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WASHINGTON, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Lawmakers who want Iraq to repay the United States for its reconstruction voiced growing confidence on Thursday that the U.S. Congress will make part of the $87 billion bill for Iraq in the form of loans, defying President George W. Bush. Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives worked to stem a push among their own members to make Iraq use its future oil wealth to repay some or all of the $20.3 billion Bush has proposed to rebuild it. But a spokesman for House Speaker Dennis Hastert, an Illinois Republican, said...

Women condemned the publication of photographs of Saddam Hussein's dead sons yesterday, while men supported it. Speaking in the cafe of the Imperial War Museum in London, Kate Dodsworth said of the pictures: "I think they're quite shocking, almost titillating photographs. "I do understand that in Iraq people may need to see the images to understand that two perpetrators of the regime have gone, but I don't believe that in this country people need to see the photos to believe that they're gone. So for us I think it's just grotesque photos which don't need to be published at all."...