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What Makes a Terrorist?
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500
What turns a British citizen into a suicide bomber? It is one of the most difficult, and most important, questions for MI5. That's why MI5's recent report on how to answer it is so interesting: it gives an insight into how the security service is responding to its most significant challenge.
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Misfortunes of War
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500
A funny thing happened this summer: John McCain taunted Barack Obama into making a trip to Iraq, whereupon the press looked around and finally noticed what those who were paying attention had known for some months now.
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Iraq's Kurdish-Arab Conflict Heightens
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Hundreds of Iraqi Arabs demonstrated Tuesday in Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, against turning the Kirkuk province into part of Iraqi Kurdistan. The demonstrators warned they would rather die than give up Kirkuk.
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Lebanon Issues Arrest Warrant for Kadhafi
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500
BEIRUT (AFP) -- Lebanon has issued an arrest warrant for Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi over the disappearance 30 years ago of a senior Shiite Muslim cleric after a visit to Libya, officials said on Wednesday.
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U.S. Proposed Troops Presence to 2015 in Iraq: Talabani
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Baghdad (Xinhua) -- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani said that the United States asked Iraq to keep its troops in the war-torn country until 2015, but negotiations set 2011 as a dead line, website of Talabani's party posted on Wednesday.
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Hizbullah Accuses Lebanese Church of 'Interfering' in Politics
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500
Hizbullah on Wednesday accused the Maronite church of "interfering in politics." Ghaleb Abu Zeinab, member of Hizbullah's political council, made the remark in a television interview.
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A Moment for Mother, Daughter, As Clinton Speaks
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500
DENVER -- Edesa Bitbadal's journey to hear Hillary Clinton speak on the floor of the Democratic convention began 23 years ago in Iran.
By 1985, the nation's Islamic fundamentalist government would not permit a girl to have the full rights to education and a career.
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Iraqi Christians Face Discrimination
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500
ERBIL, Iraq (UPI) -- Islamic militants have targeted the Christian minority population in northern Iraq, forcing more than 500,000 to flee their homes.
John Klink with the International Catholic Migration Commission said the international community, and the United States in particular, could do more to offer aid to the displaced Christian minorities
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McCain Says Obama's Views Invite Trouble Abroad
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500
PHOENIX (AP) -- Republican presidential candidate John McCain told veterans Tuesday that Democrat Barack Obama's opposition to the Iraq war and preference for collective diplomacy over U.
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Iraqi Kurd Forces Angered By Pressure to Pull Back
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500
MAYDAN, Iraq (Reuters) -- Kurdish troops say they lost many men trying to bring security to a volatile, ethnically mixed part of Iraq only to be ordered out by the central government.
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