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04 May 2008

Sunday between noon and 1pm (GMT)104.4 FM (London)

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  • Seven months after Israeli warplanes destroyed a building in Syria’s eastern desert, the Bush administration has released intelligence purporting to prove that Damascus was building a nuclear reactor at the site. Why was the silence? Syria denies that the building housed a nuclear reactor “What did Israel bomb in Syria?” asked American journalist Seymour Hersh. Why has the Bush administration chosen to release its intelligence now, seven months after the Israeli strike?
  • Drug Dealing in Lebanon: tribal drug lords, addiction, Hizbollah and Israel.
  • Pakistan: Pakistan has been plagued by shortages and a crisis of basic necessities of life for a long time, but the situation exploded on the eve of the last elections while General Musharraf and his team were blowing the trumpet about "unprecedented economic development".

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