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Iraqi Lynchings Bring More Denunciations

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The Washington Post - Jan 16, 2007
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/15/AR2007011500401_pf...

Iraqi Hangings Bring More Denunciations

Head of Hussein's Half Brother Is Severed

By Joshua Partlow and Muhanned Saif Aldin
Washington Post Foreign Service

BAGHDAD, Jan. 15 -- By the time the corpses of Saddam Hussein's half
brother and another top official, hanged before dawn Monday, arrived in
the village of Auja for burial, the word had spread among the mourners:
The head of Hussein's brother had been severed from his body.

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Sleeping Through the Revolution: King on Evils of War

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Informed Comment - Jan 14, 2007
http://www.juancole.com/

"Sleeping through the Revolution":
Martin Luther King on the Evils of War

by Juan Cole

Here are some excerpts on war from Martin Luther King, Jr., "Remaining
Awake Through A Great Revolution. [Quotes from King are indented in single
quotes. Other comments are Cole's - NYTransfer]

'I want to say one other challenge that we face is simply that we must
find an alternative to war and bloodshed. Anyone who feels, and there
are still a lot of people who feel that way, that war can solve the
social problems facing mankind is sleeping through a great revolution. '