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Corporate Radio Raising Thousands for "Capture" of Window Breaker
by pjd Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2003 at 12:47 PM

A close source has revealed that a Pittsburgh area radio show has obtained "thousands" of dollars for offering to the person providing information.

A Merton Center supporter and activist has obtained startling information from a close source, a co-worker, that a corporate radio station, presumubly via a right-wing talk show, has collected contributions amounting to "thousands" of dollars for use as a reward for the person providing information leading to the arrest of the person(s) responsible for the breakage of a window at a Marine Corp's recruiting station in Oakland this last Sunday.

The source would not reveal the station call sign or specific program where this appeal for "reward" money was taking place. The source said, half-jokingly: "Maybe the Merton Center should turn the person in and make some money ".

Additionally, the source implied that the "broken window incident" is a major topic of conversation among the right-wing of the Pittsburgh area. Few other aspects of the successful past weekend actions are being discussed in these circles. Suprisingly, further inquiry indicated the source had never heard the expression "no blood for oil". S/He expressed the belief that oil had nothing to do with this war. Rather "this has to do with enforcing existing UN sanctions and building a democratic middle east with the already relatively secular Iraq as a building point for this project" S/He said..

Nonetheless, the source also expresses a belief that Saddam Hussein may have been involved in the Sept. 11 WTC and Pentagon attacks.

Assistance is requested from any IMC reader who knows which radio station and program this "reward" appeal is taking place, so this story can be completed.

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