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Raleigh — The North Carolina State Bar has filed an ethics complaint against Duke lacrosse prosecutor Mike Nifong.

Developer wants 'Lost Liberty Hotel' built upon property of David Souter A private developer contacted the local government in Supreme Court Justice David Souter's hometown in New Hampshire yesterday asking that the property of the judge – who voted in favor of a controversial decision allowing a city to take residents' homes for private development – be seized to make room for a new hotel. Logan Darrow Clements faxed a request to Chip Meany, the code enforcement officer of the town of Weare, N.H., seeking to start the application process to build a hotel on 34 Cilley Hill Road, the...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (news - web sites) - Shiite Muslim assassins are killing former members of Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s mostly Sunni Muslim regime at will and with impunity in a parallel conflict that some observers fear could snowball into civil war. The war between Shiite vigilantes and former Baath Party members is seldom investigated and largely overshadowed by the mostly Sunni insurgency. The U.S. military is preoccupied with hunting down suicide bombers and foreign terrorists, and Iraq's new Shiite leaders have little interest in prosecuting those who kill their former oppressors or their enemies in the insurgency. The...

<p>FALLUJAH, Iraq — U.S. Marines have begun a major military operation in Fallujah (search), the volatile city in which four American civilians were slain in one of the more grisly displays of violence since the war began last year.</p> <p>About 1,200 Marines, joined by two battalions of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corp., began surrounding the city with checkpoints. Only vehicles with Fallujah license plates were permitted to enter and exit the city.</p>

Angry mob kill ex-Baath party chief 04:02:50 È.Ù Iraq, Dec 18 - The former regional chief of the deposed Baath Party was beaten and shot dead by an angry crowd near this Shiite holy city, a Shiite official said Thursday. Ali Abdullah Al-Dhalimi had been hiding since invading US-led troops overthrew the Baathist regime of Saddam Hussein in April, said Ahma Daaybel of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) in Najaf. Daaybel said a crowd killed Dhalimi in Kufah, near Najaf, 180 kilometres (110 miles) south of Baghdad.