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• A Duluth soldier comes home
  Army Specialist Daniel James McConnell throught he'd be home, safe, from Iraq within weeks. Instead, his body is being flown back Friday.November 18, 2004
• Arafat buried after tens of thousands give him an emotional farewell
  Yasser Arafat was laid to rest in a marble-and-stone tomb Friday after his flag-draped coffin was borne through a sea of emotional Palestinians who swarmed the helicopter that brought him from a state funeral in Egypt. The Palestinians consider the gravesite temporary - a place for Arafat's body until they can honor his request to be buried in Jerusalem.November 12, 2004
• A Civil War veteran finally remembered
  Henry Johnson lay in an unmarked grave for 76 years. Now, thanks to help from a great granddaughter, the Civil War veteran is properly memorialized.November 11, 2004
• Palestinians grieve for Arafat; worry about future
  Palestinians at home and abroad wept, waved flags and burned tires Thursday in an eruption of grief at the death of Yasser Arafat, the man they consider the father of their nation. The quick appointment of successors did little to dispel the huge question marks now hanging over Mideast peace efforts.November 11, 2004
• Artist defends his controversial veterans memorial
  Thursday is Veterans Day, a day set aside to remember the sacrifices of the nation's veterans. This fall, a Minneapolis artist erected his own memorial, to honor those killed in the war in Iraq. He set it up along Minnehaha Creek. The Minneapolis Park Board has since removed it, but the artist says his memorial will live on.November 11, 2004
• Arafat and the Middle East
  With Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the intensive care unit of a Paris hospital, we take a look back at his four decades at the helm of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. What does it mean for Middle East peace if the controversial Arab leader survives his current illness? And what if he doesn't? (Photo by HUSSEIN HUSSEIN/AFP/Getty Images)November 9, 2004
• U.S. forces open major assault on Fallujah
  Thousands of U.S. troops, backed by armor and a stunning air barrage, attacked the toughest strongholds of Sunni insurgents in Fallujah on Monday, launching a long-awaited offensive aimed at putting an end to guerrilla control of the Sunni Muslim city. The top U.S. commander in Iraq predicted a "major confrontation" on the streets of Fallujah as the conflict began.November 8, 2004
• The battle in Fallujah
  U.S. Marines and Army personnel in Iraq have begun their assault on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. Military officials have warned that the battle could be the most brutal urban warfare U.S. troops have experienced since the Vietnam War. U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has warned that the assault could jeopardize the Iraqi elections scheduled for January, but the U.S. maintains that the operation is essential to its efforts in the region.November 8, 2004
• The struggle over intelligence reform
  It's been more than three months since the 9-11 Commission released its final report, and the United States is still waiting for intelligence reform. The House and the Senate missed the election day deadline President Bush set for them to reconcile their versions of a bill enacting many of the changes the commission proposed. With the White House and the military also weighing in, will the Congress be able to find a bill everyone can agree on?November 5, 2004
• Taking liberties
  During all of the country's major wars, the United States government has restricted its citizens' rights. Midmorning examines the historical and continuing battles between national security and civil liberties.October 28, 2004
• Are we losing the peace in Iraq?
  The newspaper chain Knight Ridder's Washington bureau has just completed a three-part series of news analyses looking into why winning the peace in Iraq has been so much harder than winning the war was. Looking at official documents and three months of interviews with people intimately involved with planning the war and the subsequent rebuilding effort, their team of reporters found a process plagued by inadequate planning and major missteps.October 20, 2004
• Condoleezza Rice
  National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice praises President George W. Bush for changing the direction of the United States' policy toward the Middle East, breaking "with 60 years of excusing and accommodating the lack of freedom" in Arab countries. "When freedom is on the march, America is more secure," Rice said on Friday at the City Club Forum in Cleveland. Rice compared the War on Terrorism to the Cold War, both in its length and its scope, and like the Soviet Union, she said terrorist organizations and the "ideology of hatred that spawned them" will eventually crumble.October 19, 2004
• Violence shatters Green Zone security
  Recent bombings within Baghdad's Green Zone shattered any sense of security that foreign workers had in Iraq. The author of a book on Ground Zero suggests the insularity of the Green Zone contributed to the lack of effective international reconstruction activity.October 18, 2004
• Dayton defends decision to close Washington office
  Sen. Mark Dayton says he has no second thoughts about his decision to close his Capitol Hill office. The Minnesota Democrat closed his Washington, D.C. office earlier this week, citing a top-secret intelligence report on terrorism. He responded to both critics and supporters of his decision on MPR's Midday program.October 15, 2004
• Why did Dayton lock the door?
  Citing unspecified threats in a classified intelligence report he received weeks ago, Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., announced on Tuesday that he would close his Capitol Hill office until after the national election on Nov. 2. Dayton said that it would be immoral for him to expose his staff and visiting constituents to danger while he is in Minnesota during the Senate's fall recess. So far, no other senators have followed suit, though several have criticized Dayton for a move they characterized as an overreaction that has sent the "wrong message" to terrorists.October 15, 2004

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