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Stories from 2003-04-08

Due Process Vanishes in Thin Air

Ryan Singel | Wired News | April 8, 2003

Some U.S. citizens can't fly without being subjected to extra scrutiny, questioning — and even being held at gunpoint. The only crime these Americans have committed: sharing a name with suspected terrorists. [more]

Nearly 1,000 Massacred in Congo

STAFF | Australian | April 8, 2003

"The killings, in the northeastern region of Ituri on Thursday, occurred barely 24 hours after both sides in the country's 40-year war signed a deal to set up a government of national unity. [It] was the latest incident in a series of bloody inter-tribal feuds between the Hema and Lendu ethnic groups." [more]

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