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The cells were operating in the Ghazaliyah and al-Jihad districts of the capital.
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Although the announcement was probably made to show progress in identifying and breaking up terror cells, I don't find the news that the Baathists continue to penetrate the Iraqi government very hopeful.
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It reminds me too much of the ARVN officers who were secretly working for the other side in Vietnam.
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The police commander of Ninevah Province announced that bombings had declined 80 percent in Mosul, whereas there had been a big jump in the number of kidnappings.
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On Wednesday guerrillas had kidnapped a cosmetic surgeon and his wife while they were on their way home.
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Guerrillas killed an engineer, Asi Ali, from Tikrit.
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They also killed Shaikh Hamid 'Akkab, a clan elder of a branch of the Dulaim tribe in Tikrit.
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Two other Dulaim leaders have been killed in the past week and a half.
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Guerrillas near Hawijah launched an attack that left 6 dead, including 4 Iraqi soldiers.
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Two hundred members of the Batawi clan of the Dulaim demonstrated in Baghdad on Friday, protesting the killing of their clan elder, Shaikh Kadhim Sarhid and 4 of his sons, by gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms.
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The Commission said it had no legal grounds for such an exclusion.
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The Debaathification Commission had been pushed by Ahmad Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress very hard, and had pushed many Sunni Arabs into the arms of the guerrillas.
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Chalabi has been increasingly marginalized within Iraq, however, despite his ties of clientelage with Washington and Tehran.
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Some 2,000 junior officers of the old Baath army have been recalled to duty in recent months, something Chalabi would have blocked if he could have.
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Now the Electoral Commission is refusing to punish people for mere past Baath Party membership.
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The situation in Iraq is only going to get better this way.
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Al-Sharq al-Awsat reports that a key eyewitness in the trial of Saddam Hussein for a 1982 massacre at Dujail has died.
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A team from the court managed to take his deposition before he died.
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The trial begins again Nov.28.
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In Baghdad the fighting still continues in several areas, mostly in Sadr city and Adhamiya.
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Baghdadis don't venture much out of their neighbourhoods any more, you never know where you might get stuck.
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There has been talk that the night curfew might be implemented again.
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My neighbourhood has been surrounded by American troops for three days now, helicopters have been circling over our heads non-stop.
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Yesterday there were tens of them putting road blocks on our street and setting up mortars, they only come out in the open when Americans leave the area, then they start firing mortars indiscriminately and shooting their AK-47's in the air.
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They are setting the road blocks at the exact same positions they were during the war last year, which indicates they are the same people.
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And there is nothing we can do about it really, people who are suggesting that we go out and fight them are living in dream land.
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Most people haven't gone to work the last few days, although it seems that the rest of Baghdad is'normal' (if you can define what normal is).
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There are rumours about preparations by slum dwellers for another looting spree against banks, governmental and public property similar to the one that took place last April, and I have already overheard youngsters in my neighbourhood joking about it and saying things like "This time we will be the first to loot, we didn't get anything the last time".
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Mosques are calling for donating blood, food, and medicine for Fallujah, and several convoys have already headed out for Fallujah, most of them returned later though.
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I guess it's just the old new Arab'Me against my brother, me and my brother against my cousin, me and my cousin against my enemy', or'The enemy of my enemy is my friend' thing going on again.
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Speaking of Fallujah, we have only Al-Jazeera to rely on for our news from there.
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They have sent over their top reporter Ahmed Mansour to the town, and he is spouting all kinds of propaganda hourly reminding me of Al-Sahhaf.
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He did once make an unforgivable error when he mentioned that Fallujan militants were shooting at the Marines from the roofs of mosques and houses in Hay Al-Golan, but of course that is okay for Al-Jazeera.
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Al-Iraqiyah tv said that ICDC were controlling Ramadi.
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Azzaman newspaper mentioned an announcement signed by Abdul Aziz bin Muqrin, an Al-Qaeda operative in Saudi Arabia on an Islamic website'the voice of Jihad', in which he stated that "although mutilating dead bodies is not originally permitted in Islam, but in this case it is allowed if Muslims use it against infidels to deter them from committing criminal actions".
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He added that "America does not understand anything except the language of force and retaliation, they were kicked out of Somalia in humiliation after that soldier was dragged in Mogadishu for the whole world to see", and that "the day will come when the dead bodies of Americans and Jews would be dragged, defiled, and stepped on in the Arabian peninsula together with their agents and supporters".
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Elena's motorcycle tour through the region around Chernobyl has revived interest in one of the most serious nuclear disasters in history.
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We all know what happened, but even to this day, there are many different versions and opinions on how it happened and what effect Chernobyl will have on the health of people affected by the fallout.
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There was a soothing authoritative UNSCEAR (United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation) report in 2000 on the health effects of Chernobyl confirming that there was no scientific evidence of any significant radiation-related health effects to most people exposed.
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Many people still believe that to be true, even though the Ministry of Russian Federation on Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Conseguences of Natural Disasters (EMERCOM of Russia) reported this in 1996:
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In the last decade, there has been a real and significant increase in childhood and, to a certain extent, adult carcinoma of the thyroid in contaminated regions of the former Soviet Union (Wi940) which should be attributed to the Chernobyl accident until proven otherwise.
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The prestigious IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) published an early report on Chernobyl which was based on information from Russian sources and stated that there was no significant health effects.
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However, in April 2001, the IAEA published Fifteen Years after the Chernobyl Accident - Lessons learned. which contradict the earlier reports.
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The dramatic increase in radiation-induced thyroid cancers in children and adolescents in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine, which have been observed since 1991, continues to this day.
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There is a lot to learn about Chernobyl.
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There are a wealth of references on Chernobyl.
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These links present the many viewpoints that existed and still exist about the disaster called Chernobyl:
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As a child in the 50's I had a lot of glandular problems and they treated it with radiation therapy (primitive at best!) and stopped when a lesion on my neck started enlarging--they said it was not CA but stopped the treatments....
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The Chernobyl Children's Project (http://www.adiccp.org/home/default.asp) offers several ways to help the children of that region.
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What do the new al-Qaeda videotape and audio speeches of Bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri tell us about the hopes of the remaining top leadership of the organization?
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Musharraf has been trying to purge his officer corps of the substantial number of al-Qaeda sympathizers.
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His military intelligence has captured major figures like Abu Zubayda and Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, as well as nearly 500 other al-Qaeda operatives, over 400 of whom the Pakistanis have turned over to the US.
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Musharraf held elections in October of 2002, in which center-right parties did well, but in which nearly 20 percent of parliament seats went to the fundamentalist religious party coalition, MMA.
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MMA also captured the Northwest Frontier Province, which probably shelters Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri, and is in a joint government of Baluchistan Province, also on the Afghanistan border.
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Al-Zawahiri attempted to use Musharraf's lack of progress in helping the Muslims of that Indian state as a justification for his overthrow.
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The Kashmir issue generates far more terrorism, and even the threat of nuclear war, than Iraq ever did.
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But Sharon's iron fist is simply not working as a means of establishing general peace, and the Bush administration will have to finally apply effective pressure on Sharon to stop his outrages in and colonization of the West Bank and Gaza.
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Sharon's hard line has worked in tandem with Hamas's terrorism to ratchet up tensions further and further, which spill over into the Muslim world and serve as a recruiting tool for al-Qaeda in its search for agents willing to hit the United States.
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Israel owes the United States at least this much, in this crisis, to cease militarily unnecessary provocations and establish genuine peace.
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Certainly, the Shiites already hate al-Qaeda and would help; likewise the Kurds.
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The problem of mollifying the Sunnis, though, has to be solved to avoid giving al-Qaeda an entrée.
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The Americans have to put away their free-market fetishism for a while and find ways of creating jobs and pumping money into Iraqi households.
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We need an FDR in Iraq, not a Ronald Reagan.
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George W. Bush alleged Thursday that John Edwards lacks the experience necessary to be president.
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The problem with this argument is that Bush lacked the experience necessary to be president when he ran in 2000, so this sort of cheap shot just hoists him by his own petard.
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' Bush fails reporter's pop quiz on international leaders
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Texas Gov. George W. Bush is enduring sharp criticism for being unable to name the leaders of four current world hot spots, but President Bill Clinton says Bush "should, and probably will, pick up" those names.
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The front-runner for the 2000 Republican presidential nomination faltered Thursday in an international affairs pop quiz posed by Andy Hiller, a political reporter for WHDH-TV in Boston.
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Hiller asked Bush to name the leaders of Chechnya, Taiwan, India and Pakistan.
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Hiller asked, inquiring about Gen. Pervaiz Musharraf, who seized control of the country October 12.
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"Wait, wait, is this 50 questions?" asked Bush.
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Hiller replied: "No, it's four questions of four leaders in four hot spots."...
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Bush, in answering the question about the leader of Pakistan, also said: "The new Pakistani general, he's just been elected -- not elected, this guy took over office.
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Gore released a statement Friday taking Bush to task for his comments on Pakistan's recent coup.
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"I find it troubling that a candidate for president in our country -- the world's oldest democracy -- would characterize the military takeover as "good news," Gore said.
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"Further, I find it even more disturbing that he made these comments about a nation that just last year tested nuclear weapons -- shortly after voicing his public opposition to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
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A spokesman for President Clinton also criticized Bush's comments.
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"It is very dangerous for this country to condone the overthrow of democratically elected governments," said David Leavy, spokesman for the National Security Council.
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Not only did Bush not know who General Pervez Musharraf was, he seems to have confused coup-making with "taking office," and moreover went on to suggest that the overthrow of an elected prime minister and the installation in power of the Pakistan military, then the world's strongest supporter of the Taliban, would bring "stability!"
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Musharraf made his coup in part because of the military's anger over Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's willingness to back down from confronting India over Kashmir, so that he explicitly came to power as a warmonger.
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I still remember him stuttering about "the General," unable to remember Musharraf's name.
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He obviously had no idea what he was talking about, though he demonstrated a number of ill-fated instincts.
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He obviously liked authoritarian rule better than democracy, equating dictatorship with "stability."
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And, he didn't think he needed to know anything about South Asia, with its nuclear giants and radical religious politics--the latter a dire security threat to the US.
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Musharraf went on to play nuclear brinkmanship with India in 2002, risking war twice that year.
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Although Musharraf did turn against the Taliban after September 11, under extreme duress from the US, elements of his military continued to support radical Islamism and have recently been implicated in assassination attempts on Musharraf himself.
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Another answer is that Edwards certainly knows far more about foreign affairs now than Bush did then.
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I don't see Bush doing any of this.
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Have they, however, actually weakened Israeli security?
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The derailing of the Oslo peace process by the hard-line policies of Sharon and the Palestinian intifada has encouraged suicide bombings.
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This, in turn, has discouraged international investment in Israel and has made it less likely that immigrants to the country will actually remain there.
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Although Israel withdrew from Lebanese territory in May 2000, the radical Lebanese Shiite party, Hizbullah, has not been mollified.
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Saddam never did anything practical to help the Palestinians.
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At some points, as in the late 1980s, he reportedly made behind-the-scenes overtures to the Israelis to arrive at some sort of a deal.
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He did not allow Palestinian radicals to launch operations against Israel from Iraq.
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By the late 1990s, Iraq had no nuclear or biological weapons program, and had destroyed its chemical weapons stockpiles.
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Its ramshackle army had virtually collapsed before the American invasion in 2003.
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The bungling of post-war Iraq by the Bush administration created a weak and failed state.
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Armed militias, many staffed by former Iraqi military men with substantial training and experience, have proliferated.
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The US chose to ally itself with such groups as the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, whose 15,000-strong Badr Corps paramilitary was trained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.
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