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...Well, if you hear President Bush tell it, Sunday's vote was a massive vindication of his grand plan to free the world of tyranny. In a similar vein, his chief ally, Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair, proclaimed the vote ?a blow right to the heart of the global terrorism that threatens destruction not just in Iraq but in Britain and virtually every major country around the world." Although Bush and Blair's sentiment was echoed by interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, such language was rarer among Iraqi voters, who tended to see the election as the fruit...
...tempered with wisdom. That's the advice to candidates from one of the key Shiite parties contesting Iraq's election, in which the vast majority of the more than 7,000 brave souls who have put their names forward as candidates have, nonetheless, kept that fact a secret. Britain's Telegraph reports that leaders of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq have warned their party's candidates to keep their identity secret, avoid public places and stay home as much as possible...
...student estimates he'll down eight or nine pints before night's end. That's what he says he puts away in his thrice-weekly sessions, which start at a pub around 9 p.m. and end at a club five or six hours later. "We definitely drink more" in Britain, he says. "It's just the culture to get pissed, I guess." Outside, two young men square off drunkenly but stop when a police van glides by. Between midnight and 4 a.m., casualties stream into the Queen's Medical Center emergency department: a motionless clubber on a stretcher whom...
...sell its view to the public. Polls conducted by research firm ICM for the BBC and the Guardian newspaper in January found that 53% of those surveyed oppose extended licensing hours, 39% approve and about two-thirds don't think they will reduce antisocial behavior or make Britain a better place to live. British police say they are already overwhelmed by the scale of drink-related disorder and crime. While eager to have a say on applications for licenses, as provided under the new law, they oppose longer hours because they say they lack the resources to deal with...
...were involved in a recruitment cell with links to four French nationals killed in Iraq since July. Two of the 11 were preparing to leave for Syria en route to Iraq, according to French investigators. Security officials across the European Union are moving to stop the flow, while in Britain the government has caused a storm with proposals for powers to sentence some suspected terrorists to indefinite house arrest - without charge or trial. Intelligence officials and independent experts estimate that there are between 1,000 and 3,000 foreign insurgents in Iraq. Between 30 and 50 of those are believed...