Tag: sectarian
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Palestine Celebrates 60 Years of Exiled Abuse
from afp: Hundreds of Palestinian refugees headed to Lebanon’s southern border with Israel on Wednesday marking 60 years since the creation of the Jewish state and exile from what was once Palestine. “We want to return to our country. We desperately miss our country’s soil,” said Mahmud Mahmud, aged in his 70s, who was wearing…
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brutal US & Sunni alliance ‘ugly, but effective’
from raw story: CNN on Thursday showed graphic footage of a pro-US Sunni militiaman beating and threatening to kill a suspected al-Qaeda member and of another al-Qaeda member being executed by a militia group. “In Anbar Province,” President Bush recently boasted, “Sunni tribes that were once fighting alongside al-Qaeda against our coalition are now fighting…