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from L Moss Sharman Woman biking on isolated road assaulted - Silas Polkinghorne and Jason Warick - The StarPhoenix - 3/29/03 "Saskatoon Sexual Assault and Information Centre executive director Elizabeth Freire-Benson said Friday only five to 10 per cent of sexual assaults are perpetrated by strangers. The other 90-95 per cent of assailants are known by the victim. She said strangers are more likely than acquaintances to be prosecuted for their crimes." http://www.canada.com/saskatoon/story.asp?id=DCE8D774-A3E2-4082-AB4D-995D2660CCC7
LA cardinal fights document release after vowing openness 3/30/03 LOS ANGELES (AP) - "Last spring, following an emergency Vatican summit on clergy sex abuse, Cardinal Roger Mahony met with a roomful of reporters to present himself as a reformer in the scandal consuming the Catholic church. "Here in Los Angeles, our continuing progress in how we handle these matters is very gratifying," Mahony said....At the same time, the archdiocese has acted aggressively to keep internal church documents concealed from prosecutors and the public. On Tuesday, church lawyers will make their case in court, claiming that communication between Mahony and the suspected priests is protected by the First Amendment. The lawyers say priest-bishop confidentiality is a foundation of Catholicism and that interfering with it violates the free exercise of religion." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/03/30/state1242EST0015.DTL
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=564&ncid=716&e=13&u=/nm/20030330/ts_nm/iraq_usa_report_dc
Report: Rumsfeld Ignored Pentagon Advice on Iraq
Sun Mar 30, 3:17 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld repeatedly rejected advice from Pentagon planners that substantially more troops and armor would be needed to fight a war in Iraq New Yorker Magazine reported.
In an article for its April 7 edition, which goes on sale on Monday, the weekly said Rumsfeld insisted at least six times in the run-up to the conflict that the proposed number of ground troops be sharply reduced and got his way. "He thought he knew better. He was the decision-maker at every turn," the article quoted an unidentified senior Pentagon planner as saying. "This is the mess Rummy put himself in because he didn't want a heavy footprint on the ground." It also said Rumsfeld had overruled advice from war commander Gen. Tommy Franks to delay the invasion until troops denied access through Turkey could be brought in by another route and miscalculated the level of Iraqi resistance.
http://www.fair.org/activism/iraqi-tv.html
MEDIA ADVISORY: U.S. Media Applaud Bombing of Iraqi TV March 27, 2003 When Iraqi TV offices in Baghdad were hit by a U.S missile strike on March 25, the targeting of media was strongly criticized by press and human rights groups. The general secretary of the International Federation of Journalists, Aidan White, suggested that "there should be a clear international investigation into whether or not this bombing violates the Geneva Conventions." White told Reuters (3/26/03), "Once again, we see military and political commanders from the democratic world targeting a television network simply because they don't like the message it gives out." The Geneva Conventions forbid the targeting of civilian installations-- whether state-owned or not-- unless they are being used for military purposes.
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