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...president also said that his advisers had found $2 trillion in spending planned over the next decade which is unnecessary. The Congress may not view it that way, but, even if everyone is in agreement, a spending reduction of $200 billion or $300 billion a year over the next two or three years will not make a substantial enough dent in the deficit to bring it down by half...
...defended us," he explained. "Today, if the Jews kill us, we kill them." Later, Makdah - who was born in Lebanon and has been a fighter since the age of 12 - vowed that Palestinian leaders negotiating with Israel would never trade away the right of return. "No peace agreement can survive if there is one refugee outside the homeland," he said. The Palestinians' long, dismal wait seems doomed to continue...
...that they may yet return to a vacation land that once held so many pleasant memories. On Tuesday, the Taliban indefinitely extended a fragile 10-day cease-fire with the Pakistani military, granting more time for peace talks to end more than a year of fighting. Last week's agreement to impose a form of Islamic law in Swat has many feeling encouraged that this turbulent region will finally see a return to calm. "The fighting with the military is what made it dangerous," Nisar says. "The tribal people used to have Shari'a law in this part of Pakistan...
...paragraph was redacted from the Feb. 24 news article "Sexual Assault in River House Reported Saturday" because the information within it was printed in violation of an agreement with the source...
...Critics are alarmed by an agreement they fear will attack the rights of women, create a parallel legal system, encourage Islamist insurgencies elsewhere in Pakistan and even create a safe haven for a wider spectrum of militants. Still, many locals have welcomed the deal for the stability it promises. "We are happy that there is a chance for peace now," said Mohammed Tariq, 36, a thickly bearded cafeteria worker who blamed the Taliban for spreading fear and the army for alienating the population by inflicting a heavy toll in civilian casualties. "We hope that it doesn't fail." Like many...