LOS TITULARES DE HOY

• Decenas de niños murieron tras explosión en Irak
• Informe: 128.000 iraquíes murieron desde invasión de Estados Unidos
• Reino Unido: Responsables de los ataques eran británicos
• Vecinos sorprendidos por identidad de atacantes
• Casa Blanca se niega a responder preguntas sobre Rove
• Representante Sensenbrenner pretende que Ley Patriota sea definitiva
• Cuatro mujeres murieron en atentado suicida en Israel
• Accidente ferroviario en Paquistán deja 150 muertos
• Holandés confesó haber matado a cineasta
• Dos activistas de San Diego en prisión por negarse a declarar
• Farm Aid planifica concierto por 20º aniversario

EL RESTO DE LA HORA DE DEMOCRACY NOW!

• McClellan Under Siege About Rove’s Involvement in Outing of Undercover CIA Operative

  
  

  White House spokesperson Scott McClellan has been besieged the past two days at press briefings, with many journalists pummeling away with question after question about the involvement of Karl Rove in the outing of an undercover CIA operative. The White House has done an about face from 2003 when it adamantly denied any involvement on the part of Rove in the leak. We play an excerpt of Tuesday’s hearing. [includes rush transcript]

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• Before London Bombing, Leaked UK Memo Warned Iraq War a Key Cause for Growth of "Extremism" in Britain

  
  

  British police now believe that four-British-born men of Pakistani descent carried out last week’s deadly bombings in London that killed at least 52 people. We go to Britain to speak with author and activist Milan Rai about how a leaked British government study concluded that British foreign policy, and the Iraq war in particular, was a key cause of young Britons turning to terrorism. [includes rush transcript]

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• How the U.S. Government Exposed Thousands of Americans to Lethal Bacteria to Test Biological Warfare

  
  

  The Homeland Security Department last month released what they said was nontoxic gas into New York’s Grand Central Station to trace how chemicals might flow through the terminal in a terrorist attack. We speak with biological and chemical terrorism expert Leonard Cole, who asks what this "nontoxic gas" actually was. He wrote a book about how–in the 1950s and 1960s, U.S. government scientists ran a series of tests to determine how easy it would be to expose large numbers of people to a lethal bacteria. [includes rush transcript]

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