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[speaking foreign language] the shooting began at midnight. Everyone ran toward their home. People started hollering. Children began crying. Operation, complex 20 seven targets were hit simultaneously. Know nothing. I was frightened. Not to level the place, but to minimize damage to property and casualties. That was accomplished. My daughter did not belong to any group. She had nothing to do with noriega. She was innocent. She had nothing to do with all of this. And they killed her. If i had to do it again, i would do it again. The cost was high. They gave their lives. Not for us. They gave their lives for democracy, liberty, freedom. I dont mind paying any price under the sun to be free. On december 19th, 1989, while panamanians were getting ready for the christmas holidays, the United States was secretly mobilizing 26,000 troops for a midnight attack. I saw helicopters approaching. They were close. The helicopters began to shoot. People were running left and right without direction,
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Yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of the opening of the panama canal. As part of booktvs College Series we visited the university of maryland where professor julie greene talk to us about the workers from around the world who built the canal from her book the canal builders. The interview was about half an hour. The canal builders is the name of the book. The author is university of maryland professor julie greene. Professor green wended the idea of building a canal come about . Guest well the idea was an old one in american history, at least in the u. S. , at least from the mid19th century on but its been before that. Europeans have drunk of it for centuries. Host and always through panama . Guest no there was a lot of talk of going through nicaragua or even mexico but for a lot of reasons, the french seized on the idea of panama and then the United States debated long and hard about possibly going to nicaragua. Some earthquakes in the fact that the french had done construction w
More than a million indonesians were killed beginning in 1965 by the u. S. Backed military and paramilitary death. The story is told by the killers themselves. At first we beat them dig at that there was too much blood. There was so much blood here. So when we cleaned it up, it smelled awful. Used thishe blood, i system. Can i show you . The act of killing. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The military judge presiding over the courtmartial of u. S. Army private Bradley Manning has upheld the most serious charge against him that he knowingly aided the enemy by giving hundreds of thousands of classified documents to wikileaks. Mannings defense team had asked colonel denise land to dismiss the charge, which could see manning sentenced to life in prison without parole plus an additional 154 years. But on thursday, she ruled there was enough evidence to show that in giving information to wikileaks, manning h