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War & Conflict

• Reflections on the Holocaust
  Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize winner and author Elie Wiesel reflected on his experiences in the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in a recent interview with radio producer Larry Josephson.May 2, 2005
• North Dakota soldiers repay a debt to Iraqi family
  North Dakota National Guard soldiers are raising money to bring an Iraqi family to Fargo. The guard members say they're repaying a debt to an Iraqi man who was killed because he helped them.April 29, 2005
• Karpinski tells her side of the Abu Ghraib story
  It was just under a year ago that 60 Minutes II first broadcast photographs of the prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski, who was chief officer in charge of military prisons in Iraq at the time of the abuses, was removed from her post and was criticized by investigators, told her side of the Abu Ghraib story recently at the Commonwealth Club of California.April 18, 2005
• War from the civilians' perspective
  A journalist who has reported from war zones in the Middle East and Europe writes about the experiences of ordinary Iraqis in the months before Saddam Hussein was overthrown.April 18, 2005
• Gaza pullout plan
  Midmorning takes a look at Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan and renewed prospects for peace. The upcoming withdrawal from all Gaza settlements is viewed by some Palestinians as an Israeli ploy to secure more territory in other disputed areas.April 14, 2005
• FDR and the end of WWII
  Tuesday marks the 60th anniversary of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's death. Presidential historian Michael Beschloss spoke about his book "The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany," at the Commonwealth Club of California in December of 2002, and explained Roosevelt's determination to keep Germany from ever threatening the world again.April 12, 2005
• Author says Iranian youth want reform
  The Iranian presidential election in June is expected to bring a conservative successor to reformist President Mohammad Khatami, but Iranian-American journalist Azadeh Moaveni says that her generation of young Iranians is hungry for democratic reform. Moaveni is the author of the bestselling "Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran."April 5, 2005
• Cloquet teens examine 'When a Country Goes to War'
  A high school film project has stirred new conversations about war in Cloquet, a small town already touched by the loss of a young soldier.April 3, 2005
• Reporting from a war zone
  Though overall attacks on Americans in Iraq have dropped off steeply since the Jan. 30 elections, many journalists still describe reporting on the conflict there to be extremely dangerous. In a war where civilians can be high-value targets for the insurgency, how do reporters go about telling the country's story?April 1, 2005
• The political fallout of 9-11
  The terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 sent shock waves through the American psyche. They changed the way we travel, sparked off two wars and introduced words like Al Qaeda, WMD and dirty bomb into the working vocabularies of ordinary citizens. As National Public Radio's David Welna explained in a speech at Carleton College this February, the aftershocks of 9-11 are still reverberating through American politics, as well.March 31, 2005
• Rochester soldier killed in Iraq
  A young soldier from Rochester died in a rocket-propelled grenade attack in Iraq Wednesday. Spec. Travis Bruce was the first person from Rochester killed in the war, and the 20th Minnesotan fatality since the conflict began two years ago.March 25, 2005
• Still just one weekend a month?
  While overall the National Guard is struggling to meet its recruitment goals, Minnesota's Army National Guard is leading the nation in signing people up for the service. But with another 2,000 Minnesota guard troops notified Thursday that they may be called up next year, will those recruiting successes continue?March 23, 2005
• Soldier mom returns home
  The year 2003 was monumental for Sarah Griesse. She had her first child and married her college sweetheart. In November, she was called to active duty by the South Dakota National Guard. A few months later she was in Iraq. Now after more than a year away, Sarah Griesse has to learn all over again how to be a wife and a mother.March 21, 2005
• Iraq, two years later
  Sunday marks the second anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, and Shiites and Kurds in the parliament are hammering out an agreement on territorial boundaries and government posts. What will the new government look like and will it be able to maintain security in Iraq?March 18, 2005
• Syrian troops continue to withdraw from Lebanon
  U.S. officials welcomed Syria's pledge to withdraw troops from Lebanon but did so with caution. The political turmoil in Lebanon highlights the role of Islamic political groups such as Hezbollah in emerging Arab democracies.March 15, 2005

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