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A bipartisan panel known as the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan sent its final report to Congress Wednesday, detailing at least $30 billion and possibly as much as $60 billion in was
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Fighting erupted in the capital city as the United Nations took control from the interim West African peacekeepers. Liberians blamed the surge of violence on U.N. peacekeepers because they allowed rebel leader Sekou Conneh to visit the city for the first time since the peace deal was made.The U.N. is responsible for this, they want us to die, people in the streets chanted as they gathered around the bodies of the three dead civilians two who were shot and the other stabbed with a bayonet, Reuters reported.When Conneh first drove through the Paynesville suburb to meet President Moses Blah, stones were thrown. From there, the violence escalated. Shots were fired, igniting a 20-minute gun battle, leading t
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