Good News Week (by Hedgehoppers Anonymous)
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Someone dropped a bomb somewhere contaminating atmosphere
and blackening the sky 11/19/05 startribune: Sunnis and Shiites are segregating themselves
Two and a half years after the U.S. invasion, deep divides that have long split Iraqi society have come apart violently. As the hatred between Sunni Arabs and Shiites hardens and the relentless toll of bombings and assassinations grows...
11/19/05 independent: British-trained police in Iraq 'killed prisoners with drills'
British-trained police operating in Basra have tortured at least two civilians to death with electric drills, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.
11/19/05 CENTCOM: TASK FORCE TIKRIT SOLDIERS KILLED IN IED ATTACKS (confirmed)
Five Soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division were killed in action, and five were wounded, Nov. 19 in two separate improvised explosive device attacks on U.S. patrols in the vicinity of Bayji.
11/19/05 Reuters: Bombs kill five U.S. soldiers in northern Iraq
Two improvised bombs killed five U.S. army soldiers patrolling near the Iraqi town of Baiji on Saturday, and wounded another five, the U.S. military said. The soldiers were from the 101st Airborne Division, the military said.
11/19/05 UPI: More than 20 killed in Iraq violence
Iraqi police sources said a booby-trapped car exploded in a crowded market in southern Baghdad, killing more than 20 people...a second car blew up in a busy street in central Baghdad targeting an Iraqi police patrol, killing three people
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Someone's found a way to give the rotting dead a will to live,
go on and never die 11/19/05 DPA: Gunmen dressed in Iraqi army uniforms kill 4
In Iskandaria, 60 kilometres south of Baghdad, gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms attacked a house and killed four persons, including the father, two of his sons and a relative. The police also said that another relative was also injured by the attackers.
11/19/05 AP: Shiites, Kurds Walk Out Of Iraqi Talks
Shiite and Kurdish delegates stormed out of an Iraqi reconciliation conference Saturday, halting the effort to patch over ethnic and religious fault lines threatening to drag the country into a full civil war.
11/19/05 BBC: New study details Iraq insurgency
Up to 3,000 foreign insurgents may be fighting in Iraq, but they remain a small part of the overall rebellion, a US military analyst has suggested.
11/19/05 Reuters: Car bombs kill 48 in Iraq (update)
Car bombs killed at least 48 people in Iraq on Saturday, a day after more than 80 died in suicide blasts across the country and as U.S. President George W. Bush pledged never to relent in his war on terror.
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What's the weather like today? 11/19/05 AP: Four Police Killed in Mosul
Iraqi police and U.S. soldiers surrounded a house in Mosul...Almost immediately a fierce fire fight broke out and three of the insurgents detonated explosives and killed themselves...while four police officers were also killed, he added.
11/19/05 CENTCOM: SECOND SOLDIER DIES OF INJURIES IN DELIBERATE ATTACK
A second Task Force Band of Brothers’ Soldier died from injuries sustained in an attack Nov. 17. The 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division Soldier was medically evacuated to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany Nov. 18 where he died.
11/19/05 Reuters: Motar rounds fired at house of the Diyalah governor
Police said six mortar rounds landed on the house of the Diyalah governor in the east of Baquba, wounding two of his bodyguards.
11/19/05 Reuters: More violence in Baghdad
3 policemen were wounded when gunmen attacked their patrol along a highway in eastern Baghdad, police said. Eleven civilians and three policemen were wounded when a suicide bomber in a car attacked a police patrol in central Baghdad, police said
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Lots of blood in Iraq now they've butchered up the sacred cow,
they've got a lot to eat 11/19/05 Reuters: Former Baath party member assassinated
A former member of Saddam Hussein's Baath party was assassinated by gunmen in Kerbala, 110 km (68 miles) southwest of Baghdad, police said.
11/19/05 Reuters: Eight insurgents killed in Mosul
Eight insurgents, including a woman, were killed, in clashes between joint U.S-Iraqi forces and gunmen occupying a house in the northern city of Mosul, police said. Four more insurgents were arrested
11/19/05 AP: 2 Policemen killed in Baquba
In other violence, insurgents killed two policemen and a passerby in an attack on a checkpoint in Baquba,...police said. Three more policemen and two civilians were wounded in the attack which involved small arms and rocket fire.
11/19/05 NYT: House Erupts Over Iraq
Republicans and Democrats shouted, howled and slung vicious insults on the House floor on Friday as a debate over whether to withdraw American troops from Iraq descended into a vitriolic fury over President Bush's handling of the war...
11/19/05 Xinhuanet: Car bomb hits police patrol in central Baghdad
A car bomb exploded near a policepatrol in Saadoun Street in central Baghdad on Saturday, wounding five Iraqis, including three policemen, an Interior Ministry source said
It's Good News Week
Doctors finding many ways of wrapping brains on metal trays
to keep us from the heat 
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