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Western Envoys Attend Wake of Syrian Activist
Activist Ghiyath Matar was detained by the Syrian authorities last week. His body, bearing signs of torture, was returned to his family over the weekend.
Mumbai Attacks Accused Rana on Trial in Chicago
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Anchor Marco Werman talks with senior ProPublica reporter Sebastian Rotella about the trial in Chicago of Tahawwur Rana in connection with the 2008 Mumbai attacks. Rotella has written extensively on this case in the Washington Post. Download MP3
The complex relationship of US,Pakistan intelligence agencies
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David Ignatius, a columnist for the Washington Post and an authority on Pakistan’s spy agency, ISI, tells anchor Lisa Mullins the US and Pakistan intelligence agencies are locked in a tangled, inter-dependent relationship. Download MP3
UN presence in Ivory Coast
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Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Washington Post correspondent Colum Lynch about the dilemma facing U-N security forces on the ground in Ivory Coast. Download MP3
Diplomatic gaffe at the UN
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Last week India’s foreign minister made his UN debut with a speech in front of the Security Council. The only problem is, he read the speech of the Portuguese foreign minister. Anchor Lisa Mullins talks to Colum Lynch, who covers the UN for the Washington Post and Foreign Affairs. Download MP3Indian External Affairs Minister S M Krishna’s wrong speech in United Nations
Looting amid the chaos in Egypt
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Archeologists worry that some of Egypt’s vast collection of precious antiquities could be lost to looting amid the protests there. Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Brian Vastag of the Washington Post. Download MP3
How Arizona guns make it to Mexico
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Washington Post investigative reporter James Grimaldi talks with host Lisa Mullins about the gun laws in Arizona and how weapons purchased in the US end up in the hands of Mexican drug cartels. Download MP3
Iranian ice cream store sets up in Baghdad
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An ice cream parlor franchise is opening a store near the Green Zone in Baghdad. But the franchise is neither Iraqi or American, it’s Iranian. Anchor Lisa Mullins talks to The Washington Post’s Baghdad Bureau Chief Liz Sly. Download MP3
Yemen, the new terrorism front
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Download MP3Yemen has become a hotbed of radical Islamic militant activity. Many of Osama bin Laden’s former associates now live there. Anchor Marco Werman finds out more from Sudarsan Raghavan, Baghdad Bureau Chief for the Washington Post, who’s in Yemen and met bin Laden’s former personal bodyguard.
US diplomat resigns over Afghan war
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A senior US diplomat in Afghanistan has resigned in protest at the war against the Taliban, the Washington Post reports. Matthew Hoh said he quit because he had doubts about why the US was fighting. Jeb Sharp discussed the resignation with Andrew Bacevich, a professor of International Relations at Boston University, and Peter Bergen of the New America Foundation. Download MP3Afghanistan prepares for run-off election
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Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Washington Post Associate Editor Rajiv Chandrasekan on the mood in Afghanistan as election officials scramble to set up the November 7 presidential run-off election. The first round of voting in August was marred by widespread fraud.
The battle of Wanat
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Anchor Marco Werman speaks with the Washington Post’s Greg Jaffe, lead reporter on a series that chronicles one of the costliest encounters of the war for US forces in Afghanistan… last year’s Battle of Wanat in Nuristan.
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Afghanistan mission could “result in failure”
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The US mission in Afghanistan will “likely result in failure” unless troops are increased within a year, the top general there has said in a report. General Stanley McChrystal made his assessment in a copy of a confidential report obtained by the Washington Post. He recently called for a revised military strategy in Afghanistan, suggesting the current one is failing. Laura Lynch reports. Download MP3US progress in Afghanistan
Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Rajiv Chandrasekaran, a Washington Post correspondent embedded with the Marines, for the latest on the US operation launched yesterday in southern Afghanistan.
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