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...wire reports and eyewitnesses have reflected a far more ferocious battle. Reports indicate that more than 100 people have been killed, and hundreds more wounded since the start of the attack on Tuesday. And independent Iraqi news network al-Sharqia aired footage from Basra of masked, armed men standing atop what it said was the burned carcasses of Iraqi military humvees, with "Jaish al-imam"--Army of the Imam--graffitied on the sides...
...Wire sources also reported that a suicide bomber attacked the convoy of Basra police commander Abdul Jalil Khalaf. Khalaf was unharmed but three other police were killed. Sadr supporters also clashed with Iraqi police in the southern towns of Hilla and Kut. With a curfew now in place across southern Iraq and in Baghdad, few in the Iraqi capital see a drop in the renewed violence coming anytime soon...
...America." De Hoop Scheffer says he will ask for 10% more troops at Bucharest, and stresses that Europeans have suffered casualties. But he acknowledges that he will "keep pushing" all the allies to do more. He needs to. The U.S., its armed forces already stretched like a piano wire, is now being forced to dispatch another 3,200 Marines to Afghanistan. The Canadian government of Stephen Harper took the unusual step of threatening to pull out of Afghanistan if NATO did not produce additional reinforcements for operations in the south of the country, though it has since agreed to extend...
Moments later, supporters of the detained judges, which included Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, stormed the judges' residential colony in Islamabad and tore away security barricades and barbed wire, shouting "Go, Musharraf, go!" In his first appearance since his detention, Chaudhry appeared on the balcony of his house and calmly thanked the nation for the efforts to free him. His benign manner, however, could be misleading. If Chaudhry and his Supreme Court are reinstated - as the new coalition has promised it will be - Musharraf may find himself...
...started going to more athletic events in my senior spring and I’ve realized this attitude is contagious—and wonderful. Wouldn’t you love a hockey-team’s worth of support the next time you were down to the wire on a project or feeling beaten up by Harvard...