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Eight youths, tending their flock of sheep in the snowy fields of Afghanistan, were exterminated last week by a NATO airstrike.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid died of an apparent asthma attack today while covering the conflict in Syria. One of the most celebrated journalists covering the Middle East, Shadid, 43, had been a guest on Democracy Now! several times over the past decade reporting on Libya, Tunisia, Iraq and Lebanon.
Part 2: "Who Killed Che? How the CIA Got Away with Murder": New Book Ties Johnson Admin to Che Death
In an extended interview, co-authors Michael Ratner and Michael Steven Smith discuss the life of Cuban revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara and the chilling story behind his murder by the Bolivian military. In their book, "Who Killed Che?" Ratner and Smith draw on previously unpublished U.S. government documents to argue the CIA played a critical role in the killing. [includes rush transcript]
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FBI Seeks App to Monitor Social Media; Twitter Can Block Tweets by Country
The FBI is asking software developers to produce an application that would comb social networks, including Facebook and Twitter, to detect potential security threats as well as creating maps to display the information. Privacy groups raised concerns after the FBI posted the request for a social media-monitoring application earlier this month. It calls for software that could “enhance techniques for collecting and sharing ‘open source’ actionable intelligence.” In other social media news, Twitter says it has developed the ability to block tweets in specific countries, while keeping them visible to the rest of the world. Twitter users have expressed concern the technology could limit free speech.
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