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- Fears of new civil war as Sudanese town razed
  Posted by senselessthing from The Independent
  Just two years after the population of 30,000 people returned, Abyei in the heart of Sudan had a school and a hospital and a marketplace, but now almost everything has been burnt to the ground, prompting fears of an escalation in violence.
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- Lebanon on brink of civil war
  Posted by Sandyenglish
  Lebanon stands on the brink of all-out civil war. A general strike by the leading trade union to protest rising prices and demand an increase in the minimum wage has led to armed conflict between the pro-Western Sunni and Druze-based government of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora and the Shia-based Hezbollah and its ally, Amal.
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- Bill Kristol on Ron Paul: He's a crackpot
  Posted by VincebusEruptum from Jazz-from-hell.blogspot
  America's favorite neocon commentator takes a crack at America's favorite quasi-Libertarian presidential candidate. Hey, might as well - everyone else is ripping Paul, as they always do when anyone gets too big for his britches. Kristol is particularly caustic, defending in an oblique manner a war that cost 600,000 American lives...
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- More Than 70 Iraqis Killed in Violence
  Posted by Jeff from Huffington Post
  Gunmen shot and killed 23 members of an ancient religious sect in northern Iraq on Sunday after stopping their bus and separating out followers of other faiths, while at least 20 people were killed in car bombings in the capital. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told Egypt's leader, meanwhile, to ignore widespread reports that the country is suffering "a civil or sectarian war."
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- Iraqi Sunnis Question Al Qaeda's Violent Tactics
  Posted by Jeff from Al Jazeera
  The growing tension highlights a struggle for power involving Sunni tribal leaders who are angered by al-Qaeda in Iraq's indiscriminate killing of civilians. Sunni Arab officials have also urged what they call "the real resistance" to disown al-Qaeda and engage in talks with the government to end violence...
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- Also known as a Civil War: Reprisal Attacks Kill Dozens in Iraq
  Posted by Jeff from New York Times
  85 people killed yesterday in a bombing. 50 people today. U.S. sponsored police forces take part. Civil war? Armed attacks broke out against Sunnis in the Sunni neighborhood of Al Wahda, with Shiite Iraqi security forces suspected of taking part, they said.
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- Iraq killings increase ahead of crackdown
  Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
  An explosion outside a Baghdad university as students were heading home for the day killed at least 65 people on Tuesday, in the deadliest of several attacks on predominantly Shiite areas. The attacks — and the announcement of four U.S. military deaths — came on a day the United Nations said more than 34,000 Iraqi civilians died last year...
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Baghdad Braces For More Reprisals

Interesting to see the dark side of technology covered in the mainstream media.

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9:35 pm 11/26/06

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