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World’s Untold Stories: Secrets of the Belfast Project
Forty years ago, during the height of Northern Ireland’s sectarian violence known as "The Troubles," a widowed mother with 10 children disappeared. Today, the answers to what happened could be found in audio recordings locked away in a U.S. college archive. But some don’t want the truth to come out. The audio recordings were collected for the Boston College Oral History Archives, from members of groups on both sides of the fighting. But this history project may contain evidence, that could threaten a delicate peace agreement – and the man credited with helping bring that peace to Northern Ireland, Gerry Adams. Adams, a prominent Irish politician and alleged former head of the Irish Republican Army, has vigorously denied the allegations. But many think the tapes could hold the key to solving the widowed mother’s murder – and more. In this episode of CNN’s documentary series “World’s Untold Stories”, Nic Robertson examines the risks and the benefits of exposing what truths may be on the tapes – and explains the ongoing battle between families, politicians, the courts, and academia, who are either seeking the truth, or seeking to protect it.
Tags: Northern Ireland; Boston College; Gerry Adams; politicians; courts; academia
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Murder, Money and Politics
A $54.5 million program touted by Illiinois Gov. Pat Quinn to reduce violence consisted of teens handing out fliers to promote inner peace, take field trips to museums, march in a parade with the governor and even attend a yoga class to reduce stress. Two years after the Neighborhood Recovery Initiative began, the murder rate was nearly 20 percent in Chicago.
Tags: broadcast; violence; stress; neighborhood; murder rate
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20/20 Peace Corps: A Trust Betrayed
An ABC News 10-month investigation into the murder of a young Peace Corps volunteer that led to the discovery of severe flaws in the way abuse is reported within the Peace Corps. ABC's report led to President Obama signing a law that is aimed at protecting the volunteers better.
Tags: Peace Corps; murder; abuse; broadcast
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Watching the Protesters
This article exposes the military and local police intelligence operations worked to infiltrate and spy on a the ranks of peaceful protesters, dispaching a Ft. Lewis operative to not only heal lead protest demonstrations, but to provide secretive blow-by-blow accounts of the protesters' plans and positions to the police and Army. In effect, the Army double agent helped organize and lead them to their arrests and prosecutions.
Tags: army; police; Seattle; Washington; Army Force Protection Unit; Washington State Fusion Center; FBI; Homeland Security; Department of Justice; Posse Comitatus Act;
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San Jose police: Misdemeanor Justice
The San Jose police are the most aggressive city in California when it comes to misdemeanor crimes and the arrests. They have the largest per capita of arrests in the state and many of these arrests are for petty crimes or resisting arrest where no crime was actually involved. Many of these crimes involve the attitude of those being arrested, public intoxication without proper tests, and disturbing the peace. A number of these arrests are based on color and a great deal of force was used in these arrests.
Tags: law enforcement; police department; enforcement; laws; communities; crime; Hispanics; Latinos; statistics
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Nuclear Threat Made in U.S.
This story revealed how the U.S. government scattered tons of highly enriched uranium around the globe and then failed to get the material back. The Tribune documented how a misguided Cold War program called Atoms for Peace provided bomb0grade uranium fuel to dozens of nations in an attempt to win allies and curry favor. Today, 40 tons of this same uranium remain outside of U.S. control.
Tags: nuclear weapons; federal government; international relations; nuclear smuggling; open records
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Peace at what price?
The authors investigated reports of abuse at the hands of the UN peacekeepers in Democratic Republic of Congo. A well known secret within the UN the rape and abuse of the community have left consequences far more damming than the remnants of war.
Tags: rape; sexual abuse; United Nations Peacekeeping; UN code of conduct; UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations; Democratic Republic of Congo; Africa
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"Peace at What Price?"
ABC news documented the extent of abuse U.N. peacekeepers have been inflicting on women and children in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Although reports of child pornography, rape and paedophile rings have been rampant, U.N. officials have refused to allow either military or civilian employees to be tried, and even have refused to cooperate with further investigation of its personnel.
Tags: United Nations; sexual abuse; investigation; African peacekeepers
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Secrets and Lies: bin Laden, Damra and the Birth of Terror in America
This investigation uncovered the strong ties between Fawaz Damra, a seemingly peaceful spiritual leader of Ohio's largest mosque, and Osama bin Laden. The investigators found that before moving to Ohio, Damra headed a radical mosque in Brooklyn, to which the people behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing belonged. Furthermore, he was directly involved in fund-raising for terrorist "charities." Damra's charity was the predecessor of Al Qaeda, and gave bin Laden a foothold in America.
Tags: homeland security; Palestinian Islamic Jihad; Al Qaeda; WTC; national defense; FBI