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April 13 2004: "The Star" Baghdad - At least 80 foreign mercenaries - security
guards recruited from the United States, Europe and South Africa and working
for American companies - have been killed in the past eight days in Iraq.

General Mark Kimmitt called Aljazeera, and other Arab media outlets
the "anti-coalition media"
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NASA TOMS tracked the smoke from Indonesian wildfires as it spread westward and blanketed
the Mentawai Islands.. As iron-rich ash settled on the ocean, it unleashed a massive
red tide that killed off the Mentawai coral reefs
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23,750 km² forest cut in 2003