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EAST ORANGE, N.J. -- If Sunni A. Salahuddin is not in when you call, his voice mail message instructs you to leave not just your name and number, but your "date of arrest or conviction." That's the kind of information Salahuddin needs, so he can make it go away. Clear Your Record! That's the name of Salahuddin's business. Salahuddin calls himself an "expungement technician." For a few hundred dollars, a fraction of what a lawyer would charge, the paralegal helps people scrub their records clean of arrests or convictions -- blots that can mark them for life, foreclosing opportunities to...

NEWS RELEASEHEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES CENTRAL COMMAND7115 South Boundary BoulevardMacDill AFB, Fla. 33621-5101Phone: (813) 827-5894; FAX: (813) 827-2211; DSN 651-5894 April 26, 2004Release Number: 04-04-22 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ANTI-COALITION FORCES ATTACK IRAQI CIVILIANS MOSUL, Iraq - Anti-Coalition forces conducted a series of attacks in Mosul against civilian targets killing and injuring Iraqi civilians and Iraqi Police April 25. At 9:25 a.m., a rocket-propelled grenade was fired at an Iraqi Police station in northern Mosul. There were no reported injuries in this attack. At 9:30 a.m., Iraqi Police reported the Shiddiq Rashan mosque in northeast Mosul, was attacked by mortars or...

  Leaders in Fallujah Have 'Days, Not Weeks' to Comply By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press ServiceWASHINGTON, April 22, 2004 – It's a matter of "days not weeks" for Fallujans to demonstrate they are serious about honoring the agreement they made earlier this week, Coalition Provisional Authority spokesmen in Iraq said today. Speaking during a Baghdad press conference, senior spokesman Dan Senor said Fallujans must turn over illegal heavy weapons and they must work "to remove foreign fighters, drug users, former Special Republican Guard, former Fedayeen Saddam and other serious, dangerous and violent criminals operating out of Fallujah." U.S. Marines...

Sunday, Nov. 16, 2003A while back, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dubbed the insurgents who are making life so difficult for coalition forces, Iraqi authorities and anyone caught in the cross fire "dead-enders," losers from Saddam Hussein's regime with nothing left to do but go down fighting. U.S. military officials said the enemy fighters lacked organization and coordination. No one would say any of this now. American officials acknowledge that the insurgents are a potent and increasingly structured force. A former Saddam aide who is close to insurgents in Anbar province, west of Baghdad, agrees. What were once dispersed cells are...