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Anderson Cooper 360: Blog Archive - Spending seven Septembers hijacking my religion back « - Blogs from CNN.com
A beautiful and heartfelt essay from a Muslim pacifist civil rights lawyer, who with his Islamic brothers and sisters wants to peacefully hijack his religion back from the extremists.

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In Zimbabwe Raid, Hundreds in Opposition Party Detained - New York Times
He said the people detained were wanted on suspicion of “assault, grievous bodily harm, and arson.” They had been taken by bus to a police station less than a mile from the opposition headquarters, he said.
No, that’s “wanted in order to commit assault, [...]

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This is Zimbabwe » Blog Archive » MDC headquarters invaded and injured people arrested A lot of people - hundreds - were taking refuge at the opposition party’s headquarters, or seeking medical attention. Imagine if we had to go to the Dep or Repub HQ to get help…

Technorati Tags: MDC, repression, Zimbabwe

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Daily Kos: State of the Nation
The United States got itself in to a strange situation with Musharraf, in which the structure of its aid to the Pakistan government essentially incented the government not to find Bin Laden because if they found him they had reason to fear that the US would end this flow of [...]

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Keith Olbermann makes it 13 times that the Bush administration used a suspiciously timed terror alert or arrest announcement to either negate unfavorable news, or neutralize positive news about political opponents.  Only thirteen times? But it’s linked at One Utah:
One Utah » Blog Archive » The Nexus of Politics and Terror (and Lying)

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