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...then dragged him through the city for all to see before stringing him up. The Americans, who've been working with the national police to check sectarian tensions here, cut the corpse down, wrapped it in a body bag and sent it to a morgue on the main U.S. base in the area outside the city...
...NATO air strike hit an insurgent base in southern Afghanistan Friday, knocking out some 30 Taliban. The air strike was in retaliation for a militant attack on nearby police posts, but it also killed 25 civilians in the process, including 9 women, 3 children and a village mullah, according to local police...
...attributed his defeat in the 2005 election to three factors: many of his supporters concluded that he would be safely reelected because due to his strong performance in the 2003 election; challengers Patricia M. Nolan '80 and Luc D. Schuster won over some of his reform-minded base; and turnout in the election was “one of the lowest in memory...
...little bit like the older brother, the alpha male who defends by playfully attacking. Early in the new film, there's a scene in which Willis yanks a guy out of a parked car for trying to get to second base with a college student. She yells at Willis' character for intervening, calling him John. He tells her that he hates when she calls him that. So she calls him Dad. It's kind of creepy, the fun we're supposed to be having assuming a college kid is his girlfriend, and it gets one to thinking about Willis' dating...
...after Abbas kicked Hamas out of his government, the group has been careful not to pick fights with him. The group's political leader, Khaled Mashaal, declared that "Abbas has legitimacy ... he is an elected President, and we will cooperate with him in the national interest." From his exile base in Damascus, Mashaal also said Hamas would abide by past resolutions it has signed with Fatah, including one that "honored" previous Palestinian accords with Israel...