Monthly Archive: February 2002
Download MP3 Federal Court Over-Turns Louima Conviction (3:45) A federal court of appeals overturned the conviction of three police officers in the Abner Louima torture case today saying there was insufficient evidence they obstructed...
Download MP3 Congress Considers Banning Discrimination Against Gays, Lesbians The Employment Non Discrimination Act could soon be on its way to the Senate floor. The bill would expand current law that prohibits discrimination on...
Download MP3 Bush Wants More “Welfare Reform” President Bush is asking Congress to renew the 1996 law overhauling welfare but to strengthen its work requirements. He also wants to include measures that encourage marriage...
Download MP3 Civil Rights Advocates Ask OAS for Help Critics of the government’s treatment of accused Al-Qaeda and Taliban detainees have taken their legal fight to a new venue. Human rights lawyers filed...
Download MP3 Peace and the Killing of Daniel Pearl (2:13) Pakistan’s interior minister said Friday investigators know the names of the militants who abducted and killed American journalist Daniel Pearl and are taking “the...
Download MP3 Israeli Army Occupies Nablus Apartment Building, Evicts Residents (this and next story combined 4:37) Early this morning, Israeli forces took over two apartment buildings on the outskirts of Nablus in the...
Download MP3 Bush: “No Wonder I Think They’re Evil” President Bush toured the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea today. He reiterated his belief that North Korea is evil but said the United...
Download MP3 Bush Goes Just South of “Axis of Evil” (3:52) President George W Bush arrived in South Korea today welcomed by angry demonstrators protesting his references to North Korea as part of an...
Download MP3 The Refugees of Northern Afghanistan (4:51) Over six million people from Afghanistan have been displaced by the past 22 years of war. Despite the routing of the Taliban almost three months ago...
Download MP3 Ceasefire But Continued Fighting in Afghanistan (5:03) The three warlords who control the northern Afghan city of Mazar i Sharif have hammered out an agreement to start demilitarizing northern Afghanistan’s largest city...