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String of Iraq blasts kills at least 32
Reuters, by Kareen Raheem
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Posted By:PageTurner, 9/30/2012 12:33:39 PM
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| BAGHDAD - Coordinated bomb attacks killed more than 32 people across Iraq on Sunday, the latest violence in an insurgency the government has failed to quell more than nine months after the last U.S. troops withdrew. Violence in Iraq has eased since the carnage of 2006-2007, but Sunni Islamists still launch frequent attacks to undermine the Shi'ite-led government's claim to provide security and prove they remain a potent threat. No group claimed responsibility for Sunday's string of attacks, but a local al Qaeda affiliate (Snip) have carried out at least one major assault a month since the last American troops left
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Comments: More Obama diplomacy.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
dcomd, 9/30/2012 12:36:13 PM (No. 8900285)
There goes that 'religion of peace' again.
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International viewers unable to attest to clean vote in Venezuela
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El Universal [Caracas, Venezuela], by Reyes Theis
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Posted By: PageTurner- 4/16/2013 3:22:43 PM
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"After what we have lived and seen, and the delicate situations we have witnessed, we may say that we cannot objectively and categorically attest to a fully democratic and clean vote in this great country," said Spanish Gustavo Palomares, the president of the Institute of Higher European Studies. He was one of the international guests accredited by the National Electoral Council (CNE) and invited by the opposition coalition. In this sense, international guests supported the petition of opposition candidate Henrique Capriles Radonski for a thorough and objective recount of "each tally sheet, each polling station, and each voters´ roll."
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Pot-banging in Caracas against Maduro´s proclamation as president
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El Universal [Caracas, Venezuela], by Staff
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Posted By: PageTurner- 4/16/2013 3:03:57 PM
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Neighbors of various sectors of Caracas are banging their pots in protest against the proclamation of Nicolás Maduro as president of Venezuela at the headquarters of the National Electoral Council (CNE). Downtown Caracas people are on balconies banging their pots, as well as in east and southeast Caracas. Pot banging was also reported in Cumbres de Curumo, Los Chaguaramos, Santa Mónica, Altamira, Los Palos Grandes, La Boyera, El Cafetal and Los Naranjos, among others.
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Venezuela: An Election That Reeks Of Fraud
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Investor´s Business Daily, by Editorial
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Posted By: PageTurner- 4/16/2013 8:47:39 AM
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Latin America: Venezuela´s election on Sunday, which saw bus driver Nicolas Maduro declared the winner by a razor-thin margin, reeked of electoral fraud. Kudos to challenger Henrique Capriles for calling it out. Fraud is a strong word but, yes, it´s the clearest conclusion from Venezuela´s election Sunday to pick a successor to the late socialist dictator Hugo Chavez. Chavez´s hand-picked successor "won" Venezuela´s election Sunday, with what Chavez´s anything-but impartial CNE electoral body declaring he´d gotten 50.6% of the vote, while his challenger, Miranda state governor Henrique Capriles Radonski garnered 49.07% — a gap of just 235,000 votes.
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Chavez Heir Maduro Wins Venezuela Vote as Foe Rejects Count
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Bloomberg News, by Charlie Devereux & Corina Pons
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Posted By: PageTurner- 4/15/2013 9:45:00 AM
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icolas Maduro, political heir to the late Hugo Chavez, was declared the winner of Venezuela’s presidential election yesterday in a result that was immediately challenged by the opposition. The 50-year-old former bus driver received 50.7 percent of the votes, the national electoral council said after about 99 percent of ballots were counted. Henrique Capriles Radonski, who temporarily stepped down as governor of Miranda state to run, had 49.1 percent and vowed to contest the results. “We had a fair and constitutional victory,” Maduro said after the results were announced. “This is another victory, a homage to our comandante Hugo Chavez.”
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Maduro wins Venezuela´s election with 51 percent of votes
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Reuters, by Staff
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Posted By: PageTurner- 4/15/2013 12:11:33 AM
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CARACAS - Ruling party candidate Nicolas Maduro won Venezuela´s presidential election on Sunday with 51 percent of votes, the electoral authority said, allowing him to carry forward the socialist policies of the late Hugo Chavez. Maduro´s young challenger, Miranda state Governor Henrique Capriles, took 49 percent of the ballots, the authority said, in a tighter-than-expected vote.
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Six strangled, one decapitated in Mexican resort of Cancun
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Reuters, by Gabriel Stargardter
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Posted By: PageTurner- 4/14/2013 11:35:22 PM
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CANCUN, Mexico - Six people were strangled to death and one decapitated in the southern Mexican tourist resort of Cancun on Sunday, the state´s deputy attorney general said, in the latest mass killing to strike the city in the last few weeks. Police found the bodies of the five men and two women in a shack in the outskirts of Cancun, a major tourist destination on Mexico´s Caribbean coast, that has largely escaped the drug-related violence that has racked Acapulco, a faded tourist destination on the Pacific coast.
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How Thatcher Changed Hearts And Minds Behind The Iron Curtain
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PJ Media, by Oleg Atbashian
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Posted By: PageTurner- 4/14/2013 11:29:15 AM
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It wasn’t just Margaret Thatcher’s steadfast economic and foreign policies that helped to defeat the Evil Empire and to bring down the Iron Curtain. She also changed hearts and minds — and this PJ Media author, who grew up on the other side of the Iron Curtain, has a personal story to tell. As many Soviet kids did in the 1970s and 1980s, I occasionally tuned my shortwave radio to Voice of America or the BBC Russian Service, hoping to hear their alternative take on world events and, if I was lucky, get the latest rock-music updates.
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If President Barack Obama had a son, would he look like any of the babies Kermit Gosnell beheaded?
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Daily Caller, by Jim Treacher
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Posted By: PageTurner- 4/13/2013 2:17:54 AM
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If you don’t know who Kermit Gosnell is, that’s because you read the New York Times and Politico.com, and you watch network news. Gosnell is a Philadelphia abortionist who’s currently on trial for murder. Multiple counts. The media hasn’t had much interest in him — including, yes, the Daily Caller — and more and more people are starting to wonder why. I’ve been trying to think of what to say about it, but it’s so horrific that I can barely wrap my head around it. Kirsten Powers, writing in USA Today, does a great job of
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London braces for violence ahead of Margaret Thatcher´s funeral
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NBC News, by Alastair Jamieson and Michele Neubert
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Posted By: PageTurner- 4/12/2013 10:35:02 PM
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LONDON - Police were on standby for street violence after protesters pledged to "celebrate" the death of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher with a party at the scene of a 1990 riot against one of her most unpopular policies. Senior police officers have already launched an operation to prevent disorder surrounding her televised funeral at St Paul’s Cathedral on Wednesday, which is due to be attended by Britain’s queen and world leaders. Every living former U.S. president is invited. With tight security around the official event, protest groups have threatened to gather on Saturday in London’s Trafalgar Square,
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Former worker testifies that Dr. Kermit Gosnell snipped the spines of moving babies following abortions at Philadelphia clinic
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New York Daily News, by David Knowles
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Posted By: PageTurner- 4/11/2013 5:47:37 PM
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Horror found an address in west Philadelphia. The gruesome testimony at the “House of Horrors” murder trial of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell continued on Thursday, with two former employees describing scenes that strained the imagination. Ashley Baldwin, who began working at the cash-only Women’s Medical Society clinic in west Philadelphia when she was just 15, said that she routinely assisted Gosnell with abortions and, on five different occasions, saw babies moving following the procedure. In one case, Baldwin, who is now 22 and the mother of her own toddler, testified that she witnessed an aborted baby “screeching,” the Philadelphia
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Nate Thayer Disinvited from HuffPo TV Appearance
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New York Observer, by Murray Waas
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Posted By: PageTurner- 4/11/2013 5:35:44 PM
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Nate Thayer recently became a hero to an entire generation of underappreciated, underpaid–and more importantly often unpaid–journalists just scraping by when he made public emails from an Atlantic editor asking him to work for free. With even our most highly remunerated writers, including Scott Turow, speaking out about their writing being pilfered, Thayer struck a chord. “We unfortunately can’t pay you for it, but we do reach 13 million readers a month,” an Atlantic.com editor, Olga Khazan, emailed him after reading a piece that Thayer had already written elsewhere. Thayer turned down the offer,
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White House snub to Thatcher: Obama won´t send envoy - and leaves it to her old allies from the Reagan era
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Daily Mail (U.K.), by James Chapman
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/15/2013 9:50:39 PM
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Friends and allies of Baroness Thatcher expressed ‘surprise and disappointment’ last night as it emerged President Obama is not planning to send any serving member of his administration to her funeral. Whitehall sources have revealed that the U.S. delegation at tomorrow’s service in St Paul’s Cathedral will be led by two Reagan era secretaries of state: James Baker and George Shultz. Though President Obama himself had not been expected to attend, there had been speculation that he would be represented either by Vice President Joe Biden or wife Michelle. The Queen’s decision to attend
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Are We Being Compromised by Barack Obama´s Murky Past?
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American Thinker, by James A. Lyons
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/15/2013 6:18:58 AM
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Since he first became a presidential candidate, President Obama must have spent millions of dollars in legal expenses to combat dozens of so-called "birther" challenges seeking the original documents pertaining to his birth. As president, he famously issued an electronic document on the White House website in 2011; the document purported to be his long-form birth certificate, though it is apparently a forgery. In addition, he has taken great pains to hide the paper trail of passport records, college transcripts, and other data -- all of which a prospective employer might require of a job applicant.
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Gitmo Is Killing Me
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New York Times, by Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel
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Posted By: Drive- 4/15/2013 8:29:32 AM
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ONE man here weighs just 77 pounds. Another, 98. Last thing I knew, I weighed 132, but that was a month ago. I’ve been on a hunger strike since Feb. 10 and have lost well over 30 pounds. I will not eat until they restore my dignity. I’ve been detained at Guantánamo for 11 years and three months. I have never been charged with any crime. I have never received a trial.
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Feds seek suspects, motive in Boston bombings
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Associated Press, by Jimmy Golen
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 4/16/2013 6:53:44 AM
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BOSTON -- The bombs that blew up seconds apart at the finish line of one of the world´s most storied races left the streets spattered with blood and glass, three dead, including an 8-year-old boy, more than 140 wounded and gaping questions of who chose to attack at the Boston Marathon and why. Federal investigators said no one had claimed responsibility for the bombings one of the city´s most famous civic holidays, Patriots Day. But the blasts among the throngs of spectators raised fears of a terrorist attack. President Barack Obama was careful not to use the
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Lawyer, judge erupt in anger in Gosnell trial
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Philadelphia Inquirer, by Joseph A. Slobodzian
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Posted By: LComStaff- 4/16/2013 7:02:04 AM
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He is known only as "Baby Boy B," a fetus estimated to be 28 weeks old, found frozen in an altered one-gallon plastic water jug in Dr. Kermit Gosnell´s West Philadelphia abortion clinic. His passing went unnoticed and undocumented, but on Monday, prosecution and defense lawyers struggled to get Philadelphia´s chief medical examiner to say whether he was stillborn or killed by Gosnell after being born alive during an abortion.
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NBC Reporter Luke Russert Speculates On Boston Explosions’ Link To 1993 Waco Siege
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Mediaite, by Andrew Kirell
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Posted By: JoniTx- 4/15/2013 5:18:48 PM
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In light of the explosions that have rocked Boston on Patriots’ Day, during the city’s annual marathon, NBC reporter Luke Russert took to Twitter to speculate that today’s horrific events could possibly be related to the 1993 government siege on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas — an incident often attached to conversations about “right-wing terrorism” and anti-government violence. “I was at Fenway Park w my dad and @mikebarnicle during Waco which was on Patriots Day in 1993. Speculating on possible link,” Russert tweeted following the explosions.
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Obama: ‘People shouldn’t jump to conclusions’ about Boston Marathon bombing
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Washington Examiner, by Joel Gehrke
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/15/2013 9:45:50 PM
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President Obama pledged that the United States would punish anyone responsible for the explosions at the Boston Marathon today, but he said that “people shouldn’t jump to conclusions” about the tragedy. “We still do not know who did this or why and people shouldn’t jump to conclusions before they have all the facts,” Obama told reporters during a statement from the White House. “Any responsible individuals, any responsible groups, will feel the full weight of justice,” he added. Two explosions occurred today near the finish line of the Boston Marathon,
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Breaking: Obama to make statement from White House
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CNN, by Staff
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 4/15/2013 5:58:09 PM
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President Barack Obama will deliver a statement Monday at 6:10 p.m. ET from the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House. As seen in the photo, President Barack Obama spoke Monday on the phone with FBI Director Robert Mueller to receive an update on the Boston explosions. Seated with the President are Lisa Monaco, assistant to the president for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, and Chief of Staff Denis McDonough. A White House official said earlier the president has been notified of the explosions. "His administration is in contact with state and local authorities.
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Is media bias to blame for lack of Gosnell coverage? Or something far more banal?
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Washington Post, by Paul Farhi
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Posted By: mitzi- 4/14/2013 10:03:20 PM
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Is media bias to blame for lack of Gosnell coverage? Or something far more banal? The trial of Philadelphia doctor Kermit Gosnell would seem to have all the elements of a spectacular news story: shocking allegations, horrifying visuals, sympathetic victims. Yet until late last week, much of the national media was silent as testimony about Gosnell’s alleged “house of horrors” abortion clinic rolled out. Much of the media attention outside Philadelphia, in fact, centered on how little media attention the story was receiving outside Philadelphia.
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MSNBC’s Joy Reid Praises Obama’s Reaction To Terror, Says Bush Dis- appeared for ‘Couple Weeks’ After 9/11
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Mediaite, by Noah Rothman
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Posted By: NorthernDog- 4/16/2013 3:38:34 PM
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MSNBC contributor Joy-Ann Reid told the host of Now, Alex Wagner, that she thought President Barack Obama’s response to the attack on the Boston Marathon on Monday was powerful and comforting in a way that President George W. Bush’s response to the attacks of September 11, 2001, was not. She accused Bush of being unavailable to the American people for the “first couple weeks” after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Reid told Wagner that the president’s statement actively combatted the intention of the terrorists, which is to make their targets feel “discombobulated.” “Having, sort of
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Meredith Baxter, Patty Duke to Play Lesbian Couple on Upcoming ´Glee´
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Breitbart´s Big Hollywood, by Breitbart News
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 4/15/2013 11:12:19 AM
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Two veteran TV actresses may join the cast of Fox´s Glee after their upcoming appearance as a kindly lesbian couple. Meredith Baxter, known for being the All-American Mom on Family Ties, and Patty Duke who soared to fame in her self-titled series, will offer guidance to a gay character considering popping the question to his partner. According to a Friday report at E!, Oscar winner Patty Duke and longtime television star Meredith Baxter will play a lesbian couple. Not only that, regular character Blaine played by Darren Criss will propose to
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CBS: Saudi Man In Custody Was Tackled By Bystanders At Boston Marathon
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Business Insider, by Jim Edwards
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 4/15/2013 8:16:52 PM
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The Saudi Arabian man who is reportedly in police custody following the Boston Marathon bombing was chased and tackled by bystanders shortly after the blast, according to CBS. Senior correspondent John Miller, a former assistant director of the FBI, reported this: There is an individual in custody … he is not free to go. There is an individual in custody … he is not free to go. He is a Saudi national who was near the scene of the blast. When the blast happened he began to run. Now, in context, a lot of people began to run.
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