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• 'A horror movie and a snuff movie'
"I'm angry at having presided over the first genocide of the 21st century," said Mukesh Kapila, a British doctor and former U.N. official. He was referring to what he considers the world's ineffective response to mass atrocities in Darfur, Sudan's western region. "What happened in Darfur would be classified as obscene," he told CNN's Christiane Amanpour. "It's a combination of a horror movie and a snuff movie."
• Americans back Obama troop plan, poll shows
Americans back Barack Obama's plan to move U.S. troops from Iraq to Afghanistan, a new national poll indicates.
• Iraq gives final OK to U.S. pullout plan
Iraq's presidency council Thursday approved the U.S.-Iraq security agreement -- the final step for the agreement to be ratified by the Iraqi government, a council spokesman said.
• Car dealers get creative
A newspaper ad for a Miami car dealership reads more like a coupon for bags of potato chips: "Buy one, get two!" "The first thing people think when they come in is, 'It's a fake ad. It's a normal car dealer ad. It's a gimmick.' But it's not," said Ali Ahmed, sales manager at Rob Lambdin's University Dodge in Miami. The ad speaks to the desperation of dealers as automakers beg for bailout money to survive a huge sales slump.
• Rogue FBI agent breaks silence
Former FBI agent John Connolly, whose fall from mob-buster to paid gangland flunky played out in a South Florida courtroom, broke his long silence today in a packed courtroom. Connolly denied having any role in a 1982 mob hit, telling the family of slain businessman John Callahan: "It's heartbreaking to hear what happened to your father and to your husband. ... My heart is broken when I hear what you say."
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