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US Muslims speak of backlash
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 11: Three years after the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington, Muslims experience backlash in Silicon Valley with about 200,000 Muslim population. ... 
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Photos of 1,000 dead US troops laid out in park
NEW YORK, Sept 11: Photos of more than 1,000 US soldiers who died in Afghanistan and Iraq were laid out in Union Square Park in New York on Friday in a display intended to put faces of the fallen before the public. ...
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Rumsfeld mixes up Saddam and Osama
WASHINGTON, Sept 11: US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld mixed up Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein twice in a speech on Friday about the "war against terrorism". ...
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Zawahiri tape: NYT acknowledges error
NEW YORK, Sept 11: The New York Times said on Saturday that its page-one story published on Friday about a new video in which Osama bin Laden's top deputy warned Al Qaeda was planning new strikes against the United States had wrongly used the transcript from an old video. ...
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US soldier gets 8-month jail for abusing Iraqi prisoners
BAGHDAD, Sept 11: The first member of US military intelligence to be tried for abusing Iraqis in Abu Ghraib prison was sentenced on Saturday to eight months in prison. ...
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US asks Syria to stop 'interfering' in Lebanon's affairs
DAMASCUS, Sept 11: Syria must withdraw troops from Lebanon and halt the activities of groups based in Syria that foster terrorism, a senior US State Department official said after talks with Syrian President Bashar Al Assad on Saturday. ...
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US gives up on taking Iran to UN Council
VIENNA, Sept 11: The United States now realizes that it does not have the majority it needs at the UN nuclear watchdog to bring Iran before the UN Security Council over Tehran's alleged atomic weapons program ...
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Karzai unveils election manifesto
KABUL, Sep 11: Five days after the official start of Afghanistan's election campaign President Hamid Karzai on Saturday unveiled an election manifesto that was short on concrete details about his policies. ...
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US deserter surrenders after 40 years in Japan
CAMP ZAMA, Sept 11: Nearly 40 years after allegedly deserting the US army by crossing into North Korea, Sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins turned himself in to face American military justice here on Saturday. ...
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Kelley's book on Bush raises storm
LOS ANGELES, Sept 11: As if the 2004 campaign for the presidency has not been dirty enough - get ready for a 700-page book by America's most famous tabloid biographer that alleges illegal drug use and other youthful misdeeds by President George W. Bush. ...
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The ghost detainees in Iraq
WASHINGTON: Pentagon investigators believe the CIA has held as many as 100 "ghost detainees" in Iraq without disclosing their identities or locations, many times more than previously disclosed ...
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'War on terrorism' looks like a loser
WASHINGTON: Three years after Al Qaeda-commandeered planes crashed into the World Trade Center towers in New York and the Pentagon, the leaked ruminations of Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld seem more pertinent than ever. ...
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Arab media on 'terror war'
AMMAN: Arab newspaper editorials marked Saturday's third anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, broadly condemning them - but questioning the US-led approach to defeating terrorism. ...
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Kerry struggles for second wind
With 50 days left in his presidential campaign and nearly 10 points behind in the polls, John Kerry found himself this week in a familiar situation: surrounded by people willing him on, but who were having trouble understanding what he had to say. ...
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