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...movie, which chronicles a vampire attack during the dead of winter when the far-North town of Barrow, Alaska, experiences no sunlight for a month, is perhaps the least innovative movie ever made...
Josh Hartnett, the only big name in a cast of unknowns, plays the town sheriff who must try to save the motley crew of townspeople who survive the initial attacks. The movie is a real low for Hartnett...
That's apparently the case with the region around the Iraqi town of Mahmudiyah, a district on Baghdad's rural southern fringe, which until recently was best known for its place in the Triangle of Death. Mahmudiyah was where five U.S. soldiers were killed and three kidnapped in May. But local Iraqis there are now trying to soften its violent reputation and even make Mahmudiyah and its surrounding political district a model for peace and reconciliation among Iraqis and with Coalition troops...
...week have ratcheted up their concern. On Wednesday, seven Iraqi police officers were killed by a bomb in the nearby village of Afak. That followed bloodshed on Monday, when at least six civilians were killed and dozens wounded in a mortar barrage on the Polish-run Coalition base in town...
Diwaniyah's Iraqi security chief, Sheik Hussein Hadi al Buderi, said at least 50 "Afghans," local slang for Iraqi or foreign Sunni militants trained abroad for jihad, have recently "penetrated" the town. "Yes," he said, "there is a presence of al-Qaeda now in Diwaniyah...