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		<title>PAKISTAN HAS GROUNDS FOR WAR CRIMES CHARGES AGAINST US</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/17/pakistan-has-grounds-for-war-crimes-charges-against-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All the necessary plans have been made to cause a violent eruption in the Western Provinces, the proposed building site for the American oil and gas pipelines that will save the world. Thanks to the new US/India nuclear deal, Bush now has available 150,000 Indian troops to clear-out Pakistani opposition.
The only remaining obstacle is the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8796&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt: Sunni scholars sanction &#8216;electronic Jihad&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/egypt-sunni-scholars-sanction-electronic-jihad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attacking American and Israeli websites by hacking and sabotage is allowed under Islamic law and is a form of &#8216;Jihad&#8217; or holy war, top Muslim scholars have decreed.
The religious edict (fatwa) issued by a committee from the highest authority in Sunni Islam, Egypt&#8217;s Al-Azhar University in Cairo, was published on the website of the Islamist [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8746&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pak warns US against border violations</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/14/pak-warns-us-against-border-violations/</link>
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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>Hope for better Muslim-US ties</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/13/hope-for-better-muslim-us-ties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Abdullah said he believed that to effectively narrow the divide between the Muslim world and the United States or the West, both sides must work hard to nourish the strengths that united them.  “We need to focus on the many principles that we share, and the numerous interests that are common,” he said.  &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
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		<title>Under Bush, US Influence in Latin America is Receding Before High Tide</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/12/under-bush-us-influence-in-latin-america-is-receding-before-high-tid/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:38:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The United States has also long served as chief educator to Latin America&#8217;s elite. Correa is among its presidents with a U.S. graduate degree &#8211; though that didn&#8217;t stop him from accusing the CIA of infiltrating his military, or refusing to renew a lease for U.S. counterdrug missions to fly out of Ecuador.
With the U.S. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8536&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Iraq: US dropped nuclear bomb near Basra in 1991, claims veteran</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/iraq-us-dropped-nuclear-bomb-near-basra-in-1991-claims-veteran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An American veteran of the first Gulf War in Iraq claims that the United States dropped a five-kilotonne nuclear bomb in 1991 in a deserted area outside the southern city of Basra on the Iranian border.
The claim by US war veteran Jim Brown was made during an interview included in a 30-minute current affairs report [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8385&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cambodia&#8217;s Muslims as geopolitical pawns</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/cambodias-muslims-as-geopolitical-pawns/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[PHNOM PENH &#8211; Competition for influence in Cambodia, recently seen as a  																	two-country race between the United States and China, has now seen another  																	deep-pocketed suitor emerge: petrodollar-rich Gulf states.
While Washington has required counter-terrorism cooperation for its assistance,  																	and Beijing has sought greater access to markets, Middle Eastern countries seem  																	keen [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8300&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US group granted rare approval to set up office in Iran</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/04/us-group-granted-rare-approval-to-set-up-office-in-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States has granted rare approval to a US-based group to establish an office in Iran, the State Department said Thursday, stressing however that US policy towards the Islamic republic has not changed.
The American Iranian Council (AIC), a research and policy think tank devoted to improving ties between the two arch [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=8121&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bahrain appoints Jewish woman as US Ambassador</title>
		<link>http://5pillar.wordpress.com/2008/10/02/bahrain-appoints-jewish-woman-as-us-ambassador/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ambassador Huda Nunu, is a member of a small Arab Jewish community that numbers only 37 people. What makes this appointment even more remarkable is that the appointment was made by a conservative Muslim Arab state in the most conservative Muslims region of the world.  &#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;&#62;
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		<title>The Pentagon&#8217;s new Africa command raises suspicions about U.S. motives</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:50:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fledgling command&#8217;s image problem, at home and abroad, is cause for concern because of Africa&#8217;s growing importance to the United States.
The Department of Energy says that 17 percent of U.S. crude oil imports now come from Africa, more than the U.S. gets from Persian Gulf countries. But rising powers such as China have strengthened [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=5pillar.wordpress.com&blog=4013818&post=7817&subd=5pillar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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