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BIRMINGHAM, England - British police said Friday they were investigating the desecration of Muslim graves in a cemetery close to the scene of recent violent clashes between black and South Asian youths. Some 30 headstones were knocked over late Thursday and early Friday in the Muslim section of Handsworth Cemetery in Birmingham, a city in central England, area police said. They said they were treating the incident as "racially aggravated criminal damage." The officers said they were conducting forensic tests on literature that city workers found at the cemetery but gave no further details. Sky News TV reported that notes...

March 24, 2005 -- BAGHDAD — U.S. and Iraqi forces killed 85 terror fighters at a suspected training camp along the marshy shores of a remote lake — one of the highest guerrilla death tolls of the two-year war, officials said yesterday. They said citizens emboldened by the January elections are increasingly turning in intelligence tips. The devastating raid at Lake Tharthar in central Iraq turned up booby-trapped cars, suicide-bomber vests, weapons and training documents, Iraqi Maj. Gen. Rashid Feleih said. He said the rebels included Iraqis, Filipinos, Algerians, Moroccans, Afghans and Arabs from neighboring countries. "What's really remarkable is...