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(CNN) -- President Obama's pledge to conquer cancer "in our time" is a great goal, but one of America's top cancer experts isn't sure he'd use the word "cure."

Despite chemotherapy, some breast cancers recur, like a "smoldering fire that flares up," Dr. Otis Brawley said.

"The idea of [calling for] a cure does scare me a little bit because, I don't think that's realistic in some cancers," says Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society. "But I like the general overall idea, and I'm thrilled about the focus on health."

Obama's first proposed budget includes $6 billion for cancer research by the National Institutes of Health. That's on top of the additional $10 billion provided by the stimulus package for 2009 and 2010.

But some cancer specialists say that rather than finding a cure, a more realistic scenario is that certain cancers that are fatal today will move into the realm of chronic illnesses.

By chronic disease, doctors mean "the way we think of diabetes or heart disease as chronic diseases, where people could live in peaceful coexistence with cancer, as opposed to the cancer continuing to advance," said Brawley, who also is CNNhealth.com's conditions expert.

Dr. Tony Reid, an oncologist and director of clinical trials at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego, shares this view. He sees the long-term management of certain cancers as chronic illness as a "primary intermediate step" as researchers work towards cures.

Prevention efforts, including discouraging smoking, obesity, and environmental hazards, are also important components of the cure, Dr. Andreas Ullrich, medical officer in cancer control at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.

How long it will actually take to cure cancer is anyone's guess, but Obama's initiative is encouraging, he said.

"We need this hope," Ullrich said. "We need to invest in our efforts in research, in basic research, and also in social science to understand why people behave in a risky way, and how to prevent people from exposing themselves to cancer risk," he said.

Given that "cancer" encompasses more than 200 diseases, it makes sense that different varieties would require different approaches for saving the lives of their victims.

From Brawley's perspective, a cure happens when the disease has gone away and it's not likely to come back, and the person is likely to grow old and die from something totally unrelated.

Reid put it in terms of years of survival -- with pancreatic cancer, which normally takes lives within six months of diagnosis, you're probably cured if you're still alive five years after surgery, he said. But breast cancer can come back even after 10 years, he said.

About 11 million people living in the United States had a history of some form of cancer as of 2005, according to the latest statistics from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results database.

There has been progress, however. For American men, the risk of death for cancer is 20 percent lower than it was 20 years ago, Brawley said.

Rates of new cancer diagnoses and deaths for U.S. men and women simultaneously fell for the first time since reporting began in 1998, according to a report published in November in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.  See a map of lung cancer in the U.S. from this report Â»

Already there are cancers that respond well to drugs for several years. Patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors tend to tolerate the drugs well, for example, Reid said.

"I have many patients who will come back and say, 'Except for the fact that you tell me I have cancer, I don't know it,' " he said.

But after a while, these patients'  cancer cells mutate and evolve to become resistant to the drugs, finding ways around almost any drug, Reid said.

Some breast cancer patients take medications for 10 years to prevent recurrence, said Dr. Stephanie Hines, physician at the breast center at the Mayo Clinic's Breast Cancer Center in Jacksonville, Florida. But great strides have been made in such drugs, she said.

"There is real promise at eventually eradicating breast cancer," she said. "I would say maybe not in the next five or 10 years. But it may happen -- I don't know if in our lifetime."

Still, only a few kinds of cancer are currently cured, and that's often dependent on early detection -- testicular and early stage breast cancer are two of the few examples, Reid said. About 80 percent of lymphomas are cured, Brawley said.

Metastatic lung cancer and metastatic breast cancer, on the other hand, are more likely to one day become "chronic diseases," which would be treated throughout a person's life rather than eliminated, Brawley said.

"Once it's metastasized or spread, you can't really do surgery unless you want to do almost cherry-picking throughout the body, which doesn't really work," he said.

Currently, some breast cancers regress even with chemotherapy. Cancer specialists compare these breast cancers to "a smoldering fire which flares up every once in a while" and requires more water, Brawley said. Extending the amount of time that a person could live like that is a "reasonable goal," he said.

Cancer doctors emphasize that Obama's initiative is a tremendous asset to cancer research.

"I think that all the tools are there -- it's just, we have to do the hard work of testing them, evaluating them, and making them available to patients, Reid said.

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(CNN) -- Talk with two people who have been to Marrakech and you'll get very different views on what a trip there is like.

One person will speak of the allure of wandering through a warren of market streets; the other will complain of getting lost over and over again. One will tell you that people there are among the friendliest they've met, if you can meet them halfway on the language. The other will say that the locals are only out to make money and not even directions are free. The food is exotic yet easy on the palate, or restaurants serve up bland clichÃÂ©s that still manage to turn you inside out.

And they would both be correct. Bottom line: Marrakech is not for the timid traveler.

My wife and I visited last November. We had heard it had much of what we look for in a travel destination: Centuries of history coupled with a very modern vibe. The city has a European feel, from the brand-name stores to the widespread use of French as a second or third language.

The crowded souks and calls to prayer from the mosque minarets are what you would find at the heart of a Middle Eastern country. It is the outline of the High Atlas Mountains that reminds you that this is North Africa.

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The city's origins stretch back to the 11th century. Back then Marrakech was a key trading route with sub-Saharan cities. And like other hubs -- Bruges as a European port, Samarkand on the Silk Road -- Marrakech had its golden epoch before falling from favor. The result is that parts of the city within the rose-colored walls and imposing gates surrounding the medina, or Old City, have a sense of being frozen in time.

The massive Jemaa el Fna is likely to be the focal point of your time in Marrakech, both as a destination and as a much-needed reference point. It is one of Africa's largest squares, and as long as the city has existed it has been a place where storytellers, musicians, healers and just about everyone else has gathered.

During the day you can't walk through it without some snake charmer or henna tattoo artist offering to make your stay more memorable. At night, they push aside to make way for innumerable food stalls offering as genuine a selection of Moroccan cuisine as you'll find at any restaurant. Grills sizzle beneath tiny merguez sausages and fish and skewers of vegetables. For the more adventurous, there is boiled goat head or bowls of snails.

More than once we were brought food that we didn't order, like the deep red harira soup and a basket of bread, maybe some fresh olives. We paid for it anyway, and frankly, it was worth it. It exposed us to foods we may not have tried otherwise. Just plan on paying a bit more than you might have expected. Later, you'll walk it off as you wander amid the chaos, moving to incessant drum beats and chants, trying your best to take it all in.

Just north of the Jemaa el Fna you'll find the myriad alleyways of the Marrakech souk, or traditional market quarter. No map will help you navigate these passages; just accept that you are going to get lost and enjoy yourself along the way. While souvenir stalls are everywhere, you can still find shops selling items of remarkable craftsmanship that reflect local designs -- whether it is in the intricate patterns and colored glass of the hanging lamps, or leather goods from the tannery in another part of the city.

And trust me, the shop owners are always ready to make a deal. Make eye contact with a market trader, and before you know it you're haggling over the price of something that you may or may not need, but will provide a terrific story when you get back home. Nothing here has a set price, and shopkeepers can be aggressive when they think you are interested in something. But no trip to Marrakech would be complete without trying your hand at negotiating.

At some point you realize that the hardest thing about visiting Marrakech is that you are usually moving at someone else's pace. The streets of the souk are jammed with people who are either jostling to get past you or quite content standing in your way.

You and the other pedestrians will be on the lookout for young people on motorbikes heading in both directions. And everyone will try to maneuver around donkey-pulled carts. But anywhere you go -- and this is what makes a trip to Marrakech so special -- is an assault on the senses. It could be the vibrant colors of the shops selling mounds of rich spices or hand-tied rugs, the smell of food cooking, the press of the crowd, or the calls of the souk.

When all the bustle gets to be too much, there are plenty of sites that give you a chance to relax. South of the Jemaa el Fna stands the 19th century Bahia Palace and gardens, originally built for a high-ranking official and his concubines. You won't find a palace in the sense of Versailles or the Hofburg. Instead, you'll meander through a series of rooms with little more than lavishly decorated floors, walls and ceilings, leading to courtyards with fruit trees and fountains. We walked through the palace on our own, though I suspect a proper tour could be organized. The Ben Youssef Medersa, a former boarding school where for hundreds of years young men studied the Quran, will amaze you with its intricate stucco and cedar carvings.

Or just sit in the shadow of the Koutoubia Mosque minaret, an important example of the region's Islamic architecture. Or simply hop on one of the tour buses at the far end of Jemaa el Fna and check out Marrakech's modern Gueliz district.

Staying in Marrakech is best experienced at a riad, a traditional Moroccan home built around a central courtyard. The whole idea was originally to create as private a dwelling as possible, so even finding the entrance to one can be a challenge (always ask your hosts if someone can meet you, if not at the airport, at least at the edge of the Old City to get you there). The best have only a few rooms, each uniquely decorated and appointed. Your hosts will be more than ready to offer suggestions on where to eat, what to see, or just to offer a soothing cup of tea on the rooftop terrace.

Soothing tea aside, when you get back from Marrakech, don't expect to feel relaxed. Exhausted is more like it. You will have navigated more alleyways, gotten lost more times and told more people "no, thank you" for one reason or another than you should on a vacation. But a few weeks later, when you are looking back over the pictures you took, none of that will matter much. All you'll remember will be the sights and sounds that make Marrakech so special.

And you'll be thinking about when you might go back.

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text: had

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text: may

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text: Nothing

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text: But

text: no

text: trip

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text: Marrakech

text: would

text: be

text: complete

text: without

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text: hand

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text: the

text: hardest

text: thing

text: about

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text: past

text: you

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text: quite

text: content

text: standing

text: in

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text: way

text: You

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text: the

text: other

text: pedestrians

text: will

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text: on

text: the

text: lookout

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text: this

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text: gets

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text: be

text: too

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text: are

text: plenty

text: of

text: sites

text: that

text: give

text: you

text: a

text: chance

text: to

text: relax

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text: of

text: the

text: Jemaa

text: el

text: Fna

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text: the

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text: than

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text: We

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text: Quran

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text: region

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text: riad

text: a

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text: Moroccan

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text: central

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text: whole

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text: so

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text: the

text: entrance

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text: challenge

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text: can

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text: airport

text: at

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text: edge

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text: Old

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text: The

text: best

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text: few

text: rooms

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text: decorated

text: and

text: appointed

text: Your

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text: more

text: than

text: ready

text: to

text: offer

text: suggestions

text: on

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text: what

text: to

text: see

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text: just

text: to

text: offer

text: a

text: soothing

text: cup

text: of

text: tea

text: on

text: the

text: rooftop

text: terrace

text: Soothing

text: tea

text: aside

text: when

text: you

text: get

text: back

text: from

text: Marrakech

text: do

text: n't

text: expect

text: to

text: feel

text: relaxed

text: Exhausted

text: is

text: more

text: like

text: it

text: You

text: will

text: have

text: navigated

text: more

text: alleyways

text: gotten

text: lost

text: more

text: times

text: and

text: told

text: more

text: people

text: no

text: thank

text: you

text: for

text: one

text: reason

text: or

text: another

text: than

text: you

text: should

text: on

text: a

text: vacation

text: But

text: a

text: few

text: weeks

text: later

text: when

text: you

text: are

text: looking

text: back

text: over

text: the

text: pictures

text: you

text: took

text: of

text: that

text: will

text: matter

text: much

text: All

text: you

text: 'll

text: remember

text: will

text: be

text: the

text: sights

text: and

text: sounds

text: that

text: make

text: Marrakech

text: so

text: special

text: And

text: you

text: 'll

text: be

text: thinking

text: about

text: when

text: you

text: might

text: go

text: back

question: To which century do the city's origins stretch back to?

answer: e 11t

text: e 11t

question: what is a great destination

answer: Marrakech

text: Marrakech

question: What is the name of a traditional Moroccan home built around a central courtyard?

answer: t a riad

text: t a riad

question: What is not for the timid traveller?

answer: : Marrakec

text: : Marrakec

question: when is the origin of the city

answer: e 11th century

text: e 11th century

question: What is the traditional Moroccan home built around?

answer: a central courtyard

text: a central courtyard

question: What is not for the timid traveler?

answer: : Marrakec

text: : Marrakec

question: When do the city's origins stretch back to?

answer: e 11th century

text: e 11th century


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(CNN) -- Tensions mounted in Paris, Texas, on Tuesday when about 100 mostly black protesters clashed with white supremacist groups in a verbal confrontation over a black man's death.

White supremacists taunt black protesters who marched Tuesday in Paris, Texas.

The confrontation stems from the 2008 death of 24-year-old African-American Brandon McClelland. After his body was found mangled on the side of a rural road, investigators concluded he was run over, dragged, and killed.

Two white men were initially charged with murder, but the charges were dismissed last month because of a lack of evidence.

Black protesters marched through the town Tuesday, hoisting a flag of red, green and black, the colors associated with African liberation movements. They chanted, "No justice, no peace."

White demonstrators waved a flag emblazoned with a Nazi swastika and taunted the black marchers, shouting through a megaphone: "White power, white power."  Watch the confrontation Â»

Paris, in northeast Texas, has 25,000 people, 70 percent white and 20 percent black.

No violence or injuries were reported but two white men were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for trying to incite the protesters, Lt. Danny Huff of the Paris Police Department said.

McClelland's mother, Jacqueline McClelland, told CNN the demonstration was not about race but was aimed at achieving justice for her only child.

"We come seeking justice, not only for myself, but [for] other people who have been done wrong," she said. "I want for everyone to get equal justice.

"I don't know the whole story," she said. "I can't be at peace until I know what happened to my child."

CNN's Carolina Sanchez contributed to this report.

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text: Tensions

text: mounted

text: in

text: Paris

text: Texas

text: on

text: Tuesday

text: when

text: about

text: mostly

text: black

text: protesters

text: clashed

text: with

text: white

text: supremacist

text: groups

text: in

text: a

text: verbal

text: confrontation

text: over

text: a

text: black

text: man

text: 's

text: death

text: White

text: supremacists

text: taunt

text: black

text: protesters

text: who

text: marched

text: Tuesday

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text: Paris

text: Texas

text: The

text: confrontation

text: stems

text: from

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text: death

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text: old

text: African

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text: side

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text: rural

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text: charges

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text: lack

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text: Black

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text: town

text: Tuesday

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text: green

text: and

text: black

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text: colors

text: associated

text: with

text: African

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text: They

text: chanted

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text: confrontation

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text: the

text: demonstration

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text: justice

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text: only

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text: other

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text: have

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text: done

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text: said

text: I

text: want

text: for

text: everyone

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text: get

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text: justice

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text: do

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text: whole

text: story

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text: ca

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text: know

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text: happened

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text: child

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Carolina

text: Sanchez

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: Who waved a flag with a Nazi swastika?

answer: White demonstrators

text: White demonstrators

question: Where did the march take place?

answer: Paris, Texas.

text: Paris, Texas.

question: What will the white men be charged with?

answer: disorderly conduct

text: disorderly conduct

question: Where was the body of Brandon McClelland found?

answer: on the side of a rural road,

text: on the side of a rural road,

question: Where did people march in protest?

answer: in Paris, Texas.

text: in Paris, Texas.

question: What happened to Brandon McClelland?

answer: he was run over, dragged, and killed.

text: he was run over, dragged, and killed.

question: Who is Brandon?

answer: 24-year-old African-American

text: 24-year-old African-American

question: What were supremacists waving?

answer: a flag emblazoned with a Nazi swastika

text: a flag emblazoned with a Nazi swastika


text:
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The case against a Marine accused of murder in a 2005 incident involving the killings of Iraqi civilians in Haditha "is simply not strong enough to prove against a reasonable doubt," the investigating officer said Thursday.

The investigating officer has recommended that Sgt. Frank Wuterich not be tried for murder.

Lt. Col. Paul Ware recommended that Sgt. Frank Wuterich face trial for lesser charges of negligent homicide.

The case involved allegations that Marines killed up to two dozen Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha, Iraq, in November 2005.  Ware said the evidence indicated Wuterich "failed to exercise due care in his own actions in supervising his Marines."

"When a Marine fails to exercise due care in a combat environment resulting in the death of innocents, the charge of negligent homicide, not murder, is the appropriate offense," he said in a statement.   The recommendation goes to Lt. Gen. James Mattis, the commanding general overseeing the case, who will make the final decision.  If the recommendation is accepted, it could mean that no one in the Haditha case will be tried for murder.

Four enlisted Marines were initially accused in the case, and charges against two have been dropped. Murder charges remain against Lance Cpl. Stephen Tatum, although Ware has recommended dropping all charges against him. Ware said the evidence is too weak for a court martial.

Four officers were later accused of failing to investigate and report the deaths properly. Charges against two of them have been dropped.

Haditha, along the Euphrates River, was the target of previous Marine campaigns aimed at rooting out insurgents. Wuterich was leading a patrol through the city on November 19, 2005, when the unit was hit by a roadside bomb that killed one of its members.

Twenty-four civilians were killed in what a human rights group and military prosecutors said was a house-to-house rampage by Marines after the bomb exploded.

The military began investigating the killings in March 2006, and charges were brought the following December.

A statement from the Marine Corps originally blamed the civilian deaths on the roadside bomb, triggering a parallel investigation into how commanders handled the incident.

Arrest made in terrorist financing case

Earlier Thursday, the U.S. military announced the arrest of a man who smuggled $100 million into Iraq during the past few months to finance terrorist operations.

The unidentified man, arrested Tuesday near Baghdad, allegedly employs 40 to 50 extremists at $3,000 per job for al Qaeda in Iraq bomb attacks against coalition forces, using money from supporters outside Iraq, the military said.

"The extremist financier is suspected of traveling to foreign countries to acquire financial support for terrorist activities and is suspected of supplying more than $50,000 to al Qaeda each month," the military said.

The suspect, captured during a coalition raid in Kindi, operates a network of financing cells across Iraq, the military said.

"He is believed to have received $100 million this summer from terrorist supporters who cross the Iraq border illegally or fly into Iraq from Italy, Syria and Egypt," the military said.

The $100 million figure is based on intelligence report estimates over several months, a spokesman for Multi-National Corps-Iraq said.

The man is also accused of purchasing some of the explosives and weapons used in the 2006 attack on Samarra's al-Askariya mosque, also known as the Golden Mosque, and a second attack on it in 2007.

The attacks heightened sectarian tensions between Sunni and Shiite Muslims.

During a separate operation in Radwaniya on Tuesday, Iraqi forces detained a suspected al Qaeda in Iraq platoon leader who commands 15 men in attacks on Iraqi and coalition forces with roadside bombs and direct assaults, the military said.

Meanwhile, an Iraqi Ministry of Information spokesman said Thursday that Iraq has entered into a "substantial" deal with China to purchase weapons and light military equipment for its police forces, because the Asian nation promised the fastest delivery.

Brig. Gen. Abdul Kareem Khalaf told CNN he was unable to confirm that his country was spending $100 million for the items, a number reported in Thursday's editions of The Washington Post, which quoted Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.

Khalaf said there have been delivery delays from other countries, including the United States, and adequately arming police forces is a priority in Iraq's goal to provide its own security. In the United States, there are several layers of review before military equipment sales are approved.

Khalaf said the deal was made last June during a visit to China by Talabani and Minister of Interior Jawad al-Bolani, whose department is in charge of policing and border control.  Other developments:

CNN's Jamie McIntyre, Saad Abedine and Jomana Karadsheh contributed to this report.

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KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Security remains a top concern, as Afghanistan holds its second-ever presidential election Thursday, prompting the government to ask for a ban on media coverage of violence.

An Afghan police officer walks near a bank in Kabul where an armed robbery ended in a gunbattle.

Afghanistan's government has ordered the media to refrain from covering possible attacks on election day in an effort to "ensure the wide participation of the Afghan people."

"If anybody broadcasts or gives news about any movements or activities of terrorists, domestic media offices will be closed, and foreigners will be kicked out of the country," according to a statement from Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmad Zahir Faqiri.

He said the order is in line with Afghanistan's constitution, which allows for such mandates "in exceptional situations" to protect "national interest and national security."

Escalating violence in the capital, Kabul, this week has made some Afghans think twice about whether to venture out to vote.

"If we are not at peace, why should we vote, who should we vote for?" asked Ferishta, 21, who last weekend lay in a blood-soaked shirt and was connected to an intravenous drip after a suicide bombing.

But at least one independent news agency refused to heed a blackout on reports of violence. Restricting media freedoms has no basis in the Afghan constitution, said the Kabul-based Pajhwok News Agency.

The U.S. Embassy in Kabul insisted that press freedoms are necessary to ensure credible elections.

"While we recognize the sovereign rights of the Afghan government and note their intention to encourage Afghans to turn out and vote, we believe that free media reporting is directly linked to the credibility of the elections and continue to support the freedom of the press and responsible reporting," spokeswoman Fleur Cowan said in an e-mail.

On the eve of the election, roadside bombs killed three Afghan election workers in the southern province of Kandahar, and four others were killed Tuesday in the northern province of Badakshan, Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan spokesman Noor Mohammad Noor said.

Amid the violence, the candidates wrapped up last-minute campaigning with the hope that the elections can showcase their country's fledgling democracy.

"We're at a moment of truth," said Mark Schneider, senior vice president of the International Crisis Group, an independent advisory and analysis organization.

An incumbent president and about 40 challengers, including two women, are on the ballot, vying for the votes of what the election commission says are an estimated 17 million registered Afghans against a backdrop of war, graft, poverty and illiteracy.

More than 3,000 donkeys, 3,000 cars and three helicopters will traverse harsh terrain to carry voting materials to remote polling stations, the election commission says. And 30 observer groups, domestic and international, will be on hand to help guard against fraud, it says.

At the heart of every vote will be the two biggest impediments to progress in one of the poorest nations in the world: stifling corruption and an increasingly bloody Taliban insurgency.

International donors are helping pay for the $223 million electoral undertaking, and hundreds of U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers have moved into strife-torn southern Afghanistan to protect voters against possible Taliban attacks.

The top U.S. envoy to the region, Richard Holbrooke, expressed optimism that Thursday's vote would be Afghanistan's moment to shine. It's tough to organize elections during a war, he said, but the reality is that violence during elections is commonplace in many parts of the world.

"Afghanistan has never had a contested election," Holbrooke said. "So this is a remarkable experiment in democracy and something that Afghanistan needs to give legitimacy to the new government."

That legitimacy has become a key issue in the campaign. Frontrunner President Hamid Karzai's chief challengers -- former Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani and former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah -- have both lashed out at the incumbent for failing to rein in corruption.

In its annual global corruption perception index in 2008, Transparency International ranked Afghanistan 176 out of 180 countries and said graft is "a major factor impeding the country's stability and future growth."

Ghani said the most significant challenge Afghanistan's next president will face is earning back the trust of the people.

"This government has lost it," he said in a recent interview. "There is no sense of trust, not only in the current leadership but in the political class as such. And in the capacity of the state or the international community to improve the lot of our people."

Ghani characterized Karzai as a "very poor manager" who failed to deal with pressing issues and create any sense of momentum for the nation moving forward. As a guest on CNN's "Fareed Zakaria GPS" this month, Ghani said Afghanistan's corruption had metastasized into a cancer that was "eating through the society."

Abdullah argued that people's dissatisfaction with the Karzai government has helped strengthen the insurgency.

"There is no doubt there is a hard-core element in it," he said. "But there are thousands of people under the same brand, Taliban, [who] have joined the insurgency because of other reasons."

The insurgents are filling a vacuum left by Afghanistan's Western-backed government, which foreign diplomats and military commanders concede suffers from nepotism, corruption and predatory practices.

During a recent political debate, Karzai admitted that corruption was a problem but offered no specific cures.

He also has been blamed for what has become the bloodiest summer since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001.

Most polls, however, show Karzai with a commanding lead.

Latifa, a Kabul housewife, said she was pleased with Karzai's stewardship and would vote for him.

"Like raising a child for seven years, in seven years he has helped our Kabul, our Afghanistan, stand on its own two feet," she said. "We didn't know an election before; we hadn't seen a parliament."

But can a nation as troubled as Afghanistan carry out fair and free elections? Some observers of Afghanistan and human rights activists have voiced their doubts.

Kai Eide, the United Nations special representative in Afghanistan, said Thursday's election will be the most difficult he has encountered in his life. Besides the violence and corruption, a weak infrastructure and a high illiteracy rate will add to election woes, he said.

The problems were reflected in a new Gallup Poll that found fewer than one in four voting-age Afghans are confident the election will be fair and transparent.

Voting in Afghanistan, Eide said, is not yet the kind of democratic expression understood in the West.

"If you look at the well-established democracies in the West, for instance, that's not possible under these circumstances," he said. "But what my objective is that we have credible, inclusive elections where the result will be accepted by the people. That is our level of ambition, and I think we will achieve that."

Eide said that a significant number of polling stations in Helmand, Kandahar, Ghazni and Wardak provinces will not be able to open for security reasons. He said ballots ought to be counted at the polling center itself instead of transporting them elsewhere and increasing the possibility of fraud, encountered in the last election in 2004.

Of the 4.6 million new registered voters, 39 percent are women. So thousands of women had to be employed to search burqa-clad female voters at polling places.

Human Rights Watch, however, said this week that the recruitment drive for women began too late and as a result, not enough women will be available for security checks.

"Women voters have been badly let down by their government and its international backers," said Brad Adams, Asia director for Human Rights Watch.

Women's votes will be closely watched in Afghanistan, where the Taliban regime stripped women of equal rights and education, essentially hurtling them back to the Stone Age.

But despite the violence, despite the threats from the Taliban to disrupt the voting, enthusiasm filled the air this week.

A campaign rally resembled more a rock concert than a political event in Afghanistan, as Kabul stadium transformed into a sea of blue, Abdullah's campaign color. Supporters hoisted banners and sported T-shirts emblazoned with Abdullah's face.

Not old enough to vote, another young woman named Ferishta -- this one 15 years old and a beauty school student -- attended a rally for Ghani with many of her classmates.

"We want a president who is peaceful and caring," she said. "We don't want any more bombs. In these bombs, so many Afghans have died, one person's son, one person's child."

But no one can predict whether abounding energy will translate into high turnout. Not in a war-ravaged nation. Not when bombs were still exploding just hours before balloting was to begin.

CNN's Atia Abawi, Ivan Watson, Kevin Flower and Moni Basu contributed to this report.

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text: said

text: the

text: Kabul

text: based

text: Pajhwok

text: News

text: Agency

text: The

text: U.S.

text: Embassy

text: in

text: Kabul

text: insisted

text: that

text: press

text: freedoms

text: are

text: necessary

text: to

text: ensure

text: credible

text: elections

text: While

text: we

text: recognize

text: the

text: sovereign

text: rights

text: of

text: the

text: Afghan

text: government

text: and

text: note

text: their

text: intention

text: to

text: encourage

text: Afghans

text: to

text: turn

text: out

text: and

text: vote

text: we

text: believe

text: that

text: free

text: media

text: reporting

text: is

text: directly

text: linked

text: to

text: the

text: credibility

text: of

text: the

text: elections

text: and

text: continue

text: to

text: support

text: the

text: freedom

text: of

text: the

text: press

text: and

text: responsible

text: reporting

text: spokeswoman

text: Fleur

text: Cowan

text: said

text: in

text: an

text: e

text: mail

text: On

text: the

text: eve

text: of

text: the

text: election

text: roadside

text: bombs

text: killed

text: three

text: Afghan

text: election

text: workers

text: in

text: the

text: southern

text: province

text: of

text: Kandahar

text: and

text: four

text: others

text: were

text: killed

text: Tuesday

text: in

text: the

text: northern

text: province

text: of

text: Badakshan

text: Independent

text: Election

text: Commission

text: of

text: Afghanistan

text: spokesman

text: Noor

text: Mohammad

text: Noor

text: said

text: Amid

text: the

text: violence

text: the

text: candidates

text: wrapped

text: up

text: last

text: minute

text: campaigning

text: with

text: the

text: hope

text: that

text: the

text: elections

text: can

text: showcase

text: their

text: country

text: 's

text: fledgling

text: democracy

text: We

text: 're

text: at

text: a

text: moment

text: of

text: truth

text: said

text: Mark

text: Schneider

text: senior

text: vice

text: president

text: of

text: the

text: International

text: Crisis

text: Group

text: an

text: independent

text: advisory

text: and

text: analysis

text: organization

text: An

text: incumbent

text: president

text: and

text: about

text: challengers

text: including

text: two

text: women

text: are

text: on

text: the

text: ballot

text: vying

text: for

text: the

text: votes

text: of

text: what

text: the

text: election

text: commission

text: says

text: are

text: an

text: estimated

text: million

text: registered

text: Afghans

text: against

text: a

text: backdrop

text: of

text: war

text: graft

text: poverty

text: and

text: illiteracy

text: More

text: than

text: donkeys

text: cars

text: and

text: three

text: helicopters

text: will

text: traverse

text: harsh

text: terrain

text: to

text: carry

text: voting

text: materials

text: to

text: remote

text: polling

text: stations

text: the

text: election

text: commission

text: says

text: And

text: observer

text: groups

text: domestic

text: and

text: international

text: will

text: be

text: on

text: hand

text: to

text: help

text: guard

text: against

text: fraud

text: it

text: says

text: At

text: the

text: heart

text: of

text: every

text: vote

text: will

text: be

text: the

text: two

text: biggest

text: impediments

text: to

text: progress

text: in

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: poorest

text: nations

text: in

text: the

text: world

text: stifling

text: corruption

text: and

text: an

text: increasingly

text: bloody

text: Taliban

text: insurgency

text: International

text: donors

text: are

text: helping

text: pay

text: for

text: the

text: million

text: electoral

text: undertaking

text: and

text: hundreds

text: of

text: U.S.

text: Marines

text: and

text: Afghan

text: soldiers

text: have

text: moved

text: into

text: strife

text: torn

text: southern

text: Afghanistan

text: to

text: protect

text: voters

text: against

text: possible

text: Taliban

text: attacks

text: The

text: top

text: U.S.

text: envoy

text: to

text: the

text: region

text: Richard

text: Holbrooke

text: expressed

text: optimism

text: that

text: Thursday

text: 's

text: vote

text: would

text: be

text: Afghanistan

text: 's

text: moment

text: to

text: shine

text: It

text: 's

text: tough

text: to

text: organize

text: elections

text: during

text: a

text: war

text: he

text: said

text: but

text: the

text: reality

text: is

text: that

text: violence

text: during

text: elections

text: is

text: commonplace

text: in

text: many

text: parts

text: of

text: the

text: world

text: Afghanistan

text: has

text: never

text: had

text: a

text: contested

text: election

text: Holbrooke

text: said

text: So

text: this

text: is

text: a

text: remarkable

text: experiment

text: in

text: democracy

text: and

text: something

text: that

text: Afghanistan

text: needs

text: to

text: give

text: legitimacy

text: to

text: the

text: new

text: government

text: That

text: legitimacy

text: has

text: become

text: a

text: key

text: issue

text: in

text: the

text: campaign

text: Frontrunner

text: President

text: Hamid

text: Karzai

text: 's

text: chief

text: challengers

text: former

text: Finance

text: Minister

text: Ashraf

text: Ghani

text: and

text: former

text: Foreign

text: Minister

text: Abdullah

text: Abdullah

text: have

text: both

text: lashed

text: out

text: at

text: the

text: incumbent

text: for

text: failing

text: to

text: rein

text: in

text: corruption

text: In

text: its

text: annual

text: global

text: corruption

text: perception

text: index

text: in

text: Transparency

text: International

text: ranked

text: Afghanistan

text: out

text: of

text: countries

text: and

text: said

text: graft

text: is

text: a

text: major

text: factor

text: impeding

text: the

text: country

text: 's

text: stability

text: and

text: future

text: growth

text: Ghani

text: said

text: the

text: most

text: significant

text: challenge

text: Afghanistan

text: 's

text: next

text: president

text: will

text: face

text: is

text: earning

text: back

text: the

text: trust

text: of

text: the

text: people

text: This

text: government

text: has

text: lost

text: it

text: he

text: said

text: in

text: a

text: recent

text: interview

text: There

text: is

text: no

text: sense

text: of

text: trust

text: not

text: only

text: in

text: the

text: current

text: leadership

text: but

text: in

text: the

text: political

text: class

text: as

text: such

text: And

text: in

text: the

text: capacity

text: of

text: the

text: state

text: or

text: the

text: international

text: community

text: to

text: improve

text: the

text: lot

text: of

text: our

text: people

text: Ghani

text: characterized

text: Karzai

text: as

text: a

text: very

text: poor

text: manager

text: who

text: failed

text: to

text: deal

text: with

text: pressing

text: issues

text: and

text: create

text: any

text: sense

text: of

text: momentum

text: for

text: the

text: nation

text: moving

text: forward

text: As

text: a

text: guest

text: on

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Fareed

text: Zakaria

text: GPS

text: this

text: month

text: Ghani

text: said

text: Afghanistan

text: 's

text: corruption

text: had

text: metastasized

text: into

text: a

text: cancer

text: that

text: was

text: eating

text: through

text: the

text: society

text: Abdullah

text: argued

text: that

text: people

text: 's

text: dissatisfaction

text: with

text: the

text: Karzai

text: government

text: has

text: helped

text: strengthen

text: the

text: insurgency

text: There

text: is

text: no

text: doubt

text: there

text: is

text: a

text: hard

text: core

text: element

text: in

text: it

text: he

text: said

text: But

text: there

text: are

text: thousands

text: of

text: people

text: under

text: the

text: same

text: brand

text: Taliban

text: who

text: have

text: joined

text: the

text: insurgency

text: because

text: of

text: other

text: reasons

text: The

text: insurgents

text: are

text: filling

text: a

text: vacuum

text: left

text: by

text: Afghanistan

text: 's

text: Western

text: backed

text: government

text: which

text: foreign

text: diplomats

text: and

text: military

text: commanders

text: concede

text: suffers

text: from

text: nepotism

text: corruption

text: and

text: predatory

text: practices

text: During

text: a

text: recent

text: political

text: debate

text: Karzai

text: admitted

text: that

text: corruption

text: was

text: a

text: problem

text: but

text: offered

text: no

text: specific

text: cures

text: He

text: also

text: has

text: been

text: blamed

text: for

text: what

text: has

text: become

text: the

text: bloodiest

text: summer

text: since

text: the

text: fall

text: of

text: the

text: Taliban

text: regime

text: in

text: Most

text: polls

text: however

text: show

text: Karzai

text: with

text: a

text: commanding

text: lead

text: Latifa

text: a

text: Kabul

text: housewife

text: said

text: she

text: was

text: pleased

text: with

text: Karzai

text: 's

text: stewardship

text: and

text: would

text: vote

text: for

text: him

text: Like

text: raising

text: a

text: child

text: for

text: seven

text: years

text: in

text: seven

text: years

text: he

text: has

text: helped

text: our

text: Kabul

text: our

text: Afghanistan

text: stand

text: on

text: its

text: own

text: two

text: feet

text: she

text: said

text: We

text: did

text: n't

text: know

text: an

text: election

text: before

text: we

text: had

text: n't

text: seen

text: a

text: parliament

text: But

text: can

text: a

text: nation

text: as

text: troubled

text: as

text: Afghanistan

text: carry

text: out

text: fair

text: and

text: free

text: elections

text: Some

text: observers

text: of

text: Afghanistan

text: and

text: human

text: rights

text: activists

text: have

text: voiced

text: their

text: doubts

text: Kai

text: Eide

text: the

text: United

text: Nations

text: special

text: representative

text: in

text: Afghanistan

text: said

text: Thursday

text: 's

text: election

text: will

text: be

text: the

text: most

text: difficult

text: he

text: has

text: encountered

text: in

text: his

text: life

text: Besides

text: the

text: violence

text: and

text: corruption

text: a

text: weak

text: infrastructure

text: and

text: a

text: high

text: illiteracy

text: rate

text: will

text: add

text: to

text: election

text: woes

text: he

text: said

text: The

text: problems

text: were

text: reflected

text: in

text: a

text: new

text: Gallup

text: Poll

text: that

text: found

text: fewer

text: than

text: one

text: in

text: four

text: voting

text: age

text: Afghans

text: are

text: confident

text: the

text: election

text: will

text: be

text: fair

text: and

text: transparent

text: Voting

text: in

text: Afghanistan

text: Eide

text: said

text: is

text: not

text: yet

text: the

text: kind

text: of

text: democratic

text: expression

text: understood

text: in

text: the

text: West

text: If

text: you

text: look

text: at

text: the

text: well

text: established

text: democracies

text: in

text: the

text: West

text: for

text: instance

text: that

text: 's

text: not

text: possible

text: under

text: these

text: circumstances

text: he

text: said

text: But

text: what

text: my

text: objective

text: is

text: that

text: we

text: have

text: credible

text: inclusive

text: elections

text: where

text: the

text: result

text: will

text: be

text: accepted

text: by

text: the

text: people

text: That

text: is

text: our

text: level

text: of

text: ambition

text: and

text: I

text: think

text: we

text: will

text: achieve

text: that

text: Eide

text: said

text: that

text: a

text: significant

text: number

text: of

text: polling

text: stations

text: in

text: Helmand

text: Kandahar

text: Ghazni

text: and

text: Wardak

text: provinces

text: will

text: not

text: be

text: able

text: to

text: open

text: for

text: security

text: reasons

text: He

text: said

text: ballots

text: ought

text: to

text: be

text: counted

text: at

text: the

text: polling

text: center

text: itself

text: instead

text: of

text: transporting

text: them

text: elsewhere

text: and

text: increasing

text: the

text: possibility

text: of

text: fraud

text: encountered

text: in

text: the

text: last

text: election

text: in

text: Of

text: the

text: million

text: new

text: registered

text: voters

text: percent

text: are

text: women

text: So

text: thousands

text: of

text: women

text: had

text: to

text: be

text: employed

text: to

text: search

text: burqa

text: clad

text: female

text: voters

text: at

text: polling

text: places

text: Human

text: Rights

text: Watch

text: however

text: said

text: this

text: week

text: that

text: the

text: recruitment

text: drive

text: for

text: women

text: began

text: too

text: late

text: and

text: as

text: a

text: result

text: not

text: enough

text: women

text: will

text: be

text: available

text: for

text: security

text: checks

text: Women

text: voters

text: have

text: been

text: badly

text: let

text: down

text: by

text: their

text: government

text: and

text: its

text: international

text: backers

text: said

text: Brad

text: Adams

text: Asia

text: director

text: for

text: Human

text: Rights

text: Watch

text: Women

text: 's

text: votes

text: will

text: be

text: closely

text: watched

text: in

text: Afghanistan

text: where

text: the

text: Taliban

text: regime

text: stripped

text: women

text: of

text: equal

text: rights

text: and

text: education

text: essentially

text: hurtling

text: them

text: back

text: to

text: the

text: Stone

text: Age

text: But

text: despite

text: the

text: violence

text: despite

text: the

text: threats

text: from

text: the

text: Taliban

text: to

text: disrupt

text: the

text: voting

text: enthusiasm

text: filled

text: the

text: air

text: this

text: week

text: A

text: campaign

text: rally

text: resembled

text: more

text: a

text: rock

text: concert

text: than

text: a

text: political

text: event

text: in

text: Afghanistan

text: as

text: Kabul

text: stadium

text: transformed

text: into

text: a

text: sea

text: of

text: blue

text: Abdullah

text: 's

text: campaign

text: color

text: Supporters

text: hoisted

text: banners

text: and

text: sported

text: T

text: shirts

text: emblazoned

text: with

text: Abdullah

text: 's

text: face

text: Not

text: old

text: enough

text: to

text: vote

text: another

text: young

text: woman

text: named

text: Ferishta

text: this

text: one

text: years

text: old

text: and

text: a

text: beauty

text: school

text: student

text: attended

text: a

text: rally

text: for

text: Ghani

text: with

text: many

text: of

text: her

text: classmates

text: We

text: want

text: a

text: president

text: who

text: is

text: peaceful

text: and

text: caring

text: she

text: said

text: We

text: do

text: n't

text: want

text: any

text: more

text: bombs

text: In

text: these

text: bombs

text: so

text: many

text: Afghans

text: have

text: died

text: one

text: person

text: 's

text: son

text: one

text: person

text: 's

text: child

text: But

text: no

text: one

text: can

text: predict

text: whether

text: abounding

text: energy

text: will

text: translate

text: into

text: high

text: turnout

text: Not

text: in

text: a

text: war

text: ravaged

text: nation

text: Not

text: when

text: bombs

text: were

text: still

text: exploding

text: just

text: hours

text: before

text: balloting

text: was

text: to

text: begin

text: CNN

text: 's

text: Atia

text: Abawi

text: Ivan

text: Watson

text: Kevin

text: Flower

text: and

text: Moni

text: Basu

text: contributed

text: to

text: this

text: report

question: Which country was the media blackout in?

answer: Afghanistan

text: Afghanistan

question: What number of election workers died in roadside bombs?

answer: three

text: three

question: How many election workers were killed?

answer: three Afghan

text: three Afghan

question: Who is facing challenges from former ministers?

answer: President Hamid Karzai's

text: President Hamid Karzai's

question: Where is the fresh violence in Afghanistan centred?

answer: Kabul,

text: Kabul,

question: What are the voters top issues?

answer: Security

text: Security

question: What killed the election workers?

answer: roadside bombs

text: roadside bombs

question: Where is the the media blackout?

answer: Afghanistan

text: Afghanistan