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War & Conflict

• Richard Perle's view on anti-terrorism
  In a new book longtime defense advisor Richard Perle advocates U.S. armed action against terrorist organizations and the regimes he says support them.January 21, 2004
• Minnesotan from Iraq laments family's plight
  A Minnesotan recently returned from Iraq says people there are happy the old regime is gone, but are fearful of the criminals preying on them. Sami Rasouli is an Iraqi-American and a Minneapolis businessman. He was born and raised in Najaf, a southern Iraq city where people suffered severe repression under Saddam Hussein. Rasouli visited several of his sisters still living in the country.January 20, 2004
• Northwest responds to data privacy criticism
  Privacy advocates say Eagan-based Northwest Airlines violated its own privacy policies by sharing passenger information with the federal governement. But Northwest officials say they simply complied with the government's counter-terrorism research. Privacy groups are threatening to take legal action in response to the airline's data-sharing.January 19, 2004
• Music in Baghdad: An Iraqi pioneer looks back
  Beatrice Ohanessian is a woman of many firsts. She was Iraq's first concert pianist. She was the first ever Iraqi female composer. She performed with the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra for three decades. Now she makes a quiet living teaching piano from her home in the Twin Cities suburbs.January 15, 2004
• The future for Afghanistan
  A documentary from the America Abroad series, called Afghanistan: A Future for Reconstruction? Hosted by Garrick Utley, Marvin Kalb and Margaret Warner.January 13, 2004
• Living in post-war Liberia
  The conflict in Liberia has faded from the headlines, but the West African nation still faces many problems. Some people in Minnesota are trying to help. Nyeba Manston-Dunbar recently visited her hometown of Monrovia on an assessment mission for the Minneapolis-based American Refugee Committee. She is a registered nurse, studying adolescent nursing at the University of Minnesota. She was on the mission to talk to young people who were traumatized by the war.January 5, 2004
• America and Iran
  For the past 25 years, U.S. relations with Iran have ranged from "cold" to "overtly hostile." The trigger event was the seizing of 52 American hostages during the Islamic Revolution in 1979. But that episode was just one chapter in what has been the United States' long, complicated, controversial, and sometimes dangerous relationship with Iran. This special program, called "America and Iran: Cooperation or Conflict in the Post-Saddam Gulf", focuses on that history, and what the future might hold.January 5, 2004
• The current state of the U.S. military
  Knight Ridder's senior military correspondent Joseph Galloway joins Gary Eichten to talk about the American military. Galloway has covered wars for 40 years, and is the author of the national best-seller We Were Soldiers Once and Young: Ia Drang: The Battle that Changed the War in Vietnam. It was made into a movie by the same name.January 2, 2004
• Exporting democracy
  Can the United States create democracies in other nations? "Exporting Democracy", from National Public Radio's Justice Talking series, looks at that question.December 29, 2003
• Terror alert raised just before Christmas
  U.S. officials say they've received information from a credible source about an al-Qaida threat against oil interests in Alaska. Over the weekend, the nation's terror alert level was raised to orange -- its second-highest level, which signifies a "high" alert. It had been at yellow, or "elevated."December 23, 2003
• Minnesotans calm after terror alert increased
  Many Minnesotans followed the advice of the leader of the Department of Homeland Security, who urged people on Monday to "just go about your business" despite an increase in the nation's terror alert warning system.December 22, 2003
• Overview of Pawlenty's trip to Bosnia
  Minnesota Public Radio's Michael Khoo was in Bosnia this week to report on Gov. Tim Pawlenty's visit there. Gov. Pawlenty and First Lady Mary Pawlenty stopped in Srebrenica, site of a 1995 massacre of Bosnian Muslims by Serbian nationalists, and visited with Minnesota National Guard troops stationed there to enforce the 1995 Dayton Peace Accords that brought an end to the Bosnian civil war.December 19, 2003
• National Guard service: worth the sacrifice?
  Gov. Tim Pawlenty is back in Minnesota Wednesday after a two-day visit with National Guard troops keeping the peace in Bosnia. The 1,100 Minnesotans stationed there are the largest Minnesota deployment since World War II -- and are part of a new emphasis on using Guard members to shoulder the country's growing military obligations. That new reality has left some wondering if they can afford to make the sacrifice.December 17, 2003
• What kind of justice will Saddam face?
  Now that Saddam Hussein is being held by the U.S., the question becomes, is he a POW or a war criminal? President Bush has said the former dictator should be tried, but it's up to Iraqis to decide how.December 17, 2003
• Howard Dean on foreign relations and national security
  Monday's major foreign policy address by the leading Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean. He spoke to the Pacific Council in Los Angeles, California.December 16, 2003

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