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    <description>Battle Lines is an ongoing Web log (blog) dedicated to providing a broad perspective on the latest news and developments from the war in Iraq.  Response and suggestions are welcomed.&lt;p&gt;
Tom Brown has been an editor, reporter and software analyst for The Seattle Times for 20 years.</description>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2003 17:43:41 -0800</pubDate>
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      <title>Signing off</title>
      <link>http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/iraq/tombrown/archives/000840.html</link>
      <description>With war news winding way down, we&apos;ve decided this is an appropriate time to put the Battle Lines war blog...</description>
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      <title>The Saddam Files</title>
      <link>http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/iraq/tombrown/archives/000839.html</link>
      <description>(posted by Katherine Long) How do you turn a society that was run through fear, torture and intimidation into something...</description>
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      <title>Demonstrations in Karbala</title>
      <link>http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/iraq/tombrown/archives/000838.html</link>
      <description>(posted by Katherine Long) Shiite pilgrims marched to Karbala&apos;s holy shrine Tuesday to mark the death of one of their...</description>
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      <title>Building a government from scratch</title>
      <link>http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/iraq/tombrown/archives/000837.html</link>
      <description>&quot;Everything is the challenge&quot; in postwar Iraq, retired U.S. Lt. Gen. Jay Garner said yesterday. But life is starting to...</description>
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      <title>Smoking gun?</title>
      <link>http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/iraq/tombrown/archives/000836.html</link>
      <description>(posted by Katherine Long) A scientist who claims to have worked in Iraq&apos;s chemical weapons program for more than a...</description>
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      <title>The irony of freedom</title>
      <link>http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/iraq/tombrown/archives/000829.html</link>
      <description>(posted by Katherine Long) The mood continues to shift in Baghdad, where tens of thousands of Iraqi muslims demonstrated against...</description>
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      <title>Dispatches</title>
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      <description>(posted by Katherine Long) It&apos;s no longer war, but it&apos;s not yet peace. There&apos;s more good reporting today from reporters...</description>
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      <title>Where are the weapons?</title>
      <link>http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/iraq/tombrown/archives/000824.html</link>
      <description>(posted by Katherine Long) A thousand soldiers in Iraq are now helping to search for chemical weapons. But so far...</description>
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      <title>Cultural advisors quit over antiquities issue</title>
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      <description>(posted by Katherine Long) Reuters is reporting that two cultural advisers to the Bush administration have resigned in protest over...</description>
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      <title>Baghdad reality check</title>
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      <description>(posted by Katherine Long) Reporters on Baghdad streets are sizing up the city&apos;s condition a week after it fell to...</description>
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      <title>Conspiracy theories</title>
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      <description>(posted by Katherine Long) Was the fall of Baghdad part of a secret deal between the United States and the...</description>
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      <title>Is it over yet?</title>
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      <description>President Bush said today that Saddam Hussein&apos;s regime has &quot;passed into history&quot;. But he didn&apos;t actually declare victory -- yet....</description>
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      <title>Europeans want more U.N. participation</title>
      <link>http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/iraq/tombrown/archives/000818.html</link>
      <description>The Guardian reports that &quot;amid widespread anti-war protests on the streets of Athens, EU leaders meeting to sign a landmark...</description>
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      <title>More impressions from Tikrit</title>
      <link>http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/iraq/tombrown/archives/000817.html</link>
      <description>The Washington Post reports that in much of the rest of Iraq, larger-than-life portraits of Saddam Hussein have been smashed,...</description>
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      <title>Everybody loves a winner</title>
      <link>http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/iraq/tombrown/archives/000816.html</link>
      <description>Now that the war is practically over, British voters have suddenly decided it was a good idea after all. Support...</description>
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