“dozens” show up in Times Sq to protest Saddam’s hanging
WBAI Sunday News at Six: 12/31/2006 at 6PM EST, WBAI-99.5FM,
streaming at www.wbai.org and
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Times Square Vigil for Saddam Hussein’s Execution, Saturday
12/30/2006, New York City
By Fred Nguyen, WBAI Reporter
Sound File Location: www.radio4all.net/pub/files/siddharta5@yahoo.com/ Sound File Name: 450-1-20061231-TimesSquareVigil-WBAISen.mp3 Sound File Specs: 5 min 59 sec, mp3-128 kbps, 5 MB
PROGRAM LEAD (TO BE READ LIVE BEFORE SEGMENT):
THE EXECUTION OF SADDAM HUSSEIN OCCURRED WITH ONLY A FEW HOURS
NOTICE, AS IF DESIGNED TO AVOID
REACTIONS AND POTENTIALLY LARGE PROTESTS.
THE FORMER IRAQI PRESIDENT, WHO HAD BEEN IN THE CUSTODY OF U.S.
FORCES SINCE HIS CAPTURE, THREE
YEARS AGO, WAS DELIVERED TO HIS ARCH ENEMIES, WITH NO CONSIDERATION
FOR INTERNATIONAL LAW, AND
PROMTLY PUT TO DEATH.
THE INTERNATIONAL ACTION CENTER AND SEVERAL ORGNAIZATIONS CALLED FOR
AN EMERGENCY VIGIL IN TIMES
SQUARE, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, TO PROTEST THE EXECUTION. A LARGE CROSS-
SECTION OF THE MAIN STREAM
MEDIA ARRIVED EVEN BEFORE THE START OF THE VIGIL. DESPITE THE STEALTH
ATMOSPHERE, DOZENS OF
DEDICATED ACTIVISTS SHOWED UP IN FRONT OF THE RECRUITING STATION.
WBAI FRED NGUYEN GATHERED SOME
OF THEIR WORDS AND FILED THIS REPORT: