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Stories from 2003-04-23

Border Line

Alex Gourevitch | American Prospect | April 23, 2003

"Many of those fleeing the registration program by heading north are being rejected by Canadian authorities, only to get arrested by American officials when they are forced back across the border. But while much attention has been focused on the registration program, it is only the tip of the Bush administration's creeping nativism." [more]

Embattled Lab Unveils New Nukes

Noah Shachtman | Wired News | April 23, 2003

"The United States' arsenal of 10,000 nuclear weapons isn't enough. The country needs more bombs, and the place to make them is the scandal-plagued Los Alamos National Laboratory." [more]

The Untidiness of Freedom

Khaled Dawoud | Al-Ahram | April 23, 2003

"US officials were unmoved by accusations regarding the untidiness of 'freedom'. Instead, the hawks in the Bush administration started preparing for the next target." [more]

US Unprepared to Prevent Rise of Fundamentalist Iraqi Government

Glenn Kessler and Dana Priest | Washington Post | April 23, 2003

"As Iraqi Shiite demands for a dominant role in Iraq's future mount, Bush administration officials say they underestimated the Shiites' organizational strength and are unprepared to prevent the rise of an anti-American, Islamic fundamentalist government in the country." [more]

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