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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (383784)	4/1/2003 7:20:00 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 769667

ALL RIGHT! On both of those.

To: PROLIFE who wrote (383784)	4/1/2003 7:23:26 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Pentagon Asks Fox To Cancel Geraldo April 1, 2003 (CBS) The Pentagon said Tuesday it is asking Fox News Channel to remove Geraldo Rivera from a posting with U.S. troops in Iraq where he was accused of disclosing unauthorized information. "We have asked that he be removed and we are working with them to make that happen," Lt. Col. Dave Lapan said. He said the network had agreed. Fox News Channel executives did not immediately return calls seeking comment Tuesday. Earlier, Rivera had dismissed reports that he had been ejected from Iraq for revealing tactical information about the 101st Airborne Division. Also Tuesday, a British tabloid said it has hired Peter Arnett, who was dismissed by NBC on Monday for giving an unauthorized interview to Iraqi state television in which he said the American-led war effort initially failed because of Iraq's resistance. "Fired by America for telling the truth," the Daily Mirror said in a Page 1 headline. Lapan said Rivera reported details of troop operations by drawing a line in the sand showing where his unit was and where it was going next. Reporters who are "embedded" with U.S. troops are not supposed to disclose details that could help Iraqis figure out their location and plans. Rivera, Lapan said, was put with his unit as a "short-term embed," meaning the military agreed he could go for a couple of days. Fox's rivals, CNN and MSNBC, both reported Monday that Rivera had been kicked out of the country. Shortly thereafter, Rivera delivered a report via satellite phone saying he was 60 miles from Baghdad. Rivera labeled reports of his ouster "a pack of lies" spread by his former colleagues at NBC, or as he put it, "some rats at my former network." This wasn't Rivera's first battlefield brouhaha. Sixteen months ago, while covering the war in Afghanistan, he generated criticism for being hundreds of miles from the site of a friendly fire incident he reported on. Rivera reported in a Dec. 6, 2001, piece that he became emotional and choked up while standing on the "hallowed ground" in Afghanistan where "friendly fire took so many of our, our men and the mujahedeen yesterday." Rivera said he had recited the Lord's Prayer. Rivera later admitted that he was several hundred miles from the site near Kandahar where three Americans were killed by an errant U.S. bomb. In an interview, Rivera said he had confused the Kandahar deaths with another "friendly fire" incident that cost several Afghan lives in Tora Bora. But according to the Baltimore Sun, Pentagon information showed the Tora Bora incident occurred at least three days after Rivera's Dec. 6 report. Rivera quit his talk show on CNBC to become a war correspondent for the Fox News Channel in November 2001. He said at the time he couldn’t bear to stay on the sidelines during a big story. Arnett apologized Monday for his "misjudgment" in talking to Iraqi TV. But he added: "I said over the weekend what we all know about this war." Arnett, who won a Pulitzer Prize reporting in Vietnam for The Associated Press, gained much of his prominence from covering the 1991 Gulf War for CNN. One of the few American television reporters left in Baghdad, his reports were frequently aired on NBC and its cable sisters, MSNBC and CNBC. NBC was angered because Arnett gave the interview Sunday without permission and presented opinion as fact. The network initially backed him, but reversed field after watching a tape of his appearance. The network said it got "thousands" of e-mails and phone calls protesting Arnett's remarks. In the interview, shown by Iraq's satellite television, Arnett said the United States was reappraising the battlefield and delaying the war, maybe for a week, "and rewriting the war plan. The first war plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another war plan." Arnett said it was clear that, within the United States, opposition to the war was growing, along with a challenge to President Bush about the war's conduct. The London newspaper that hired him, the Mirror, is vehemently opposed to the war. "I am still in shock and awe at being fired," Arnett wrote for the newspaper. Before the announcement of his new job, Arnett had said he planned to leave Baghdad, and joked that he'd try to swim to "a small island in the South Pacific." Arnett also departed CNN under a cloud. He was the on-air reporter of a retracted 1998 CNN report that accused American forces of using sarin nerve gas in Laos in 1970. He was reprimanded and later left the network. Earlier, the first Bush administration was unhappy with Arnett's reporting on the Gulf War in 1991 for CNN, suggesting he had become a conveyor of propaganda. Arnett went to Iraq this year not as an NBC News reporter but as an employee of the MSNBC show "National Geographic Explorer." When other NBC reporters left Baghdad for safety reasons, the network began airing Arnett's reports. Arnett was also relieved of his duties Monday at "National Geographic Explorer." cbsnews.com

To: PROLIFE who wrote (383784)	4/1/2003 7:47:29 PM
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<<AND Major ground offensive towards Baghdad starts tonight...>> Medina division may be as much as 70% destroyed. Not bad for 48 hours. The Republican Guard is about to disintegrate. More potential John Kerry workers in the ground...

To: PROLIFE who wrote (383784)	4/1/2003 7:56:15 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

U.S. forces rescue POW in Iraq ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- One of the woman soldiers. I'm not sure I want to know what they did to her. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Woman, 19, was member of Army unit ambushed March 23 near An Nasiriyah BREAKING NEWS MSNBC STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS DOHA, Qatar, April 2 — Ending a week of agony for one soldier’s family, U.S. troops in Iraq rescued an American prisoner of war, a U.S. Central Command spokesman said early Wednesday. The spokesman, Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, did not immediately reveal the identity of the rescued prisoner, but military sources told NBC News that the rescued soldier was Pfc. Jessica Lynch, one of eight soldiers who vanished after their convoy was attacked. • MORE EXCLUSIVES INTERACTIVE • Battle zone: Overview of the latest developments SLIDE SHOW • Images of war: Photos from the frontlines INTERACTIVE • Allied deaths: Troops killed in the battle zone BROOKS READ A brief statement saying that a prisoner had been rescued but provided no details about the operation. But sources, who spoke with NBC News on condition of anonymity, said that Lynch, 19, of Palestine, W.Va., was rescued overnight near An Nasiriyah. The sources said she was not harmed by her captors or during the rescue. The Pentagon had listed seven prisoners of war through Tuesday, but Lynch was not among them. She and seven other members of the Army’s 507th Ordnance Maintenance Company were listed as missing in action after Iraqi soldiers managed to separate their vehicles from the rest of a maintenance convoy near An Nasiriyah in southern Iraq on March 23. Five other soldiers from that convoy, one of them a woman, were later shown being questioned on Iraqi television, and the dead bodies of several others also were displayed. Pentagon officials charged that those servicemen were executed, a charge denied by Iraq. Fears for the safety of the prisoners and the missing soldiers increased last Friday when U.S. Marines found shredded remains of at least one female U.S. military uniform at a hospital in An Nasiriyah that had been used by Iraqi forces. In another part of the hospital, Marines found a large battery next to a bed — leading them to suspect it was used as a torture device, NBC’s Kerry Sanders reported. The hospital was taken by the 2nd Battalion, 8th Marines, after a fierce battle with Iraqi forces there. The known female POW is Spc. Shoshana Johnson, 30, of Fort Bliss, Texas. The other maintenance convoy soldiers listed as POWs are: Spc. Joseph Hudson, 23, of Alamogordo, N.M.; Pfc. Patrick Miller, 23, of Park City, Kan.; Edgar Hernandez, 21, supply truck driver, of Mission, Texas, rank unknown; and Sgt. James Riley, 31, of Pennsauken, N.J. The soldiers are part of the 507th Maintenance Company at Fort Bliss, Texas. In addition, two pilots were captured on March 23 when their Apache attack helicopter went down in central Iraq. They, too, were seen on Iraqi television. FACT FILE Geneva Convention on P.O.W.s msnbc.com