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# IRAQIS OUST ERRATIC MP: Sunni pol Mahmoud Mashhadani is to be replaced after a series of bizarre incidents, in the latest of which he allegedly ordered bodyguards to beat a fellow MP.

# Photo of the Day: Terrorists used an armored vehicle marked "TV and Press" in both English and Arabic to attack the guard tower installation at Kissufim border crossing in Gaza. Posted by Mike Carney at the On Deadline Blog in USAToday.

# TALEBAN'S EX-MEDIA CHIEF DEFECTS:
... Ishaq Nizami now supports Karzai Govt.

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