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Islamic Jihad biggest threat to fragile truce

JENIN — A few hundred fighters, a violent ideology and alleged funding from Iran — this lethal mix has turned Islamic Jihad into one of the biggest threats to the fragile Mideast truce. Unlike its big brother Hamas, which is eyeing the Palestinian mainstream by seeking political office, Islamic Jihad …

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Chocolate and death for Baghdad children

BAGHDAD (AFP) — The bodies of Mohammad Radhi and Alaa Mohammad, hands still clutching the chocolate bars given to them by US soldiers, lay on the floor of a Baghdad morgue, their lives snuffed out by a suicide bomber. “They killed all the children of the neighbourhood,” wept Radhi Hamud, …

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