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US closes highways leading to Baghdad
BAGHDAD, April 17: The US-led Coalition Provisional Authority said on Saturday it would close various sections of highways connecting Baghdad from the north, east and south for repairs ... 
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Invasion planned in 2001: book
WASHINGTON, April 17: President George Bush was planning to attack Iraq in Dec 2001 despite public assurances Washington was seeking a diplomatic solution to the standoff with Baghdad ...
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US holding 200 Iraqis who refused to fight
BAGHDAD, April 17: US forces have detained around 200 Iraqi paramilitary soldiers who refused to take part in a US offensive against Fallujah, their former comrades said on Friday. ...
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Badawi sends letter to Bush over Iraq
KUALA LUMPUR, April 17: Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi has written to US President George Bush and key world leaders ahead of a meeting of Muslim countries to discuss violence in Iraq and Palestinian territories. ...
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Echoes of Vietnam
WASHINGTON: There are 125 million people over the age of 40 in the US, and if they turn on the 11 O'clock news and watch the fighting in Baghdad and the helicopters circling Fallujah and don't see Vietnam ...
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CIA's '95 warning of attacks disclosed amid blame game
WASHINGTON, April 17: The US Central Intelligence Agency warned the White House and other policymakers as early as 1995 that Muslim militants, angered by US support for Israel and the military presence in Saudi Arabia ...
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US says it didn't give 'green light' to Israel: Rantissi's assassination
WASHINGTON, April 17: The United States "certainly did not give Israel any kind of green light" to assassinate Hamas leader Abdelaziz Rantissi, a US State Department official told CNN television on Saturday. ...
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Nangrahar bars women from TV, radio
JALALABAD, April 17: An Afghan province has banned women from performing on television and radio, declaring female entertainers un-Islamic, a provincial official said on Saturday. ...
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Situation more serious than Vietnam: Patten
TULLAMORE, April 17: The conflict in Iraq is "much more serious" than the war in Vietnam and any comparison between the two is misplaced, the European Union's external relations commissioner said on Saturday. ...
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Kerry calls for end to 'Made in America' occupation
WASHINGTON, April 17: Democratic presidential contender John Kerry on Saturday called on President George W. Bush to get rid of the "Made in America" tag on the US-led occupation of Iraq in a new campaign attack. ...
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Russia to oppose UN resolution
UNITED NATIONS, April 17: Russia said on Friday that it would strongly oppose any UN resolution to endorse a call for investigation of charges of corruption in the now defunct UN-run oil for food programme. ...
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Three die as UN policemen exchange fire
KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, April 17: Two Americans and a Jordanian were shot dead in Kosovo on Saturday when emotions over Iraq apparently boiled over into a gunbattle between members of the UN law enforcement mission. ...
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Who will speak out?
LONDON: What does it take to get a New Labour politician to speak out on Iraq? I'm not talking about the likes of Blair, Hoon and Straw - key players so deeply implicated in the cruel tragedy of conquest and occupation that they have no option but to stay the course ...
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Glimmer of justice for Gujarat victims
NEW DELHI: When India's Supreme Court ordered that the trial of a controversial murder case be moved outside western Gujarat on Monday, it was the first time since an anti-Muslim pogrom swept the state two years ago that the victims could begin to hope for real justice. ...
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Divided Europe now getting confused
BERLIN: The growing anarchy in Iraq and the terror attacks in Madrid are having opposite effects across Europe. One confirms the broad European opposition to the war on Iraq, the other is encouraging an uncompromising stand against Muslim militancy. ...
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Group says Muslim guard mistreated
WASHINGTON: A Muslim security guard at the Madison Hotel was told to stay away from the 10th floor of the hotel during a recent stay there by a senior Israeli official, a Muslim advocacy group said the other day. ...
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