Author: DXO
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Rebels Kill Egyptian Diplomat, Adding Pressure on Others in Iraq
By JOHN F. BURNSPublished: July 8, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 7 – The insurgent group Al Qaeda in Iraq said Thursday that it had killed Egypt’s ambassador-designate in Iraq, Ihab al-Sharif, four days after gunmen seized him on a street in a diplomatic quarter in western Baghdad, where he had driven alone to buy a…
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Iraq Asks Muslim Nations Not to Be Deterred by Envoy’s Death
By JOHN F. BURNSPublished: July 8, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 8 – Iraq’s transitional government anxiously reached out to Arab and other Muslim countries today, urging them not to be intimidated by the killing of Egypt’s top diplomat in Iraq by an Islamic militant group linked to Al Qaeda. The appeal, in a Foreign Ministry…
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Get Your Knives Sharpened for the Holidays
Get Your Knives Sharpened for the Holidays, originally uploaded by juggernautco. As the summer family barbeque season is upon us, a friendly business near my house reminds us to get our knives sharpened.
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Rebels Kill Egyptian Diplomat, Adding Pressure on Others in Iraq
By JOHN F. BURNS Published: July 8, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 7 – The insurgent group Al Qaeda in Iraq said Thursday that it had killed Egypt’s ambassador-designate in Iraq, Ihab al-Sharif, four days after gunmen seized him on a street in a diplomatic quarter in western Baghdad, where he had driven alone to buy…
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Buzzsaw
Funny how the sweep of decades can pulse through a ruined life, and be punctuated so poetically at the end. L. Patrick Gray III, Who Led the F.B.I. During Watergate, died yesterday. Just one month after the exposure of Deep Throat. Just a short time after he broke his years of quiet margin-writing. He was…