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  • Sectarian Violence Kills 11 in Iraq

    It was a violent day in Iraq Saturday with at least 11 people killed and 10 policemen kidnapped as hatred simmers between the ruling Shi'ite majority and the Sunni minority. Gunmen broke into the home of an anti-terrorism policeman in the Baghdad suburb of Rasheed, killing him, his wife, and two children. Another security officer was killed elsewhere in Rasheed. Police say gunmen killed ...

  • Anti-terror officer killed with family in Baghdad

    Five people, including an anti-terrorism police officer along with his wife and children, were shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the Iraqi capital Saturday, a government source said. The incident occurred at dawn when gunmen broke into the house of the officer in al-Rasheed suburb and shot him dead with his wife and two children, reported Xinhua citing a source in Iraq's interior ...

  • Paul Libya like Iraq

    The guarding of U.S. diplomatic outposts like the consulate Benghazi in Libya should be treated like Baghdad with more military force, Sen. Rand Paul said Sunday. Appearing on CNN's "State of the Union," the Kentucky Republican said his focus isn't on the Benghazi talking points, but on not guarding the outpost more heavily. That decision was a "tragic error," he ...

  • Iraq veering back to civil war as Shia rule with heavy hand

    Under Saddam Hussein, and his Sunni-minority regime, it was pure despotism, war and repressive violence that kept the country in one piece. But after the despot's fall, the three were supposed to come together in the new, "democratic" Iraq of America's ...

  • Three car bomb attacks leave 8 dead 50 wounded in southern Iraq

    BAGHDAD, April 29 (Xinhua) -- At least eight people were killed and 50 others injured when three car bomb attacks hit two cities in southern Iraq on Monday, an interior ministry source said. Two car bombs exploded in a market in Amarah, some 300 km southeast of Baghdad, killing six people and wounding 30 others, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. Another car bomb struck ...

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Remember the Titans

Remember the Titans uses the sports movie formula to tell the true story of forced integration in an Alexandria, Virginia, high school in 1971. The script by first-time writer Gregory Allen Howard pulls out all the cliches of both the sports movie and the race-related social drama, but somehow director Boaz Yakin (A Price Above Rubies) makes it work. It's an updated combination of < ... ...

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  • Saddam still haunts us with a photography collection that displays the fear of post-war Iraqis

    former dictator Saddam Hussein has resounded in the minds of many Iraqis since his fall."His shadow is still following Iraqi society everywhere," says Iraqi Kurdish photographer Jamal Penjweny whose series "Saddam is Here" attempts to capture this thought."Saddam was dead but I felt as if he was still alive in the way people talked, lied, loved, dreamed and did ...

  • Arab Parliament condemns surge in terrorist attacks in Iraq.

    WAM CAIRO: The Arab Parliament on Saturday condemned the recent sharp rise in terror blasts in Iraq and emphasised that these attacks are unjustifiable and not acceptable in any heavenly religion as they seek to kill peaceful innocent people. The Speaker of the Arab Parliament, Ahmed Al Jarwan, in a press release, termed the bombings as "vicious, coward and sordid." On Friday, one ...

  • Iraq death toll stirs fears of civil war

    The death toll in Iraq from four consecutive days of violence has reached at least 140 people, stirring fears that rising sectarian conflicts could lead the country into civil war. Many Iraqis were in mourning on Sunday amid simmering tensions between the Sunni minority and Shia majority despite increased security patrols. In Baghdad, the presence of SWAT teams, army, police officers and ...

  • Iraq needs deep change to avoid sectarian war says paper

    WAM ABU DHABI: What Iraq needs desperately is a system of more decentralised governance, where Baghdad is not calling all the shots - and targeting political opponents. There is reason to believe that a system drawing on the principles of federalism, with stronger regional administrations, is one way that Sunnis, Shias and Kurds could find common cause, according to a local newspaper. ...

  • Trib reporter’s Iraq stories win top Pa. press award

    Tribune-Review investigative reporter Carl Prine received a Best of Show award on Friday from the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors for "Rules of engagement," his investigation into the deaths of two deaf, unarmed teenage brothers by American soldiers in ...

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