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Iraq says October 25 bombers came from Syria: spokesman (AFP)

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq on Sunday for the first time said that the bombers who killed more than 150 people in Baghdad on October 25 came from neighbouring Syria, but steered well clear of accusing Damascus of collusion.

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Alleged Iraq bombers offer confessions

CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA November 23, 2009 - 5:39AM AP Three jailed suspects in October 25 bombings that killed more than 150 people in Iraq say they filmed the targeted buildings before the attack and escorted the car bombs in a...

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Don't Confuse the Huthis with the Zaidis

A Saudi journalist and expert on Islamic movements and Islamic fundamentalism as well as Saudi affairs. The internal divisions in the [Shiite] Zaidi sect have escalated to the point that the Huthis have completely taken over...

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Lebanese students advise Obama how to get it right

Lebanese students advise President Obama how to get it right by Franklin Lamb, Beirut Students at the University of Beirut If those in Lebanon watching the news on 11/12/09 blinked they might have missed an interesting news...

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Lebanese Students Advise Obama How to Get it Right

By Franklin Lamb- Beirut If those in Lebanon watching the news on 11/12/09 blinked they might have missed an interesting news item. It appeared at approximately 4:20 pm on Narharnet.com, the pro-US/Saudi news website. The news...

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Saudi Education Minister suffered from swine flu

Education Minister Prince Faisal bin Abdullah has revealed he had caught swine flu. "I did not know that I had contracted H1N1 virus except after conducting medical tests," the minister said in reports published on Wednesday....

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Biden, Barzani stress need for new Iraqi election law

US Vice President Joe Biden and President Massoud Barzani of Iraqi Kurdistan have pressed the need for a key election law to be passed in Baghdad, Kurdish authorities said on Monday. “Barzani and Biden highlighted the issue of...

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Saudi authorities unearth terrorist arms cache

The Interior Ministry has seized 281 Kalashnikov rifles, 55 boxes of ammunition and 250 magazines from a rest house located in the outskirts of Riyadh. Investigators interrogating a cell of 44 Al-Qaeda-linked militants...

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AlQaeda arms cache discovered in Riyadh

Saudi authorities have discovered a large arms cache in Riyadh linked to 44 militants whose arrest was announced in August, state television said on Sunday. It did not say when the cache was discovered, but the report is a...

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Saudi Arabia: H1N1 vaccines to be tested before administration

Saudi Arabia has set up a panel to test swine flu vaccines before they are made available to men, women and children. Ministry of Health (MoH) spokesman Dr. Khalid Al-Mirghalani confirmed Thursday the panel includes influenza...

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