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Posted: October 16, 2009 at 3:20 a.m.
QUOTE OF THE DAY “We don’t do bribes.We don’t pay the insurgents.” Col. Wayne Shanks, a U.S. spokesman for NATO forces in Afghanistan Article, this page Protesters, police clash in S. Africa STANDERTON, South Africa — Protesters barricaded a major highway with rocks and burning tires Thursday, clashing with police who fired at them with rubber bullets. Youths retaliated with slingshots and threw rocks.
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