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BBC

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Study Says 80% of New Orleans Blacks May Not Return

7,000 births in quake areas every month

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Israel Could Benefit From Hamas Victory
by Ira Chernus

Gaza mania

by Laila el-Haddad

A triumph for Sharon

Hamas's victory is the inevitable result of the failure to do anything about the oppression which Palestinians suffer

by Gerald Kaufman

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What is Hamas? How did they develop? What are their stated goals?

Mazin Qumsiyeh has a perspective on the elections here...

Israeli Analysts: We Can Deal With Hamas

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Documents Show Army Seized Wives as Tactic

Iraq's deputy justice minister, Busho Ibrahim Ali, dismissed such claims, saying hostage-holding was a tactic used under the ousted Saddam Hussein dictatorship, and "we are not Saddam." A U.S. command spokesman in Baghdad, Lt. Col. Barry Johnson, said only Iraqis who pose an "imperative threat" are held in long-term U.S.-run detention facilities.
But documents describing two 2004 episodes tell a different story as far as short-term detentions by local U.S. units. The documents are among hundreds the Pentagon has released periodically under U.S. court order to meet an American Civil Liberties Union request for information on detention practices.

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