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KABUL (Reuters) – An angry mob that killed seven foreign UN staff in north Afghanistan ripped out the door of a bunker where several had taken shelter, and slit the throat of one man who survived a bullet, the top UN envoy in the country said on Saturday. Staffan de Mistura promised that the United Nations would stay in Afghanistan after the vicious assault, the deadliest it has faced in Afghanistan, but would have to reconsider security, particularly guarantees from Afghan forces. He also warned that the Afghan government need to do more to prevent attacks like this if it...

MSNBC says it's ending contract with Keith Olbermann; last broadcast of 'Countdown' tonight

(WASHINGTON, D.C., CAIR) – CAIR today called on American Muslims and other people of conscience to contact the MSNBC cable television network to demand an apology for comments made on its “Imus in the Morning” program that referred to Palestinians as “filthy animals” and suggested that they all be killed. The Council on American-Islamic Relations also asked that the program’s host, Don Imus, be reprimanded for failing to challenge his colleagues’ inflammatory remarks. CAIR, which says it received numerous complaints about the comments, quoted a transcript of Imus’ November 12th program in which he and his on-air colleagues engaged in...