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Fr Oct 6 -

ABOUT IRAQ -

# Patrick Quinn has written
a major article for AP about
the Battle for Baghdad.

*Baghdad is "the center of gravity for the country. Everybody knows that," Gen. George Casey, the top U.S. general in Iraq, told The AP in a recent interview. "The bad guys know it, we know it, the Iraqis know it. So we have to help the Iraqis secure their capital if they're going to go forward."*
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# CONDI
is in the Kurdish north talking to
Prez Barzani about oil revenues.
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# A Kurdish lawmaker, Mohammed Rihda Mahmoud, and his driver were kidnapped from the Seleikh neighborhood of northeastern Baghdad Thursday afternoon, and both were later found dead.

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