NYMHM: Bhutto promises nuclear access; Russia and the Muslims; Death penalty on trial?

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 NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED * October 3, 2007 * Vol. 6, No. 40

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QUOTED: 

   "Maybe we'll have one or two executions each year, just to prove
   that we still can."

   -- Activist Stephen Elliot on new challenges to capital punishment
   nationwide (see "Crime & Punishment," below).  

CONTENTS:

   *Top Stories*
     Kurdish vote puts pressure on Arabs
     Refugees take a risky route to Yemen
     Bhutto promises nuclear access

   *Energy*
     A nuclear "renaissance"

   *Crime & Punishment*
     The death sentence on trial? 

   *World*
     Russia and the Muslims

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 TOP STORIES
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 > Kurdish Vote Puts Pressure on Arabs

   Kurdish officials are beginning the process of sending Arab
   residents back to their cities of origin ahead of a referendum
   on whether to absorb Kirkuk into the Kurdistan Regional 
   Government area. 

   Some Arabs, who were originally placed in Kirkuk by Saddam 
   Hussein to counter the political influence of ethnic Kurds, 
   fear they will be forced to leave their comparatively peaceful
   region. Kurdish officials fear the Arabs will ...

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   http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/004413.html

 > Bhutto Promises Nuclear Access

   Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said that if she
   were to return to power, she would permit the United Nations -- but 
   not the United States or other Western powers -- to interview the
   nuclear weapons expert AQ Khan. 

   Khan, who was pardoned in 2004 by President Pervez Musharraf 
   for passing nuclear secrets to Libya, Iran and North Korea, 
   has "lived under virtual house arrest" since then, reports
   Agence France-Press. 

   Bhutto, who plans to return from exile to ...

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 > Refugees: A Risky Route to Yemen

   Thousands of Somali and Ethiopian refugees attempting to flee to 
   Yemen are risking their lives in covert smuggling voyages across
   the dangerous Gulf of Aden, reports ADNKronos. Of the 4,741
   people who crossed in September alone, 89 were killed and 154 are
   missing and presumed dead.

   Many refugees are killed by asphyxiation below board or drown when
   smugglers throw them ...

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   http://www.newsdesk.org/archives/004415.html

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 ENERGY
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 > A Nuclear "Renaissance"

   Although it is a long way from becoming a reality, pundits are
   already predicting a "nuclear renaissance" in America for the 
   first time in 30 years, even as plans for new plants take 
   shape around the world. 

   A New Jersey company has filed an application with the Nuclear
   Regulatory Commission to built two nuclear power plants in 
   Texas, and the NRC expects to receive applications to build 28
   more reactors in the next 15 months, according to the 
   Christian Science Monitor. 

   The traditional arguments against nuclear energy -- that it is 
   dangerous, costly, offers terrorist attack targets and creates 
   radioactive waste -- have not ... 

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 CRIME & PUNISHMENT
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 > The Death Sentence on Trial? 

   Support for capital punishment may be on the wane, as the 
   Supreme Court ponders a Kentucky case that pivots on the
   question of whether lethal injections constitute "cruel and
   unusual punishment," reports the Globe & Mail in Toronto.  

   In Texas, at least one inmate's execution has been put on 
   pending a decision in the case, according to the Houston 
   Chronicle. 

   Lawyers there are predicting that judges will begin placing a 
   moratorium on all executions until the case is heard this winter. 

   But Texas Governor Rick Perry wants ...

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 WORLD
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 > Russia and the Muslims 

   A series of unprovoked attacks on native Russian families 
   living in Ingushetia, a Muslim Republic in Southern Russia, 
   have brought hundreds of Russian security forces into the 
   area and increased the level of carnage in recent days.

   Accusations abound as to who is responsible for the killings. 

   Some believe the assailants are boyeviki, or Muslim rebels 
   based in the mountains, who want to gain power in the region. 

   Others think the killings are organized by opponents of President
   Murad Zyazikov as a way to ...

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