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14 March 2008

Who says crazy...

Is a bar to high political office?
-- TEHRAN -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flew in from an Islamic summit in Senegal to cast his vote.

He said the world had chosen Iran as its "role model and saviour".
Yeah, Mahmoud... that's all my friends can talk about... "Why can't we be more like Iran?"

Especially this part...
The BBC's Tehran correspondent Jon Leyne says a lack of choice, due to widespread disqualifications of reformist candidates, could discourage people from voting.

"The reformists seem to have given up the fight after many of their candidates were disqualified on the grounds of alleged lack of loyalty to Islamic values."
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RELATED: Speaking of "Islamic values"
-- BAGHDAD -- The body of a Chaldean Catholic archbishop who was kidnapped in the northern city of Mosul last month as he drove home after afternoon Mass was discovered Thursday buried in a southeastern area of the city.
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