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PRESS DIGEST - Washington Post - Oct 3

03 Oct 2007 03:32:52 GMT
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WASHINGTON, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Washington Post included the following items on its front page on Oct 3. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

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Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has consolidated her place as the front-runner in the contest for the Democratic presidential nomination, outpacing her main rivals in fundraising in the most recent quarter and widening her lead in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Pakistan's government is losing its war against emboldened insurgent forces, giving al-Qaeda and the Taliban more territory in which to operate and allowing the groups to plot increasingly ambitious attacks, according to Pakistani and Western security officials.

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Most of the more than 100 private security companies in Iraq open fire far more frequently than has been publicly acknowledged and rarely report such incidents to U.S. or Iraqi authorities, according to U.S. officials and current and former private security company employees.

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