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• The Few Who Stayed: Defying Genocide in Rwanda
  In April 1994, the central African nation of Rwanda exploded in violence. Over the course of 100 days, some 800,000 people died at the hands of Rwandan government troops and militia gangs. Virtually all of the victims belonged to the ethnic Tutsi minority. The killers were from the majority Hutu. Ten years later, the genocide is remembered as a story of neighbors killing neighbors, and the slaughter of innocents, while the rest of the world looked away. But there are other stories. Some Rwandans, Hutu and Tutsi, resisted the forces of genocide. This American RadioWorks documentary tells their story.August 12, 2004
• Sen. Richard Lugar at the National Press Club
  Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Richard Lugar, R-Ind., addresses the National Press Club in Washington on the threat Weapons of Mass Destruction pose to the United States. Lugar believes that WMDs are America's number-one foreign policy challenge.August 11, 2004
• Making progress with Pakistan
  Following international pressure, Pakistan is searching out and arresting more al Qaeda suspects. Still, most security experts warn that the terrorist group remains active there. Over the past few years, Pakistan's importance to U.S. aims in the region has grown, despite major differences in opinion.August 10, 2004
• Kennedy, McCollum leave Iraq with different impressions
  Finishing up a congressional trip to Iraq, Rep. Betty McCollum was struck by how fearful ordinary Iraqis were of continued violence. Rep. Mark Kennedy, on the same trip, marveled at how much things are improving.August 9, 2004
• Stories from the front lines
  Army Ranger Andrew Exum talks about his experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq. He was a platoon leader in combat.August 3, 2004
• Terror warning puts United States on alert
  The Department of Homeland Security has issued the first terrorism alerts for specific sites in the United States. Officials are putting financial institutions in New York, Washington, D.C. and New Jersey on high alert. The government is acting on intelligence that Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge calls alarmingly specific, but Ridge is encouraging people to go about their business.August 3, 2004
• Anuak in Minnesota fear for homeland
  Widespread ethnic killings in Darfur, Sudan, have been in the news lately, but another human crisis is taking place next door in Ethiopia. A group of Anuak immigrants in southern Minnesota is struggling to alert the world to what they call an Ethiopian genocide. The Anuak say they believe the government is trying to exterminate their small community to get hold of their homeland, and to send a message to separatist groups active in Ethiopia.August 2, 2004
• Minnesota and terrorists -- is there an attraction?
  It'll be three years next month that the French Intelligence Service confirmed that the man authorities were holding in the Sherburne County jail, Zacarias Moussaoui, had ties to the Al-Qaeda terrorist network. Since then, Minnesota officials have arrested five more men with alleged ties to terrorist organizations, prompting some to wonder about the state's connection to terrorist cases.July 30, 2004
• Minnesota's senators differ on Sept. 11 report
  Minnesota's two U.S. senators Friday weighed in on the the findings of the Sept. 11 Commission report. Republican Norm Coleman and Democrat Mark Dayton spoke at the first congressional hearing on the report. Dayton said the report shows an utter failure by the federal government to protect American lives, and an attempt to cover up mistakes after the 2001 terrorist attacks. Coleman says he generally supports the commission's recommendations.July 30, 2004
• Mosley examines 1960s race relations in sleuth novel 'Little Scarlet'
  Writer Walter Mosley's latest novel "Little Scarlet," features street detective Easy Rawlins once more trying to solve a mystery. This time a black woman nicknamed "little Scarlet" has been killed during the Los Angeles riots in 1965. The police think the killer is white, and they enlist Easy to help find her killer.July 29, 2004
• Instability in Afghanistan
  The security situation is deteriorating in Afghanistan. The humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders announced it is pulling out of Afghanistan after 24 years in the country.July 29, 2004
• The Minnesota National Guard in Kosovo
  The tiny, Eastern-European country of Kosovo has been under United Nations control for the last five years, and Minnesotans account for over 800 of the 2,000 National Guard troops charged with keeping the peace between ethnic Serbs and Albanians there. Governor Tim Pawlenty paid a visit to the Minnesotan Peacekeepers in Kosovo over the weekend to offer his support and hear their concerns. He joins host Mike Edgerly to talk about what he learned. We also address other issues facing the national guard, which is increasingly being called upon to serve long tours of duty overseas.July 28, 2004
• Former Sen. Durenberger on the 9-11 Commission Report
  The 9-11 Commission's final report has certainly gotten people talking. In its nearly 600 pages, the book recounts a series of missed opportunities in the Clinton and Bush administrations for the government to disrupt al-Qaida's Sept. 11 attack. It also outlines a series of proposal for reforming the way the government gathers and analyzes intelligence. But the commission's recommendations are just that, and now the debate over what to do with them moves to the Congress. What will ultimately come of the commission's 18-month investigation?July 23, 2004
• What does the 9-11 Commission's final report mean?
  Following the release of the 9-11 Commission's final report, we talk to a Minnesotan who was on the Commission's staff about how the 18-month investigation was distilled into 500 pages of narrative, analysis and recommendations.July 22, 2004
• 9-11 Commission: The Final Report
  The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (also known as the 9-11 Commission) releases its final report on July 22. National Public Radio provides live coverage of the press conference.July 22, 2004

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