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...Still, Obama supporters are more optimistic about Pennsylvania. While Obama lost most of Ohio's rural southeast, they point out, he did win union-heavy Cuyahoga County, usually the key to Democratic victories in Ohio. "In Ohio we had about 12 days notice between the endorsement and the primary," said Anna Berger, political director of the State Employees International Union (SEIU), one of nine unions supporting Obama. "We were on the ground earlier in terms of voter registration, voter mobilization in Pennsylvania. We have 75,000 members in state and we feel we can be pretty influential in Pennsylvania...
...Dwight D. Eisenhower. In fact, the campaign's state director's last name is spelt Isenhour, and she is no relation to the former president. The article also had the incorrect spelling and title of Anna Burger, as well as the wrong name for the Service Employees International Union...
...also producing Africa's most wanted terrorist, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed - accused of masterminding the killing of 224 people as leader of the Somalia-based al-Qaeda allied group that bombed U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. It might seem appropriate, then, at first glance, that the African Union on Tuesday responded with force to a threat by one of the islands, Anjouan, to secede. Comoran troops backed by an AU force composed of Libyan, Senegalese, Sudanese and Tanzanian soldiers invaded at dawn, under a barrage of mortars and gunfire, and by noon announced that they were in control...
...African Union leaders might be hoping their readiness to use force will demonstrate that the continent is serious about policing itself. In reality, it may send the opposite message. That the AU feels comfortable, albeit after more than a year of diplomacy and sanctions, about attacking Anjouan's airport and roaring into tiny Moutsamoudou town - the entire island has a population of just 240,000 and its biggest claim to prominence is as the world's premier exporter of ylang-ylang flowers - only highlights how uneasy the organization becomes in the face of stiffer opposition...
...that even such a limited military intervention "will have high diplomatic, human and financial cost implications for the AU, which it can ill afford. Besides, any sustained military intervention in the country will have to be followed by a robust reconstruction effort, which neither the AU nor the [Comoran] union government can afford." Elsewhere in Africa, AU operations are far more limited, deploying small, ineffective forces in Somalia and Darfur. While the AU did lead efforts to stem post-election violence in Kenya in January, it does little to quell unrest in other areas, such as Congo, Mali, Niger, Nigeria...