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CNN : This could one day create a problem War: ‘We've lost our home team’
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from emailing anything
other than the ‘basics’ .....
it’s causing them great con
oeen.....
“And in a second message he
wrote the same day: “... ‘it’s
causing all kinds of ripple
effects around the world and
I'm starting to get phone calls
from all over the place asking
about the “Date-Rape” ..... |
know you've responded but
the damage has been done.”
The Nigerian reference is to
a story in which, as CNN’s
John Roberts reported on the
Feb. 18 “This Week at War,”
“Nigerian militants released
24 Filipino sailors that they
had held captive for nearly a
month. It came just days after
CNN’s Jeff Koinange discov
ered the hostages deep in the
Debate : “We are fighting for every single vote’
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Run!” sentiment apparentl
growing across the U.pg., Blai
constituents and leaders are
sueromng various candidates.
am a national co-chair for
Sen. Clinton,” Rrg Sheila
Jackson Lee (D-Texas), proudly
announces in an interview after
the debate.
Jackson says it is healthy that
the Black community is strati
fied.
“That’s excellent. America is
diverse and the African-Ameri
can community cannot be per
ceived as monolithic ange it
should not be taken for grant
ed,” she says. “We are fig:::\g
for every single vote that we
ibly can. I happen to
mi“cvc that I have a candidate
of her own accord that has a
deep undctsmndini:srm\:orls
to have a deeper un ding
about community.”
Lee said Clinton “connects”
with Black audiences because
of her views on the issues. “She
will make history and we are
proud of the other candidates
who are making history as well
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Gravel of Rep. Dennis
Kudinich of Ohio; Obama of
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War : “People want to know her plans’
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Instead, the fiery Democrat
launched barbs at her own
party in an address that other
wise might have sounded like
that of a politician gearing up
for a comeback.
“The war-machine Democ
rats joined with the Republi
cans to kick me out of Con
gress because they were count
ing their votes,” she said of
Congress' vote to continue
Previously, she has accused
Georgia's paperless electronic
voting machines and Republi
cans voting in the state's
p(irmficszrhchOOGrefi
tion loss.
She said Pelosi deserved
blame as well as Bush for fail
ing to prioritize the recon
struction of New Orleans
after Hurricane Katrina in
2005, noting blacks in the
city tend to vote for Democ
rats.
“Please tell me how it is
Niger Delta and showed them
to the world. And it also fol
lowed scathing criticism of
Jeff's reporting by the Nigerian
government.
Koinange said on the show,
“We literally just rented a boat
in the port of Wari in southern
Nigeria and just were in the
-the swamp for about an
hour-and-a-half. And before
we knew it, we were surround
ed by masked men shooting at
us, demanding who we were.
After we identified ourselves,
they took us on deep into the
swamps to one of their hide
outs and literally paraded these
24 Filipino hostages right in
front of us.” Roberts contin
ued, “The Nigerian informa
tion minister made a very seri
ous allegation about CNN’s
reporting, including accusa
tions that CNN staffers paid
to have the self-described rebel
were few domestic issues in the
ancsidcnu'al discourse, told the
Bl bt v
te that e wou
m:dculady'watma for
- i fieym really curious to see
whether or not he’s going to
step up on issues that matter to
us when he’s in front of us at
Howard, being questioned by
us. How is he going to
nd?” Smil mi(f.
rslggp. Elijah g’ummings (D-
Md), an Obama supporter,
says he was ddtfihted at the
range of issues that were dis
cussed and was surprised that
some issues had taken so long
to be put on the table.
“This was the first time they
discussed education and [ was
shocked,” he said. “This just
goes to show you why its so
important that you have
Afnican-American fglks asking
questions and people that are
scnsmve[h o our ns[s)ll;m.
Amo een c use
for O'E;mm, wh‘:sg:%lazf father
is from Kenya and White
mother is from Kansas, was his
idendfication with often asked
questions in the Black commu
nity, oonoemi%f\merim’s rela
tionship with Africa.
“What a;c;ad we doing with
to trade opportunities
wxE Afi'lca?Wlma[:tPO we doing
in terms of investments in
Africa? What are we doing to
pay attention to Africa consis
tendy with to our for
eign policy? ifit has been
wgt's missing in the White
House,” he said to loud
apgl:usc.
t, at the end of the forum,
many in the nsive audi
ence were s:l?)o undecided.
“I'm still looking,” says Christo
Hurricane Katrina gets no
recognition from Nancy
Pelosi's first 100 hours pro
gram for America?” McKin
ney said of the California
Democrat who became
House speaker this year.
She also blasted the Demo
crat-controlled Congress for
delivering “no impeachment
of a president guilty of lying
to the American people, spy
ing on the American people
and bankrupting our econo
my.”
The staunchly anti-war for
mer congresswoman also
ripped “the conscience of the
Co the Congressional
Bh:f%aums” because its
members “voted to fund the
war machine and its g
McKinney alsomgicdn't
sound pleased with Sens.
Hillary Clinton, Barack
Obama, John Edwards and
the other Democratic pt:’c
dential hopefuls - though
singled out none by name.
“All the major Democratic
AUGUSTA FOCUS
group put on a show for our
camera.
“CNN did not pay for or
stage any part of the report.
The only money that ever
changed hands in gathering
this story was the standard
rental for a motor boat and
captain- that was about $700;
and the standard fee to a local
freelance journalist, who we
call a fixer, for his help in the
reporting and translation,
about $l5O a day for that for
three days. “CNN does not
pay for interviews.”
In her e-mail to Walton,
Briner quoted Koinange: “Of
course | had to pay certain
people to get the story - but
everything was done in agree
ment with CNN and in accor
dance with their usual stan
dards - but you do not get
such a story without bribing -
you know how the world and
pher Emanuel, who works in
the Office of Civil Rights for
the Enviror:lrlz:ynml dfi:*t‘ffis(}),n
ncy. “Hillary sai t she
Ahfduto say in order to get where
she had o go. Biden, well, thacs
flat-line né?t there. Gravel, he
:fi‘mks hdgc tmth.blll l}ilkcd the
es saying, but he does
nt nhgsve a snayvlv-%all's chance in
hell. So, all I see is style and lit
de subshtjnncc i
Stephanie Logan, who grad
uatefi}) from Howard in %
says she had hoped to better
distinguish between the candi
dates during the debate, but
that didnt woric“y
“Nobody grabbed me
to be honest,” says Logan. “I
feel like they were all saying the
same thing. When it comes
down t I, unfortunatdflain
politics, while they all have
these wonderful ideas - and |
believe thcg' do want to make a
change - but theres so much
theocracy that I wonder if
theyll even be able to do it. |
\[;;;{n %mcbody would ask
em, ‘How are ing to
do it though?” T
The Rev. Al Sharpton, a for
mer Democratic presidential
contender who drew applause
when he walked into the audi
torium, didntt seem impressed
cither.
“I thought the candidates
were adequate. I'll tell you
where I was disappointenio I
didnt hear any specifics on,
especially the [gxpmmc Court]
decision today on [race and
educaton.]. ‘%flm kinds of
Supreme Court Justices would
I in What would I be
looking for?”
Notingtthlinton’s quip con
cering the artention given to
White women, Sharpton says,
presidential Democrats are
saying that, on Iran, no
options are off the twble,”
McKinney said, though she
failed to indicate what policy
course she favored.
McKinney received rousing
applause before and after her
speech. ;
Edward O. Dußose, presi
dent of the Georgia NAACP,
said members are eager
learn if she'll run for office
next year.
“People want to know her
plans,” Dußose said. “Cyn
thia still has a lot of respect
around ja. She's known
asapasgrm s not afraid to
speak her mind.”
McKinney declined to
speak with The Associated
Press before her speech. Her
father, Billy McKinney, hint
ed he knows something of her
plans.
“I have some idea, but
it's not ready to be
divulged yet,” the elder
McKinney said.
especially in Nigeria functions
- you have to have financial
resources - but at the end it
was worth it- CNN has its
story and | have my ‘fame’
vl
CNN spokeswoman
Christa Robinson rtold Jour
nal-isms on June 5 that “Jeff
Koinange’s departure had
nothing to do with his report
ing from the Nigeria Delta.”
Koinange, who other
reporters say remains in Johan
nesburg, South Africa, has
been unavailable for com
ment. Briner has written that
she is in a “secret location in
Spain.” The brief bio of Briner
for her 2006 book, The Shin
ing Star in Darkness, describes
her this way:
“Marianne Briner grew up
in Germany. She later moved
to Switzerland where she mar
ried a Swiss psychologist and
“That was good. I wish I had
heard more of that from the
candidates.” Sharpton was less
complimentary of Obama. “I
thinlt) he did good. I don't think
he hurt himself tonight.”
Smiley and political analysts
around the country has prmfi’ct
ed that the more domestic
issues are discussed, the candi
dates will incmsingy vie for
the Black vote, which will like
ly be pivotal in the general elec
tion in November 2008.
“This should be repeated and
repeated and we should be out
in the com fields, if you will,”
says Rep. Sheila Jacloson Lee,
“We should be out in the urban
centers. We should be out in
the churches. We should be out
in the schools. America has
have its trust restored in this
election and they've got to see
the candidates.
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politician, Dr. Frederik Briner.
Using her strong contacts in
the private and corporate cir
cles, she founded her consul
tancy company - BAK - in
1987. BAK was soon to
become involved in projects
across Africa, but mosty in
Kenya. Her vocal refusal to get
involved in the thriving cor
ruption in Kenya earned her
an ‘Enemy of the State’ status.
She was forced out of Kenya
and subjected to repeated
death threats from The Squad.
Eventually, she went to live in
a secret location in Spain.”
Briner wrote about the 1990
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Ouko. She is shown in a 13-
minute BBC story from
March 2, 2005, on the invest
gation into the killing,
In her e-mail w 0 Walton,
Briner wrote that she sent
Koinange a press release about
her book last August.
“Jeff replied immediately and
proposed to have an interview
with CNN in Adanta and to
present the book in Inside-
Africa.
“Soon after he started to call
me and things changed to
very private and personal
matters.”
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