1/11/2007

More U.S. Troops

As Bush Commits More Troops to Iraq, UFPJ Calls For March on Washington to End War *We speak with Leslie Cagan, the national director of United For Peace and Justice. The group has called for a March on Washington on January 27 to end the war. Cagan says, "I do not think anybody really understood just how deeply the feeling against the war is in this country until Nov. 7th."
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Iraqi-American in Najaf: More U.S. Troops Will Result in More Resistance *As President Bush announces plans to escalate the war in Iraq and send over 20,000 more troops, we go to Najaf to get response from Sami Rasouli, an Iraqi-American living in Najaf.
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Torture, Suicide and Imprisonment: A Look Back at Five Years of Guantanamo *Today is the fifth anniversary of the first prisoners being sent to the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. Since then, more than 750 men and boys from 40 countries have been imprisoned there. Not one of them has been put on trial. Hundreds have been released without charge and sent home. Three have committed suicide, at least 40 others have tried to do so. We look back at some of our coverage over the years, including interviews with former Guantanamo detainees and interrogators, attorneys, human rights activists and more.
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