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PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Bombs destroyed an Internet cafe, wrecked a bus carrying handicapped children and spread panic through Pakistan's main northwestern city on Saturday, killing at least 11 people in a day of carnage across the militancy-plagued region.
An apparent U.S. missile strike annihilated a Taliban raiding party mustering to cross into Afghanistan, officials said, while Pakistani troops claimed another 47 kills in their bid to retake the Swat Valley.
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Two more young Mainers died in combat operations in Afghanistan earlier this month. According to the BDN, Hamid Karzai, that beleaguered nation's president, threatened to join the Taliban unless the U.S. stopped "interfering" in his country. We have spent more than $1 trillion on these wars in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past 10 years. Most of these funds have been borrowed from overseas creditors, including the Chinese.
Thousands of innocent civilians have died in both countries and hundreds of thousands more, perhaps millions, have been forced to flee their homes during the fighting. At home, we are losing our small schools, our roads are crumbling, Maine children are living in poverty, our medical centers are cutting services, and aid for the poor, the unemployed and the mentally h...
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..., Georgia, Guatemala, Honduras, Afghanistan, Haiti, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel & Palestine... vulnerable groups, such as women, children, and migrants. (49) Although it is positive that t... the European Convention; a mentally handicapped girl was raped but unable to institute criminal pr...
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America's unsurpassed volunteer soldiers are old and wise enough to choose risking that last full measure of devotion on behalf of the nation in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia, or elsewhere. Yet some in Congress would treat them as children when it comes to seeking veterans' benefits for injuries inflicted in combat. They are coiled to repeal an option embraced by the 109th Congress for veterans to retain a lawyer to present often medically complicated claims to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Contrary to the assertions of detractors, no veteran would be required to hire an attorney, and no veteran without an attorney would be compromised or handicapped in presenting a claim.
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* What have Republicans ever done to make you people believe that they have family values? The only thing we hear is about once a month for the last 20 years, there's a new report of another one of them cheating on their wives.
* Here we are in the middle of May and it's 48 degrees. Where is all of the global warming that Al Gore promised?
... for Democrats is simply sentencing your children and grandchildren to live a life of poverty. * For...* I despise handicapped sticker users that park in handicapped spots and t...* If they would bring the Afghanistan and Iraq soldiers home that would start cutting do...
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... they indicated that a school for handicapped children was near the crime scene and that they ho... During a military action in Afghanistan, a United States citizen, Yaser Hamdi, was taken ...
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..., does not bring a future for their children, for their institutions, for their lives that they...And to what extent are we handicapped in our anti-narcotics effort by not working with t...
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... calories, and bury one-third as many children. . Perhaps most strikingly, absolute poverty world... has dropped in only six countries (Afghanistan, Haiti, Congo, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Somalia).... Where the historically handicapped see only problems, the author exposes our accompli...
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Malcolm Garcia shares the situation of the people and politics in Afghanistan on the eve of the country's historic presidential election. Corruption is rampant in Afghanistan and bombing is part of the people's daily life. People are afraid to go out and vote and they will be threatened if they will take part.
... in south Kabul serves fifty to sixty children who have lost parents to war since the US -led inv..."Be strong. You don't see me handicapped. You are handicapped only if you give up. Keep in ...
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... global threats like instability in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, as well as Iran's nuclear ambiti... process quicker for the safety of the children. . And I think we all are interested in that -- t... production, export levels, severely handicapped by factors within and outside the government's con...