2003

Download MP3 Iraq Round Up (3:10) Leaders of the European Union have issued a statement calling for a “central role” for the UN in rebuilding Iraq and demanding that American troops quickly restore security....