PRESS DIGEST - Washington Post - Oct 15

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WASHINGTON, Oct 15 (Reuters) - Washington Post included the following items on its front page on Oct 15. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

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The U.S. military believes it has dealt devastating and perhaps irreversible blows to al-Qaeda in Iraq in recent months, leading some generals to advocate a declaration of victory over the group, which the Bush administration has long described as the most lethal U.S. adversary in Iraq.

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Salih Saif Aldin, a 32-year-old Iraqi reporter in The Washington Post's Baghdad bureau was fatally shot Sunday afternoon. He was the latest in a long line of reporters, most of them Iraqis, to be killed while covering the Iraq war.

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As the Bush administration and Congress sit gridlocked on an immigration overhaul, states are jumping into the debate as never before. In the process, they are creating a national patchwork of incongruous immigration laws that some observers fear will make it far more difficult to enact any comprehensive, federally mandated bill down the line.

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