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U.S.
miffed at lack of support for war against Saddam
THE WHITE HOUSE�If President George W. Bush gets
his promised war with Iraq, it will be a war like no other war in
American history and he appears to be preparing the public for the
possibility that he might launch an attack without any international
support. "The policy of my government, our government, of this
administration is a regime change�for a reason," Mr. Bush told reporters
during an Oval Office meeting with Jordan�s King Abdullah.
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 News Analysis:
The Real Fifth Column!
(Finalcall.com)�In recent months, in light of the ongoing war
against terrorism, certain political and media pundits have attempted to
whip up an atmosphere of anti-Muslim hysteria and scapegoating in the
American press, where a terrorist plot or Islamic "fifth column"
movement, is imagined to exist under every rock. Recent examples of this reckless journalism includes a June 11, 2002 New York Post article by John Podhoretz,
titled "The First Sign of a Fifth Column?" in which the author makes a
convoluted attempt to link Black and Hispanic prisoners incarcerated in
U.S. jails, who are exercising their constitutional right to practice
the religion of their choice, to some imagined Islamic terrorist "fifth
column," operating in America, with the Honorable Minister Louis
Farrakhan as their leader.
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Congress grapples with
prison rape
Hearing held to address epidemic
of sex crimes behind bars
WASHINGTON�According to experts cited
by Prison Fellowship Ministries (PFM) in a
statement, an estimated 300,000 to 600,000 men and boys are victimized
every year. Dr. Cindy Struckman-Johnson conducted a study of the
Nebraska prison system, the PFM statement said, and found that 22
percent of the male inmates acknowledged being pressured or forced into
sex acts. "Prison rape affects more than just prisoners," PFM
founder Chuck Colson said.
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U.S. and Israel target West African oil
WASHINGTON (IPS)�The State Department�s top official to Africa
recently visited Angola and Nigeria, spotlighting Washington�s growing
interest in and reliance on oil resources in the Gulf of Guinea, along
the continent�s West Coast. Ensuring greater access to West African oil is high on the agenda of
Assistant Secretary of State Walter Kansteiner�s trip. Angola and
Nigeria are already the 8th and 5th biggest sources of foreign oil for
the United States. Earlier this year, Mr. Kansteiner, speaking before a meeting of the
Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS) here,
called African oil a "national strategic interest" of the United States.
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