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Republicans with presidential aspirations rushed Monday to embrace South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley s call to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the state capitol, eager to move past a vexing issue that challenges the party s effort to win over the diverse coalition of voters it likely needs to win back the White House. Haley gave her party s presidential candidates some much-desired political cover by calling for the banner s removal, reversing her own position and conceding that to many the flag is a deeply offensive symbol of a brutally oppressive past. Minutes later, former Fl stanley cup orida Gov. Jeb Bush tweeted out his agreement: Kudos to @nikkihaley and all the SC leaders standing with her for doing the right thing. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Ohio Gov. John Kasich and Texas Gov. Rick Perry did the same. It was a sharp shift for the Republican presidential hopefuls, who avoided taking such a firm position about the flag for several days following the slaying last week of nine black church members in Charleston. Walker was among the many who said it was a decision best left to those in South Carolina. The flag was carried by troops supporting the pro-sl stanley cup avery, secessionist Southern states in the 1861-65 American Civil War. Republican leaders had hoped to avoid such a divisive issue this early in the campaign, and the Republican d stanley cup ebate has to this point centered on foreign policy and the economy. But eight months before the first presidential votes are Wdvt Couple in Philippine killings brought to China for trial
An Islamic group that has threatened to attack the Olympics released a new video warning Muslims to avoid planes, trains and buses used by Chinese, a US group that monitors militant organisations said. HT Image The six-minute video, issued two days before Friday s opening of the Beijing games, was purportedly made by the Turkistan Islamic Party, which seeks independence for China s western Xinjiang region, the SITE Intelligence Group said on Thursday. The militants are believed to be based across the border in Pakistan, where security experts say core members have received training from al-Qaeda. Choose your side, says the speaker, grasping a rifle and dressed in a black turban and camouflage with his face masked. Do not stay on the same bus, on the same train, on the same plane, in the same buildings, or any place the Chinese are, he warns Muslims, a stanley cup ccording to SITE. He speaks in the Turkic language of the Uighurs, a Muslim minority with a population of about 8 millio stanley cup n in Xinjiang. Last month, the militant group issued videotaped threat adidas samba og s and claimed responsibility for a series of bus bombings in China in recent months. The latest video features graphics similar to ones used earlier: a burning Olympics logo and an explosion imposed over an apparent Olympic venue. The new video claims the communist regime s alleged mistreatment of Muslims justifies holy war. It accuses China of forcing Muslims into atheism by capturing and killing Islamic teachers and destroy
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