Input: Despite the heavy bombing, which the U.S. Central Command said targeted military command and control installations, the Iraqi regime gave no sign of quitting

Despite the heavy bombing, which the U.S. Central Command said targeted military command and control installations, the Iraqi regime gave no sign of quitting

U.S

military command and control installations


Input: Bombers have also hit targets in the northern cities of Mosul, Kirkuk and Tikrit, Saddam's hometown

Bombers have also hit targets in the northern cities of Mosul, Kirkuk and Tikrit, Saddam's hometown

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targets in the northern cities of Mosul, Kirkuk and Tikrit, Saddam's hometown

the northern cities of Mosul, Kirkuk and Tikrit, Saddam's hometown


Input: Edging closer to engagement with Iraq's hard-core defenders, U.S. and British forces besieged the southern city of Basra on Saturday and pounded Baghdad with impunity in the first daylight air raids of the war

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Iraq's hard-core defenders

Iraq's hard-core defenders

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U.S. and British forces


Input: Edging closer to engagement with Iraq's hard-core defenders, U.S. and British forces besieged the southern city of Basra on Saturday and pounded Baghdad with impunity in the first daylight air raids of the war

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Input: Edging closer to engagement with Iraq's hard-core defenders, U.S. and British forces besieged the southern city of Basra on Saturday and pounded Baghdad with impunity in the first daylight air raids of the war

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U.S. and British forces


Input: Edging closer to engagement with Iraq's hard-core defenders, U.S. and British forces besieged the southern city of Basra on Saturday and pounded Baghdad with impunity in the first daylight air raids of the war

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Iraq's hard-core defenders

Iraq's hard-core defenders

U.S. and British forces

U.S. and British forces


Input: Diplomatic complications with Turkey closed off the option of a heavy invasion from the north

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Input: Allies boasted ``the instruments of tyranny are collapsing,'' and so, from all appearances, was the will to fight among thousands in the regular Iraqi army

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thousands in the regular Iraqi army


Input: On the approaches of Basra, a city of 1.3 million where Saddam Hussein's tough security forces were thought to be lodged, allies captured the airport in a gunbattle and took a bridge

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allies

the airport


Input: Even so, crowds were smaller than before the conflict started

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Input: Near Basra, Cobra attack helicopters, attack jets, tanks and 155 mm howitzers fought ahead of the troops to clear Highway 80

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155 mm howitzers

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Input: The attack continues as we speak, and has already moved the distance of the longest maneuver in the 1991 Gulf War in a quarter of the time,'' U.S. Brig. Gen. Vince Brooks said

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Input: The road was nicknamed Highway of Death during the 1991 Gulf War because of an American air assault so devastating and graphic that it even gave U.S. officials pause

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Input: The attack continues as we speak, and has already moved the distance of the longest maneuver in the 1991 Gulf War in a quarter of the time,'' U.S. Brig. Gen. Vince Brooks said

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Input: U.S. officials had no new, credible intelligence showing whether he had survived assaults on his compounds, or whether he might have been wounded, as has been speculated

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Input: But a U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said another senior Iraqi leader was known to be alive and might be running some of Iraq's defenses: Saddam's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid al-Tikriti

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Input: He is known to his enemies as ``Chemical Ali'' for leading deadly 1988 attacks against rebellious Kurds that included chemical weapons

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rebellious Kurds

chemical weapons


Input: Any thought the allies would limit air attacks to the cover of darkness vanished in the smoky sunlight Saturday

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the allies


Input: Any thought the allies would limit air attacks to the cover of darkness vanished in the smoky sunlight Saturday

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Saturday


Input: A dozen huge columns of smoke rose along Baghdad's southern horizon in the afternoon and intermittent explosions were heard through the capital

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the capital


Input: Strong blasts rocked the capital

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the capital


Input: The United States wanted to be in position in northern Iraq not only for war purposes but to discourage a feared conflict between Turkish forces and Iraqi Kurds

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northern Iraq


Input: The United States wanted to be in position in northern Iraq not only for war purposes but to discourage a feared conflict between Turkish forces and Iraqi Kurds

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northern Iraq

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Turkish forces

Iraqi Kurds

Iraqi Kurds


Input: Three people died in that bombardment, Iraqi officials said Saturday

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Input: West of Baghdad, along the Euphrates River, another of Saddam's palaces was destroyed Saturday in a strike by warplanes from the USS Theodore Roosevelt, according to a commander aboard the carrier in the Mediterranean

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the Euphrates River

another of Saddam's palaces

Saturday

warplanes from the USS Theodore Roosevelt


Input: And in the far north, U.S. forces fired Tomahawk cruise missiles at suspected positions of Ansar al Islam guerrillas, accused of having ties to al-Qaida terrorists

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the far north

U.S. forces

Tomahawk cruise missiles

Ansar al Islam guerrillas, accused of having ties to al-Qaida terrorists


Input: Neighboring Iran protested hits on Iranian territory by at least three U.S. missiles

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at least three U.S. missiles

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Input: Saddam's security forces in Basra  _  Iraq's main seaport and second largest city  _  opened up with artillery and heavy machine guns

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Saddam's security forces in Basra  _  Iraq's main seaport and second largest city

Basra

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heavy machine guns


Input: Facing the prospect of urban warfare, allied commanders hoped to win the surrender of their enemy rather than have to overpower the city

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Input: Military commanders do not engage in urban areas unless they have to,'' said British military spokesman Lt. Col. Chris Vernon

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Input: The British took charge of the Basra fighting Saturday as U.S. Marines pressed north

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Basra

Saturday


Input: Troops fought for two days at the port of Umm Qasr, but officials couldn't confirm it was secured

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Input: And our mission is clear  _  to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein's support for terrorism and to free the Iraqi people

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Saddam Hussein


Input: After days of fierce fighting that shut down the city of Umm Qasr, Iraqi youths cheered and swarmed British troops as they handed out

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Input: Plans to bring supplies to Iraqi civilians had been on hold for days because of fighting across southern Iraq

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southern Iraq


Input: Before the war, Iraqis depended on government rations distributed under the U.N.'s oil-for-food program

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Input: The war has thrown the future of that program in doubt

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Input: Because the United States and Britain failed to get U.N. backing for the war, Russia, France, Germany and China want to ensure that the immediate humanitarian costs of the war are paid by the United States  _  and not the United Nations

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the United States

Britain


Input: Annan wants to revive the U.N. aid program as quickly as possible. A resolution giving him authority to run the program for 45 days is stalled because Russia, Syria and others are insisting the United Nations must not sanction the war or give the United States control over the U.N.-controlled account, which holds billions of dollars

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Input: Iraqi Trade Minister Mohammed Mehdi Saleh accused the United States and Britain of causing the hardships by launching the war and disrupting shipments of supplies under the oil-for-food program

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the United States

Britain


Input: Around dawn Thursday, strikes resumed, with a massive explosion just outside the Kurdish zone close to the village of Kalak

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dawn Thursday

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Input: This tightens the noose against Saddam's forces battling coalition forces to the south,'' Brig. Gen. James Parker, commander of U.S. forces in the north

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Saddam's forces battling coalition forces to the south

coalition forces

the south


Input: Three waves of combat planes from the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt hit ``ground troops, command and control bunkers, artillery positions and ... a surface to air missile battery,'' said Lt. John Oliveira, the ship's public affair officer

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combat planes from the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt

ground troops

command and control bunkers

a surface to air missile battery


Input: Warplanes pounded forward Iraqi positions in the hills overlooking Chamchamal, 35 kilometers (22 miles) east of the key oil city of Kirkuk

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Warplanes

the hills overlooking Chamchamal, 35 kilometers (22 miles) east of the key oil city of Kirkuk


Input: Later Thursday, Kurdish troops in Chamchamal advanced their positions between government-controlled and rebel-controlled areas, taking over a Iraqi check point on their front with no fighting at this point, witnesses said

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a Iraqi check point on their front


Input: The matter immediately sparked controversy in Italy, where there is a strong anti-war movement. The country's parliament voted this month to allow U.S.-led coalition forces to use Italian air space and military bases	_  but not for directs attacks on Iraq

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this month

U.S.-led coalition forces

Iraq


Input: Former Danish international Stig Toefting dropped his appeal of an assault conviction and will serve a four-month jail sentence, Denmark's TV2 reported Monday

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Former Danish international Stig Toefting


Input: Toefting was convicted in October 2002 of assaulting a pair of restaurant workers during a night out with national squad teammates in the capital, Copenhagen

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Input: In 1999 he was given a 20-day suspended sentence for assaulting a fan who berated him for playing with German club Duisburg

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a fan who berated him for playing with German club Duisburg


Input: U.S. soldiers moved to capture Baghdad's Saddam International Airport early Friday and fought running battles with Iraqi defenders along the city's southern fringes

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U.S. soldiers

Iraqi defenders along the city's southern fringes

Iraqi defenders along the city's southern fringes

the city's southern fringes


Input: There was fierce fighting in Kut, to the south of Baghdad, where desperate Iraqis armed with rifles charged tanks in a suicide raid

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desperate Iraqis armed with rifles

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tanks


Input: Despite declarations that more tough fighting lies ahead, the top U.S. military official indicated there may not be an all-out battle for Baghdad

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Input: Despite declarations that more tough fighting lies ahead, the top U.S. military official indicated there may not be an all-out battle for Baghdad

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Baghdad


Input: Two weeks into the war, American commanders reported a string of successes  _  on the battlefield and within an Iraqi population initially reluctant about embracing invading troops

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Input: Tracer rounds lit the night sky and artillery boomed near the airport a few kilometers (miles) from the heart of President Saddam Hussein's capital of 5 million people

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Input: At one stage, it appeared that U.S. forces had taken control of the airport, ``and then it got more confusing with continued fighting, Myers said Thursday night

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Input: Along the city's southern edge, U.S. tanks and Bradley vehicles destroyed at least seven Iraqi armored personnel carriers and more than 15 Iraqi tanks in fighting that went on for more than four hours

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the city's southern edge

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at least seven Iraqi armored personnel carriers

more than 15 Iraqi tanks

more than four hours


Input: U.S. defense officials also were investigating whether a Navy Hornet jet that crashed Wednesday was shot down by a U.S. Patriot missile

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Wednesday

a U.S. Patriot missile

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Input: Fight them with your hands. God will disgrace them,'' they said, referring to invading American and British troops

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invading American and British troops


Input: As conventional units fought their way to the outskirts of the capital, officials said special forces had raided the Tharthar presidential palace near Tikrit, Saddam's hometown

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Input: As conventional units fought their way to the outskirts of the capital, officials said special forces had raided the Tharthar presidential palace near Tikrit, Saddam's hometown

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special forces

the Tharthar presidential palace near Tikrit, Saddam's hometown

the Tharthar presidential palace near Tikrit, Saddam's hometown


Input: In the country's southern region, British forces penetrated closer to the center of Basra, and warplanes dropped 500-pound (225-kilogram) and 1,000-pound (450-kilogram) laser-guided bombs on an Iraqi intelligence complex

dropped

the country's southern region

warplanes

500-pound (225-kilogram) and 1,000-pound (450-kilogram) laser-guided bombs

an Iraqi intelligence complex


Input: American officials cited continuing examples of Iraqis cooperating with invading troops

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invading troops


Input: American and British helicopters and planes bombed positions in Kut, and Marines and Iraqis lobbed grenades at close quarters

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Kut


Input: American and British helicopters and planes bombed positions in Kut, and Marines and Iraqis lobbed grenades at close quarters

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Iraqis

grenades


Input: Two U.S. Marines died in the fighting  _  and a medic who tried to save one of them sorrowfully buried his resuscitation equipment on the spot

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Input: At the same time they worried about chemical weapons attacks, Brooks disclosed that a special operations force in the southwestern desert had found a number of bottles ``marked in strange ways

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chemical weapons


Input: For weeks, North Korea has claimed that the United States plans to attack it after Iraq

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North Korea

the United States


Input: More than 70 tanks and 60 Bradley armored vehicles were involved in the blitz, military sources said

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More than 70 tanks

60 Bradley armored vehicles


Input: American troops stormed a presidential palace and other key buildings in Baghdad as U.S. tanks rumbled into the heart of the battered Iraqi capital on Monday amid the thunder of gunfire and explosions

gunfire

Monday


Input: American troops stormed a presidential palace and other key buildings in Baghdad as U.S. tanks rumbled into the heart of the battered Iraqi capital on Monday amid the thunder of gunfire and explosions

explosions

Monday


Input: At the palace compound, Iraqis shot small arms fire from a clock tower, which the U.S. tanks quickly destroyed

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Input: At the palace compound, Iraqis shot small arms fire from a clock tower, which the U.S. tanks quickly destroyed

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a clock tower, which the U.S. tanks quickly destroyed

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Input: Most of the compound was severely damaged from prior U.S. raids

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Input: Monday's incursion by U.S. armor was the second, but appeared to be much heavier

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Monday

U.S. armor


Input: The first one was on Saturday and triggered intense gun battles, which according to some U.S. accounts, left at least 2,000 Iraqi fighters dead

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Saturday

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Input: We do control the highways in and out of the city and do have the capability to interdict, to stop, to attack any Iraqi military forces that might try to either escape or to engage our forces,'' said Pace

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Input: Intense fighting over the weekend took a growing toll on combatants and civilians

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the weekend


Input: Injured Russian diplomats and a convoy of America's Kurdish comrades in arms were among unintended victims caught in crossfire and friendly fire Sunday

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a convoy of America's Kurdish comrades in arms

America's Kurdish comrades in arms

Sunday


Input: Assorted prizes fell into allied hands, some after hard fighting, but U.S. forces had yet to confront Baghdad's last-ditch defenders on a large scale

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Input: Explosions were heard throughout the night Sunday, and shortly before dawn on Monday, shaking downtown buildings

Explosions

the night

Sunday


Input: In northern Iraq, U.S. warplanes struck a convoy of allied Kurdish fighters and U.S. special forces Sunday in one of the deadliest friendly fire attacks of the war

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Input: In northern Iraq, U.S. warplanes struck a convoy of allied Kurdish fighters and U.S. special forces Sunday in one of the deadliest friendly fire attacks of the war

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Input: In northern Iraq, U.S. warplanes struck a convoy of allied Kurdish fighters and U.S. special forces Sunday in one of the deadliest friendly fire attacks of the war

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Input: A convoy of Russian diplomats, including the ambassador, came under fire Sunday while evacuating Baghdad, the Russian foreign ministry said

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Input: German and French authorities suspect that the al-Qaida terror network was involved in the explosion, which tore apart sections of a historic synagogue

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the al-Qaida terror network

a historic synagogue


Input: Meanwhile, the U.S. military faced sharp criticism over assaults that killed three foreign journalists

assaults

the U.S. military

three foreign journalists


Input: It was not clear whether any Iraqi leader had been killed in the airstrike targeting Saddam in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood

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Saddam

an upscale Baghdad neighborhood


Input: U.S. Marines battled snipers as they fought deeper into the capital from the east

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the capital


Input: But the World Health Organization said Baghdad's hospitals were running out of supplies to treat the burns, shrapnel wounds and spinal injuries caused by the fighting

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Input: U.S. Central Command said it fired on the TV office and the hotel after U.S. forces came under ``significant'' fire from those buildings

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after U.S. forces came under ``significant'' fire from those buildings


Input: U.S. Central Command said it fired on the TV office and the hotel after U.S. forces came under ``significant'' fire from those buildings

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the hotel


Input: Al-Jazeera categorically denied that its Baghdad bureau had been used by Iraqi forces to fire on U.S. troops

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Input: All the shooting was concentrated on the bridge and across the river,'' where U.S. forces were located, he said

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the river

U.S. forces


Input: In northern Iraq, Kurdish forces tightened their ring around Kirkuk on Tuesday, following heavy coalition airstrikes on Iraqi fronts

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northern Iraq

Tuesday

coalition

Iraqi


Input: An A-10 ``Warthog'' warplane was shot down near Baghdad, believed to be the first fixed-wing aircraft downed by an Iraqi surface-to-air missile since the war began

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the first fixed-wing aircraft downed by an Iraqi surface-to-air missile since the war began

an Iraqi surface-to-air missile


Input: Officials did not say whether the plane was shot down or crashed accidentally

shot down

the plane


Input: Japan should behave with discretion, clearly mindful that it is also within the striking range of the DPRK,'' said Pyongyang's official news agency KCNA, using the initials of North Korea's official name, Democratic People's Republic of Korea

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Japan

the DPRK


Input: Japan's satellite program was prompted by the 1998 launch of a North Korean Taepodong ballistic missile that flew over Japan and crashed into the Pacific Ocean just short of Alaska

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a North Korean Taepodong ballistic missile that flew over Japan and crashed into the Pacific Ocean just short of Alaska

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Japan

the Pacific Ocean

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Input: The ambassador had vehemently defended his country for months as the United States and its allies sought U.N. backing for war on Iraq

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the United States

its allies

Iraq


Input: What I worried about is that things are settled in the country ... so in the future the Iraqi people will live in peace without sanctions, without wars, without suffering

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the country


Input: The April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building was the deadliest terrorist strike on American soil at the time

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April 19, 1995

the Alfred P. Murrah federal building

American soil


Input: Nearly everybody in Indonesia sees this Iraq war as completely unnecessary and there is widespread public opposition to U.S. policies,'' said Jusuf Wanadi of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Jakarta

war

Iraq


Input: Last year's Bali bombings, which killed 202 people, illustrated the threat of terrorism in Indonesia

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Last year

Bali


Input: In 1999, East Timor became free, but only after Indonesian forces laid waste to it as they withdrew after a pro-independence referendum

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it


Input: There are already tensions between the United States and some Iraqi factions

There are already tensions between the United States and some Iraqi factions

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some Iraqi factions


Input: Chalabi was the first top Iraqi opposition leader to be airlifted by the U.S. military into southern Iraq as the fighting wound down, and he and other top members of his group plan to meet soon in Baghdad

Chalabi was the first top Iraqi opposition leader to be airlifted by the U.S. military into southern Iraq as the fighting wound down, and he and other top members of his group plan to meet soon in Baghdad

southern Iraq


Input: Eliminating such weapons was a chief reason President George W. Bush gave for the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq that began March 20

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U.S

Iraq

March 20


Input: Americans sought to bring calm to Mosul, where U.S. troops killed 17 people in clashes earlier in the week

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17 people

earlier in the week


Input: The fighting broke out between club-wielding members of the former ruler's clan and a rival group, he said

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club-wielding members of the former ruler's clan and a rival group

club-wielding members of the former ruler's clan and a rival group


Input: Terry Harrington was a teenager when he was convicted in the 1977 shooting death of John Schweer, a retired police officer working as a security guard at a local car dealership

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Terry Harrington

John Schweer


Input: Secretary-General Kofi Annan ordered all U.N. international staff, including the inspectors, to leave Iraq just before the war began on March 20

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Iraq

March 20


Input: The Security Council imposed sanctions after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait

invasion

Iraq

Kuwait


Input: Also, Portugal hosted a last ditch pre-war summit in the Azores islands for leaders of the United States, Britain and Spain

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Input: Although North Korea accused the United States of leading the region toward war in its state media, U.S. officials denied reports the talks had broken down

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Input: North Korea, which is seeking a guarantee from the United States that it won't be attacked, ratcheted up the threat of conflict in a statement issued by its official Korean Central News Agency accusing Washington of escalating tensions

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North Korea, which is seeking a guarantee from the United States that it won't be attacked


Input: KCNA said the war in Iraq had shown the only way for a country to protect itself was to have a strong military deterrent

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Iraq


Input: North Korea and China fought against the United States in the 1950-53 Korean War, which ended without a peace treaty

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North Korea

China

the United States

Korean


Input: In interviews last year, Giuliani said Nathan gave him ``tremendous emotional support'' through his treatment for prostate cancer and as he led the city during the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center

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last year

the city

Sept. 11

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the World Trade Center


Input: North Korea says it fears being invaded by the United States following the Iraq war

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North Korea

North Korea

the United States


Input: North Korea says it fears being invaded by the United States following the Iraq war

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the United States

Iraq

Iraq


Input: During Sunday's talks, North Korea called for ``united efforts of all the Koreans'' to ``reject the unilateral strong-arm action of foreign forces ... and prevent the danger of war,'' said the North's official news agency, KCNA

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Input: During a visit Sunday to an unidentified ``front-line unit,'' North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was satisfied that his soldiers were ready to repulse ``any surprise attack of the enemy at one stroke,'' and gave ``guidelines in further increasing the unit's combat capability,'' KCNA said

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his soldiers

the enemy


Input: During a visit Sunday to an unidentified ``front-line unit,'' North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was satisfied that his soldiers were ready to repulse ``any surprise attack of the enemy at one stroke,'' and gave ``guidelines in further increasing the unit's combat capability,'' KCNA said

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the unit


Input: Pyongyang says it would consider international sanctions a ``declaration of war

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Pyongyang


Input: In a conflict over Taiwan or some other confrontation, he said, ``China's ability to field a force of even a dozen submarines could pose a big problem for any other naval force

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Taiwan


Input: Defense officials say Jordan provided key help in the Iraq war, acting as a staging area for U.S. special operations raids into western Iraq to prevent missiles from being fired at Jordan or Israel

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Iraq

U.S

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missiles


Input: Defense officials say Jordan provided key help in the Iraq war, acting as a staging area for U.S. special operations raids into western Iraq to prevent missiles from being fired at Jordan or Israel

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Iraq

western Iraq

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Jordan

Israel

Israel


Input: Recent months have created a promising ``confluence of circumstances ... the defeat of Saddam Hussein (and) the assertion of American power in the Middle East,'' and a reevaluation by some Palestinians of their uprising against Israel, said Tel Aviv University strategic affairs analyst Bruce Maddy-Weitzman

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Input: Our expectation from the sides have changed in the wake of the Iraq war and the appointing of a Palestinian prime minister

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Iraq


Input: On Tuesday, Israel killed three militants and a bystander in military operations

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Tuesday

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a bystander

military


Input: The violence that accompanied this week's diplomatic events underscored the enormous challenge that lies ahead

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this week


Input: On Thursday, the Israeli army raided Gaza in search of militants, killing 12 Palestinians, four of them civilians

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Thursday

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Gaza

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12 Palestinians


Input: But their bases in the West Bank have been decimated by Israel and their officers are under severe travel restrictions

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Input: And even far mightier Israel, despite killing scores of militants and arresting thousands, hasn't managed to stop the suicide bombings

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far mightier Israel


Input: The Palestinian leadership is required to reiterate its recognition of Israel's right to exist in peace, call for an immediate and unconditional cease-fire, and end all official anti-Israeli incitement

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Input: But the Islamic militants have already rejected a cease-fire, and the Palestinian Authority has never shown much appetite for taking them on

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the Islamic militants


Input: But if these steps are to be simultaneous, Israel is opposed, saying it doesn't want to take any concrete steps until it is convinced terrorism has been abandoned

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Input: Sharon promises that if terrorism stops, he'll make painful compromises to midwife a Palestinian state

terrorism


Input: And for the first time, the United States has enlisted the global community  _  the United Nations, the European Union and Russia are cosignatories  _  into a consensus for establishing a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza, which Israel occupied in the 1967 war

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Palestinian

the West Bank and Gaza, which Israel occupied in the 1967 war

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Israel


Input: The sentence was the latest in a series of state actions against the Monitor, the only English language daily in Sudan and a leading critic of conditions in the south of the country, where a civil war has been waged for 20 years

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the south of the country, where a civil war has been waged for 20 years

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Input: North Korea's military may have fired a laser at a U.S. helicopter in March, a U.S. official said Tuesday, as the communist state ditched its last legal obligation to keep itself free of nuclear weapons

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North Korea's military

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a U.S. helicopter

March


Input: North Korea accuses the United States of planning to attack the communist country, which Bush has branded part of an ``axis of evil'' along with Iran and Iraq

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the communist country, which Bush has branded part of an ``axis of evil'' along with Iran and Iraq


Input: It said the U.S. invasion of Iraq taught it that ``a war can be averted and the sovereignty of the country and the security of the nation can be protected only when a country has ... a strong military deterrent force capable of decisively repelling any attack to be made by any types of sophisticated weapons

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a strong military deterrent force capable of decisively repelling any attack to be made by any types of sophisticated weapons

any types of sophisticated weapons


Input: Hamas said Monday it has no intention of halting attacks, despite Egypt's efforts to have Palestinian militant groups agree to a one-year suspension of shootings and bombings

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Palestinian militant groups

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Input: Hamas said Monday it has no intention of halting attacks, despite Egypt's efforts to have Palestinian militant groups agree to a one-year suspension of shootings and bombings

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Hamas


Input: The explosion killed the attacker and four shoppers, police said

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the attacker


Input: The spate of bombings underscored how difficult it will be to carry out the U.S.-backed ``road map'' plan, a three-stage prescription for ending violence immediately and setting up a Palestinian state by 2005

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Input: The Islamic militant group Hamas carried out four bombings over the weekend

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The Islamic militant group Hamas

the weekend


Input: In response the spate of bombings, Israel threatened to boycott foreign envoys who meet with Yasser Arafat

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Input: Malls and other public places have significantly stepped up security since the outbreak of Israeli-Palestinian fighting in September 2000

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Palestinian

September 2000


Input: Earlier Monday, a 19-year-old Palestinian riding a bicycle detonated a 30-kilo (66-pound) bomb near a military jeep in the Gaza Strip, injuring three soldiers

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Monday

a 19-year-old Palestinian riding a bicycle

a 30-kilo (66-pound) bomb

the Gaza Strip

three soldiers


Input: The new Palestinian prime minister, Mahmoud Abbas, has denounced violence against Israelis, but also told Sharon in a weekend meeting  _  the first Israeli-Palestinian summit in three years	_ that he wants to persuade the militants to stop attacks, rather than disarm them by force

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the militants


Input: He was to have discussed his objections with U.S. President George W. Bush this week, but canceled his trip after Sunday's bus bombing

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Sunday


Input: The latest wave of attacks began Saturday evening when a Hamas bomber blew himself up in a square in the West Bank city of Hebron, killing an Israeli settler and his pregnant wife

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Saturday evening

a Hamas bomber

a square in the West Bank city of Hebron

an Israeli settler

his pregnant wife


Input: On Sunday morning, another Hamas assailant blew up the Jerusalem bus and about half an hour later, a third bomber from the group detonated explosives on the outskirts of Jerusalem, killing only himself

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half an hour later

a third bomber from the group

the outskirts of Jerusalem


Input: The Israeli military on Monday demolished the Qawasmeh family home, part of a policy of trying to deter attacks by punishing assailants' relatives

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The Israeli military

Monday

the Qawasmeh family home

the Qawasmeh family home


Input: The Israeli military on Monday demolished the Qawasmeh family home, part of a policy of trying to deter attacks by punishing assailants' relatives

attacks

assailants


Input: Two musicians and a waitress were killed in the blast

blast

Two musicians

a waitress


Input: Sharif also carried explosives, but they didn't go off, and he fled

go off

Sharif

explosives


Input: The explosion comes a month after a bomb exploded at a McDonald's restaurant in Istanbul, causing damage but no injuries

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Input: The explosion comes a month after a bomb exploded at a McDonald's restaurant in Istanbul, causing damage but no injuries

exploded

a month after

a bomb

a McDonald's restaurant in Istanbul


Input: Radical leftist, Kurdish and Islamic groups are active in the country and have carried out bombings in the past

bombings

Radical leftist, Kurdish and Islamic groups

the country

the past


Input: Canberra sent troops to fight in the war on terror in Afghanistan and alongside U.S. and British forces in Iraq

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troops

Afghanistan


Input: Canberra sent troops to fight in the war on terror in Afghanistan and alongside U.S. and British forces in Iraq

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troops

U.S. and British forces in Iraq

Iraq


Input: The bombings killed 34 people  _  including nine attackers, eight Americans and two Britons  _  and wounded nearly 200 others

bombings

34 people

nine attackers

nine attackers

eight Americans

two Britons

nearly 200 others


Input: Earlier this week, Saudi and U.S. officials said they had new intelligence pointing to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida group possibly launching fresh attacks in the United States or against American interests overseas

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Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida group

the United States


Input: Following the attack, the Israeli army fired tank shells near neighboring Palestinian areas, and soldiers began searching farms, according to residents

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Input: Abbas summoned Hamas leaders to his Gaza City office Thursday evening in his first visible effort to help end attacks on Israeli civilians

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Hamas

Israeli civilians


Input: Hamas told Abbas it would consider stopping attacks on civilians in Israel, but would continue targeting Israeli settlers and soldiers in the West Bank and Gaza

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Hamas

civilians in Israel

Israel


Input: Hamas told Abbas it would consider stopping attacks on civilians in Israel, but would continue targeting Israeli settlers and soldiers in the West Bank and Gaza

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Hamas

Israeli settlers and soldiers in the West Bank and Gaza

Israeli settlers and soldiers in the West Bank and Gaza

the West Bank

Gaza


Input: One major obstacle to adopting the road map is a disagreement between Sharon and Abbas over how to deal with Palestinian militant groups that carried out scores of shootings and bombings in the past 32 months of fighting

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Palestinian militant groups that carried out scores of shootings and bombings in the past 32 months of fighting

the past 32 months


Input: Hamas has grown in popularity in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where many Palestinians are embittered by Israeli military strikes and travel bans that cause much hardship

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the West Bank

Gaza Strip, where many Palestinians are embittered by Israeli military strikes and travel bans that cause much hardship

Israeli


Input: Abu Amr said the militants apparently unleashed these attacks, in part, because they wanted to begin truce talks from a position of strength

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the militants


Input: Following the attack, the Israeli army fired tank shells near neighboring Palestinian areas, and soldiers began searching farms, according to residents

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the Israeli army

neighboring Palestinian areas


Input: Also Friday, the Israeli military destroyed a house belonging to the family of Hiba Daraghmeh, the 19-year-old bomber who killed herself and three Israelis Monday in a suicide attack outside a shopping mall in the northern Israeli city of Afula

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Friday

the Israeli military

a house belonging to the family of Hiba Daraghmeh, the 19-year-old bomber who killed herself and three Israelis Monday in a suicide attack outside a shopping mall in the northern Israeli city of Afula


Input: Also Friday, the Israeli military destroyed a house belonging to the family of Hiba Daraghmeh, the 19-year-old bomber who killed herself and three Israelis Monday in a suicide attack outside a shopping mall in the northern Israeli city of Afula

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the 19-year-old bomber who killed herself and three Israelis Monday in a suicide attack outside a shopping mall in the northern Israeli city of Afula

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Monday

a shopping mall in the northern Israeli city of Afula


Input: Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 16-year-old Palestinian boy and wounded a 7-year-old boy after opening fire at stone throwers in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the West Bank on Tuesday, Palestinian hospital officials said

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Israeli soldiers

a 16-year-old Palestinian boy

a 7-year-old boy

the Tulkarem refugee camp in the West Bank

Tuesday


Input: Israeli soldiers shot and killed a 16-year-old Palestinian boy and wounded a 7-year-old boy after opening fire at stone throwers in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the West Bank on Tuesday, Palestinian hospital officials said

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Israeli soldiers

stone throwers in the Tulkarem refugee camp in the West Bank

the Tulkarem refugee camp in the West Bank

Tuesday


Input: The army said troops fired, and hit a boy, after a Palestinian youth threw a molotov cocktail

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troops


Input: The shootings  _  which the Israeli army said came in response to attacks by Palestinians throwing stones and molotov cocktails  _ came a day after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared that Israel's occupation in the West Bank must end, stunning both dovish opponents and hardline allies

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the Israeli army

a day after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared that Israel's occupation in the West Bank must end


Input: The army said troops fired, and hit a boy, after a Palestinian youth threw a molotov cocktail

threw

a Palestinian youth

a molotov cocktail


Input: Israeli troops shot and killed a 16-year-old Palestinian boy and critically injured two children, ages 7 and 9, during conflicts in the West Bank that erupted Tuesday as Israeli and Palestinian leaders moved toward talks on a new Mideast peace plan

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Israeli troops

the West Bank

Tuesday


Input: The shootings  _  which the Israeli army said came in response to attacks by Palestinians throwing stones and molotov cocktails  _ came a day after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared that Israel's occupation in the West Bank must end, stunning both dovish opponents and hardline allies

attacks

the Israeli army

Palestinians throwing stones and molotov cocktails

stones

molotov cocktails


Input: The army said troops fired, and hit a boy, after a Palestinian youth threw a molotov cocktail

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troops

a boy


Input: In a village near the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday, Israeli troops opened fire on youths throwing stones, hitting a 9-year-old Palestinian boy in the head and critically wounding him, and hitting two 12-year-old boys in the legs, lightly wounding them, Palestinian hospital officials said

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a village near the West Bank city of Nablus

Tuesday

Israeli troops

youths throwing stones


Input: In a village near the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday, Israeli troops opened fire on youths throwing stones, hitting a 9-year-old Palestinian boy in the head and critically wounding him, and hitting two 12-year-old boys in the legs, lightly wounding them, Palestinian hospital officials said

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a village near the West Bank city of Nablus

Tuesday

Israeli troops

youths throwing stones

stones


Input: In a village near the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday, Israeli troops opened fire on youths throwing stones, hitting a 9-year-old Palestinian boy in the head and critically wounding him, and hitting two 12-year-old boys in the legs, lightly wounding them, Palestinian hospital officials said

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a village near the West Bank city of Nablus

Tuesday

Israeli troops

a 9-year-old Palestinian boy


Input: In a village near the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday, Israeli troops opened fire on youths throwing stones, hitting a 9-year-old Palestinian boy in the head and critically wounding him, and hitting two 12-year-old boys in the legs, lightly wounding them, Palestinian hospital officials said

hitting

a village near the West Bank city of Nablus

Tuesday

Israeli troops

two 12-year-old boys


Input: A 10-year-old boy was struck in the leg by a rubber bullet, but was not seriously hurt, the officials said

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A 10-year-old boy

a rubber bullet


Input: Military sources said troops were trying to break up stone-throwing protests, but did not use live fire

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troops


Input: In a village near the West Bank town of Qalqiliya, an 11-year-old Palestinian boy was killed during an exchange of gunfire

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Input: There were no injuries from the incident

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Input: Peter Lundberg, an official from the Swedish Consulate in Jerusalem, said that two bullets hit the windshield of the Swiss Consulate's armored car, and that small-arms fire also was directed at other cars from Sweden, Denmark and the European Union

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the Swiss Consulate's armored car


Input: Peter Lundberg, an official from the Swedish Consulate in Jerusalem, said that two bullets hit the windshield of the Swiss Consulate's armored car, and that small-arms fire also was directed at other cars from Sweden, Denmark and the European Union

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small-arms

other cars from Sweden, Denmark and the European Union


Input: The sources said shots had been fired in the air when vehicles tried to skirt the roadblocks

shots


Input: The violence erupted after Sharon endured withering criticism Monday from members of his own Likud Party over his Cabinet's acceptance of the U.S.-backed ``road map'' peace plan

violence

Monday


Input: Critics have said Sharon's long-held condition that all violence must stop before peace moves is unrealistic and guarantees failure of any peace initiative, including the road map, thus releasing him from the necessity of following through on his remarks

violence


Input: North Korea has repeatedly accused Washington of planing to invade

invade

North Korea

Washington


Input: He said upgrades would allow troops to react quicker to threats from the North and help reduce the possibility of a military conflict on the peninsula, not heighten it

conflict

the peninsula


Input: South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal ruled Tuesday against a state request to retry the head of apartheid's germ warfare program, once accused of plotting to poison Nelson Mandela

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the head of apartheid's germ warfare program, once accused of plotting to poison Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela


Input: Basson was accused of directing South Africa's former apartheid regime's biochemical efforts aimed at destroying its opponents

destroying


Input: They poisoned opponents' clothing and stockpiled cholera, HIV and anthrax

poisoned

They

opponents


Input: But Balkan bases first used by the Americans during the Iraq war may get a full-time U.S. presence even before the official NATO expansion, said Western diplomats and local officials, who agreed to discuss the situation on condition of anonymity

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Iraq


Input: Having punched through severely depleted Republican Guard divisions that formed Baghdad's outer defensive ring, U.S. Army and Marine forces are likely to pause again to test the Iraqi capital's inner defenses and

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Republican Guard divisions that formed Baghdad's outer defensive ring

Baghdad

U.S. Army and Marine forces


Input: But he also said, ``He may destroy them to embarrass us,'' to show the world he never had such weapons and that Bush invaded for no reason other than aggression

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Bush


Input: But in such close-quarters fighting, they would lose much of the technological advantage of their air supremacy, which would have to be curtailed because bombing in a city can cause large civilian casualties

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Input: Before going in (with a full assault), you have to decide if it's worth the risks, and ... you have to know who's there in the way of Iraqi forces and the amount of potential damage to civilians,'' he said

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Input: Thousands of refugees have fled the city, apparently providing information to the British that has led to raids on military and Baath Party sites in the city

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the British

military and Baath Party sites in the city

the city


Input: The key endgame may be whether the U.S. can parse out the key regime centers of power in Baghdad and attack them without having to fight into the city, or at least locate them well enough to

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the U.S

the key regime centers of power in Baghdad

Baghdad


Input: The key endgame may be whether the U.S. can parse out the key regime centers of power in Baghdad and attack them without having to fight into the city, or at least locate them well enough to

fight

the U.S

the city


Input: If U.S. forces seriously degrade Iraq's half-dozen Republican Guard divisions before that final battle, and only have to face perhaps 30,000 Special Republican Guard, fedayeen, and related personnel, the task will not be as hard as it might have been,'' he said

battle

U.S. forces

30,000 Special Republican Guard, fedayeen, and related personnel

30,000 Special Republican Guard, fedayeen, and related personnel

30,000 Special Republican Guard, fedayeen, and related personnel


Input: The Iraqis still haven't used chemical weapons, even though many experts feared such attacks as the U.S. troops neared Baghdad. Korb, who's convinced Hussein has stocks of chemical weapons he never reported to U.N. inspectors, said he wouldn't be surprised if Hussein tried to use them

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The Iraqis

chemical weapons

the U.S. troops


Input: But in such close-quarters fighting, they would lose much of the technological advantage of their air supremacy, which would have to be curtailed because bombing in a city can cause large civilian casualties

bombing

a city

civilian


Input: The pressure point could come when Israel, the United ks, or are guilty of such attacks in the past

attacks

the past


Input: Bush has said he wants a diplomatic solution to the problem, but would not foreclose any option, including military options

Bush has said he wants a diplomatic solution to the problem, but would not foreclose any option, including military options

Bush


Input: Roh has said any pre-emptive strike against the North's nuclear facilities could prove disastrous

Roh has said any pre-emptive strike against the North's nuclear facilities could prove disastrous

the North

the North's nuclear facilities


Input: Asked about the possible war, he said, if tours were curtailed because of a war emergency, the agency would refund the portion of the costs covering the remainder of the trip

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Input: The rebels identified themselves to residents in the city as troops loyal to former general staff  Gen. Francois Bozize, who staged a foiled coup bid in October

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who

October


Input: Interim Chairperson of the Commission of the African  Union (AU) Amara Essy has strongly condemned the coup d'etat that took place in the Central Africa Republic on March 15, 2003

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the Central Africa Republic

March 15, 2003


Input: One house was destroyed during the strike and casualties have been removed from the area

strike

One house

One house

the area


Input: The US-led coalition forces launched a new round of airstrikes on Baghdad at 2:30 p.m. (1130GMT) on Monday

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The US-led coalition

Baghdad

2:30 p.m. (1130GMT) on Monday


Input: Huge explosions were heard in different parts of Baghdad and air raid siren sounded throughout the capital city, they said, adding that Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery had begun to fire back

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Iraqi anti-aircraft artillery


Input: According to other reports reaching here, five Syrian bus passengers were killed and 10 others were injured on Sunday morning when a US missile hit the bus they were traveling in near the Iraqi border

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bus

Sunday morning

a US missile

the Iraqi border


Input: Iraq has denounced the invaders as "criminals" and "villains," while urging the international community to stop the "aggression" unconditionally

aggression


Input: Blair and Bush were expected to bridge their gap on the issue by reaching an agreement on UN role in post-war Iraq, some analysts said even before this summit at Hillsborough, south of Belfast, the second of its kind since the war broke out on March 20

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March 20


Input: Police believed Ba'asyir was the spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiyah, the terrorist network in Southeast Asia which is widely blamed for the Bali bombing

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the terrorist network in Southeast Asia which is widely blamed for the Bali bombing

Bali


Input: Ba'asyir, 64, was arrested on preliminary charges of involvement in a series of church bombings on the eve of the 2000 Christmas and an alleged plot to assassinate  Megawati Soekarnoputri in 1999, when she was vice president

bombings

church

2000 Christmas


Input: In another security case, several Iraqis were suspiciously involved in a plot to bomb a luxury hotel in Amman, where hundreds of Western journalists lived

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several Iraqis

a luxury hotel in Amman, where hundreds of Western journalists lived


Input: Israeli authorities have claimed Sharif, 27, from Derby, was on the run after failing to blow himself up in the attack on a Tel Aviv bar

attack

Sharif, 27, from Derby

a Tel Aviv bar

Tel Aviv


Input: The rebels "in any case cannot allow to have its prisoners to be taken away by enemy forces without a military response," he added

response

The rebels

enemy forces


Input: The 17,000-strong FARC, the largest guerrilla force in Colombia, has been fighting a war against the government for more than 40 years, leaving 400,000 dead

war

The 17,000-strong FARC

Colombia

the government

more than 40 years


Input: In talks with President Kumaratunga and Prime Minister Wickremesinghe, Rocca has encouraged the two high-ranking officials to reconcile, noting that it was critical for the country's leaders to be united in efforts to end the island's bloody 19-year civil war and begin rebuilding its shattered economy

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the island


Input: The Foreign Office said earlier Wednesday that two British nationals were still unaccounted for after the blasts

blasts


Input: Our cabin and flight crews will stay overnight in Larnaca as they did during the (Iraq) war," said the spokeswoman, adding that BA would continue direct flights to both Saudi cities from London, but return flights would be via Larnaca

war

Iraq


Input: At least 34 people, including up to 10 Americans, were killed Monday night when suspected al-Qaeda suicide bombers shot their way into housing compounds in Riyadh, hours before US Secretary of State Colin Powell was due to visit

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At least 34 people

up to 10 Americans

Monday night

suspected al-Qaeda suicide bombers

housing compounds in Riyadh


Input: The waiting shed literally exploded," said Vice Mayor Luis Bongoyan, speaking to local radio station

exploded

The waiting shed


Input: A powerful bomb tore through a waiting shed at the Davao City international airport at about 5.15 pm (0915 GMT) while another explosion hit a bus terminal at the city

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a bus terminal at the city

the city


Input: Palestinian medical sources said 60-year-old Mohammed al-Biyari was killed in his home near Jabaliya refugee camp by the rocket fire and another wounded

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Jabaliya

rocket


Input: The bus attack came just two days after Israeli forces staged a bloody raid into a refugee camp in central Gaza targeting a founding member of Hamas, which has spearheaded suicide bombings against the Jewish state

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bus

two days


Input: A second rocket landed in farmlands and the other hit a house inside the refugee camp, but without causing further casualties, Palestinian security sources said

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A second rocket

farmlands


Input: A second rocket landed in farmlands and the other hit a house inside the refugee camp, but without causing further casualties, Palestinian security sources said

hit

the other

a house inside the refugee camp

the refugee camp


Input: Israeli media said the retaliation was unlikely to be on a scale that would risk disrupting US preparations for war on Iraq

retaliation


Input: Israeli media said the retaliation was unlikely to be on a scale that would risk disrupting US preparations for war on Iraq

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US

Iraq


Input: Apart from his ID card, also found in the wreckage were the remains of a letter allegedly outlining his plan to carry out a suicide attack and praising the September 2001 destruction of the World Trade Centre in New York, it said

destruction

September 2001

the World Trade Centre in New York

New York


Input: Without claiming responsibility, Hamas and another hardline group, Islamic Jihad, said the blast was revenge for a string of bloody Israeli army raids into the Gaza Strip in recent weeks

raids

Israeli army

the Gaza Strip

weeks


Input: We condemn all attacks against civilians including today's attack in Haifa," said information minister Yasser Abed Rabbo

attacks

civilians


Input: The Palestinian leadership said the attack would serve as "a pretext for Israel's government and occupation army to step up its deadly campaign which caused the deaths of 77 Palestinians in February

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its

77 Palestinians


Input: In the January attack, two Palestinian suicide bombers blew themselves up in central Tel Aviv, killing 23 other people

attack

January

two Palestinian suicide bombers

central Tel Aviv

23 other people


Input: He told AFP that Israeli intelligence had been dealing with at least 40 tip-offs of impending attacks when the Haifa bus was blown up

attacks


Input: Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erakat said international intervention was needed to break the cycle of violence

violence


Input: The bus attack came just two days after Israeli forces staged a bloody raid into a refugee camp in central Gaza targeting a founding member of Hamas, which has spearheaded suicide bombings against the Jewish state

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Israeli forces

a refugee camp in central Gaza

a founding member of Hamas


Input: The bus attack came just two days after Israeli forces staged a bloody raid into a refugee camp in central Gaza targeting a founding member of Hamas, which has spearheaded suicide bombings against the Jewish state

bombings

the Jewish state


Input: Hamas vowed to continue its attacks, while the Palestinian Authority accused Israel of trying to disrupt top-level Palestinian meetings to discuss reforms of Arafat's administration

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its


Input: Eight people, including a pregnant woman and a 13-year-old child were killed in Monday's Gaza raid, provoking US-led international calls for Israeli restraint

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Eight people

Monday

Gaza


Input: And on Tuesday, Israeli troops shot dead an elderly Palestinian shepherd outside a Jewish settlement on the edge of Gaza City

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Tuesday

Israeli troops

an elderly Palestinian shepherd outside a Jewish settlement on the edge of Gaza City

a Jewish settlement on the edge of Gaza City


Input: In the West Bank, an eight-year-old Palestinian boy as well as his brother and a sister were wounded late Wednesday by Israeli gunfire in a village north of the town of Ramallah, their elder sister said

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an eight-year-old Palestinian boy

his brother

a sister

Wednesday

Israeli

a village north of the town of Ramallah


Input: Efforts were to continue at the United Nations Friday to find a breakthrough in the diplomatic stalemate on Iraq, with Washington warning it could bypass the Security Council and go to war alone

Efforts were to continue at the United Nations Friday to find a breakthrough in the diplomatic stalemate on Iraq, with Washington warning it could bypass the Security Council and go to war alone

Iraq

it


Input: Diplomatic wrangling has centred around the French and Russian refusal to put their names to any resolution allowing the United States to unleash its military might against Iraq before weapons inspections have run their course

Diplomatic wrangling has centred around the French and Russian refusal to put their names to any resolution allowing the United States to unleash its military might against Iraq before weapons inspections have run their course

the United States

Iraq

Iraq


Input: He repeated that Moscow would not back a resolution that authorised an attack against Iraq: "It is not necessary now to adopt any new resolution on Iraq, especially resolutions which lead to war

He repeated that Moscow would not back a resolution that authorised an attack against Iraq: "It is not necessary now to adopt any new resolution on Iraq, especially resolutions which lead to war

Iraq

Iraq


Input: He repeated that Moscow would not back a resolution that authorised an attack against Iraq: "It is not necessary now to adopt any new resolution on Iraq, especially resolutions which lead to war

He repeated that Moscow would not back a resolution that authorised an attack against Iraq: "It is not necessary now to adopt any new resolution on Iraq, especially resolutions which lead to war

Iraq

Iraq


Input: The United States meanwhile deployed its B-2 stealth bombers to positions closer to Iraq and ordered as many as 15 warships capable of firing Tomahawk cruise missiles to the Red Sea from the Mediterranean, US officials said

The United States meanwhile deployed its B-2 stealth bombers to positions closer to Iraq and ordered as many as 15 warships capable of firing Tomahawk cruise missiles to the Red Sea from the Mediterranean, US officials said

The United States

its B-2 stealth bombers

positions closer to Iraq

as many as 15 warships capable of firing Tomahawk cruise missiles

the Red Sea

the Mediterranean


Input: Tens of thousands of people took to the streets across the Middle East Thursday, demonstrating against military strikes on Iraq and calling on Muslims to wage jihad against the United States and its allies

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Iraq


Input: I don't think America will win this war, as our jihad (holy war) and our resistance will teach the Americans and British a lesson they will never forget," he said

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our

the Americans and British

the Americans and British


Input: Lebanon and the Palestinian Authority issued fierce denunciations of the US-led attacks, while the Egyptian government daily Al-Ahram warned it marked "the beginning an era of US colonisation that will benefit only Israel

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US


Input: However, there were no reports of protests against the war from the Gulf states, many of whom are host to US military personnel

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Input: Saudi Arabia, however, expressed its "deep concern" and regret over the start of US military operations

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US


Input: For these reasons, we judge that it is necessary that the forces of peace and those who believe in right and justice take the necessary and rapid steps to halt this dangerous slide into war against Iraq which will result in heavy human and material losses

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Iraq


Input: The Palestinian Authority also condemned Thursday's early morning missile strikes on Iraq, and warned Israel not to exploit the conflict

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Thursday's early morning

Iraq


Input: The Palestinian Authority also condemned Thursday's early morning missile strikes on Iraq, and warned Israel not to exploit the conflict

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Input: We Palestinians are against the war and we totally condemn this war in the Middle East

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Input: We Palestinians are against the war and we totally condemn this war in the Middle East

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the Middle East


Input: We are warning Israel not to exploit this war against Iraq to carry out more attacks against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and destroy the Palestinian Authority and the peace process," he said

war

Iraq


Input: We are warning Israel not to exploit this war against Iraq to carry out more attacks against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and destroy the Palestinian Authority and the peace process," he said

attacks

Israel

the Palestinian people

the Gaza Strip


Input: The radical Palestinian movement Islamic Jihad warned that "the war against Iraq is a war against the whole region", while Hamas issued a chilling warning against those taking part in the war against Iraq

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Iraq


Input: The radical Palestinian movement Islamic Jihad warned that "the war against Iraq is a war against the whole region", while Hamas issued a chilling warning against those taking part in the war against Iraq

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the whole region


Input: I don't think America will win this war, as our jihad (holy war) and our resistance will teach the Americans and British a lesson they will never forget," he said

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America


Input: The aggression by the vile Americans and the war against Iraq signifies a war against all Arabs and Muslims around the world," said Hamas senior official Abdul Aziz al-Rantissi

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all Arabs and Muslims around the world

all Arabs and Muslims around the world


Input: In the Egyptian capital, 10 demonstrators and at least four policeman were injured in clashes after several thousand demonstrators took to the streets near the US and British embassies

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the Egyptian capital


Input: Some 70 people were arrested Saturday as demonstrators clashed with police at the end of a major peace rally here, as at least 200,000 anti-war protesters took to the streets across the United States and Canada

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Saturday

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demonstrators

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police

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Input: Several police officers were treated for the effects of gas after the ensuing clashes -- a result, police said, of the demonstrators using self-defence devices

clashes

Several police officers

the demonstrators

self-defence devices


Input: Organizers of the civil disobedience campaigns promised to block intersections and bridges, shackle themselves to lampposts and create human cordons to snarl traffic, as long as the war continues

war


Input: One woman marched topless with the words "shock and awe" daubed across her back in red ink, a reference to the bombing campaign unleashed Friday on Baghdad

bombing

Friday

Baghdad

Baghdad


Input: One group, Lesbians Against Boys Invading Anything, carried signs saying "Pre-emptive war is terrorism," "This isn't the USA I love," and "Where Will the Bombs Fall Next

terrorism


Input: One group, Lesbians Against Boys Invading Anything, carried signs saying "Pre-emptive war is terrorism," "This isn't the USA I love," and "Where Will the Bombs Fall Next

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the Bombs


Input: You watch CNN and all you get are explosions and video of tanks and guns

explosions


Input: I'm here to support him and others who are fighting for their country

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who


Input: They wouldn't be here if it weren't for the freedoms that others fought for," she said

fought

others


Input: Some 2,500 mainly university students formed a human chain in Japanese characters spelling out "No War" in Osaka on Sunday to protest against the ongoing US-led military campaign in Iraq

military campaign

US

Iraq


Input: We cannot forgive this war," Miyako Fuji, 20, one of the rally's organisers told Jiji news agency

war


Input: I want to join together the feelings of each of us as individuals who oppose the war

war


Input: According to a poll by Kyodo news agency released Saturday, 78 of 100 people surveyed opposed the military action in Iraq

military action

Iraq


Input: A separate poll of 1,846 adults by the leading Yomiuri newspaper published Tuesday showed 64 percent felt Japan had "no choice" but to back the United States, with only 12 percent saying Japan had "every reason" to back the war

war


Input: Russian President Vladimir Putin's summit with the leaders of Germany and France may have been a failure that proves there can be no long-term "peace camp" alliance following the end of war in Iraq, government sources were quoted as saying at the weekend

war

Iraq


Input: The comments indicate that Russia's nuanced position over the war in Iraq was becoming ever more scrambled, with Putin pushing to protect his budding friendship with US President George W. Bush in the face of strident opposition from the Russian media and other top Kremlin officials

war

Iraq


Input: Kommersant business daily joined in, declaring in a furious front-page headline: "The United States is demanding that Russia, France and Germany pay for the Iraqi war

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Iraqi


Input: Putin concluded his two days of talks in Saint Petersburg with Jacques Chirac of France and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on Saturday still urging for a central role for the United Nations in a post-war revival of Iraq

war


Input: The call reflected the insistent demand made by the three leaders before the US-British invasion of Iraq that UN approval was essential for any mission to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein

invasion

US

British

Iraq

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein


Input: It remains to be seen how successful Putin's overtures to Washington will be in the face of the fervent internal hostility to the US war stance

war

US


Input: At least three members of a family in Indias northeastern state of Tripura were hacked to death by a tribal mob for allegedly practicing witchcraft, police said Thursday

hacked

At least three members of a family in Indias northeastern state of Tripura

Indias northeastern state of Tripura

a tribal mob


Input: A spokesman said a group of 25 to 30 armed men Wednesday attacked a house belonging to a village quack doctor in Tultuli, 60 kilometers (38 miles) south of Tripuras state capital Agartala

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a house belonging to a village quack doctor in Tultuli, 60 kilometers (38 miles) south of Tripuras state capital Agartala

Tultuli, 60 kilometers (38 miles) south of Tripuras state capital Agartala


Input: Putin will face re-election in March 2004 and analysts noted that the war -- while opposed by most Russians -- was never turned by the Kremlin into a matter of national security

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Input: Our analysis of foreign policy is lacking and often reverts to Cold War stereotypes," said former deputy foreign minister Anatoly Adamishin

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Input: Faisalabad's Catholic Bishop John Joseph, who had been campaigning against the law, shot himself in the head outside a court in Sahiwal district when the judge convicted Christian Ayub Masih under the law in 1998

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Faisalabad's Catholic Bishop John Joseph, who had been campaigning against the law

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a court in Sahiwal district


Input: It insisted North Korea could do "everything" to defend itself if the United States "legally guarantees no use of arms including nukes

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the United States

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Input: But despite issuing a host of tough decrees, Bremer has failed to stem the rampant crime and street violence plaguing the country

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Input: We want to have an Iraqi voice in everything we do here but it would be wrong to do that precipitously," said a source at the Organisation of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (ORHA), which is administering post-war Iraq

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Input: Russia has given a high priority to its relations with the United States despite a bitter disagreement over the US-led campaign to topple Saddam Hussein in Iraq

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Input: Amid a chill in relations over the war in Iraq, which Canada opposed, Bush indefinitely postponed a visit to Canada, instead choosing to host Australian Prime Minster John Howard, who endorsed that military campaign

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Iraq


Input: Bush signalled that Russia would not pay a similar price as France and Germany for opposing the US-led war in Iraq, inviting his "good friend" Putin to his weekend retreat outside Camp David in Washington in September

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Input: US President George W. Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday their friendship was as strong as ever, laying aside a dispute over the Iraq war, but barely concealing a simmering row over Iran's nuclear program

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Input: Bush arrived in Saint Petersburg on Saturday, when he also briefly met German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, whose opposition to the Iraq war had soured his relationship with Washington, at a dinner hosted by Putin

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Input: Both sides are under heavy US pressure to end one of the worst periods of violence in the 32-month-old Palestinian uprising and follow a peace "roadmap" promoted by President George W. Bush at a June 4 summit in Aqaba, Jordan

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Input: Both sides are under heavy US pressure to end one of the worst periods of violence in the 32-month-old Palestinian uprising and follow a peace "roadmap" promoted by President George W. Bush at a June 4 summit in Aqaba, Jordan

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Input: Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher said talks among the Palestinian factions were continuing and officials were "very hopeful" of negotiating an end to the violence that claimed more than 50 lives last week

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Input: But a senior Hamas leader said after two days of talks with a senior Egyptian delegation that "the time is not for a truce" and insisted on the right to pursue attacks as long as the Israeli occupation continued

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Input: Sharon also took a hard line later Monday, telling parliament in its first debate on the roadmap that no settlement to the conflict was possible "while terrorism runs rampant

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Input: Ultimately it has to lead to that kind of dismantlement that the president talked about, denying of the ability to carry out attacks," Boucher said

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Input: Six Palestinian police officers were allowed to return to the Palestinian section of the border crossing, which had been taken over by Israeli troops shortly after the start of the uprising

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Input: The handover is a credibility test for the Palestinian Authority, which must show it means business when it comes to reining in hardline groups plotting attacks on the Jewish state

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hardline groups plotting attacks on the Jewish state

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Input: The move marked a huge step forward in carrying out the US-backed Middle East "roadmap", which aims to end the months of bloodshed and create a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians

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the Palestinians


Input: Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, an armed offshoot of Fatah, later became the fifth group to pledge to respect the ceasefire, but a foreign worker was shot in the West Bank in a attack claimed by one of its branches

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the West Bank

one of its branches


Input: Palestinian security forces returned to the positions they held in the Gaza Strip before the outbreak of the 33-month-old uprising, as Israel removed all major checkpoints in the coastal territory

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Input: The army stormed Beit Hanun two months ago to crush militant groups and prevent them from launching rocket attacks on nearby Israeli communities

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Input: The army stormed Beit Hanun two months ago to crush militant groups and prevent them from launching rocket attacks on nearby Israeli communities

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Input: Palestinian security forces are now committed to preventing militants from launching attacks from the area

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Input: Further south, Israeli troops allowed six Palestinian police officers to return to the Palestinian section of the border crossing with Egypt, which had  been taken over by Israeli troops at the start of the intifada

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Input: The Israel redeployments come after the two most hardline groups fighting Israel -- Hamas and Islamic Jihad -- issued a joint statement Sunday declaring a three-month ceasefire, but listing several conditions, including an end to attacks against their members and the release of Palestinian prisoners

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the two most hardline groups fighting Israel

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Hamas and Islamic Jihad


Input: The Israel redeployments come after the two most hardline groups fighting Israel -- Hamas and Islamic Jihad -- issued a joint statement Sunday declaring a three-month ceasefire, but listing several conditions, including an end to attacks against their members and the release of Palestinian prisoners

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their members


Input: In the first act of bloodshed since the declarations, a 45-year-old Bulgarian was shot dead while driving a truck near the northern West Bank town of Jenin, the Israeli army and sources close to the Jewish settlers said

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a 45-year-old Bulgarian

the northern West Bank town of Jenin


Input: Senior officials of Hamas and Islamic Jihad also said Israel's pullout of the northern Gaza Strip was not enough and stressed armed struggle remained their strategy

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Input: Israeli military army, meanwhile, reported that Israelis and foreign tourists have recently been allowed to visit the Temple Mount compound, or the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, for the first time since the start of the intifada

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Input: The intifada broke out after a controversial visit to the site by Sharon

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Input: Once the vote is resolved one way or another, Bush will intensify his case for war, officials said, barring unforeseen events such as Saddam suddenly disarming or going into exile

Once the vote is resolved one way or another, Bush will intensify his case for war, officials said, barring unforeseen events such as Saddam suddenly disarming or going into exile

Bush


Input: As those discussions were taking place behind the scenes, Fleischer told reporters that Turkey would lose a proposed $15 billion aid package unless it admits troops into the country for the Iraq conflict

As those discussions were taking place behind the scenes, Fleischer told reporters that Turkey would lose a proposed $15 billion aid package unless it admits troops into the country for the Iraq conflict

Iraq


Input: ``The particular package that we've been talking to them about was predicated on assistance and cooperation in any plan for the use of force against Iraq,'' Fleischer said

``The particular package that we've been talking to them about was predicated on assistance and cooperation in any plan for the use of force against Iraq,'' Fleischer said

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Iraq

Iraq


Input: ``The president has made clear, that ... whether the United Nations votes or does not vote, that we will disarm Saddam Hussein with a coalition of the willing,'' Fleischer said

``The president has made clear, that ... whether the United Nations votes or does not vote, that we will disarm Saddam Hussein with a coalition of the willing,'' Fleischer said

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Saddam Hussein


Input: The post-Milosevic government later extradited him to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, the Netherlands

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Input: But inspectors also questioned Iraq's motivation, as it began to give the inspectors what they wanted only when the threat of war became immediate

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Input: U.S. President George W. Bush said the reports indicated that only a war will make Iraq disarm

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Input: Iraq, however, took the report as an endorsement of its work and argued not only that war plans should be canceled, but that sanctions imposed on it by the Security Council for its 1990 invasion of Kuwait should be removed

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Input: Iraq, however, took the report as an endorsement of its work and argued not only that war plans should be canceled, but that sanctions imposed on it by the Security Council for its 1990 invasion of Kuwait should be removed

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Input: Saddam has long claimed Iraq destroyed all its weapons of mass destruction. The United States and Britain claim he's lying, and have assembled a quarter-million troops around Iraq for a possible invasion

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Iraq

a quarter-million troops


Input: Despite Iraq's demands of the Security Council, diplomats were working hard on very different proposals: a U.S.-led plan for disarmament or war by March 17, and a rival French plan for an emergency summit of Security Council members to come up with a compromise

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March 17


Input: If the resolution is not passed, Washington would likely want to use the airspace for strikes against Iraq and for airlifting troops to northern Iraq

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Washington

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Iraq


Input: Iraqi Kurds fear that Turkish troops could move deep into the autonomous enclave in northern Iraq and have threatened clashes

clashes

Iraqi Kurds

Turkish troops

the autonomous enclave in northern Iraq


Input: Refusing access to the troop deployment would mean Turkey would lose a US$15 billion U.S. aid package that Washington has offered to help cushion the country's economy if there is war

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Input: A furious Justice party member, Fehmi Husrev Kutlu, rushed toward Ozkan, bumping into him and sending his eyeglasses flying, Anatolia reported

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Ozkan


Input: Other legislators surrounded the two to head off a brawl

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Input: As European Union leaders restated their opposing views on Iraq, their foreign ministers debated the impending U.S.-led war against Iraq with EU president Greece keeping up appearances with a pledge to pursue a last ditch effort to avoid war

As European Union leaders restated their opposing views on Iraq, their foreign ministers debated the impending U.S.-led war against Iraq with EU president Greece keeping up appearances with a pledge to pursue a last ditch effort to avoid war

U.S

Iraq


Input: As European Union leaders restated their opposing views on Iraq, their foreign ministers debated the impending U.S.-led war against Iraq with EU president Greece keeping up appearances with a pledge to pursue a last ditch effort to avoid war

As European Union leaders restated their opposing views on Iraq, their foreign ministers debated the impending U.S.-led war against Iraq with EU president Greece keeping up appearances with a pledge to pursue a last ditch effort to avoid war

Iraq

U.S


Input: Britain, Spain, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands and Portugal back the United States while France and Germany lead a group of nations opposing military action

Britain, Spain, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands and Portugal back the United States while France and Germany lead a group of nations opposing military action

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Input: British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw remained in London for a debate in which the Blair government sought parliamentary approval for its decision to use ``all means necessary'' to disarm Saddam

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw remained in London for a debate in which the Blair government sought parliamentary approval for its decision to use ``all means necessary'' to disarm Saddam

Blair government

Saddam


Input: French President Jacques Chirac said war without U.N blessing would undermine future disarmament efforts

French President Jacques Chirac said war without U.N blessing would undermine future disarmament efforts


Input: ``Does the threat posed by the Iraqi dictator justify a war, which is sure to kill thousands of innocent children, women and men

``Does the threat posed by the Iraqi dictator justify a war, which is sure to kill thousands of innocent children, women and men


Input: Solana said the EU would help in the humanitarian crisis expected to follow an attack on Iraq

Solana said the EU would help in the humanitarian crisis expected to follow an attack on Iraq

Iraq


Input: The EU is set to release 20 million euros (US$21.5 million) in immediate humanitarian aid for Iraq if war breaks out and may dip into an ``emergency reserve'' of 250 million euros (US$269 million) for humanitarian relief

The EU is set to release 20 million euros (US$21.5 million) in immediate humanitarian aid for Iraq if war breaks out and may dip into an ``emergency reserve'' of 250 million euros (US$269 million) for humanitarian relief

Iraq

Iraq


Input: The Dutch government, facing strong public anti-war pressure, said it would not commit fighting forces to the war against Iraq but added it supported the military campaign to disarm Saddam

The Dutch government, facing strong public anti-war pressure, said it would not commit fighting forces to the war against Iraq but added it supported the military campaign to disarm Saddam


Input: The Dutch government, facing strong public anti-war pressure, said it would not commit fighting forces to the war against Iraq but added it supported the military campaign to disarm Saddam

The Dutch government, facing strong public anti-war pressure, said it would not commit fighting forces to the war against Iraq but added it supported the military campaign to disarm Saddam

Saddam


Input: In neutral Switzerland, Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey said the United States' decision to proceed with military action weakened the United Nations

In neutral Switzerland, Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey said the United States' decision to proceed with military action weakened the United Nations

the United Nations


Input: Earlier Saturday, Baghdad was again targeted, one day after a massive U.S. aerial bombardment in which more than 300 Tomahawk cruise missiles rained down on the capital

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Baghdad


Input: The battle for Basra, an oil hub of some 1.3 million people, was underway by midday, with coalition troops trying to surround Iraqi positions and force a surrender

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Iraqi positions


Input: U.S. aircraft bombed Iraqi tanks holding bridges close to the city

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U.S. aircraft

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bridges close to the city


Input: Iraqi forces responded with artillery fire

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Iraqi forces


Input: Earlier Saturday, Baghdad was again targeted, one day after a massive U.S. aerial bombardment in which more than 300 Tomahawk cruise missiles rained down on the capital

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one day

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more than 300 Tomahawk cruise missiles

the capital


Input: The nine-story Security Headquarters in the Iraqi capital took a direct hit, strewing bricks, masonry and glass across the street in the al-Salhiya neighborhood of central Baghdad

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The nine-story Security Headquarters in the Iraqi capital

the Iraqi capital

the al-Salhiya neighborhood of central Baghdad


Input: Saturday morning, American Marines and British troops rumbled along the main road from the Kuwaiti border to Basra, Highway 80, nicknamed the ``Highway of Death'' during the 1991 Gulf War, when U.S. airstrikes wiped out an Iraqi military convoy along it

wiped out

the main road from the Kuwaiti border to Basra

Highway 80

the ``Highway of Death

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an Iraqi military convoy


Input: Iraqis mostly fought back with small arms, pistols, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades

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Iraqis

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machine guns

rocket-propelled grenades


Input: Other units moved into airfield complexes in western Iraq believed to have Scud missiles capable of reaching Israel, and possibly weapons of mass destruction

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Scud missiles capable of reaching Israel

Israel


Input: Australian commandos, who have been operating deep in Iraq, destroyed a command and control post and killed a number of soldiers, according to the country's defense chief, Gen. Peter Cosgrove

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Australian commandos, who have been operating deep in Iraq

Iraq

a command and control post


Input: In an address Saturday, Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf told Iraqis that fighting had been ``fierce

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Input: He claimed Iraqi troops had destroyed five tanks

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Iraqi troops

five tanks


Input: Hoon said Saddam's regime was crumbling under the pressure of a huge air assault

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Saddam's regime


Input: Despite the heavy bombing, which the U.S. Central Command said targeted military command and control installations, the Iraqi regime gave no sign of quitting

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military command and control installations


Input: Bombers have also hit targets in the northern cities of Mosul, Kirkuk and Tikrit, Saddam's hometown

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Bombers

the northern cities of Mosul, Kirkuk and Tikrit, Saddam's hometown

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Kirkuk

Tikrit


Input: Fourteen Iraqis, the first handful of official refugees from that war-besieged land, crossed the Syrian border on Sunday northwest of Mosul, a northern Iraqi city under U.S. bombardment, the U.N. refugee agency reported

Fourteen Iraqis, the first handful of official refugees from that war-besieged land, crossed the Syrian border on Sunday northwest of Mosul, a northern Iraqi city under U.S. bombardment, the U.N. refugee agency reported

northwest of Mosul, a northern Iraqi city under U.S. bombardment

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Input: An expected exodus of refugees from Iraq has not yet materialized in the four-day-old war

An expected exodus of refugees from Iraq has not yet materialized in the four-day-old war

Iraq

four-day-old


Input: As the trucks lumbered past blasted buildings on the Iraq-Kuwait border, an Iraqi boy of about 10 pointed to his mouth and shouted ``Eat, eat

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blasted buildings on the Iraq-Kuwait border

the Iraq-Kuwait border


Input: Plans to bring supplies to Iraqi civilians had been on hold for days because of fighting across southern Iraq

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southern Iraq


Input: White House spokesman Ari Fleischer blamed Saddam Hussein's regime for slowing the flow of US$105 million in U.S. aid by placing mines in the port of Umm Qasr

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Saddam Hussein

Saddam Hussein's regime

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the port of Umm Qasr


Input: Iraqi Trade Minister Mohammed Mehdi Saleh accused the United States and Britain of causing the hardships by launching the war and disrupting shipments of supplies under the oil-for-food program

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the United States

Britain


Input: Pentagon officials had hoped to have the Army's 4th Infantry Division invade Iraq from the north, but Turkey balked at allowing up to 62,000 U.S. troops on its soil to prepare for that option

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the Army's 4th Infantry Division

Iraq


Input: Kurdish militiamen and U.S. special operations troops linked up with more than 1,000 U.S. Army paratroopers Thursday to secure the area around a strategic air strip, as the first large coalition ground force in northern Iraq began opening another front against Saddam Hussein's regime

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Saddam Hussein's regime


Input: ``This tightens the noose against Saddam's forces battling coalition forces to the south,'' Brig. Gen. James Parker, commander of U.S. forces in the north

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Saddam's forces battling coalition forces to the south

coalition forces to the south


Input: Giving cover for the deployment, U.S. warplanes struck Iraqi ground troops and bunkers in northern Iraq

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U.S. warplanes

Iraqi ground troops

bunkers in northern Iraq


Input: Three waves of combat planes from the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt hit ``ground troops, command and control bunkers, artillery positions and ... a surface to air missile battery,'' said Lt. John Oliveira, the ship's public affair officer

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Three waves of combat planes from the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt

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command and control bunkers

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a surface to air missile battery


Input: Around dawn Thursday, strikes resumed, with a massive explosion just outside the Kurdish zone close to the village of Kalak

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Around dawn Thursday

the Kurdish zone close to the village of Kalak


Input: Warplanes pounded forward Iraqi positions in the hills overlooking Chamchamal, 35 kilometers (22 miles) east of the key oil city of Kirkuk

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forward Iraqi positions in the hills overlooking Chamchamal, 35 kilometers (22 miles) east of the key oil city of Kirkuk


Input: The country's parliament voted this month to allow U.S.-led coalition forces to use Italian air space and military bases	_  but not for directs attacks on Iraq

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U.S.-led coalition forces

Italian air space and military bases

Italian air space and military bases

Iraq


Input: Pentagon officials have said for weeks they would have U.S. forces in northern Iraq to open another front against Saddam's forces

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U.S. forces in northern Iraq

northern Iraq

Saddam's forces


Input: Though no hostilities were expected during the deployment, the 173rd decided to parachute in rather then ferry troops in by plane so that a significant combat force could mass almost immediately to protect itself, officers said, according to a U.S. reporter traveling with the 173rd

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the 173rd


Input: Toefting was convicted in October 2002 of assaulting a pair of restaurant workers during a night out with national squad teammates in the capital, Copenhagen

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Input: In 1999 he was given a 20-day suspended sentence for assaulting a fan who berated him for playing with German club Duisburg

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Input: U.S. defense officials also were investigating whether a Navy Hornet jet that crashed Wednesday was shot down by a U.S. Patriot missile

U.S. defense officials also were investigating whether a Navy Hornet jet that crashed Wednesday was shot down by a U.S. Patriot missile

a Navy Hornet jet

a U.S. Patriot missile


Input: U.S. soldiers moved to capture Baghdad's Saddam International Airport early Friday and fought running battles with Iraqi defenders along the city's southern fringes

U.S. soldiers moved to capture Baghdad's Saddam International Airport early Friday and fought running battles with Iraqi defenders along the city's southern fringes

U.S. soldiers

early Friday

Iraqi defenders

the city's southern fringes


Input: There was fierce fighting in Kut, to the south of Baghdad, where desperate Iraqis armed with rifles charged tanks in a suicide raid. ``We mowed down'' the attackers, said Lt. Col. B.P. McCoy

There was fierce fighting in Kut, to the south of Baghdad, where desperate Iraqis armed with rifles charged tanks in a suicide raid. ``We mowed down'' the attackers, said Lt. Col. B.P. McCoy

Kut


Input: There was fierce fighting in Kut, to the south of Baghdad, where desperate Iraqis armed with rifles charged tanks in a suicide raid. ``We mowed down'' the attackers, said Lt. Col. B.P. McCoy

There was fierce fighting in Kut, to the south of Baghdad, where desperate Iraqis armed with rifles charged tanks in a suicide raid. ``We mowed down'' the attackers, said Lt. Col. B.P. McCoy

Kut

desperate Iraqis armed with rifles

rifles

tanks


Input: Despite declarations that more tough fighting lies ahead, the top U.S. military official indicated there may not be an all-out battle for Baghdad

Despite declarations that more tough fighting lies ahead, the top U.S. military official indicated there may not be an all-out battle for Baghdad

Baghdad


Input: Despite declarations that more tough fighting lies ahead, the top U.S. military official indicated there may not be an all-out battle for Baghdad

Despite declarations that more tough fighting lies ahead, the top U.S. military official indicated there may not be an all-out battle for Baghdad

Baghdad


Input: Two weeks into the war, American commanders reported a string of successes  _  on the battlefield and within an Iraqi population initially reluctant about embracing invading troops

Two weeks into the war, American commanders reported a string of successes  _  on the battlefield and within an Iraqi population initially reluctant about embracing invading troops


Input: Tracer rounds lit the night sky and artillery boomed near the airport a few kilometers (miles) from the heart of President Saddam Hussein's capital of 5 million people

Tracer rounds lit the night sky and artillery boomed near the airport a few kilometers (miles) from the heart of President Saddam Hussein's capital of 5 million people

Tracer rounds

night

artillery

the airport a few kilometers (miles) from the heart of President Saddam Hussein's capital of 5 million people


Input: At one stage, it appeared that U.S. forces had taken control of the airport, ``and then it got more confusing with continued fighting, Myers said Thursday night

At one stage, it appeared that U.S. forces had taken control of the airport, ``and then it got more confusing with continued fighting, Myers said Thursday night

U.S. forces

the airport

the airport


Input: Along the city's southern edge, U.S. tanks and Bradley vehicles destroyed at least seven Iraqi armored personnel carriers and more than 15 Iraqi tanks in fighting that went on for more than four hours

Along the city's southern edge, U.S. tanks and Bradley vehicles destroyed at least seven Iraqi armored personnel carriers and more than 15 Iraqi tanks in fighting that went on for more than four hours

the city's southern edge

U.S

U.S. tanks

Bradley vehicles

at least seven Iraqi armored personnel carriers

at least seven Iraqi armored personnel carriers

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more than 15 Iraqi tanks

more than 15 Iraqi tanks

more than four hours


Input: Two weeks into the war, American commanders reported a string of successes  _  on the battlefield and within an Iraqi population initially reluctant about embracing invading troops

Two weeks into the war, American commanders reported a string of successes  _  on the battlefield and within an Iraqi population initially reluctant about embracing invading troops

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American commanders


Input: Two Marines were killed and one injured in the close-quarters fighting in Kut

Two Marines were killed and one injured in the close-quarters fighting in Kut

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Input: ``Fight them with your hands

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Input: As conventional units fought their way to the outskirts of the capital, officials said special forces had raided the Tharthar presidential palace near Tikrit, Saddam's hometown

As conventional units fought their way to the outskirts of the capital, officials said special forces had raided the Tharthar presidential palace near Tikrit, Saddam's hometown

As conventional units

the outskirts of the capital


Input: As conventional units fought their way to the outskirts of the capital, officials said special forces had raided the Tharthar presidential palace near Tikrit, Saddam's hometown

As conventional units fought their way to the outskirts of the capital, officials said special forces had raided the Tharthar presidential palace near Tikrit, Saddam's hometown

special forces

the Tharthar presidential palace

Tikrit


Input: To the far north, U.S. special forces and Kurdish militiamen captured the town of Bardarash and a nearby bridge, one of few routes into the city of Mosul near government-held oil fields

To the far north, U.S. special forces and Kurdish militiamen captured the town of Bardarash and a nearby bridge, one of few routes into the city of Mosul near government-held oil fields

U.S. special forces

Kurdish militiamen

the town of Bardarash


Input: In the country's southern region, British forces penetrated closer to the center of Basra, and warplanes dropped 500-pound (225-kilogram) and 1,000-pound (450-kilogram) laser-guided bombs on an Iraqi intelligence complex

In the country's southern region, British forces penetrated closer to the center of Basra, and warplanes dropped 500-pound (225-kilogram) and 1,000-pound (450-kilogram) laser-guided bombs on an Iraqi intelligence complex

British forces

Basra

warplanes

500-pound (225-kilogram) and 1,000-pound (450-kilogram) laser-guided bombs

an Iraqi intelligence complex


Input: American and British helicopters and planes bombed positions in Kut, and Marines and Iraqis lobbed grenades at close quarters

American and British helicopters and planes bombed positions in Kut, and Marines and Iraqis lobbed grenades at close quarters

American

American and British helicopters and planes

British

positions in Kut

Kut


Input: American and British helicopters and planes bombed positions in Kut, and Marines and Iraqis lobbed grenades at close quarters

American and British helicopters and planes bombed positions in Kut, and Marines and Iraqis lobbed grenades at close quarters

Kut

Marines

Marines

Iraqis

Iraqis

grenades


Input: Between 10 and 15 Iraqis armed only with rifles charged Marine tanks in the suicide charge

Between 10 and 15 Iraqis armed only with rifles charged Marine tanks in the suicide charge

Between 10 and 15 Iraqis armed only with rifles

rifles

Marine tanks