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Post 9/11 dragnet turns up surprises

In the six-and-a-half years that the U.S. government has been fingerprinting insurgents, detainees and ordinary people in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa, hundreds have turned out to share an unexpected background, FBI and military officials ...

United Arab Emirates cancels Iraq debt

It's part of a recent warming between Iraq's Shiite-led government and its mostly Sunni Muslim neighbors. Washington has pushed Gulf states like the UAE to restore ties with the war-torn country.

Indian party supports U.S. nuke deal

The communist parties, which have provided crucial backing to Singh's Congress party-led coalition government, have threatened to withdraw support in Parliament if the government goes ahead with the deal.

One year on, Pakistan marks Red Mosque siege

... mosque was spurred after tension over an increasingly violent anti-vice campaign led by the mosque's administrators — including the kidnapping of alleged prostitutes — boiled over into gunbattles with security forces trying to restore government ...

War Zone Diary 2008

When I got there some of them were quite aggressive. They were holding up body parts in my face and screaming, “this is what the American government has done. This is what your government has done.

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