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	<title>5-Pillar Column &#187; Iraq</title>
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		<title>5-Pillar Column &#187; Iraq</title>
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		<title>Report Finds Iraq Water Treatment Project to Be Late, Faulty and Over Budget</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/27/report-finds-iraq-water-treatment-project-to-be-late-faulty-and-over-budget/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:23:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A huge American-financed wastewater treatment plant in the desert city of Falluja, which United States troops assaulted twice to root out insurgents in 2004, was supposed to be the centerpiece of an effort to rebuild Iraq, a country smashed by war and neglect, and bring Western standards of sanitation.  &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
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		<title>Muqtada al-Sadr urges rejection of US-Iraqi pact</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/19/muqtada-al-sadr-urges-rejection-of-us-iraqi-pact/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:15:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Waving Iraqi flags and green Shiite banners, protesters chanted slogans condemning the pact. The demonstration in the mostly Shiite eastern part of Baghdad was staged under tight security, with soldiers and police manning checkpoints along the route.
&#8220;I am with every Sunni, Shiite or Christian who is opposed to the agreement &#8230; and I reject, condemn [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8801&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The new face of Islamophobia</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/the-new-face-of-islamophobia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[geo-politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dehuminisation of Islam will not change the above realities. 
Overcoming ignorance is the only way to change the situation. Look at the realities of the world we are living in…. look at who is holding the guns, dropping the bombs…. with your money….Only you can put an end to  this. &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
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		<title>10 Killed in Turkey &#8211; Kurd Clashes</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/10-killed-in-turkey-kurd-clashes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The PKK has been fighting for Kurdish autonomy in southeastern Turkey since 1984.  The violence has killed at least 37,000 people.  The PKK is considered a terrorist group by Turkey, the United States and the European Union. &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
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		<title>Damascus says Lebanon, Syria face same militant threat</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/damascus-says-lebanon-syria-face-same-militant-threat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 20:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Fawzi Salloukh]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem told Lebanon&#8217;s as-Safir newspaper that the uncovering of &#8220;terrorist cells&#8221; in both countries had shown that &#8220;the source of danger to both countries is one.&#8221;  &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
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		<title>Iraqis are being attacked and killed for returning to their homes</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/iraqis-are-being-attacked-and-killed-for-returning-to-their-homes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We&#8217;re hearing about some pretty direct threats — people getting phone calls or finding notes on their doors telling them they&#8217;ll be harmed if they don&#8217;t leave again. . . . But we&#8217;re just getting individual anecdotes. It&#8217;s still hard to say how widespread it is.&#8221;
Brookings hasn&#8217;t noticed that either sect — Sunni or Shiite [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8627&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>Young U.S. Muslims Shift to Democrats This Election</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/young-us-muslims-shift-to-democrats-this-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pew study shows that older Muslim Americans support the military fight against terrorism, especially in Afghanistan, more often than younger Muslim Americans. Duke professor Jen&#8217;nan Ghazel Read says this divide is normal. Her research shows that the majority of Muslim Americans, who were born in the Middle East or Southeast Asia, still have a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8603&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>Iran &#8216;bribing Iraqi politicians&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We get reports of people coming in to pay off people to vote against it. Whether it&#8217;s true or not I have no specific proof, but there are many intelligence reports that say that activity is going on.&#8221;  &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
Which means that this is rumor.  We have more than rumor saying that AIPAC has done far [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8572&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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