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Books: The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008

scotsman.com
7 hrs ago
        

Published Date: 11 October 2008 A BOB WOODWARD BOOK launch is a big deaI. THE WAR WITHIN: A Secret White House History 2006-2008 By Bob Woodward Simon & Schuster, 512pp, £24 Review by JILL ABRAMSON This time, with the arrival...

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Wine: One grape, two styles – a versatile Aussie workhorse

scotsman.com
7 hrs ago
        

Published Date: 11 October 2008 Australian shiraz has been among the biggest selling wines in the UK over the last 20 years, yet prior to 1980 few here had ever heard of it. However, with that popularity has come a lot of...

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Salmond needs to play a long game to reap reward in Qatar

scotsman.com
7 hrs ago
        

Published Date: 11 October 2008 The First Minister's visit to the Gulf state could bear fruit, but diplomacy is the key to a successful deal, writes MARK MORLEY IF ALEX Salmond is seeking to befriend another small nation...

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Robert Fisk's World: 'Collateral damage' or targeted killing, the effect is much the same

independent.co.uk
8 hrs ago
        

All kinds of horrors flop on to my Beirut doormat. There's The Independent's mobile phone bill, a slew of blood-soaked local Lebanese newspapers – "Saleh Aridi's blood consolidates [Druze] reconciliation", was among the goriest...

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Sat 18 October, protest against the British government’s asylum policies

indymedia.org.uk
11 hrs ago 1 related
        

To protest against these inhuman policies, International Organisation of Iranian Refugees in Manchester is protesting. Therefore we call upon all humanitarian organisation and civilised people to support our cause and...

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The War on Terrorism

office-humour.co.uk
6 hrs ago
        

A platoon of soldiers was patrolling north of Fallujah when they came upon an Iraqi terrorist, badly injured and unconscious. On the opposite side of the road was an Australian soldier in a similar but less serious state. The...

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Body of Lies: Leonardo of Arabia

time.com
10 hrs ago 124 related
        

Dutifully, they lined up to Enlist in Liberal Hollywood's answer to the war on terrorism, and one by one, last year's political movies were mowed down by audience indifference. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Roger Ferris, a...

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oneutah.org: Green Zone security guards oneutah.org

Iraqi PM: U.S. to withdraw troops by 2011

upi.com
11 hrs ago 126 related
        

BAGHDAD, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- The U.S. government has agreed to withdraw U.S. troops by December 2011, among other security concessions, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki says. The Iraqi official said Friday that during ongoing...

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Minister: Pirates seize another ship off Somalia

todayszaman.com
10 hrs ago 369 related
        

A ship laden with cement was hijacked in the pirate-ridden waters between Somalia and Yemen, a government official said on Friday. The panama-flagged Wail was en route to Bosasso from Oman and was attacked between the Yemeni...

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beiruter.com: Sleiman tells US envoy army needs advanced weaponry beiruter.com

Peace remains elusive in northern Lebanon

gulfnews.com
10 hrs ago 109 related
        

Tripoli, Lebanon: Grenade blasts echo nightly across a sectarian frontline in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli despite a month-old reconciliation pact. Two bomb attacks that killed 17 soldiers and five civilians in August and...

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