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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Investigators to inquire into Chalabi’s use of US money: <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">The investigative branch of the US Congress is looking into whether Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmad Chalabi broke the law in using </SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">US</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond"> money to attempt to sway </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">US</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond"> opinion in favour of ousting Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond"><A href="http://207.68.164.250/cgi-bin/linkrd?_lang=EN&lah=2f75c0bca1dd59ed4f3dffbe1bb31fa9&lat=1080648476&hm___action=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2edailytimes%2ecom%2epk%2fdefault%2easp%3fpage%3dstory_29%2d3%2d2004_pg7_47" target=_blank><SPAN style="mso-ansi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ascii-font-family: Garamond; mso-hansi-font-family: Garamond"><FONT face=Tahoma color=#000099>http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_29-3-2004_pg7_47</FONT></SPAN></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Iraqi detentions fuel anti-US sentiment: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">The American military is holding some 8,000 Iraqi security detainees without trial or formal charges, most of them in a prison where at least six </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">US</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond"> guards have been criminally charged with abusing inmates.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Ban on a newspaper angers Iraqis: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">American soldiers shut down a popular </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Baghdad</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond"> newspaper and padlocked the doors after the occupation authorities accused it of printing lies that incited violence.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Prelude to an Attack on </SPAN></B><st1:country-region><st1:place><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Syria</SPAN></B></st1:place></st1:country-region><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">?: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">The Yassin Assassination: I truly hope my imagination has gotten the better of me, that I am a false prophet, and that what I describe will not come to pass.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">The Yassin Assassination: A Monstrous Insanity Blessed by the </SPAN></B><st1:country-region><st1:place><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">US</SPAN></B></st1:place></st1:country-region><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Where is the United States Congress and Senate condemnation on behalf of its people of such a<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">heinous act by a government that we support to the tune of 10 billion a year?<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">40 </SPAN></B><st1:country-region><st1:place><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">U.S.</SPAN></B></st1:place></st1:country-region><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond"> senators supported </SPAN></B><st1:country-region><st1:place><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Israel</SPAN></B></st1:place></st1:country-region><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">’s assassination of Hamas’ leader: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">The senators met Thursday with officials from the Conference of Presidents of Major American<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">"My son was killed in </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Iraq</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">. Last night I saw George Bush laughing about that." --Jorge Medina, father of US Army Spc. Irving Medina, 22, KIA 14 NOV 03, </SPAN><st1:place><st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 111pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Baghdad</SPAN></st1:City><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">, </SPAN><st1:country-region><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Iraq</SPAN></st1:country-region></st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Deception through silence: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Shhh. That's the mantra of George W. Bush. He can pronounce it correctly, it keeps the citizenry from knowing things he thinks it has no need to know and what the citizenry doesn't know, therefore, won't play a part in what it thinks.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Whenever the Bush Administration gets criticized, it responds like Tony Soprano, and Bush's capos put a hit out on whoever dares to question the don.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Federal Auditors Track Wasteful Spending In </SPAN></B><st1:country-region><st1:place><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Iraq</SPAN></B></st1:place></st1:country-region><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Uncle Sam's "cost detectives" are following the billions of taxpayers' dollars the Bush administration is spending to rebuild </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Iraq</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">, and that makes some people nervous.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Musharraf left counting the cost: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">The army, and Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf, are left with far bigger problems than when they first embarked on the mission into the tribal region nearly two weeks ago.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><st1:place><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Africa</SPAN></B></st1:place><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">: Oil, al-Qaeda and the </SPAN></B><st1:country-region><st1:place><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">US</SPAN></B></st1:place></st1:country-region><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond"> military: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">The </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">US</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond"> has a keen interest in </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Africa</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">'s oil resources - perhaps its only interest in the </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Dark Continent</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">. And as US military involvement and/or cooperation with countries across the </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Maghreb</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond"> and </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Sahel</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond"> regions is being ratcheted up, so too is alleged al-Qaeda activity.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><st1:country-region><st1:place><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">UK</SPAN></B></st1:place></st1:country-region><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">: Half of all recruits to Army read at level of 11-year-olds: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">A confidential study into the educational standards of soldiers has revealed that half of all new infantry recruits only have the reading and writing skills of 11-year-olds.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Police monitored anti-war protests, chief says: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">When opposition to the war in </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Iraq</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond"> began to mount last year, city police sent undercover officers to anti-war meetings and rallies, collecting intelligence about the aims of activists, the department's chief confirmed.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Aristide supporters in Haiti report continuing threats, killings: <o:p></o:p></SPAN></B></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Nearly a month since ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">Haiti</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-FAMILY: Garamond">, many of his followers said they're still being harassed, threatened and killed.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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