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An Australian teenage runaway, dubbed the Ginger Jihadist by the media, has been featured in a second Islamic State propaganda video.

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The militants who have overrun large parts of Iraq are now battling ferociously to capture one of the country's vital resources, water.

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Two people were killed and eight others were wounded in a rocket attack on Baghdad's Green Zone, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua Tuesday.

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Suicide bombers struck near three hotels popular with Western journalists and businessmen yesterday just as Iraq announced the execution of Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin known as "Chemical Ali." At least 37 people were killed and more than 104 injured, security officials said.

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BAGHDAD (AP) – A car bomb exploded outside a popular restaurant in central Baghdad yesterday night, killing three people and wounding 16 as diners were out enjoying the start to their weekend, police and hospital officials said.

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BAGHDAD (AP) – Iraqi officials tightened security around churches in Baghdad and in two mostly Christian towns yesterday and braced for possible violence this weekend when huge crowds visit a holy Shiite shrine in the capital.

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But why is a suicide bomber so terrifying that even an unverified rumor could provoke such blind panic that people who do not know how to swim would actually jump off the bridge they were on and down into the swirling Tigris River to drown?
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Mrs. Arroyo also expressed her condolences to the families of "our Muslim brothers" who died in a stampede on top of a bridge in Baghdad, Iraq the other day.
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Two people were killed and eight others were wounded in a rocket attack on Baghdad's Green Zone, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua Tuesday.

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Suicide bombers struck near three hotels popular with Western journalists and businessmen yesterday just as Iraq announced the execution of Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin known as "Chemical Ali." At least 37 people were killed and more than 104 injured, security officials said.

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BAGHDAD (AP) – A car bomb exploded outside a popular restaurant in central Baghdad yesterday night, killing three people and wounding 16 as diners were out enjoying the start to their weekend, police and hospital officials said.

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BAGHDAD (AP) – Iraqi officials tightened security around churches in Baghdad and in two mostly Christian towns yesterday and braced for possible violence this weekend when huge crowds visit a holy Shiite shrine in the capital.

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But why is a suicide bomber so terrifying that even an unverified rumor could provoke such blind panic that people who do not know how to swim would actually jump off the bridge they were on and down into the swirling Tigris River to drown?
[DatePublished] => 2005-09-05 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136063 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1382205 [AuthorName] => Jerry Tundag [SectionName] => Freeman Opinion [SectionUrl] => opinion [URL] => ) [7] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 294640 [Title] => GMA: RP mourns over Katrina’s victims [Summary] => President Arroyo expressed her profound sympathy on behalf of Filipinos yesterday to the American people following reports of massive death and destruction brought on by Hurricane Katrina in the southeastern United States.

Mrs. Arroyo also expressed her condolences to the families of "our Muslim brothers" who died in a stampede on top of a bridge in Baghdad, Iraq the other day.
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