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  3. data/LICENSE +32 -0
  4. data/README.rdoc +68 -0
  5. data/Rakefile +95 -0
  6. data/VERSION +1 -0
  7. data/bin/pismo +36 -0
  8. data/lib/pismo/document.rb +50 -0
  9. data/lib/pismo/external_attributes.rb +14 -0
  10. data/lib/pismo/internal_attributes.rb +202 -0
  11. data/lib/pismo/readability.rb +316 -0
  12. data/lib/pismo/stopwords.txt +893 -0
  13. data/lib/pismo.rb +44 -0
  14. data/pismo.gemspec +92 -0
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  18. data/test/corpus/factor.html +1362 -0
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  20. data/test/corpus/metadata_expected.yaml +81 -0
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  26. data/test/helper.rb +15 -0
  27. data/test/test_corpus.rb +33 -0
  28. data/test/test_pismo_document.rb +34 -0
  29. data/test/test_readability.rb +152 -0
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+ <p>The Obama administration is hoping to reverse that trend as an additional 30,000 American and 7,000 NATO troops pour into the conflict in coming months. But "the more soldiers they send here, the worse it gets," said 19-year-old carpet seller Hamid Hashimi.</p>
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+ <p>In the year after the Taliban fell, international forces numbered a modest 12,000 or so. Today that figure has swollen to well over 100,000 and will approach 140,000 with the latest troop commitments. There are also 100,000 Defense Department contractors supporting the military effort, according to U.S. lawmakers.</p>
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+ <p>The war &ndash; once mostly limited to Pakistan border &ndash; has spread to nearly ever corner of the country. It has also penetrated the frontier-like capital, where car bombings or other spectacular attacks like the October storming of a guest house filled with U.N. staff make news every couple of weeks.</p>
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+ <p>In retrospect, there wasn't much of a break.</p>
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+ <p>"In those days people had hope, but unfortunately everything has turned upside down since then," said Hanif Hangam, who stars in an Afghan comedy TV show called Alarm Bell. "People expected things to go forward, but we've just been sliding back."</p>
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+ <p>The irony is that so much has changed in Kabul.</p>
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+ <p>A vast sea of blown-out buildings in the west of the city has been completely rebuilt. Multistory shopping malls encased in glass symbolize a newfound prosperity, towering above streets lined with travel agencies, internet cafes, and even Afghan Fried Chicken, a local fast-food chain.</p>
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+ <p>At night, rainbow-colored flashing palm trees climb the walls of splashy new wedding halls. Newly connected electricity lines light up mountainsides ringing the capital, whose population has tripled in the last eight years to 4.5 million as millions of refugees returned.</p>
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+ <p>Residents are also embracing freedoms anew: a majority of women have shed the once-ubiquitous blue burqas mandated by the Taliban in favor of flashy headscarves that shine in the night. And from one state TV channel in 2001, there are now more than 20 private stations with 3-D graphics and talk shows that rival any abroad.</p>
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+ <p>"People can finally can talk openly about what's gone wrong," Hangam said of the media boom. "They can criticize the government and warlords, point out corruption. But unfortunately, nobody is listening. We never see anything change."</p>
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+ <p>Indeed, the news today is the same as it was eight years previous, there is just more of it: Car bombs and rockets rock Kabul. Civilians die accidentally in U.S. air strikes. Afghan security forces are in dire need of training. The opium trade is booming.</p>
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+ <p>And just like 2001, President Hamid Karzai is derided as the "mayor of Kabul" by critics who say his authority doesn't extend much further than the city limits.</p>
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+ <p>"It's a disaster," said Ramazan Bashardost, a lawmaker who came in a distant third in the country's botched August election, which was marred by fraud so widespread a third of Karzai's ballots were thrown out. "The situation is getting worse every day for ordinary Afghans."</p>
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+ <p>According to Bashardost, about 80 percent of the country is without electricity and unemployment is 60 percent. Many families can only afford to eat once a day and corruption is so rampant, "it's practically legal," he said.</p>
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+ <p>"People ask, 'What has democracy brought?'" he said. Besides helping keep warlords accused of war crimes in power, Bashardost added, "the answer is: insecurity."</p>
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+ <p>Guerrilla attacks have made even provinces surrounding the capital unsafe. Hashimi said his family owns land in Wardak province, which neighbors the city, but he hasn't been home in years because the roads are too dangerous.</p>
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+ <p>Alongside billboards advertising modern utilities like BlackBerry smartphones are others hawking armored transport. The local "Scene" magazine includes ads for shops selling bulletproof vests, and most of the people pictured inside its "Party Scene" section are foreign correspondents who came to cover the war.</p>
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+ <p>Downtown, protective blast walls have grown larger outside U.S. and U.N. facilities, and some streets have been closed to public traffic. Helmeted soldiers peek out of sandbagged guard posts at government ministries. Residents like Hashimi cringe whenever they walk past &ndash; fearful the offices will be targeted by bombers.</p>
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+ <p>Outside Thai and Indian restaurants in one posh neighborhood, bodyguards in black suits stand in the middle of streets like gangsters, holding small, uzi-like automatic weapons as officials climb into black SUVs with tinted windows. And when security prevents dining out, the Wakhan cafe has signs that say: "Locked Down! No problems" &ndash; they deliver.</p>
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+ <p>The U.S. Congressional Research Service said in a recent report that foreign assistance pledged to Afghanistan since 2001 has topped $58 billion, about $38 billion of it from the U.S. alone.</p>
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+
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+ <p>But "what happened to all this money?" said Bashardost. "Has garbage been cleaned up? Have all the streets been paved?"</p>
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+ <p>Many think some of those funds have been diverted to places like the city's Shirpoor neighborhood, where the powerful clique Washington brought to power eight years ago bulldozed dozens of crumbling mud-brick homes occupied by squatters and divvied the land among cronies.</p>
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+ <p>Residents deride the gaudy mirrored mansions as "poppy palaces" because they are believed to have also been constructed in part with money from the drug trade. Few believe their owners could have built them with paltry official salaries; they cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and rent for $20,000 per month.</p>
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+ <p>"We've built a lot of buildings," lawmaker Shukria Barakzai said with a sigh at a recent government ceremony commemorating the deaths of thousands of Afghan police and soldiers. "But we've lost a lot of hope."</p>
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+ KABUL &amp;mdash; The man on the motorcycle was going the wrong way down a one-way street, gesturing indignantly for the phalanx of traffic-clogged cars in front of him to move.
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+ &quot;Brother, why are you ang... </div>
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+ KABUL &amp;mdash; The man on the motorcycle was going the wrong way down a one-way street, gesturing indignantly for the phalanx of traffic-clogged cars in front of him to move.
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+ &quot;Brother, why are you ang... </div>
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+ <strong>Related News On Huffington Post:</strong>
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+ <img class="link_entry_image" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/131858/thumbs/s-MIDEAST-SYRIA-YEMEN-mini.jpg" title="Yemen-al Qaida Talks?"/>
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+ <td class="link_entry_text" style="vertical-align: top;">
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+ <b>
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+ <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/10/yemens-president-open-to-_n_417882.html">Yemen's President Open To al-Qaida Talks</a>
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+ </b>
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+ <div>
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+ SAN'A, Yemen &mdash; Yemen's president said he is ready to talk to al-Qaida members who renounce violence, suggesting he could show them the same kind...
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+ <div style="display: none" id='related_news_2' name='related_news_2'> <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="5"><tr><td valign="top">
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+ <img class="link_entry_image" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/130170/thumbs/s-OBAMA-mini.jpg" title="No U.S. Troops To Yemen"/>
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+ </td>
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+ <td class="link_entry_text" style="vertical-align: top;">
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+ <b>
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+ <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/10/obama-no-intention-to-sen_n_417809.html">Obama: 'No Intention' To Send U.S. Troops To Yemen, Somalia</a>
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+ <div>
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+ WASHINGTON &mdash; President Barack Obama says he has no intention of sending American troops to Yemen or Somalia. Obama told People magazine in an interview...
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+ <div style="display: none" id='related_news_3' name='related_news_3'> <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="5"><tr><td valign="top">
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+ <img class="link_entry_image" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/131817/thumbs/s-JACK-REED-mini.jpg" title="Obama Tougher Than Bush"/>
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+
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+ </td>
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+ <td class="link_entry_text" style="vertical-align: top;">
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+ <b>
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+ <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/10/sen-jack-reed-obama-more_n_417666.html">Sen. Jack Reed: Obama More Focused On Terrorism Than Bush</a>
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+ </b>
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+ <div>
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+ In what was a noteworthy remark precisely because it is made so infrequently, a top Senate Democrats insisted on Sunday that President Barack Obama has...
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+ <div style="display: none" id='related_news_4' name='related_news_4'> <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="5"><tr><td valign="top">
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+ <img class="link_entry_image" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/131815/thumbs/s-RUPERT-HAMER-mini.jpg" title="UK Loses First Journo"/>
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+ </td>
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+ <td class="link_entry_text" style="vertical-align: top;">
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+ <b>
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+ <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/10/rupert-hamer-dies-in-blas_n_417670.html">Rupert Hamer Dies In Blast: First British Journalist Killed In Afghanistan</a>
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+ </b>
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+ <div>
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+ LONDON &mdash; An explosion outside a village in southern Afghanistan killed a U.S. Marine and a veteran war correspondent who became the first British journalist...
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+ </td></tr></table>
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+ <div style="display: none" id='related_news_5' name='related_news_5'> <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="5"><tr><td valign="top">
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+ <img class="link_entry_image" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/91779/thumbs/s-PANETTA-mini.jpg" title="Panetta Defends CIA"/>
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+
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+ </td>
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+ <td class="link_entry_text" style="vertical-align: top;">
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+ <b>
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+ <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/10/cia-director-leon-panetta_n_417650.html">CIA Director Leon Panetta Defends Agency After Afghanistan Bomb Attack</a>
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+ </b>
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+ <div>
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+ The horrible news Dec. 30 that a suicide bomber had taken seven American lives in Afghanistan may have been for some a stark reminder that...
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+ </div>
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+ </td></tr></table>
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+ </div>
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+ <div style="display: none" id='related_news_6' name='related_news_6'> <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="5"><tr><td valign="top">
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+ <img class="link_entry_image" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/58822/thumbs/s-NEW-NEW-TALKING-HEADS-mini.jpg" title="Sunday Morning Blah Blah"/>
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+
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+ </td>
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+ <td class="link_entry_text" style="vertical-align: top;">
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+ <b>
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+ <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/10/tv-soundoff-sunday-talkin_n_417651.html">TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads</a>
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+ </b>
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+ <div>
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+ Welcome to your liveblog of those televised events that unfold on the Sunday morning chatfests as you sleep and dream. Michael Steele is supposed to be on one of these shows today. Hopefully that will be magical.
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+ <div style="display: none" id='related_news_7' name='related_news_7'> <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="5"><tr><td valign="top">
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+ <img class="link_entry_image" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/131807/thumbs/s-SNL-SALEH-mini.jpg" title="SNL Takes On Yemen"/>
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+ </td>
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+ <td class="link_entry_text" style="vertical-align: top;">
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+ <b>
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+ <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/10/snl-takes-on-terror-tacti_n_417648.html">SNL Takes On Terror Tactics In Yemen (VIDEO)</a>
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+ </b>
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+ <div>
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+ SNL opened last night with a sketch taking on the nation's decision to send funds to Yemen. In the press conference announcing the agreement, President...
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+ </div>
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+ <div style="display: none" id='related_news_8' name='related_news_8'> <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="5"><tr><td valign="top">
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+ <img class="link_entry_image" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/131743/thumbs/s-CIA-BOMBER-mini.jpg" title="CIA Bomber Video"/>
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+
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+ </td>
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+ <td class="link_entry_text" style="vertical-align: top;">
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+ <b>
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+ <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/09/cia-bomber-humam-khalil-a_n_417256.html">CIA Bomber, Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi, Calls For Attacks On US In Video</a>
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+ </b>
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+ <div>
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+ KABUL &mdash; In a video broadcast after his death, the Jordanian suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees sits cross-legged on the floor next to...
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+ </div>
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+ </td></tr></table>
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+ </div>
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+ <div style="display: none" id='related_news_9' name='related_news_9'> <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="5"><tr><td valign="top">
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+ <img class="link_entry_image" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/131653/thumbs/s-UMAR-FAROUK-ABDULMUTALLAB-mini.jpg" title="Not Guilty Plea In Attack"/>
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+ </td>
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+ <td class="link_entry_text" style="vertical-align: top;">
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+ <b>
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+ <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/08/umar-farouk-abdulmutallab_2_n_416661.html">Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab Pleads Not Guilty</a>
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+ </b>
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+ <div>
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+ DETROIT &mdash; A Nigerian man accused of trying to ignite an explosive on a Detroit-bound U.S. airliner on Christmas appeared before a judge for the...
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+ </td></tr></table>
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+ <img class="link_entry_image" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/87725/thumbs/s-NEDA-mini.jpg" title="Iran Denies Neda Murder"/>
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+ </td>
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+ <td class="link_entry_text" style="vertical-align: top;">
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+ <b>
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+ <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/08/iranian-tv-claims-neda-vi_n_415416.html">Iranian TV Suggests Neda Video A Fake</a>
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+ </b>
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+ <div>
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+ Iran's Press TV has aired a report on a documentary made by the country's state television which suggests that the death of protester Neda Agha-Soltan...
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+ </td></tr></table>
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+ <img class="link_entry_image" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/131549/thumbs/s-G-STEPH-mini.jpg" title="Steph Ignores Rudy Flub"/>
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+ </td>
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+ <td class="link_entry_text" style="vertical-align: top;">
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+ <b>
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+ <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/08/stephanopoulos-forgets-to_n_416190.html">Stephanopoulos Concedes Not Pressing Giuliani On 9/11 Attack Was "Mistake" [UPDATED]</a>
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+ </b>
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+ <div>
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+ UPDATE: Stephanopoulos posted this item on his "Bottom Line" blog: Through his spokesman, Rudy Giuliani has clarified the remarks he made this morning on GMA...
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+ <div style="display: none" id='related_news_12' name='related_news_12'> <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="5"><tr><td valign="top">
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+ <img class="link_entry_image" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/131467/thumbs/s-CIA-BOMBER-mini.jpg" title="Wife Proud Of CIA Bomber"/>
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+
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+ </td>
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+ <td class="link_entry_text" style="vertical-align: top;">
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+ <b>
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+ <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/08/wife-proud-of-cia-bomber_n_415910.html">Wife 'Proud' Of CIA Bomber Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi</a>
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+ </b>
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+ <div>
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+ ISTANBUL &mdash; A Jordanian doctor-turned-suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees at a base in Afghanistan is regarded by his family as a martyr in...
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+ </div>
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+ </td></tr></table>
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+ </div>
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+ <div style="display: none" id='related_news_13' name='related_news_13'> <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="5"><tr><td valign="top">
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+ <img class="link_entry_image" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/131465/thumbs/s-ABDULMUTALLAB-mini.jpg" title="Bomber In Court Today"/>
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+
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+ </td>
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+ <td class="link_entry_text" style="vertical-align: top;">
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+ <b>
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+ <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/08/abdulmutallab-christmas-bomber-court_n_415907.html">Abdulmutallab, Christmas Bomber Suspect, Gets First Day In Court</a>
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+ </b>
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+ <div>
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+ DETROIT (Associated Press) -- Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was tackled by a passenger on board a packed U.S. jetliner on Christmas as flames shot from his...
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+ </div>
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+ </td></tr></table>
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+ <div style="display: none" id='related_news_14' name='related_news_14'> <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="5"><tr><td valign="top">
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+ <img class="link_entry_image" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/131456/thumbs/s-ROBERT-GATES-PENTAGON-mini.jpg" title="Gates Staying At Pentagon"/>
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+ </td>
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+ <td class="link_entry_text" style="vertical-align: top;">
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+ <b>
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+ <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/08/robert-gates-staying-at-p_n_415786.html">Robert Gates Staying At Pentagon Through 2010</a>
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+ </b>
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+ <div>
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+ WASHINGTON &mdash; Defense Secretary Robert Gates, the most prominent Republican in President Barack Obama's inner circle, plans to remain in his Cabinet post for at...
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+ </div>
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+ </td></tr></table>
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+ </div>
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+ <div style="display: none" id='related_news_15' name='related_news_15'> <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="5"><tr><td valign="top">
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+ <img class="link_entry_image" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/131298/thumbs/s-KHALIL-ABUMULAL-ALBALAWI-mini.jpg" title="Bombers Wife &#39;Proud&#39;"/>
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+
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+ </td>
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+ <td class="link_entry_text" style="vertical-align: top;">
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+ <b>
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+ <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/07/cia-base-bombers-wife-i-a_n_414865.html">CIA Base Bomber's Wife: I Am 'Proud' Of My Husband</a>
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+ </b>
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+ <div>
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+ ISTANBUL &mdash; A Jordanian doctor-turned-suicide bomber who killed seven CIA employees at a base in Afghanistan is regarded by his family as a martyr in...
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+ </td></tr></table>
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+ </div>
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+ <div style="display: none" id='related_news_16' name='related_news_16'> <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="5"><tr><td valign="top">
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+ <img class="link_entry_image" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/131383/thumbs/s-OBAMA-SPLASH-mini.jpg" title="Obama On Bomber Report"/>
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+
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+ </td>
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+ <td class="link_entry_text" style="vertical-align: top;">
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+ <b>
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+ <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/07/obama-christmas-bomber-report_n_414309.html">Obama: The Buck Stops With Me</a>
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+ </b>
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+ <div>
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+ WASHINGTON &mdash; President Barack Obama declared Thursday "the buck stops with me" for the nation's security, taking responsibility for failures that led to the near-disastrous...
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+ </div>
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+ <div style="display: none" id='related_news_17' name='related_news_17'> <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="5"><tr><td valign="top">
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+ <img class="link_entry_image" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/92751/thumbs/s-CIA-mini.jpg" title="CIA Bomber &#39;Promsing&#39;"/>
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+
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+ </td>
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+ <td class="link_entry_text" style="vertical-align: top;">
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+ <b>
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+ <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/06/cia-base-bomber-was-uss-m_n_413324.html">CIA Base Bomber Was US's 'Most Promising Informant In Years'</a>
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+ <div>
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+ WASHINGTON -- Before detonating a suicide bomb in Afghanistan last week, a Jordanian militant was considered by American spy agencies to be the most promising...
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+ </div>
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+ </td></tr></table>
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+ </div>
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+ <div style="display: none" id='related_news_18' name='related_news_18'> <table cellpadding="3" cellspacing="5"><tr><td valign="top">
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+ <img class="link_entry_image" src="http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/121002/thumbs/s-BLACKWATER-mini.jpg" title="Blackwater Among CIA Dead"/>
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+ </td>
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+ <td class="link_entry_text" style="vertical-align: top;">
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+ <b>
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+ WASHINGTON &mdash; The deaths of seven CIA employees in Afghanistan probably will not be the last. The U.S. isn't pulling back on covert operations to...
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+ Joe Scarborough, host of MSNBC's Morning Joe, reported Wednesday that a tape exists of the deadly suicide attack on a U.S. base in Afghanistan that...
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