Author: DXO
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Zarqawi Group Says It Killed Egyptian Envoy
By JOHN F. BURNSPublished: July 7, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 7 – The insurgent group Al Qaeda in Iraq said today that it had killed the top diplomat in Egypt’s embassy in Iraq, Ihab el-Sherif, five days after gunmen seized him on a Baghdad street where he had gone unguarded to buy a newspaper. The…
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Thank You, Judith Miller
Judith Miller went to jail today. “If journalists cannot be trusted to guarantee confidentiality, then journalists cannot function and there cannot be a free press,” she read from a statement as she stood before Judge Hogan. “The right of civil disobedience is based on personal conscience, it is fundamental to our system and it is…
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City Ice Cream
I live in the middle of Chicago. I have always been a city person. I was born in the Northview Heights housing project in Pittsburgh and it is a point of pride to me that I have never lived in a suburb. I like this picture because it was taken in the street and it…
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A Town That Bled Under Hussein Hails His Trial – New York Times
By JOHN F. BURNSPublished: July 3, 2005 DUJAIL, Iraq – The scars of what happened after an assassination attempt on Saddam Hussein, on July 8, 1982, are painfully evident in this mainly Shiite town 35 miles north of Baghdad. People lower their voices when they speak of fathers, brothers and sons who went to the…
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Suicide Car Bomb Kills 6 at Home of Iraqi Officer – New York Times
By JOHN F. BURNS Published: June 26, 2005 BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 25 — A suicide car bomber killed at least six people on Saturday when he slammed his vehicle into the wall outside an Iraqi police officer’s home in Samarra, an insurgent stronghold 60 miles north of Baghdad. The local police said the officer singled…