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Sunday, September 30, 2012

Cheat Sheet - If Obama Wins, What's Next?

Today: Possible 'Inside' Attack Kills 5 , Unhappy Birthday to the Amendment That Started the War on Women , Car Bombs Tear Through Iraq
Cheat Sheet: Morning

September 30, 2012
SECOND TERM

Different data, same result. A new Rand Corp. polling technique shows that even mixing up common methods yields pretty much the same result: with only five weeks left until the election, President Obama is running clearly ahead of Mitt Romney. So what'll he do if he wins? The Daily Beast's Eleanor Clift looks at the odds of an altered GOP, bipartisanship—and Erskine Bowles at Treasury.  

AFGHANISTAN

Five people were killed in Afghanistan on Saturday in what may have been another "insider" attack - bringing the total number of U.S. military depths in the country to 2,000. Two Americans and three Afghans are thought to have been killed in the firefight, though few details were available early on Sunday. The incident appears to have occurred after a disagreement of some sort broke out at an Afghan National Army checkpoint. If the altercation was an attack on NATO forces by Afghan soldiers who were militants wearing army uniforms, it would bring the total number of coalition deaths in such attacks this year to 53.

UNHAPPY BIRTHDAY

Today marks the 36th birthday of an amendment aimed at prohibiting poor women from getting an abortion—and setting the stage for today's battles, argues Jessica Arons of the Center for American Progress.

VIOLENCE

Police checkpoints appear to have been targeted in a string of car-bomb attacks across Iraq on Sunday that claimed 17 lives. In one of the attacks not far from Baghdad, three separate vehicles packed with explosives detonated, killing eight people. No one has stepped forward to claim responsibility for the deadly attacks. A separate suicide bombing killed four policemen in the city of Kut, and a stationary car bomb in Baghdad killed two more people. Al Qaeda and Islamist groups have continued to kill in Iraq despite a decrease in violence over the last five years.

LINES OF SUPPLY

Stop shipping weapons to Syria, the United States told Iran, amidst fears that the Islamic Republic is inflaming the conflict between the regime of Bashar al-Assad and opposition fighters. Clinton said that neighboring countries should step in and block the flow of weapons to the embattled country after Iranian state media quoted a Revolutionary Guard commander saying that elite forces were on the ground in Syria. The United States has so far dedicated about $45 million to nonlethal aid for Syrian opposition forces. The Iran commander claimed that military forces were in Syria but not engaged in combat roles.


TERROR
Libya Attackers Had al Qaeda Links
U.S. intelligence says.
INFLAMED
Muslims Burn Temples in Bangladesh
Over perceived insult to Islam.
SPAIN
Separatism Spreads in Catalonia
Wealthier region grows restless.
OPINION
Has Rowling Abandoned Her Roots?
Villagers ask after 'Casual Vacancy.'
'INSANE'
Townshend Breaks Child Porn Silence
While promoting new autobiography.
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