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Stories from 2003-05-29

Abbas Hopeful of Hamas Ceasefire Agreement

STAFF | Guardian | May 29, 2003

"[A] senior Hamas leader in Gaza, Ismail Abu Shanab, had outlined three conditions for a ceasefire: that Israel stops operations against Palestinians, frees Palestinian prisoners, and withdraws from the West Bank and Gaza." [more]

Transcript: FCC Ownership Rules

STAFF | Center For Public Integrity | May 29, 2003

To be reviewed by the FCC: "Newspaper/Broadcast Cross-Ownership Prohibition (1975) Television broadcast companies may not buy newspapers in communities where they own stations." [more]

Philadelphia Council Condemns PATRIOT Act

STAFF | Reuters | May 29, 2003

"[Philadelphia] City Council passed a resolution calling on local members of Congress to work for the repeal of the federal law that granted the Justice Department broad new police powers for Washington's so-called war on terrorism." [more]

Poverty Doesn't Create Terrorists

Alan B. Krueger | New York Times | May 29, 2003

"The stereotype that terrorists are driven to extremes by economic deprivation may never have held anywhere, least of all in the Middle East. New research by Claude Berrebi, a graduate student at Princeton, has found that 13 percent of Palestinian suicide bombers are from impoverished families, while about a third of the Palestinian population is in poverty. A remarkable 57 percent of suicide bombers have some education beyond high school, compared with just 15 percent of the population of comparable age." [more]

UK Dossier on Iraq Weapons 'Unreliable'

Al Webb | United Press International | May 29, 2003

"An unidentified expert in Britain's intelligence network told the BBC the 50-page document contained unreliable information and was 'transformed' on instructions from Blair's office in the week before its release last September, to make it 'sexier.'" [more]

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