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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's president said that even before its enemies "get their hands on the trigger" the country's military would cut them off, media said on Sunday, in a growing war of words that has intensified Middle East tension. But President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also suggested Iran would consider any proposal by the United States for a U.S. interests section in the Islamic Republic, if it was forthcoming. The two countries have not had diplomatic ties since 1980. Amid the mounting tensions over Iran's nuclear plans, U.S. media have reported that the State Department was considering opening an interests section...

Who would viciously attack this woman? Todd Torok, 39, was arrested for the crime and charged with attempted murder, felonious assault and aggravated robbery. Out of prison less than two weeks, Torok has a 9-page rap sheet. Arrested 36 times in his 39 years, Todd Torak has served time in 8 prisons. Charges include burglary, attempted kidnapping,theft, robbery, possession of cocaine and possession of criminal tools. The obvious questions is, why is he out of prison?

Rape victim kills attacker. Threat to also go after daughter, 6, spurs bloody struggle: He came to her house wearing a ski mask and carrying a shotgun. He beat the woman, police say, and raped her. But when the woman's attacker — an old high school friend she had spurned — threatened to rape her 6-year-old daughter, the woman went for a butcher knife. That prompted a violent back-and-forth struggle. She stabbed him. He stabbed her. They fought for perhaps as long as 20 minutes, rolling around on the kitchen floor of the woman's Cherokee County home. When it was...

CHAPEL HILL - A man charged with trying to kill students at the University of North Carolina by driving through a popular campus gathering spot says in a series of letters he does not deserve punishment. He also talks about his youth in Charlotte, referring at one point to a school fight he said he started at Myers Park Traditional Elementary School. And he refers to Mohammed Atta, ringleader of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the United States, aqs "one of my role models." Mohammed Taheri-azar is accused of driving a Jeep Cherokee into a crowd of students gathered at...

Indianapolis, March 22 - "It's not safe like it used to be when we were growing up." Anetra Turner refused to let her 12-year-old daughter's alleged attacker get away. Her daughter went to the family car Tuesday night around 11p.m. She says that's when she fought off a man. The Turners live in the North Oaks Apartments on East 52nd Street. Her daughter ran frantically into their apartment saying a man attacked her. "That's when I came out and ran over here." Anetra chased the suspect through the neighboring apartment building. They ran through a number of doorways. She spotted...

The coming economic crisis. Unemployment. Health care for the poor. The almost 1,500 dead soldiers. The almost 100,000 dead Iraqis. Armstrong Williams and Maggie Gallagher. The Christian Conservative takeover of our nation. The missing 9 billion. The missing weapons of mass destruction. The impending invasion of Iran, and Syria. The total failure to protect us on 9-11.

New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) has long been rumored as desperately seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2008. And while many political observers fully expect the power hungry former First Lady to hit the campaign trail within only a few months of being re-elected as a US Senator in 2006, US News & World report claims to have a confirmation of sorts. From USNews.Com's Washington Whispers: Hillary's in… You don't have to take it from us about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton 's desire to run for president. Her brothers, Hugh and Tony Rodham, say it's true. Friends...

Kerry Previews His General Election Attacks On the day that Senator Kerry emerged as the Democrats’ presumptive nominee, President Bush called to congratulate him. That goodwill gesture has been met by attacks and false statements. John Kerry yesterday, on President Bush: "Let me tell you, we've just begun to fight," Kerry said. "We're going to keep pounding. These guys are the most crooked, you know, lying group I've ever seen. It's scary." Note to Senator Kerry: We don't think you're a crook, but we do think that raising taxes and refusing to acknowledge that the war on terror is actually...

Thursday, March 11, 2004    SMEAR FACTOR Kerry Election Strategy Clear: Smear _________________________________________________________“‘We’re going to keep pounding, let me tell you. We’re just beginning to fight here,’ Kerry said. ‘These guys are the most crooked, you know, lying group I’ve ever seen. It’s scary.’”  (Jill Zuckman and Jeff Zeleny, “Unscripted Kerry Calls GOP Liars,” Chicago Tribune, 3/11/04)JOHN KERRY HAS BEEN SMEARING PRESIDENT FOR MONTHS February 2004: Kerry Campaign Advisor Stated “[E]verything Is On The Table. Everything.”  (Robin Toner, “G.O.P. Revives Line Of Attack Against Kerry,” The New York Times, 2/5/04)December 2003: Kerry Uses F-Word To Attack Bush Iraq Policy. “I...

A funny thing happened on the way to the political center for Hillary Rodham Clinton. Her true colors and contempt for all things President Bush and conservative America poured out and she took an angry left turn for all to see and hear in her trifecta of Sunday morning TV interviews yesterday. Calling anyone who didn’t agree with her angry liberal views part of the vast right wing “apparatus” Clinton cackled and chatted her way away from the political center and directly into to the middle of the Howard Dean angry left wing of the Democrat Party. Howard Dean made...

AUGUSTA — Just weeks before his 7-year-old daughter was allegedly assaulted by a man with prior assault convictions, Scott Durant told his little girl what to do if someone ever attacked her. After hearing of an adult who tried to get some children to ride in a car, Durant sat his daughter down and said, "If somebody ever tries this on you don't be afraid. Be mad." On Monday, when a man approached the girl and her two younger sisters while they played in their back yard, she fought back. "She's tall and strong for a 7-year-old," Durant said. "I...

An Independence woman managed to fight off an attacker who forced his way into her home and tried to rape her Monday night, Independence police said. The attack occurred about 9 p.m. near Crysler and South avenues. Police said the 26-year-old woman had just returned from grocery shopping with her 8-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son when someone knocked on the door. According to police: After the woman unlocked the door, a man shoved his way in and threw her onto the living room couch. The woman tried to call 911, but the assailant flung the phone away. After the assailant...