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Iraq Qaeda leader rebuffs move to end dispute with Syria group: SITE
ReutersRIYADH (Reuters) - An audio recording attributed to the head of al Qaeda in Iraq suggests he has rebuffed efforts by the group's global leader Ayman al-Zawahri to end a dispute with the movement's Syrian wing, the SITE Monitoring group reported on...Tags: Nouri Maliki, Religion and Belief, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Iraq, Global Expansion
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Zawahri steps into row between Syrian and Iraqi al Qaeda wings
Reuters* Dispute sparked by claims of merger by Iraqi branch * Nusra Front at forefront of anti-Assad insurgency By Sami Aboudi DUBAI, June 10 (Reuters) - Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri has intervened in a dispute between the Iraqi and Syrian branches of...Tags: Nouri Maliki, Religion and Belief, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Iraq, Wars and Interventions
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Jeff Semler: Wheat, a valuable commodity
jsemler@umd.eduBy the time you read this, wheat harvest in the Cumberland Valley will be nearly finished. Washington County, for its efforts, will harvest about 350,000 bushels, ranking it 12th in the state. If you have ever doubted the significance of wheat and...Tags: Breads
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Jonah Goldberg: Taken in by 'Gay Girl'
I'd barely followed "A Gay Girl In Damascus" until last week, when Daily Beast columnist Peter Beinart posted something to Twitter: "This is really important — this woman is a hero," with a link to a story about Amina Abdallah Arraf, a Syrian...Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Heroism, Islam, Israel, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Astronaut pens view of God's creation from space
St. Louis Post-DispatchThe ancient people of the Levant — present day Syria, Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories — believed their gods lived on a massive mountain in the north. The Canaanites called it Mt. Zaphon, and to them it represented the heavens....Tags: Book, Science and Technology, Religious Texts, Science, Bible
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Tags: Israel, National or Ethnic Minorities, Minority Groups
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A foreclosure auction for the super-rich
The bargain hunters jockey gingerly for a spot to park their luxury sedans and SUVs along Brewster Drive, a winding road in the hills of Tarzana.
It's a woodsy neighborhood of large homes behind wrought-iron gates, and more than two dozen shoppers are...Tags: Personal Service, Homes, California, Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning, Foreclosures
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Tags: Gaza Crisis (2008), Ehud Barak, Israel, Gaza Strip
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'Snow Dogs'
Special to The TimesRemember those live-action Disney features in which Dean Jones or, reaching back earlier, Fred MacMurray would play a hapless grown-up at odds with kids, animals and/or enchanted cars? Good, bad or indifferent, those movies were, for children of a certain...Tags: Entertainment, Death, Cuba Gooding, Jr., The Walt Disney Co., Sisqo
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Jun 14, 2011
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Jul 6, 2010
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Dec 24, 2010
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Jan 2, 2010
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Jul 18, 2010
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Jan 18, 2002
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