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So the Turks blew that Russian fighter plane out of the sky. Ooooh, said the internet, panting a bit, it’s World War Three. Which sounds rather over-dramatic. It’s probably all quite simple when you look at it logically.

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The Pentagon’s ‘attack dog’, Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, was named by US President George Bush yesterday to take over as head of the World Bank.

Thu, 17 Mar, 2005

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Chilling TV pictures of Iraqi prisoners being tortured and abused by US soldiers will damage Britain and signal the “end of the story” for America in Iraq, it was claimed today.

Fri, 30 Apr, 2004

America 'on verge of new terror outrage'

The group which claimed responsibility for the Madrid train massacre threatened that America was on the verge of another deadly terror attack.

Fri, 12 Mar, 2004

Iraq will be governed by Iraqis, vows Rumsfeld

US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld pledged during an unannounced visit to Iraq yesterday that his troops would leave as soon as possible, but fresh bloodshed erupted at an anti-American protest.

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