Word: war-torn
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...Iran's supreme leader, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, to blame the U.S. for Iraq's current troubles while his agents are busy there. Iran's militant regime is sowing chaos in the Middle East as it goes flat out to develop nuclear weapons. It needs a distracted West and a war-torn Iraq to accomplish that goal. The sooner we face that reality, the more rational our analysis will be. Tom Minchin Melbourne, Australia What even the ordinary man in the street foresaw before the Bush Administration started its war has at last come true: a country that the dictator Saddam...
...move wasn’t universally popular across the system. For instance, a senior history major at the system’s Davis campus wrote in a column for the UC-Berkeley student newspaper, the Daily Californian, that divestment would divert funds from reconstruction efforts in the war-torn country...
...Hussein, consider that the worst repressor of individual freedom in the Middle East--Iran--is still busy fomenting strife among its neighbors. Iran's militant regime is sowing chaos in the Middle East as it goes flat out to develop nuclear weapons. It needs a distracted West and a war-torn Iraq to accomplish that goal...
...WITHDRAWN. INDONESIAN ARMY TROOPS; from war-torn and tsunami-devastated Aceh province; after a bloody, 26-year conflict against the separatist Free Aceh Movement (G.A.M.). The last of 24,000 nonlocal troops departed in accordance with a peace deal prompted by the Dec. 26, 2004 tsunami, which killed as many as 170,000 in Aceh; 14,500 local troops will remain. "I hope this really means peace is at hand," said G.A.M. spokesman Irwandi Yusuf...
...Manhattan's Supper Club, Angelina Jolie--humanitarian, Oscar winner, erstwhile wearer of a vial of Billy Bob Thornton's blood--is scheduled to speak about Sierra Leone. It's a benefit dinner for Witness, a group that has been chronicling abuses in the war-torn African country--slaughter, rape, the drafting of child soldiers. So, naturally, a swarm of cameras are there to get her take on the big issue of the day: Isn't she, like, totally excited that Brad Pitt has decided to adopt her two kids...