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Iraq is poised to slash the legal age of consent from 18 to to 9, allowing men to marry young children.. The proposed legal change also deprives women of rights to divorce, child custody and inheritance. ... And nobody cares. The feminists, the actresses from Hollywood, the crazy blue hair, nose ring lunatics are more passionate about their abortion rights that a 9 y old girl forced to marry a savage in Iraq… ... So glad we spent 20 years, 4000 souls, and $800 billion there. ... The evil islamic apartheid against women continues. .... Where are the western feminists...

Pakistan has told the US it risks losing an ally if it continues to accuse the country of playing a double game in the war against al-Qaeda, escalating the crisis in relations between the two countries. Hina Rabbani Khar, the Pakistani foreign minister, was responding to comments by Admiral Mike Mullen, the US joint chiefs of staff, who said Pakistan military's spy agency, ISI, was closely tied to the Haqqani network, the most violent and effective faction allied with the Taliban in Afghanistan. It is the most serious allegation levelled by the US against Pakistan since they began an alliance...