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BAGHDAD, Iraq — Revenge’seeking Shiite militiamen seized six Sunnis as they left Friday prayers, drenched them with kerosene and burned them alive, and Iraqi soldiers did nothing to stop the attack, police and witnesses said.
The fiery slayings in the mainly Sunni neighborhood of Hurriyah were a dramatic escalation of [...]

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52 U.S. Military Deaths this month, 1,677 Iraqi Deaths
11/24/06 AP: Shiites burn Sunnis alive, torch buildings near Iraqi army post
Shiite militiamen grabbed six Sunnis as they left Friday worship services, doused them with kerosene and burned them alive near an Iraqi army post. The soldiers did not intervene, police Capt. Jamil Hussein said.
11/24/06 [...]

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WASHINGTON (CNN)
A former communications director for Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, will head Sen. Joe Lieberman’s press shop, the Connecticut senator announced Tuesday.
Marshall Wittmann, formerly a senior fellow at the Democratic Leadership Council, will become Lieberman’s new communications director. He held the same position with McCain before joining the DLC and previously held leadership posts with [...]

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WASHINGTON (CNN)
The incoming chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee says he will have a “cleanup agenda” ready when Democrats take power in January.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia said the agenda will include reviews of the Bush administration’s warrantless eavesdropping and the CIA’s secret prisons.
Rockefeller said he wants to correct what he called a “lack [...]

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Israel has dismissed an offer by Palestinian militant groups to stop firing rockets into Israel, if Israel ends attacks on Palestinians.
An Israeli government spokeswoman, Miri Eisen, said the militants had offered only a partial ceasefire.
She said the offer of an end to firing rockets from Gaza showed a lack of real commitment to peace. [...]

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 23
Seeking information about detention of terrorism suspects, abuse of detainees and government secrecy, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are reviving dozens of demands for classified documents that until now have been rebuffed or ignored by the Justice Department and other agencies.
“I expect real answers, or we-ll have testimony under oath until we [...]

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Incidents of civilian deaths in airstrikes and other military action by international forces in Afghanistan:
Oct. 26: Between 30 and 80 civilians are killed during NATO airstrikes in Panjwayi, a volatile district in southern Afghanistan, according to the Afghan government and villagers. NATO says its preliminary inquiry found 12 civilian deaths.
Oct. 18: Airstrikes by NATO helicopters [...]

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Commentators and columnists are agreed. Pierre Gemayel’s assassination must have been the handiwork of Syria because his Christian Phalangists have been long-time allies of Israel and because, as industry minister, he was one of the leading figures in the Lebanese government’s anti-Syria faction. President Bush thinks so too. Case, apparently, settled.
Unlike my colleagues, I do [...]

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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Iraq war was a boon for Israel’s security, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Wednesday, voicing fresh endorsement for a Bush administration sapped by the unpopularity at home of its Middle East policies.
The mid-term election losses of [...]

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