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The Pacifica Evening News is a collaboration of KPFA and KPFK in Los Angeles and KFCF in Fresno. The hour-long newscast airs on all three stations each weeknight at 6:00 PM. KPFA News broadcasts news headlines throughout the day at 5:55, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 10:00, 12:00 and 4:00. Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.
Pentagon officials say they’re extending the tour of duty for some 21 thousand U.S. soldiers who have served a year in Iraq and were set to leave U.S. warplanes strafe Fallujah as the nominal cease fire there threatens to disintegrate completely.. in southern Iraq, mediation may avert a U.S. assault on the holy city of … Continued
In the wake of the bloodiest week of U.S. combat in Iraq, President Bush holds only the third news conference of his presidency U.S. troops are massed outside the holy city of Najaf — the current home to Shiite cleric Moqtadar Al Sadr, whom the military has threatened to capture or kill The State Department … Continued
A shaky ceasefire in Fallujah is interrupted by sporadic clashes between U.S. occupation troops and resistance fighters.. The toll of dead and wounded Iraqis over the past week nears 2,000 U.S. occupation officials maintain their tough stance towards Shiite cleric Moqtada Al Sadr, saying they seek to locate, capture, or kill him More than 40 … Continued
The Iraqi body count grows in Falluja, as U.S. forces continue an offensive against resistance fighters. NGOs report dead bodies lying in the streets, ambulances being shot by snipers, and medical aid being stopped by U.S. occupation forces A battalion of the new U.S. trained Iraqi Army refuses to go to Falluja to fight.. They … Continued
Fighting in the Central Iraq city of Falluja resumes after a pause in the Marine offensive.. During a brief ceasefire, hundreds of women and children flee, but the marines won’t let men of fighting age out.. U.S.-appointed members of the Iraqi Governing Council denounce the assault – one is threateneing to quit Thousands of Japanese … Continued
National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice before the September 11th Commission for 3 hours today.. Rice insists President Bush fully understood the threat of terrorism before September 11th, 2001.. But she says there was no silver bullet that could have prevented the deadliest attacks ever on American soil Four more American soldiers killed in Iraq – … Continued
Fighting rages in Fallujah for a fourth day between resistance forces and U.S. occupation troops – who drop a 500 pound bomb on a Mosque compound Across Southern Iraq, Simultaneous battles between supporters of Shiite Cleric Al Sadr and U.S. Allied Troops Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says U.S. commanders are considering whether to send more … Continued
One of the bloodiest days of fighting in Iraq since President Bush declared major combat over.. At least 13 American soldiers are killed.. A dozen of them marines in Ramadi.. Dozens of Iraqis are slain, many of them non-combatants, including women and children as occupation forces battle Sunni insurgents west of Baghdad and Shiite militants … Continued
More than a thousand U.S. troops surround the city of Fallujah in possible preparation for a door to door search for Iraqis who took part in the killings and mutilation of U.S. security contractors last week In Baghdad U.S. authorities vow to arrest radical Shiite leader Moqtada Al Sadr.. Helicopter gunships fire on a Shiite … Continued
