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News brief
Legislators call for
Department of Peace
WALNUT GREEK, Calif. — In an
ambitious alternative rhythm to the
drumbeat of war, Rep. Barbara Lee,
D-Calif, wants to see the creation of
a U.S. Department of Peace.
“Why not?” she asked. “We have
a secretary of defense and a secre
tary of state, with military being the
primary option on the table.”
Peace, she said, is “another way to
do business.”
Lee, 56, joined Dennis Kucinieh, D
Ohio, and other members of Congress
on Tuesday to reintroduce legislation
calling for a cabinet-level department.
Kucinieh, a presidential candidate
and an outspoken critic of President
Bush’s policy on Iraq, introduced a
similar bill in July 2001.
He calls the creation of a peace
driven arm-of the government “new
thinking.”
Lee, a firm voice of dissent in Con
gress, agrees.
“Right now, I suspect that most
cabinet members are talking about
which military action to take,” Lee
said in a telephone interview from
Washington, D.C.
“But a secretary of peace can say,
‘Hold on a minute — that could lead
to a world that’s less secure.’”
As U.S. bombs create smoldering
piles of rubble in Baghdad, she envi
sions a Department of Peace as play
ing a critical role in world stability.
The proposed legislation calls for
a department whose purpose would
be advocating for nonviolence as an
“organized principle.” Its role would
involve promoting peace education
worldwide, supporting disarmament
treaties and addressing issues that
may lead to violent conflict.
On the domestic front, the depart
ment would tackle such thorny is
sues as spousal and child abuse and
gang warfare.
The department also calls for a
Peace Academy, with graduates hav
ing completed four years of peace
education.
“What are young people seeing
each and every day?” Lee said, in a
reference to the 24-hour coverage of
TV war. “What is being embedded in
their psyche? Is it that it’s OK to
bomb?”
—Corey Lyons, Knight Ridder
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office of al-Jazeera, which has shown
U.S. prisoners of war and graphic
footage of dead and wounded Iraqi
women and children, inflaming an
already angry Arab populace.
“My husband died trying to re
veal the truth of the world,” his wife
told reporters. “Please do not con
ceal it. The U.S. said this is a war on
terrorism? Who is committing ter
rorism now? Didn’t their records
tell them this is a press office and a
house of civilians?”
Al-Jazeera Baghdad reporter Ma
jed Abdel Hadi said on air: “We were
targeted because the Americans
don’t want the world to see the
crimes they are committing against
the Iraqi people.”
The network described Ayyoub
as a “martyr,” a common term in
the Arab media to describe those
killed in warfare.
U.S. officials denied that they
fired on the building because it held
al-Jazeera. “We do not target jour
nalists,” Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks
said at a briefing in Doha, Qatar.
I.
Central Command officials said U.S.
troops came under “significant ene
my fire” from that building and the
Palestine Hotel.
“These tragic incidents appear to
be the latest example of the Iraqi
regime’s continued strategy of using
civilian facilities for regime military
purposes,” the command said in a
statement that expressed regret for
the “loss of innocent life.”
Al-Jazeera officials said witnesses
denied that anyone in the building
had fired at troops. They said it was
too soon to say whether the attack
was deliberate.
Ayyoub’s colleagues described
him as a consummate journalist.
“He was the first one to go after a
scoop,” said Khalid Dalai, Ayyoub’s
colleague at the Jordan Times, the
nation’s largest English-language
newspaper, with 7,000 circulation.
Besides working at the Jordan
Times, where he covered economic
and political issues, he did freelance
work for CNN.
Sanah Bashir, Jordan’s minister of
trade, called Ayyoub “a non-non
sense guy” who pushed the govern
ment to release information. “I re
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spected him. He had a job to do, and
I was really saddened by his death.”
Over the opposition of friends
and family, Ayyoub arrived in Bagh
dad on Saturday for al-Jazeera. His
brother refused to say goodbye to
him in the hopes he would not go.
His wife tried to discourage him,
but Ayyoub told her, “Journalists
are safe. They are civilians. They
won’t be targeted.”
Born in Kuwait, Ayyoub studied
in India, where he obtained degrees
in economies and journalism. He
took classes in French and Hebrew,
joined the Jordan Times in 1997
and began freelancing for al-Jazeera
three years ago.
While working for al-Jazeera, Ayy
oub also wrote for the Jordan Times.
One story about the war ended: “Ex
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two sides enter into battle... near the
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