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"Most people in the United States haven't given a moment's thought to the war in Afghanistan in a very long time. That war is over, we are told, and we won," writes William Rivers Pitt. "The Taliban was routed, and al Qaeda lost a safe haven. The war in Afghanistan, as it turns out, is far from over."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/090806J.shtml



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By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth

The measure of a human rights organisation is to be found not just in the strides it takes to seek justice for the oppressed and victimised but also in the compromises it makes to keep itself out of trouble. Because of the business that human rights defenders are in, they must be held to a standard higher than we demand of others.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article14882.htm

Knesset members suggested using some of the $1.75 billion that Israel receives annually from the United States. But defense officials said that for the next few years, most of this aid is already committed to buying Apache helicopters, F-16 planes, air force ammunition and fuel.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/759710.html


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Tony Blair was booed and faced chants of "out, out, out" by pupils at the school at which he made a statement about his future.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/5324608.stm


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