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A documentary by US film-maker Kelly Duda, has fresh evidence of Arkansas prison officials selling infected blood products collected from inmates with AIDS during the administration of former governor Bill Clinton. The film, titled “Factor 8: The Arkansas Prison Blood Scandal,” will be shown at the American Film Institute Festival in Los Angeles on November 8. Duda spent almost ten years researching the story of the tragic blood policy in Arkansas’ prison system that led to thousands of hemophiliacs world-wide being infected with both AIDS and hepatitis. The contaminated blood was used to manufacture clotting agents for hemophiliacs and exported...

Lessons UnlearnedBy Ben JohnsonFrontPageMagazine.com | May 17, 2004 Although al-Qaeda mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has claimed responsibility for beheading 26-year-old Nick Berg in Iraq, Berg’s father blames another perpetrator: the United States of America. “My son died for the sins of George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld. This administration did this,” Michael S. Berg recently told Philadelphia radio station KYW-AM.The elder Berg, a staunch leftist, lashed out at the Bush administration for its Iraq policy both before and after his son’s gruesome dismemberment. Michael Berg was a signatory to International ANSWER’s March 20th “Call to Action.” (“End colonial occupation from Iraq...