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Thousands of pages of internal e-mails and once-secret congressional testimony show that Karl Rove and other senior aides in the Bush White House played an earlier and more active role than was previously known in the 2006 firings of a number of U.S. attorneys. Aides to former President George W. Bush have said that the Justice Department took the lead in the dismissals, which triggered a months-long political firestorm. Rove downplayed his own role in the firings in a recent interview and in closed testimony last month before congressional investigators. The documents, released Tuesday by the

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AP – Helicopter-borne U.S. Marines backed by Harrier jets stormed into a Taliban-held town in southern Afghanistan before dawn Wednesday and exchanged heavy fire with insurgents, killing at least seven.

Original post by AFP and software by Elliott Back

AP – Helicopter-borne U.S. Marines backed by Harrier jets stormed into a strategic Taliban-held town in southern Afghanistan before dawn Wednesday, battling to gain control of the area ahead of next week’s presidential elections.

Original post by AFP and software by Elliott Back