Tuesday August 26th 2014
Today on Flashpoints: We return to Gaza as talks continue for a lasting ceasefire agreement with Israel. Then we have an in-depth conversation with Yvonne Ridley who was captured by the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001 and who has take up the cause of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, a neuroscientist and former student of Noam Chomsky, sentenced to 86 years in a maximum state prison in Texas. It’s the strange tale of a miscarriage of justice prosecuted in the name of protecting America from terrorism.
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