Colin Powell differs with Bush on Iraq, says inspectors must go in first
Breaking a week�s long silence on the issue, Secretary of State Colin Powell again has put himself at odds with the Bush administration by publicly supporting that UN weapons inspectors go to Iraq before any U.S.-led attack on that Muslim country occurs. Speaking to the British Broadcasting Corp. in an interview to be broadcast at Final Call press time, Mr. Powell said the world deserves the opportunity to debate the evidence that would be presented by the inspectors. �As a first step, let�s see what the inspectors find, send them back in,� Mr. Powell told the BBC. �The world has to be presented with the information, with the intelligence that is available,� Mr. Powell said.
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Former President Jimmy Carter: "Belligerent and divisive voices" in Government -Wash. Post
Top British Christian leaders speak out against 'wicked' war  -The Times Online, UK
Did Mohamed Atta Meet an Iraqi Spy in Prague?  -Slate
World showing dissatisfaction over policies of President Bush -FinalCall.com
An appeal for a fair U.S. policy toward Iraq -FinalCall.com


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Imam Mohammed welcomes Farrakhan, religious leaders to MAS Convention
CHICAGO�An air of expectation filled the University of Illinois at Chicago Pavilion here Sept. 1 as Imam W. Deen Mohammed welcomed the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and other Muslim and Christian leaders to the stage for the closing ceremony of the Muslim American Society�s (MAS) annual convention.  The Muslims had come from across the country to hear Imam Mohammed�s keynote address titled, "The Life Blood of Islam and Christianity is Peace." 
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Far more spent on prisons than colleges

WASHINGTON (NNPA)�State spending on prisons grew six times as fast as state spending on higher education during the 1980s and 1990s, a period of unprecedented economic growth, according to a report issued Aug. 28.  The report�"Cellblocks or Classrooms?: The Funding of Higher Education and Corrections and Its Impact on African-American Men"�was conducted by the Justice Policy Institute, a Washington-based public interest group.
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Strange fruit hanging from the halls of Congress:
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The defeat of once-popular Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia A. McKinney gives rise to concerns that a new form of "political lynching" may be taking place as Black policymakers lend their voices to the global politics of war and terrorism. McKinney was soundly defeated in her recent primary by another Black woman, former Georgia state judge Denise Majette, in what many want to mask as a casualty of Georgia�s first open primary that allows voters to cast votes outside their party.
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