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Suicide Attack at Pakistan Arms Plant Kills 60 People

by: Jane Perlez, The New York Times

Police guard Pakistan bomb site.
Police guard the site of Thursday's bombing in Wah, Pakistan. (Photo: Faisal Mahmood / Reuters)

    Islamabad, Pakistan - More than 60 people were killed Thursday when two suicide bombers attacked Pakistan's largest weapons manufacturing complex just north of the capital, the deadliest attack by the Taliban in their escalating campaign against the government.     The attack came just days after the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf, leaving two rival political parties in the governing coalition haggling over the question of succession and adding a new layer of turbulence to an unstable, nuclear-armed nation. »

Robert Wexler gestures at DNC meeting.

This Is Not the Change We Hoped For: House Concurrent Resolution 362

by: Camillo "Mac" Bica, t r u t h o u t | Perspective

    Though America voted for change in 2006, the subsequent two years have demonstrated that the Democrats in Congress, while avowing a "new direction for America," are as willing and as skilled as their Republican/neocon counterparts at utilizing half-truths, innuendo, deceit and scare tactics to mislead the American public along the path to another devastating and unnecessary war. Consider, as a case in point, H. Con. Res. »

Iraqi man talks to soldier.

In Closing Deal, US and Iraq Dispute Pullout Timeline

by: Mark Tran and agencies, The Guardian UK

    The US and Iraq have agreed on the need for timetables for a withdrawal of American troops, Condoleezza Rice said today although the two have yet to finalise a deal that has been the subject of protracted negotiations.

    The US secretary of state, who was making an unannounced trip to Baghdad, told a press conference that she had held fruitful talks with the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, and that a final agreement was near that would "solidify the significant gains" in security in Iraq over the last year.

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