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Well, with the War on Terrorism abandoned it seems that the War on Criticism is back to the fore.

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Rumsfeld: leaving Iraq like giving Nazis Germany

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leaving Iraq now would be like handing postwar Germany back to the Nazis, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in a column published on Sunday, the third anniversary of the start of the Iraq war.

"Turning our backs on postwar Iraq today would be the modern equivalent of handing postwar Germany back to the Nazis," he wrote in an essay in The Washington Post.

Rumsfeld said "the terrorists" were trying to fuel sectarian tensions to spark a civil war, but they must be "watching with fear" the progress in the country over the past three years.

In London, former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said on Sunday that Iraq is in a civil war and is nearing the point of no return when the sectarian violence will spill over throughout the Middle East.

"It is unfortunate that we are in civil war. We are losing each day, as an average, 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is," he told BBC television.

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Liquor Chief Charged With Drunken Driving
Thu Apr 27, 4:47 PM ET

PORTLAND, Ore. - The director of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission abruptly resigned Thursday after she was charged with drunken driving.

Teresa Kaiser was stopped Saturday night in Portland and was found to have a blood-alcohol level of 0.16 percent, twice the legal limit for driving in Oregon, said police Detective Paul Dolbey.

Governor's spokesman Lonn Hoklin confirmed Thursday that Kaiser had e-mailed her resignation to the commission's board of directors that day.

"Due to circumstances that I deeply regret, I am resigning as executive director of the commission," Kaiser wrote in the e-mail. "Although my departure is abrupt, I am confident the commission will move forward."

Oregon is one of 18 "control" states for liquor, which means the state owns it at some point in the distribution process. The Oregon commission runs state stores, oversees licensing and enforces liquor laws.

Kaiser had been the commission's administrator since 2003. Its board planned to meet Friday to appoint an acting executive director.

"The governor naturally is very concerned about this. But he has total confidence that the commission will handle this and do the right thing," Hoklin said.

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ON the surface a seemingly reasonable decision on the part of US authorities mind you ...

China Demands Return of Gitmo Detainees
By ALEXA OLESEN, Associated Press Writer

BEIJING - China on Tuesday demanded the return of five Chinese Muslims released from the Guantanamo Bay detention center, denouncing a U.S. decision to allow them to seek asylum in Albania.

The United States allowed the five Chinese to go to the Balkan country after concluding they posed no terrorist threat to the United States but might face persecution if they returned to China.

"These suspects should be sent to China as soon as possible," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao.

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"The act by the United States and Albania strongly violates international law," Liu said at a news briefing.

Liu claimed that the five Chinese, members of the country's Uighur minority, are suspected of being members of a group accused of waging a violent separatist campaign in the country's northwest.

The five were among a number of Chinese detainees who had languished at the prison in Cuba for several years after being picked up during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Though the U.S. military had concluded they presented no terrorist threat, the Bush administration refused to allow their release into the United States and had been unable to find a country willing to accept them.

Albania agreed Friday to take in the detainees and was holding them at a refugee center while considering their applications for asylum, a process that could take at least two months.

On Monday, the Albanian Foreign Ministry said Albania had received a "verbal request for extradition" of the five Chinese.

Foreign Minister Besnik Mustafaj told the Chinese ambassador that the Albanian government will conduct an investigation of the men's previous activities