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		<title>Australia&#8217;s Jihad Jack cleared</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/australias-jihad-jack-cleared/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr Thomas was retried after the Australian Court of Appeal quashed the 2006 conviction on the grounds that his initial testimony was inadmissible because he had been coerced by the police under interrogation.  Mr Thomas was the first individual to be prosecuted under the country&#8217;s 2006 anti-terrorism laws. &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
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		<title>Jihadists or dupes? Fort Dix terror trial opens</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Their clients, they said, were young men who had been manipulated by paid government informants into a conspiracy they had no intention of carrying out. &#8220;He talked the talk, but was never going to walk the walk,&#8221; Rocco Cipparone Jr. said of his client, lead defendant Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer.
Cipparone and the other defense attorneys challenged [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8861&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq War Appears Over in Most Provinces, Pentagon Data Show</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a result of the troop surge throughout 2007 and the “awakening” in the Anbar Province, al Qaeda operatives apparently have been ejected from former strongholds in the Baghdad Province and the Anbar Province. Military campaigns directed against al Qaeda are now focused in the northern-most regions of Iraq.  &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
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		<title>Spanish police arrest 12 Islamist suspects</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:39:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The raids targeted networks suspected of hiding and aiding the escape of al Qaeda members, a police statement said, including some linked to the 2004 Madrid train bombings which killed 191 people and wounded more than 1,800.  &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
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		<title>Defections hit Afghan forces</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After fighting the Taliban for the past seven years, many working for the Afghan security forces are now switching sides&#8230;
&#8220;Our soil is occupied by Americans and I want them to leave this country. That is my only goal,&#8221; he added.  &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
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		<title>Bush White House &#8216;endorsed torture&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bush Administration explicitly endorsed torture techniques used by the CIA on al-Qaeda suspects, according to secret memos obtained by The Washington Post.  The Post has identified two documents sent by the White House to then CIA Director George Tenet in 2003 and 2004, endorsing controversial interrogation techniques such as ‘waterboarding’. &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
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		<title>Pak warns US against border violations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pakistani Government sources were quoted by the Dawn News channel on Monday as saying that Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari had told British officials on the same day that violations of Pakistan&#8217;s frontiers would not be tolerated...
Islamabad says the strikes are an infringement of its sovereignty and are counterproductive in the battle against militants.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8633&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exodus of Christians as killers step up religious cleansing in Iraq</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/exodus-of-christians-as-killers-step-up-religious-cleansing-in-iraq/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nouri al-Maliki, the Prime Minister, has ordered the formation of a committee to investigate the problem. Yesterday the UN expressed concern at the recent violence against Mosul’s Christian community.
Some Christians blame al-Qaeda for the attacks while others speculate that Kurdish elements might be involved as part of a political ploy to coerce minority sects into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8611&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq says time for British troops to go: report</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
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LONDON (Reuters) &#8211;  Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was quoted on Monday as saying it was time for British combat forces to leave the south of the country because they were no longer needed to maintain security and control.
Maliki told The Times newspaper in an interview there might still be a need for their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8577&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Troop pull-out leaves government on brink</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 20:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US must now be wondering whether it was all worth it. Western backing for the unpopular Somali government and US support for the Ethiopian intervention has created a groundswell of anti-West sentiment in Somalia.
The Islamist leaders they were so keen to oust are the same ones they are now engaged in negotiations with. US [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8549&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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