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Bush to crank up message machine on dangers of Iraq withdrawal

WASHINGTON (AFP) — President George W. Bush will this week attempt to rally Americans wavering on Iraq, as senior aides warn a quick exit for US troops could sow a deadly harvest of future terror attacks on US soil. Officials say Bush will give a “significant” speech on Thursday, the …

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Woman suicide bomber kills 6 in Iraq

BAGHDAD (AP) — A woman, disguised in a man’s robes and headdress, slipped into a line of army recruits and detonated explosives strapped to her body Wednesday, killing at least six recruits and wounding 35 near the border with Syria — the first known suicide attack by a woman in …

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Lynndie England jail term ‘travesty’

BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Iraqis expressed fury on Wednesday over the three-year jail sentence for Lynndie England, the US soldier notorious for holding a naked inmate by a leash in Abu Ghraib prison, saying it exposed American hypocrisy. They said the sentence would have been more harsh had she been convicted …

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