Jueves 22 de Febrero de 2007

LOS TITULARES DE HOY

• Dinamarca sigue decisión de Gran Bretaña y retirará 500 soldados de Irak
• Lituania considera retiro de soldados
• Guardia Nacional podría realizar rápido redespliegue
• Australianos protestan contra visita de Cheney
• Murieron 3 personas y otras 25 resultaron heridas en atentado con cloro en Bagdad
• No hubo lesionados en último derribo de helicóptero ‘Black Hawk’
• Segunda acusación de violación contra fuerzas iraquíes
• OIEA declarará que Irán incumplió vencimiento
• Renuncia Primer Ministro Italiano por rechazo a política exterior
• Conferencia en Noruega busca obtener prohibición de bombas racimo
• Estados Unidos califica a empresa de reconstrucción libanesa de “grupo terrorista”
• Jurado en caso de Libby comienza a deliberar
• Rechazan prohibición del aborto de Dakota del Sur
• Grupos: Centros para inmigrantes tienen condiciones similares a las de la prisión
• Helen Thomas perderá lugar en primera fila de sala de prensa

EL RESTO DE LA HORA DE DEMOCRACY NOW!

• Walter Reed Ex-Patient, Wife Speak Out on Poor Conditions at Army’s Top Medical Facility

  
  

  The Army’s Vice Chief of Staff General Richard Cody admitted on Wednesday there has been a "breakdown in leadership" at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. His comments came three days after the Washington Post revealed that hospital rooms at Walter Reed were infested with mouse droppings, cockroaches, stained carpets, rodents and black mold. We speak with a former Walter Reed patient; the wife of another patient, and a Salon.com reporter who documented the problems at Walter Reed two years ago. [includes rush transcript]

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• The Iraq Effect: New Study Finds 600% Rise in Terrorism Since US Invasion of Iraq

  
  

  As the fourth anniversary of the Iraq approaches, a new study by Mother Jones magazine has found that the number of fatal terrorist attacks has increased by over 600 percent since the U.S. invasion. We speak with the study’s co-author, Paul Cruickshank. [includes rush transcript]

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• Is Torture on Hit Fox TV Show "24" Encouraging US Soldiers to Abuse Detainees?

  
  

  This past fall, the Dean of West Point, Brigadier General Patrick Finnegan, along with experienced military and FBI interrogators and representatives of Human Rights First, met with the creative team behind the hit Fox Television show "24" and tell them to stop using torture because American soldiers were copying the show’s tactics. We speak with two of the delegation’s members — former Army interrogator Tony Lagouranis, who served one year in Iraq and David Danzig, director of the Prime Time Torture Project for Human Rights First. [includes rush transcript]

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