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To Protect and Serve

The [Sadr] Al Mahdi army has a heavy presence in the regular police force, U.S. and Iraqi authorities said. One high-ranking U.S. military officer estimated that up to 90% of the 35,000 police officers...

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Islamophilia

I was thinking a lot about the success of Islam in the 7th century during its emergence as a regional superpower. Divinely ordained or lucky break? I thik the Arabs got lucky. Right place,...

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Land of Welcomes

Irish Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern said [US Secretary of State Condoleezza] Rice told him in Washington she expected allies to trust that America does not allow rights abuses — a sign she will avoid...

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Darwin Nominee

An Enumclaw-area man who authorities say helped run a farm where people had sex with animals was charged with a misdemeanor yesterday in connection with a Seattle man’s death … [Kenneth Pinyan] died of...

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Left Behind Thinking

“Some of the greatest evil in the history of the world was concocted in the Jewish mind,” LaHaye told me … “Sigmund Freud, Marx, these were Jewish minds that were infected with atheism …...

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Big Game

A “trophy” video appearing to show security guards in Baghdad randomly shooting Iraqi civilians has sparked two investigations after it was posted on the internet … The video has sparked concern that private security...

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Mission Accomplished

Human rights abuses in Iraq are now as bad as they were under Saddam Hussein and are even in danger of eclipsing his record, according to the country’s first Prime Minister after the fall...

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Aptly Named

U.N. teams also raided the other sites Curveball had named. They interrogated managers, seized documents and used ground-penetrating radar, according to U.N. reports. The U.N. inspectors “could find nothing to corroborate Curveball’s reporting,” the...

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That’s Not Hot

“In some ways, lunar dust resembles the silica dust on Earth that causes silicosis, a serious disease … it is extremely fine and abrasive, almost like powdered glass … Martian dust could be even...