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He was quick to point out the price for gas is now $1.64 higher than when President Obama took office. "So what I can guarantee you is the Obama program is higher prices, more dependency in the Middle East, more vulnerability to Saudi Arabia and Iraq...
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"This process is a humiliating and degrading treatment," said Bahzad Saffari, 50, a camp resident since 2003 who was among the first group of exiles to go. "We are very frustrated and have been going through this harassment for more than 24 hours now. ...
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the military budget may be cut by up to a trillion dollars over a decade, far more than the $400 billion in 12-year savings that President Obama had proposed in his April 13, 2011, speech that signaled the White House's full engagement on the deficit issue ⌠above and beyond savings that will result, a...
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She lives in Boston with her mother. He called Malik, who will be 2 in April, his "chunk of love" and often told me how difficult it was to be away from him and from his wife, Nada Bakri, for long periods.When I set out to write a book about my time in...
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No group immediately claimed responsibility for the bombing, but suicide attacks are a hallmark of al Qaeda. The terror group’s potency in Iraq has waned since its heyday five years ago, when the country teetered on the brink of civil war. But last...
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People display burned copies of religious books and Qurans, by the al-Hijaz Mosque in the southern port city of Um Qasr, 600 kilometers. (372 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Feb. 19, 2012. Iraqi investigators said a Shiite mosque that was... View Photo »
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and we're going to have to take action around the world to protect ourselves, and hopefully we can do it as we did with Osama bin Laden, as opposed to going to war, as we had to do in the case of Iraq. The right way...to keep us from having to go to those wars is to have a military so strong that no one...
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"I didn't do this to offend the people of New Jersey," he said. "If I did and you're offended, I'm sorry. But I did this because it was wrong and it was to show the governor (of New Jersey) how wrong this was." His son, Army Specialist Eric T. Burri,...
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So, who says ordinary Afghans can’t converse decently or negotiate for genuinely peaceful relations? We see this work of deliberate listening as our conscience, our resistance, our statement, our solidarity, our shared pain, and our participation in a...
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The Republic of Iraq (conventional short form: Iraq) (Arabic: العراق (help·info) translit: 'al-‘Irāq, Kurdish: عيَراق), is a country in Southwest Asia encompassing most of Mesopotamia as well as the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range and the eastern part of the Syrian Desert. It shares borders with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia to the... Full Article
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