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North was born as Dawn Shirley Crang in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of June, a pearl appraiser and real estate agent.[2] She began dancing in USO shows during World War II at age ten. At 15, she married Fred Bessire and had a child at 16. She continued dancing in clubs under the moniker Shirley Mae Bessire
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Career
After being spotted by a choreographer performing at the Macayo Club in Santa Monica, North was cast as a chorus girl in the 1953 film Here Come the Girls starring Bob Hope. Around that time, she adopted the stage name Sheree North and made her Broadway debut in the musical Hazel Flagg, for which she won a Theatre World Award. She went on to reprise her role in the film version Living It Up.[3]
In 1954, North signed on with 20th Century-Fox. The following year, she won the lead role in How to Be Very, Very Popular, a role that was initially rejected by Marilyn Monroe. Media attention over the choice of North in the role that Monroe rejected resulted in North appearing on the cover of Life magazine with the coverline "Sheree North Takes Over From Marilyn Monroe".[3][4] Film historians, then and now, continue to cite North's electrically charged dancing to "Shake, Rattle and Roll", as the film's most memorable scene.[5]
Sheree North on the cover of Life magazine (March 21, 1955)
After the success of How to Be Very, Very Popular, North was groomed by Fox as the "new Marilyn Monroe". However, the studio soon lost interest in promoting her and focused attention on a new Monroe-esque actress, Jayne Mansfield.[3] Decades later, North would play Monroe's mother in the 1980 television movie Marilyn: The Untold Story.[5]
After North's contract with Fox ended in 1958, she continued to land roles in films and had guest spots in television shows such as CBS's Gunsmoke and two medical dramas, Breaking Point and Ben Casey on ABC. In the 1960s, she returned to Broadway in the very successful musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale, which featured Elliott Gould and Barbra Streisand.
Later years
Her film roles included one as a fugitive-aiding photographer in Don Siegel's Charley Varrick (1973) and as John Wayne's long-lost love in the actor's final film, The Shootist (1976).
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, North appeared in guest spots on Hawaii Five-O, Matlock, Magnum, P.I., The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in which she played Lou Grant's girlfriend, and The Golden Girls, in which she played Blanche Devereaux's sister, Virginia.
She starred in the ABC sitcom I'm a Big Girl Now with Diana Canova, Danny Thomas, Rori King and a young Martin Short. The series aired 19 episodes during the 1980-1981 season.[6]
In 1983, she appeared in the ensemble cast of the Steven Bochco series Bay City Blues, starring Michael Nouri, Dennis Franz, Pat Corley and Sharon Stone. The hour-long drama series aired 8 episodes.[7]
In the 1990s, she appeared as Kramer's mother, Babs Kramer, in two episodes of the TV series Seinfeld. North's last onscreen role came in the 1998 John Landis film Susan's Plan.
Personal life
North was married four times and had two children. In 1948, at age 15, she married Fred Bessire, a draftsman with whom she had a daughter, Dawn. The marriage ended in 1953. In 1955, she married music publisher John "Bud" Freedman, but the marriage ended a year later. Her third marriage to psychologist Gerhardt Sommer resulted in another daughter, Erica Eve, but that marriage also ended in divorce in 1963.[8]
At the time of her death, North was married to Phillip Norman.[5]
On November 4, 2005, North died from complications during unspecified surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.[5]
Filmography
* Excuse My Dust (Uncredited, 1951)
* Here Come the Girls (Uncredited, 1953)
* Living It Up (1953)
* How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955)
* The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1956)
* The Best Things in Life Are Free (1956)
* The Way to the Gold (1957)
* No Down Payment (1957)
* In Love and War (1958)
* Mardi Gras (1958)
* Destination Inner Space (1966)
* Madigan (1968)
* The Gypsy Moths (1969)
* The Trouble with Girls (1969)
* Lawman (1971)
* The Organization (1971)
* Charley Varrick (1973)
* The Outfit (1973)
* Breakout (1975)
* Survival (1976)
* The Shootist (1976)
* Telefon (1977)
* Rabbit Test (1978)
* Only Once in a Lifetime (1979)
* Maniac Cop (1988)
* Cold Dog Soup (1990)
* Defenseless (1991)
* Susan's Plan (1998)
[edit] Television
* The Colgate Comedy Hour (1 episode, 1954)
* What's My Line (as Herself 1 episode, 1955)
* Shower of Stars (1 episode, 1954)
* Playhouse 90 (1 episode, 1957)
* The Witness (1 episode, 1961)
* The Untouchables (1 episode, 1963)
* Gunsmoke (1 episode, 1963)
* The Eleventh Hour (1 episode, 1963)
* Breaking Point (2 episodes, 1963)
* The Great Adventure (1 episode, 1964)
* Ben Casey (2 episodes, 1963-1964)
* The Greatest Show on Earth (1 episode, 1964)
* Burke's Law (3 episodes, 1963-1965)
* The Loner (1 episode, 1965)
* The Virginian (2 episodes, 1964-1966)
* Run for Your Life (1 episode, 1966)
* The Big Valley (1 episode, 1966)
* The Iron Horse (1 episode, 1966)
* Code Name: Heraclitus (1967)
* Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (3 episodes, 1965-1967)
* The Fugitive (2 episodes, 1965-1967)
* Mannix (1 episode, 1968)
* Here Come the Brides (1 episode, 1968)
* Then Came Bronson (1 episode, 1969)
* My Friend Tony (1 episode, 1969)
* The Name of the Game (1 episode, 1970)
* The Most Deadly Game (1 episode, 1970)
* The Interns (1 episode, 1971)
* Vanished (1971)
* The Smith Family (1 episode, 1971)
* Alias Smith and Jones (1 episode, 1972)
* Rolling Man (1972)
* Cannon (1 episode, 1972)
* Jigsaw (1 episode, 1972)
* Trouble Comes to Town (1973)
* McMillan and Wife (1 episode, 1973)
* Snatched (1973)
* Kung Fu (1 episode, 1973)
* Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law (1 episode, 1973)
* Hawkins (1 episode, 1973)
* The Streets of San Francisco (1 episode, 1973)
* Maneater (1973)
* Key West (1973)
* Hec Ramsey (1 episode, 1974)
* Winter Kill (1974)
* Kojak (2 episodes, 1974)
* Hawaii Five-O (1 episode, 1974)
* Barnaby Jones (1 episode, 1974)
* Wide World Mystery (1 episode, 1974)
* The Whirlwind (1974)
* Movin' On (2 episodes, 1974)
* The Mary Tyler Moore Show (2 episodes, 1974-1975)
* A Shadow in the Streets (1975)
* Breakout (1975)
* Medical Center (3 episodes, 1971-1975)
* Big Eddie (Unknown episodes, 1975)
* Marcus Welby, M.D. (1 episode, 1976)
* Most Wanted (1976)
* Family (1 episode, 1976)
* Baretta (1 episode, 1977)
* Future Cop (1 episode, 1977)
* Westside Medical (2 episodes, 1977)
* Hallmark Hall of Fame (1 episode, 1977)
* A Real American Hero (1978)
* Amateur Night at the Dixie Bar and Grill (1979)
* Women in White (1979)
* Portrait of a Stripper aka The Secret Life of Susie Hanson (1979)
* Archie Bunker's Place (2 episodes, 1979)
* A Christmas for Boomer (1979)
* Marilyn: The Untold Story (1980)
* I'm a Big Girl Now (Unknown episodes, 1980)
* Legs (1983)
* Bay City Blues (4 episodes, 1983)
* Magnum, P.I. (1 episode, 1984)
* Scorned and Swindled (1984)
* Trapper John, M.D. (1 episode, 1985)
* ABC Afterschool Special (1 episode, 1986)
* Matlock (2 episodes, 1986)
* Murder, She Wrote (1 episode, 1987)
* Jake Spanner, Private Eye (1989)
* Freddy's Nightmares (1 episode, 1989)
* Hunter (1 episode, 1989)
* The Golden Girls (2 episodes, 1985-1989)
* Dead on the Money (1991)
* Seinfeld (2 episodes, 1995-1998)
[Quqnoos] At least 15 people have been killed and 55 wounded in explosions and gunfire as 20 gunmen launched attacks in Kabul.
Taliban militants, including some with suicide vests, stormed government and civilian targets in the Afghan capital on Monday as some members of President Hamid Karzai's cabinet were being sworn in. A purported Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, said the armed militants entered Kabul to target the presidential palace, other government buildings and the luxury Serena Hotel.
Explosions and heavy machine-gun fire rattled the city for nearly 6 hours on Monday.
"The Afghan security forces have gunned down 10 militants and the city is now under control," a Defence Ministry Spokesman, Gen Zahir Azimi, told Quqnoos.
The 15 dead includes three civilians and two Afghan policemen, Mr Azimi added. At least 10 Afghan soldiers, 10 policemen and 35 civilians were wounded in the attacks.
Police have sealed off the city centre and sent snipers onto rooftops after the blasts, which the militants said were aimed at the presidential palace, government ministries and the central bank.
A group of gunmen later attacked Qari Sami shopping centre in the centre of city, which was later set on fire as Afghan Special Forces and the militants exchanged fire.
"I was stuck inside the shopping centre and bullets surrounded me, It was horrible," said a Kabul resident, Mohammad Nabi, 43.
Later on, a suicide bomber detonated his car bomb at another shopping mall, the Gulbahar Centre, neighbouring the Afghan foreign and interior ministries.
Helicopters whirled overhead as hundreds of Afghan forces blocked roads in the central Kabul.
'Talk to the Taliban'
The attack is believed the biggest militant operation in the fortified Afghan capital since the collapse of the Taliban regime in 2001. It happens a day after US Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, said President Karzai is forming a "reintegration plan" with the Taliban and expected to announce it in London Conference next week.
Taliban has rejected any negotiation with the Afghan government unless the foreign troops are pulled out of the country.
A few hours after the bombings, President Karzai in a statement assured "the inhabitants of Kabul that the security situation is under control and order has once again been restored."
President Karzai condemned the "terrorist attacks" nearby his palace and in other parts of the city centre.
Holrbooke has also condemned it, saying, "It's not surprising that the Taliban do this sort of thing. They are desperate people, they are ruthless."
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WORLD NEWS > TALIBAN [TTP], LeT PLANNING TO ATTACK MAJOR PAK PUNJAB CITIES?
* ION SAME > [Jharmakand]MAOISTS THREATEN POOR VILLAGERS FROM ORGANIZING WEEKLY FOOD MARKETS, fearing locals will end up supplying food, etc. to opposing Govt. Police-Army forces.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Taliban gunmen launched a brazen assault on the center of Kabul on Monday, with suicide bombers blowing themselves up at several locations and militants battling security forces from inside a shopping centre engulfed in flames.
The insurgents failed in an apparent attempt to seize government buildings, but demonstrated their ability to cause mayhem at a time when U.S. President Barack Obama is trying to rally support for an expanded military mission to fight them.
It was the worst attack on the city in nearly a year and came as Afghan President Hamid Karzai was swearing in cabinet members.
Gunfire and loud explosions shook the city and a huge column of smoke poured out of the shopping centre, where gunmen battled security forces for hours. Sporadic fighting continued in some areas although Karzai said the city was back under under control.
Security officials said at least nine attackers were killed -- five inside the shopping centre and four who blew themselves up elsewhere. The Health Ministry said four Afghan security force members and a civilian were killed and 38 people wounded.
"The security situation is under control and order has once again been restored," President Hamid Karzai said in a statement after more than four hours of battles, when security forces finally recaptured the burning shopping centre.
The Defense Ministry said other fighters were still holed up in a cinema and fighting was still under way some hours later.
The Taliban said 20 of their fighters were involved in the attacks, which they said targeted the presidential palace, justice ministry, ministry of mines and a presidential administrative building, all clustered in the centre of town.
When the attacks began outside Karzai's sprawling palace compound, he was inside swearing in new members of his cabinet.
"As we were conducting the ceremony of swearing in, a terrorist attack in a part of Kabul close to the presidential palace is going on. This is just one of the dangers," Karzai told ministers. "The danger that could harm Afghanistan is sowing national discord among Afghans."
U.S. envoy to the region Richard Holbrooke, who had left Kabul hours earlier for New Delhi, said: "The people who are doing this certainly will not survive the attack nor will they succeed, but we can expect this sort of a thing on a regular basis. That is who the Taliban are."
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Two rival groups of Somali pirates had a shootout just before a ransom was delivered to free a supertanker loaded with combustible crude oil, prompting the pirates onboard to call the anti-piracy force for help, a European Union naval spokesman said Monday.
Wait, what?!? When did we enter an alternative universe?
1968 ...
Helicopters dispatched from a warship ended the standoff that could have caused a catastrophic explosion aboard the Maran Centaurus, which is carrying about 2 million barrels of crude oil that was destined for the United States. The ship's cargo is so flammable that smoking is forbidden on deck.
The supertanker was seized about 800 miles (1,300 kilometers) off the Somali coast with a crew of 28. The crude oil onboard was estimated to be worth roughly $150 million at the time of the Nov. 29 attack.
Cmdr. John Harbour, the spokesman for the European Union Naval Force, said a group of rival pirates had attacked the gunmen holding the Greek-flagged ship on Sunday just before the ransom was being delivered, prompting the pirates onboard the tanker to call for assistance from the anti-piracy force.
A Somali middleman, who helped negotiate the ship's release, said a nearby warship had dispatched two helicopters to hover over the attackers' two skiffs, frightening them off. The pirates onboard the ship then collected $5.5 million, which was parachuted out the back of two planes, he said. The pirates left the ship Monday morning and the helicopter did not fire any shots, he said.
He also said that he had spoken to the group of pirates attacking the ship, and that their intention was to force the original gunmen to give them a cut by using a show of force, rather than trying to storm the ship. Both sides knew of the potential for a catastrophic explosion, he said, and that is why the original pirates asked the EU for aid.
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But that's not all: When the pirates reached shore (the village of Harardhere), fighting broke out with a rival gang of pirates over the ransom, and at least four people were killed.
The four can now afford deluxe headstones.
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Pirates clash in the village of Harhardehar. Arghhh!
At least 149 people have been killed during two days of violence between Christian and Muslim gangs in the Nigerian city of Jos, officials say.
Mosque workers and Muslim clerics told reporters of the deaths as they prepared for a mass burial.
The death toll has not been verified independently and it is not known how many Christians have died.
Nigeria's vice-president has ordered troops to help police restore order and also dispatched top security officials.
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Now 300 reported: The clashes were sparked by a dispute over the building of a mosque, residents said.
"As at yesterday I had 50 dead," the secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Reverend Chung Dabo, told AFP. Another 15 people were killed on Tuesday in the neighbouring town of Bukuru, he said.
Muslim leader Balarabe Dawud said 192 bodies were brought to the city's central mosque on Tuesday. On Monday he gave a death toll of 26.
Dawud, head of the mosque, said at least 800 people had been wounded, 90 of whom had been taken to military hospitals with serious injuries.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Three militants from Saudi Arabia's most wanted list were killed in September in an explosion outside the kingdom, Saudi's interior ministry confirmed on Monday.
An informed source said the three died in neighboring Yemen, a hideout for Islamic militants and the ancestral home of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
"There was a group of them meeting and an explosion happened," ministry spokesman General Mansour al-Turki said.
"We got DNA for all of those people who were killed in that explosion" for identification, he added.
He did not say where they were killed, but an informed source said it was in Yemen.
The circumstances of the blast were not explained by al-Turki, but an earlier report by the London-based al-Hayat newspaper said Jutaily had been killed in northern Yemen in an attack by government troops.
Jutaily joined al-Qaeda in Afghanistan in 2001 on the encouragement of radical Saudi Sheikh Hamud al-Uqla, and was captured and eventually sent to the U.S. Guantanamo prison by U.S. forces, according to U.S. military records. He was released in 2006 and put through a Saudi terrorist rehabilitation program, but after release traveled to Yemen and re-established links with al-Qaeda, according to the Saudis.
He is one of about a dozen Guantanamo returnees, out of more than 120, who have dropped out of the program and returned to militancy.
Rashed left the country with false travel documents six years ago and was known to have joined up with al-Qaeda, while Otaibi left four years ago, according to the ministry.
"All three were on our list of 85" most-wanted people, said Turki.
The list was published and sent to Interpol nearly a year ago. Since then, three have turned themselves in to Saudi authorities and six are known to have died or been killed.
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Mohammed Abdul Rahman Suleiman al-Rashed
Rahman Suleiman al-Rashed
Saudi Sheikh Hamud al-Uqla
Sultan Radi Somaileel al-Otaibi
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WORLD NEWS > AL QAEDA IN YEMEN [aka AQAP] SAYS THEY ARE INTACT AND READY TO STRIKE, i.e. to launch new Terror Ops on LAND, SEA, + AIR espec agz US-ALLIED INTERESTS around the ME-World.
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"There was a group of them meeting and an explosion happened."
Gotta love the General's passive delivery. "Oh, I was just sitting in my war room when suddenly some of our most wanted militants were 'exploded' by something or somebody."
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Plans to build a giant mosque near London's 2012 Olympic stadium have collapsed after local authorities said Monday an Islamic group failed to submit a planning application in time.
Tablighi Jamaat, a group with roots in India, wants to build a complex with space for 12,000 worshippers in east London which would be a hub for Muslim competitors and spectators at the Games.
But the group missed a deadline this month to formally outline its plans to the local London authority, and it has now been issued with a warning that it must close a temporary mosque it is operating on the site by Thursday.
There was an outcry when the group unveiled its plans for the site in 2007, with 48,000 people petitioning the government to prevent the development.
Tablighi Jamaat was founded in India during the British Raj. It says it is apolitical, but opponents of the mosque plan have expressed concern at the group's strict interpretation of Islam.
A spokesman for the local Newham Council said: "The council has a responsibility to be reasonable in such cases and the (mosque) trust was encouraged to submit a long-term strategy for the site, which is identified as having significant developmental opportunities for the local community.
"This did not happen.
"Temporary planning permission expired on Oct. 31, 2006 and any operations since then have been unlawful. The trust was given until January to submit a master plan for the site, although failed to meet this deadline."
A spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain said Tablighi Jamaat had been "subjected to some unfair coverage."
"We would hope that they will be able to work in cooperation with the local council if they wish to set up a mosque in the area," spokesman Inayat Bunglawala said.
He added: "Tablighi Jamaat has no ties to terrorism. It has been subjected to some unfair coverage."
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Aborted is a good word.
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An abortion we can all agree on.
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A suspected U.S. drone aircraft fired two missiles into Pakistan's North Waziristan region on the Afghan border on Tuesday, killing three militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The drone targeted a house in a village, 35 km (22 miles) west of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, a region known as a hotbed of Taliban and al Qaeda militants. "Monsieur l'Inspecteur! Two missiles have been fired into Pakistan's North Wazeu region!"
"Ahah! Legume, I suspect it was a U.S. drone aircraft!"
"M. l'Inspecteur! How do you do it?"
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Add another five key Taliban commanders killed in Shaktoi
A key commander of outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Punjab Azmatullah Mawiya was killed in a US drone strike on January 15 in Shaktoi village of South Waziristan.
According to officials, four key Taliban commanders have also been killed in a separate drone attack which was carried out on Januray 17 in Shaktoi area.
The Taliban commanders who have been killed are identified as Shahid ullah, Hafiz Nizamuddin Storikhel, Khawarey and Mohtaj.
The strikes targeted militant compounds in these areas, where TTP chief Hakeemullah was also reportedly injured.
Meanwhile, the US General Patreaus revealed that there has been an increase in drone attacks inside Pakistan's tribal areas after the killing of CIA agencts in Khost.
[Dawn] A member of the Baizai peace committee and three militants have been killed in a clash between the peace committee and militants in Mohmand agency on Monday.
Official sources said the militants attacked the Baizai peace committee members with heavy weapons and during an exchange of fire, one peace committee member died and two were injured.
In return fire from the Baizai peace committee members, three militants were killed and two were injured.
Meanwhile, official forces in Swat said that security forces have killed four militants in Charbagh tehsil. The militants had been involved in killings of innocent people and attacking security forces.
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This is a "Peace" committee you can believe in. 3 to 1 kill ratio.
[Dawn] Three militants were killed as a bomb exploded near central Kurram on Monday, DawnNews reported.
According to official sources, the militants were planting the bomb near the basic health unit in Dogar in central Kurram, but the bomb went off prematurely killing all three of them.
Meanwhile, in the Masozai area of Kurram, militants blew up the house of a tribal elder, who was considered to be a staunch supporter of the government.
Militants -- both local and non-local -- are present in large numbers in lower and central Kurram and have so far destroyed several schools, health units and government offices in the region.
Security forces have been able to clear majority of the areas during the on-going operation.
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[Dawn] Pakistani troops killed 10 Taliban militants and arrested five others in a clash in the northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border on Monday, officials said.
The incident occurred in the border town of Lwara Mandi in North Waziristan, a bastion of Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, a senior military officer said.
"The bodies of the militants have been shifted to a nearby military base along with those captured," the officer said.
Another officer said the clash occurred when the militants opened fire on a checkpoint near the border.
"Troops retaliated and killed 10 militants," he said, adding there were no military casualties.
Security officials said they believed the militants were supporters of Pakistani Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud who reportedly escaped a drone attack in North Waziristan last Thursday.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Local government officials warned Saddam Hussein loyalists on Monday to move out of the Shiite province of Najaf in central Iraq within 24 hours or face an "iron fist."
They demanded the exodus after a meeting to discuss security in the wake of a triple bomb attack last week in Najaf, about 150 kilometres (90 miles) south of Baghdad, that left up to 15 people dead.
"The Baath gang of Saddam has one day to leave the province or we will use an iron fist against those who have failed to distance themselves from the Baath and al-Qaeda," the officials said in a statement.
The leader of the provincial council, which is dominated by the party of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, blamed the bomb attack on Baathists, referring to Saddam's outlawed Sunni-dominated Baath party.
"The council's next measure will be to purge local government institutions of Baathists," said the statement, which also asked Baghdad to use its intelligence services to identify wrongdoers.
The demand could further inflame Sunni-Shiite tensions after many Sunnis were among 500 candidates barred last week from the conflict-wracked country's March 7 general election, purportedly because of Baathist links.
Baath party membership was a key condition for obtaining a job and gaining promotion in public sector employment during Saddam's regime. As a consequence the party included large numbers of Sunnis and Shiites.
A controversial process of de-Baathification was adopted by Washington diplomat Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, following the invasion in 2003 which saw thousands of Saddam-era employees sacked.
Resentment among Sunnis over that decision and a subsequent Shiite-dominated government lingers despite a national reconciliation process aimed at healing such rifts.
Khaled Jashami, a member of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC), one of the country's biggest Shiite parties, however, was adamant that drastic measures were needed in Najaf.
"This decision aims to target those who have refused to repudiate the Baath party and its ideas, who have on their hands the blood of innocents in Najaf and other cities," he said.
"We took this decision to rid Najaf of Baathist ideas. We will seriously work to purge the security services and government institutions," he added.
In response, Baghdad government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh insisted that "no plan existed" to sack interior and defence ministry employees.
Attacks in Najaf are rare but last Thursday's incident caused a large number of casualties, although accounts of the numbers varied.
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BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Five civilians working at a humanitarian organization were killed by gunmen in northern Baghdad, a police source said.
Unknown gunmen attacked the office of an Iraqi humanitarian organization in Omar bin Abdulaziz street in al-Aadhamiya neighborhood in northern Baghdad, killing five of its employees, including a woman,' the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
They also detonated a car bomb near an army vehicle patrol in the same region, injuring two soldiers,' he added. He gave no more details.
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Excerpt: interview with Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai published on Sunday, a US official who spoke on condition of anonymity said that if Syria supplies Hezbollah with surface-to-air missiles (SA-2), war will break out and Tel Aviv will directly strike Damascus.'
Thailand extended a nearly five-year state of emergency in the troubled Muslim-majority south on Tuesday, as a bomb attack by suspected insurgents blew off a senior soldier's legs.
Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said his cabinet had renewed emergency rule in the kingdom's southernmost provinces bordering Malaysia for a further three months until April 19. But he said he would push at a meeting of the national security council next month for the imposition of a law granting an amnesty to Islamist militants in the south and their sympathisers.
Terrorists Suspected rebels detonated a roadside bomb with a mobile phone signal as a military truck escorting teachers passed by in Yala province early Tuesday, wounding four soldiers, security officials said. The captain of the teacher protection unit lost both legs in the blast and another of the troops was also seriously wounded, they said.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Two rival groups of Somali pirates had a shootout just before a ransom was delivered to free a supertanker loaded with combustible crude oil, prompting the pirates onboard to call the anti-piracy force for help, a European Union naval spokesman said Monday.
[Dawn] Pakistani troops killed 10 Taliban militants and arrested five others in a clash in the northwestern tribal belt near the Afghan border on Monday, officials said.
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq: Five civilians working at a humanitarian organization were killed by gunmen in northern Baghdad, a police source said.
