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Suicide bomber kills 25 in northern Iraq - police: A suicide bomber blew himself up among a group of Iraqi army recruits in northern Iraq on Friday, killing 25 people and wounding 35, police said.

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9 Iraq "insurgents" killed in U.S. bombing U.S. Marine jets Thursday dropped laser-guided bombs and other ordnance on insurgent positions in a village northwest of Baghdad, killing nine insurgents - five of them Syrians, the U.S. Military said.

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Seven beheaded bodies found near Iraqi capital :
The murder victims were five police officers and two Iraqi civilians who worked for the US Army

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At least 26 dead in Iraq suicide attack on an army recruiting center in the northern Iraqi town of Rubia, police told

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U.S. backs off withdrawing troops from Iraq : Despite claims earlier in the week that the U.S. could begin to substantially reduce troop levels in Iraq as early as next year the military has been quick to qualify that any withdrawals will require a number of major conditions to be met.

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Security costs slow Iraq reconstruction : by contract excesses, by generous financial awards to contractors,with very little oversight and a substantial amount of waste and abuse," "--and are causing reconstruction authorities to scale back efforts in some areas and abandon projects in others" said Sen. Byron L. Dorgan (D-ND). "These are very discouraging reports."

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U.S. tightens noose around Mosul, Baghdad continues to boil: US occupation forces and their Iraqi stooges tightened their security noose on the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, closing four of the five bridges in the city as several attacks were reported in Baghdad as US admits its is holding 12,000 To 17,000 prisoners in Iraq.

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We regard Fallujah as a large prison: A reporter returns to the city, where violence and destruction remain part of everyday life.

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30% of returning GIs have mental problems

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No easy way out in Iraq: IF you want to draw up a Future-of-Iraq scenario you should factor in two propositions. The war wages on: With no military victory or political solution in sight, US and its allies cannot paralyse the insurgents in Iraq...the US should reconsider its democratic dreams for the region

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Resistance Battles US “Gnawing Rats” Offensive In Fallujah

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THE GREAT AMERICAN JOB SCAM : Lakshmi Chaudhry, AlterNet | Corporations get huge tax breaks from local and state governments, even when they rarely deliver the jobs and tax revenues that they promise.

SOLIDARITY LATER? : Molly Ivins, AlterNet | You may think the AFL-CIO split is none of your beeswax, but if you work in this country, you owe labor, big time. And I'm talking to you, white-collar worker.

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Former Miami Official Kills Himself at Newspaper : A spokesman for the city Fire-Rescue Department, Ignatius Carroll, said Teele was found with two small caliber holes in the back of his head.
Two holes? In the back of the head? Suuuuuuuuuuuuure.

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They Just Never Meant Very Much To Us Samples From An Ocean Of Suffering... The truth is that we are trained to value the lives of our countrymen more highly by a socio-political system that has much to gain from a restricted, patriotic version of compassion, and much to lose from an excess of popular concern for suffering inflicted on 'foreigners' by our governments and corporations.

Cause and consequence : Two million people, including a vast number of British Muslims, took to the streets against the invasion of Iraq. Blair preferred the warmth of the White House's embrace. Ignore the marchers and you risk igniting the murderers. If the alternative to terrorism is democracy, then it is time the people of Britain and Iraq alike were listened to and the occupation ended.

Who's Taking Blame for Christian Violence? How do our current religious leaders think Jesus would react to the concept of collateral damage? Now that imams in Britain and Canada are standing up and publicly condemning terrorist acts as anti-Muslim and against the teachings in the Qur'an, I wonder if pressure might be put on Christian leaders to take a similar stand.

Now that imams in Britain and Canada are standing up and publicly condemning terrorist acts as anti-Muslim and against the teachings in the Qur'an, I wonder if pressure might be put on Christian leaders to take a similar stand.

Brazilian did not wear bulky jacket : Speaking at a press conference after a meeting with the Metropolitan police, Vivien Figueiredo, 22, said that the first reports of how her 27-year-old cousin had come to be killed in mistake for a suicide bomber on Friday at Stockwell tube station were wrong.
No shit.

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