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American journalist Shelly Kittleson has been released, an Iraqi official tells the AP
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American journalist Shelly Kittleson has been released, an Iraqi official tells the AP

  • By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press

American journalist Shelly Kittleson, who was kidnapped in Baghdad last week, has been released. That's according to an Iraqi official with direct knowledge of the situation. The official spoke on condition of anonymity on Tuesday because he was not authorized to comment publicly. He says Kittleson was freed in the afternoon. He did not share her current whereabouts but said that prior to her release, she had been held in Baghdad. The powerful Iran-backed Iraqi militia Kataib Hezbollah said in a statement earlier in the day that it had decided to free the journalist.

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On March 17, 1992, white South Africans voted 68.7% to 31.3% to end over 40 years of apartheid in a national referendum. (Voters of all races were allowed to vote two years later in the general election that resulted in Nelson Mandela becoming president.)

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In 1170, Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was slain in Canterbury Cathedral by knights loyal to King Henry II.

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Cheney vigorously defends war in Iraq
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Cheney vigorously defends war in Iraq

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WASHINGTON — Dick Cheney’s autobiography presents a robust defense of his push for the U.S. invasion of Iraq without critically examining two …