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War & Conflict

• Approval of the U.S. Slipping
  America's threatened action in Iraq is one reason why a survey of 44 countries finds increasingly unfavorable views of the United States. And that uneasiness has grown over the past two years, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.December 6, 2002
• Days of Infamy: December 7 and 9/11
  Within the living memory of Americans are two deadly surprise attacks against the United States: Japan's assault on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Both times, the Library of Congress sent people out to record the voices of ordinary Americans as they reacted to a changed world. "Days of Infamy: December 7 and 9/11", puts 9-11 in an historical perspective.December 5, 2002
• Surviving the Holocaust
  Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Elie Wiesel, speaking recently at the Mayo Clinic about terrorism and how 9/11 changed America. He now teaches at Boston University and is the President and Founder of the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity.December 3, 2002
• War jargon
  With the war on terrorism and potential conflict looming in Iraq, we're hearing more military terms and euphemisms. A new book explains how war jargon sometimes obscures more than clarifies.December 2, 2002
• U.S. ports vulnerable to terrorist attacks
  U.S. ports remain vulnerable to terrorist attacks aimed at disrupting the economy. Government efforts to enhance security continue to fall short according to the Council on Foreign Relations.December 2, 2002
• Terrorism in Minnesota
  U.S. Attorney Tom Heffelfinger joins host Gary Eichten in the studio for a conversation about terrorism in the state of Minnesota, and how terrorism investigations across the country are carried out.November 27, 2002
• Setting up the Department of Homeland Security
  The goal is to protect Americans against "the dangers of a new era." That's how President Bush describes the purpose of the new Cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security, which went into existence Monday when Bush signed the legislation creating it. But you don't combine 22 existing agencies into one new department overnight. And the White House says it could take up to two years to complete the building of the new Homeland Security department.November 26, 2002
• Can Iraqi Opposition Groups Aid The U.S.?
  Gary Eichten talks with St. Cloud State University Professor of Sociology, and founder of the Union of Independent Iraqis, Abbas Mehdi, about the apparent difficulty of Iraqi opposition groups to cooperate. They will also discuss whether or not the U.S. should attack Iraq, and U.S. surveillance of Iraqis living in America.November 21, 2002
• The work of a weapons inspector
  How does the current weapons inspection program look to former UNSCOM inspectors? What challenges have stayed the same, and what advantages will the new team have that previous inspectors didn't?November 21, 2002
• The story of Iraq
  The Story of Iraq that dominates our front pages and news broadcasts today seems to be defined by the battle between two men – George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein. So Iraq and the USA snarl at one another as they prepare for war, for the second time in just over a decade. The BBC documentary explores the history of the country and the conflict.November 20, 2002
• Iraq and the war on terrorism
  U.N. inspectors urged Iraqi officials Tuesday to review carefully their long-standing claims they have no more weapons of mass destruction. In Washington, the Senate moves closer to passing the Homeland Security Bill. National Public Radio National Security Correspondent Tom Gjelten updates the war on terrorism.November 20, 2002
• Wiretapping barriers drop.
  The federal government now has wider powers to wiretap suspects as part of its search for terrorists at home. Experts on both sides debate whether a recent interpretation of the Foreign Intelligence Security Act has gone too far, or may not go far enough.November 20, 2002
• Columnist Thomas Friedman
  Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman talks to Gary Eichten about the situation in the middle east, terrorism, and other global issues. He is the author of a new book, Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11.November 8, 2002
• War's strange appeal
  New York Times war correspondent Chris Hedges explores the peculiar lure of conflict and combat in his new book, War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning.November 7, 2002
• Is the Al Qaeda network evolving?
  Recent bombings in Bali and Yemen suggest Al Qaeda may be evolving into a loose-knit alliance of independent groups. What does this mean for the war on terrorism?October 16, 2002

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