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London, England (CNN) -- Britain's involvement in the invasion of Iraq "was the right decision and it was for the right reasons," Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Friday in his first response at an inquiry into country's role in the March 2003 conflict.

Brown was answering a question from the chairman of the inquiry, John Chilcot, about whether he thought taking military action in March 2003 was the right decision, especially given that it led to such a great loss of life among military personnel and civilians.

The prime minister said he respects members of the armed forces "who served with great distinction in Iraq" and lost their lives, and to civilians who died.

"I think any loss of life is something that makes us very sad indeed," Brown said.

The inquiry began last year and is expected to be the most thorough investigation yet into decisions that led up to the war and governed Britain's involvement, analysts have said.

It is not a court of law, so the inquiry cannot find anyone criminally responsible or apportion blame. But inquiry members will be able to judge the legality of the conflict.

Brown spent much of Friday defending military spending allowances, which have come under harsh scrutiny in Britain. Earlier witnesses have said Brown, as head of the British Treasury leading up to and after the Iraq invasion, did not allow the Ministry of Defence to spend as much as was needed.

Such cuts would have restricted the military's ability to buy helicopters, body armor and weapons that would have subsequently been used in Afghanistan.

Brown said as chancellor, he never ruled out a military option on the basis of cost.

"I said that every single request that was made for [military] equipment had to be met, and every request was met, and at any point military commanders were able to ask for equipment that they needed, and I know of no occasion when they were turned down for it," Brown testified.

Tony Blair testifies at Iraq inquiry

Geoff Hoon, defence secretary at the time of the 2003 invasion, testified that Brown forced cuts that limited military spending.

"We then had to look hard at our budget and make some rather difficult cuts in the future equipment program as a result," Hoon testified.

Brown had faced increasing pressure to testify before Britain holds general elections, widely expected to be held May 6. His Labour Party faces a tight race with the opposition Conservatives.

Chilcot, the inquiry chairman, said committee members previously decided not to call any government ministers who are still serving in posts relevant to Iraq, but Brown offered to testify.

Chilcot announced in January that Brown had agreed to appear in the next two months.

Susan Smith, whose son, Pvt. Phillip Hewett, died in Iraq in 2005, said she doesn't believe Brown did everything possible to equip British troops.

"Was it needed? Was it asked for? If it was, why was it not funded?" she said. "At the moment, you've got no answers. It's all speculation. It would be nice just to know the truth."

Brown has faced repeated criticism for the level of equipment for the 9,000 British troops in Afghanistan, which some have said is too low. The prime minister has defended equipment levels and said he seeks assurances from military officers in the field that troops have the supplies they need.

A military memo, sent in June but released in October, contained a warning from a British officer that a shortage of helicopters was putting troops at risk because they were forced to travel on the ground, increasing the chances a roadside bomb could kill them.

The memo was written by Lt. Col. Rupert Thorneloe, who died a month later in a roadside bombing. At the time, he was the highest-ranking British serviceman to die in combat since the 1982 Falklands War.

Gen. Michael Walker previously testified the Treasury gave defence officials a spending target that they found hard to reach.

"It was [a budget for] some of the stuff that was related to some of the longer-term equipment programs, including infantry battalions," he testified February 1. "I think it included helicopter money. I think it included things like aircraft carriers. It was all big-ticket items that were being threatened."

Defence officials made as many cuts as they could before they had to stop, Walker said.

"I think we drew a line somewhere halfway down the page and said, 'If you go any further than that, you'll probably have to look for a new set of chiefs,' " he said.

Hoon and others have testified that the Defence Ministry's budgeting structure in 2002, the year before the Iraq invasion, allowed officials to save money by using and maintaining existing equipment. Officials used the cash saved for other spending, Hoon said.

That spending ability changed a year later and caused big problems for the ministry, they have testified.

"We asked for significantly more money than we eventually received" in subsequent spending programs, Hoon said.

Kevin Tebbit, who was permanent secretary to the Defence Ministry at the time of the invasion, said Brown did not want the ministry to have as much cash as it eventually received.

"The Treasury felt that we were using far too much cash, and in September 2003, the chancellor of the day instituted a complete guillotine on our [ability to spend]," he said. "It meant that we had to go in for a very major savings exercise in order to cope with what was effectively a billion pounds reduction in our finances."

Brown testified that military options took precedence over financial concerns.

"There was no time from June [2002] when the Treasury said, 'This is a better military option because it's cheaper and less costly,' " Brown said. "At every point I made it clear that we would support whatever option the military decided upon with the prime minister and the Cabinet, and there would be no financial barrier to us doing what was necessary to be done."

He also testified the Treasury granted "every application" for equipment made by the Defence Ministry.

Brown was chancellor, or head of the Treasury, from 1997 until 2007 when Prime Minister Tony Blair stepped down and Brown took over the top post.

Alistair Campbell, Blair's former spokesman, testified in January that Brown was part of Blair's inner circle, discussing questions about the Iraq war.

Blair testified in January.

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ISLAMABAD, Paksitan (CNN) -- At least 41 people were killed and dozens wounded in a blast Monday at a security forces checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, authorities said.

A girl places flowers at a shrine to army soldiers killed by militants who stormed Pakistan's army HQ.

About 45 people were injured in the explosion in the Shangla district in the volatile Swat Valley, said Syed Altaf Hussein, a senior government official in the area.

The explosion targeted a military vehicle, officials said.

The blast is the latest in a string of attacks in the country.

On Saturday, militants attacked the army headquarters in Rawalpindi, killing 11 military personnel and three civilians, according to the Pakistani military's press office. Nine militants died in the attack.

A total of 39 hostages were freed Sunday morning after being held by five militants at the army headquarters.

In a news conference Monday, the top spokesman for the Pakistani military said Saturday's attack was planned by the Taliban based in South Waziristan.

Gen. Athar Abbas said intelligence agents intercepted a phone call in which Pakistani Taliban commander Wali-ur Rehman was informed about the start of the attack. Rehman responded by calling for a prayer for the operation to succeed, Abbas said.

Abbas said the leader of the operation, who was captured alive, is from Pakistan's Punjab province. Four other militants were from Punjab as well. Five others were from South Waziristan.

During the standoff, two of the militants held 22 hostages in a small room, Abbas said. One of the militants wore a suicide vest connected to a mine and a bomb. He sat in the middle of the 22 hostages. Abbas said this room was the focus of the operation and security forces were successful in storming the room and killing the militant with the suicide vest before he could detonate his bombs.

Military officials said they have tightened security around army headquarters.

The attacks will not deter Pakistan from launching an offensive in South Waziristan, the Interior Ministry said. South Waziristan is one of seven districts in Pakistan's tribal region along the Afghan border. Intelligence analysts consider it a haven for Islamic militants who have launched attacks in Pakistan and targeted U.S. forces in neighboring Afghanistan.

A date for the offensive in the area has not been announced.

The Shangla district east of Mingora is one of the areas where the military conducted search-and-destroy operations earlier this year. Troops targeted terrorist hideouts and reported the arrest of one militant leader and the death of another.

Mingora is the largest city in the Swat Valley, where the Pakistani military is battling Taliban militants for control.

CNN's Reza Sayah contributed to this report.

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text: army

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text: the

text: Taliban

text: based

text: in

text: South

text: Waziristan

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text: Athar

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text: agents

text: intercepted

text: a

text: phone

text: call

text: in

text: which

text: Pakistani

text: Taliban

text: commander

text: Wali

text: ur

text: Rehman

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text: start

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text: attack

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question: In what district is the volatile Swat Valley?

answer: Shangla

text: Shangla

question: Where is the Shangla district located?

answer: Swat Valley,

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question: How many were killed in the blast?

answer: 41

question: Where was the blast?

answer: a security forces checkpoint in northwest Pakistan,

text: a security forces checkpoint in northwest Pakistan,

question: Where explosion took the place?

answer: in the Shangla district in the volatile Swat Valley,

text: in the Shangla district in the volatile Swat Valley,

question: In total, how many victims were in nortwestern Pakistan?

answer: At least 41 people

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BERLIN, Germany (CNN) -- As voting was taking place in the German general election Sunday, attention was already turning to what coalition will rule the country.

Social Democrats handing out flowers hope their party will stay in the ruling coalition.

Few doubt that Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, CDU, will win most votes.

So, will Merkel continue the current center right-center left "grand coalition" with the Social Democrats or will the votes suffice for a coalition with the business liberal but centrist Liberal Democrats or the FDP, a constellation Germans refer to as "Black-Yellow."

At a press conference ostensibly to outline Germany's position at this week's G-20 summit Merkel apparently let the cat out of the bag. "We are in a time of crisis," she said, "and I believe we can pull out of the crisis faster with a Black-Yellow government."

But some political analysts believe she would prefer to keep the Social Democrats as the junior coalition partner.

Polls indicate the CDU and FDP could gain a razor thin majority to form a governing coalition. Recent polls put their combined tally at around 48 percent.

That is not exactly a large majority, but it's two percent more than the left of center parties, the Social Democrats, the Green Party, and the left wing "Die Linke," who would reach about 46 percent if polls are accurate.

The Liberal Democrats have been in opposition since 1998 and at a rally in Berlin, their leader Guido Westerwelle was sure his time has come.

"I think the voters won't allow a coalition of the left to be in power. I think they want a conservative government and they will vote to put us in power," he said.

Westerwelle is eyeing the post of foreign minister under a future Merkel government.  What's at stake in the German election Â»

A government of CDU and FDP, conservatives and liberal would probably be more business friendly than the current grand coalition.

Both the CDU and FDP want to cut taxes to further jumpstart Europe's largest economy which emerged from its deepest recession only a few months ago.

But even optimistic economists believe cutting taxes will be all but impossible for a government which will inherit the largest public deficit in German history after the current government was forced to ruin in its public finances to bail out banks and industrial companies in the wake of the international financial crisis.

And it appears more trouble lies ahead.

"After the economic crisis we will see a social crisis," says Henrik Enderlein an economics professor at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin.

Enderlein believes a coalition with the liberals would put Merkel under pressure to implement wider ranging tax breaks than she feels are sustainable.

That is why some believe Merkel would not mind continuing her coalition with the Social Democrats who oppose tax cuts and call them irresponsible in a time of disastrous public deficits.

The Social Democratic contender running against Merkel, Frank Walter Steinmeier, however, has all but given up any hopes of winning. "We want to prevent a "black--yellow" coalition," he keeps repeating at rallies. Confidence sounds different.

Polls currently have the Social Democrats at around 26 percent of the vote, a disastrous figure for a party that in 1998 gained more than 40 percent.

But the Social Democrat ranks were decimated in the seven years they ruled the country under Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.

Many traditional left wing SPD voters felt Schroeder betrayed the powerful labor wing of the party by cutting social benefits while making it easier for companies to fire employees in times of crisis.

The SPD was further hit when many loyal members splintered off and joined the left wing party die Linke which also incorporates remnants of the former communist party that rules East Germany.

Now Steinmeier is trying to lead the Social Democrats out of the impasse and he realizes his real chance to stay in power would be as the junior partner to Merkel.

Steinmeier would keep his post as foreign minister and many political experts in Berlin think this might be what both Merkel and Steinmeier are really striving for.

"They worked very well together," said Gero Neugebauer of the Freie Universitat Berlin. "The atmosphere was very good and that is very important for such a coalition."

For Germans it seems like the two choices are realistic: A coalition of CDU and FDP, or a grand coalition of CDU and SPD, like the one that is currently governing the country.

Those options haven't exactly fired up the election campaigns.

Both Merkel and Steinmeier were loath to attacking each other and both of them cancelled several scheduled TV appearances which would have seen them go head to head.

"This election seems kind of lame," one young summed it up when I asked him near Berlin's technical university. International experts have a similar opinion.

One issue they feel has gotten short shrift was the war in Afghanistan. Germans have the third largest troop contingent in the country with about 4,200 soldiers stationed in the north.

But Afghanistan played only a minor role in the election campaigns and in their only televised debate, Merkel and Steinmeier devoted less than three minutes to the issue, less than a week after a German ground commander had called an air strike that killed almost 100 Afghans and possibly also civilians.

"It is simply not high on the political agenda," says Jan Techau of the German Council on Foreign Relations., "Most Germans are against the war in Afghanistan and having German troops there, but they don't care about it enough for it to influence the way they vote."

So Merkel and Steinmeier were careful to keep Afghanistan off the campaign agenda as best they could because they agree German troops need to stay in Afghanistan like they agree on so many topics.

That did not make for an exciting campaign, but it could make for a good continuation of the grand coalition.

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text: place

text: in

text: the

text: German

text: general

text: election

text: Sunday

text: attention

text: was

text: already

text: turning

text: to

text: what

text: coalition

text: will

text: rule

text: the

text: country

text: Social

text: Democrats

text: handing

text: out

text: flowers

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text: party

text: will

text: stay

text: in

text: the

text: ruling

text: coalition

text: Few

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text: Angela

text: Merkel

text: 's

text: Christian

text: Democratic

text: Union

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text: will

text: win

text: most

text: votes

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text: will

text: Merkel

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text: current

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text: Social

text: Democrats

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text: votes

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text: FDP

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text: constellation

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text: press

text: conference

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text: cat

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text: bag

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text: crisis

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text: Social

text: Democrats

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text: junior

text: coalition

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text: indicate

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text: CDU

text: and

text: FDP

text: could

text: gain

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text: thin

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text: governing

text: coalition

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text: combined

text: tally

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text: around

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text: percent

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text: left

text: of

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text: Social

text: Democrats

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text: Green

text: Party

text: and

text: the

text: left

text: wing

text: Die

text: Linke

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text: would

text: reach

text: about

text: percent

text: if

text: polls

text: are

text: accurate

text: The

text: Liberal

text: Democrats

text: have

text: been

text: in

text: opposition

text: since

text: and

text: at

text: a

text: rally

text: in

text: Berlin

text: their

text: leader

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text: time

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text: come

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text: think

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text: voters

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text: left

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text: they

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text: in

text: power

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text: said

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text: is

text: eyeing

text: the

text: post

text: of

text: foreign

text: minister

text: under

text: a

text: future

text: Merkel

text: government

text: What

text: 's

text: at

text: stake

text: in

text: the

text: German

text: election

text: Â

text: A

text: government

text: of

text: CDU

text: and

text: FDP

text: conservatives

text: and

text: liberal

text: would

text: probably

text: be

text: more

text: business

text: friendly

text: than

text: the

text: current

text: grand

text: coalition

text: Both

text: the

text: CDU

text: and

text: FDP

text: want

text: to

text: cut

text: taxes

text: to

text: further

text: jumpstart

text: Europe

text: 's

text: largest

text: economy

text: which

text: emerged

text: from

text: its

text: deepest

text: recession

text: only

text: a

text: few

text: months

text: ago

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text: even

text: optimistic

text: economists

text: believe

text: cutting

text: taxes

text: will

text: be

text: all

text: but

text: impossible

text: for

text: a

text: government

text: which

text: will

text: inherit

text: the

text: largest

text: public

text: deficit

text: in

text: German

text: history

text: after

text: the

text: current

text: government

text: was

text: forced

text: to

text: ruin

text: in

text: its

text: public

text: finances

text: to

text: bail

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text: and

text: industrial

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text: wake

text: of

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text: international

text: financial

text: crisis

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text: trouble

text: lies

text: ahead

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text: economic

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text: will

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text: a

text: social

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text: professor

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text: Hertie

text: School

text: of

text: Governance

text: in

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text: coalition

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text: liberals

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text: implement

text: wider

text: ranging

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text: breaks

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text: she

text: feels

text: are

text: sustainable

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text: is

text: why

text: some

text: believe

text: Merkel

text: would

text: not

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text: coalition

text: with

text: the

text: Social

text: Democrats

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text: oppose

text: tax

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text: Social

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text: running

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text: Walter

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text: Social

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text: were

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text: seven

text: years

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text: country

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text: Chancellor

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text: easier

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text: fire

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text: of

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text: SPD

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text: further

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text: loyal

text: members

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text: joined

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text: left

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text: the

text: former

text: communist

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text: lead

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text: Social

text: Democrats

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text: impasse

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text: junior

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text: post

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text: Steinmeier

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text: up

text: the

text: election

text: campaigns

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text: and

text: Steinmeier

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text: to

text: attacking

text: each

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text: and

text: both

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text: TV

text: appearances

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text: election

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text: lame

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text: summed

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text: up

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text: him

text: near

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text: university

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text: similar

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text: issue

text: they

text: feel

text: has

text: gotten

text: short

text: shrift

text: was

text: the

text: war

text: in

text: Afghanistan

text: Germans

text: have

text: the

text: third

text: largest

text: troop

text: contingent

text: in

text: the

text: country

text: with

text: about

text: soldiers

text: stationed

text: in

text: the

text: north

text: But

text: Afghanistan

text: played

text: only

text: a

text: minor

text: role

text: in

text: the

text: election

text: campaigns

text: and

text: in

text: their

text: only

text: televised

text: debate

text: Merkel

text: and

text: Steinmeier

text: devoted

text: less

text: than

text: three

text: minutes

text: to

text: the

text: issue

text: less

text: than

text: a

text: week

text: after

text: a

text: German

text: ground

text: commander

text: had

text: called

text: an

text: air

text: strike

text: that

text: killed

text: almost

text: Afghans

text: and

text: possibly

text: also

text: civilians

text: It

text: is

text: simply

text: not

text: high

text: on

text: the

text: political

text: agenda

text: says

text: Jan

text: Techau

text: of

text: the

text: German

text: Council

text: on

text: Foreign

text: Relations

text: Most

text: Germans

text: are

text: against

text: the

text: war

text: in

text: Afghanistan

text: and

text: having

text: German

text: troops

text: there

text: but

text: they

text: do

text: n't

text: care

text: about

text: it

text: enough

text: for

text: it

text: to

text: influence

text: the

text: way

text: they

text: vote

text: So

text: Merkel

text: and

text: Steinmeier

text: were

text: careful

text: to

text: keep

text: Afghanistan

text: off

text: the

text: campaign

text: agenda

text: as

text: best

text: they

text: could

text: because

text: they

text: agree

text: German

text: troops

text: need

text: to

text: stay

text: in

text: Afghanistan

text: like

text: they

text: agree

text: on

text: so

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BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN)  -- At least 59 people were killed in a fire that broke out early Thursday at one of Bangkok's most upscale nightclubs, where about 1,000 revelers were ringing in the new year, Thai police said.

Rescue officials work at the scene of the fire in Thailand.

Most of the dead were Thai, but foreigners have been identified, among them from Australia, the Netherlands, Nepal and Japan, police said.

Another 100 people were believed injured.

The fire, at a club called Santika, started at about 12:35 a.m. (1735 GMT), police told CNN.

The blaze started near a stage where fireworks were being used as part of a performance, according to authorities.  Watch the fire engulf the building Â»

Most of those who died in the building suffered smoke inhalation or were trampled in a rush to get out of the club, they said.

British citizen Andrew Jones said he was celebrating in the area when he walked up on the fire.

He said he saw victims being rushed out of the fire on stretchers and spoke to witnesses, including a fellow Briton who saw fireworks being lit onstage.

"He immediately ran out of the building, but immediately when he'd done that the lights went out and he couldn't see," Jones said.

The club is located in one of Bangkok's busiest commercial districts. Its Web site features images of bands and DJs performing on both indoor and outdoor stages, and says that it "innovatively blends the comfort of nature with the excitement of the Bangkok nightlife."

The site advertises the club's new year's party, which was named "Goodbye Santika."

CNN's Kocha Olarn contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- Alabama exacted revenge and clinched the Bowl Championship Series title on Monday night, besting Louisiana State University 21-0.

The Crimson Tide cleared up past problems with its special teams, kicking five field goals to become champions of college football.

Alabama's stifling defense battered LSU the entire game, holding the Tigers to just five first downs.

"It was great team win. Our defense did a good job. Our offense controlled the momentum and our special teams played well," Alabama coach Nick Saban said.

Monday's game was a far cry from the two Southeastern Conference rivals' last showdown.

Both teams went into that game on November 5 undefeated. College football pundits dubbed it the game of the century and Alabama lost 9-6 in overtime.

In that game, Alabama missed four field goals, including one in overtime.

This time, Alabama's kicker Jeremy Shelley hit five field goals, giving Alabama a commanding 15-0 lead in the fourth quarter.

Crimson Tide's star running back Trent Richardson broke a 34-yard touchdown with less than five minutes left.

"I am happy and proud of my players, the way they responded to the pain and disappointment of losing the last time," Saban said

Alabama's offense was dealt a huge blow early in the game.

Kick returner Marquis Maze injured his leg in the second quarter after running a 49-yard punt return.

Maze, who is also Alabama's big-play wide receiver, left the game and never returned.

But Alabama was able to overcome the loss and moved the ball up and down the field all game long, to the chagrin of the thousands of purple-and-gold-clad LSU fans who packed the Superdome in New Orleans.

By the fourth quarter, the stands seemed like a sea of crimson as Alabama fans celebrated.

The loss ends LSU's undefeated streak,

"My locker room is hurting right now," LSU coach Les Miles said after the game. "We did not get it going offensively at all. Our defense was on the field a long time.Give credit to our opponents on that. It became very hard to get first downs. This is as painful as anything we have been through."

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Creating and saving jobs while boosting investment in the future are among the top goals of the Obama administration's $787 billion economic stimulus plan.

President Obama chats with students at a Silver Spring, Maryland, elementary school this week.

And according to a preliminary report on stimulus funding for schools by the Department of Education and the Domestic Policy Council, the stimulus plan has created jobs.

State governments have created and saved at least 250,000 education jobs -- and restored nearly all their projected education budget shortfalls for fiscal years 2009 and 2010 -- according to preliminary findings released Monday by the White House.

But some states that used the funds to fill existing budget gaps could face a crisis when the money runs out after 2010. And the Department of Education has chastised certain states for their stimulus funding programs and warned them that they risk their chances at getting other DOE grants down the road.

The stimulus funds appropriated $48.6 billion for the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund to help keep and create jobs and advance education reforms over a period of two years, the report said. The program dedicates $39.8 billion for public elementary, secondary and higher education and other services. Another $8.8 billion will go for other activities such as public safety or government services.

"To date, $35.5 billion of the SFSF allotment has been obligated and $13.2 [billion] is forthcoming," the report added.

In a recent memo, the Department of Education's inspector general's office warned Connecticut, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania about not following the rules.

At issue is the government's "maintenance of effort" provision, which makes states receiving stimulus funds promise to maintain funding at fiscal year 2006 levels.

The provision also requires states to pledge to use these funds to advance certain education reforms: increasing teacher effectiveness, implementing statewide data systems, and providing  support for struggling schools.

The September 30 memo pointed out states are using K-12 stimulus funds to fill gaps in their education budgets due to decreasing revenues and resources.

Pennsylvania's actions led to a terse letter on June 18 from Education Secretary Arne Duncan to Gov. Ed Rendell.

The letter said: "If a State has disproportionately reduced its education budget and/or if a State has done nothing more than backfill budget holes with these dollars when the State had other resources available to it, such as a rainy-day fund, the State's competitive position to receive ... competitive grants may be negatively impacted."

Those states employing the practice, some argue, will face dire straits in fiscal year 2011 when the stimulus funding runs out.

"States and districts were repeatedly warned about funding [problems]," said Chad Aldeman, a policy analyst with the nonpartisan think tank Education Sector.

But Aldeman notes that there may have been a lack of communication between states and the federal government over how to spend the money.

"They [states] were told to focus on one-time investments as much as possible," he said. "At the same time, the Department of Education sold this as a job and reform package. ... They say on one hand, preserve and create jobs. On the other hand, they talk about education reform."

The Obama administration argues the early results from Monday's report show the money already is having an effect.

"This is one more indication of how the Recovery Act is helping soften the blow of tough times, by keeping educators on the job and teachers in the classroom," Vice President Joe Biden said in a statement.

But there has been criticism over the way the government is handling and tracking the Recovery Act.

"If these issues and the stimulus money being made available ... are not handled carefully, conflict and even paralysis are likely to ensue," said Pedro A. Noguera, a professor at New York University and director of the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, in a recent CNN.com commentary. "The president may even inadvertently alienate an important core constituency that he will surely need in the years ahead -- public school teachers."

Aldeman points out that some of the accountability problems seen with the Recovery Act likely occurred during the time the federal government was doling out money to states.

"The states were cutting employees that were designed to draft federal grants and to track and follow money as it flowed through [at the same time the federal government was giving out stimulus funds]. ... They were cutting monitors and accountants that would have been able to follow this better," he said.

Despite some of the accountability and tracking problems, Duncan said early feedback from states "also tells us that many districts are using stimulus dollars in ways that will move us beyond the status quo."

And Duncan's concept can be seen in school programs cited in Monday's report.

Jim McIntyre, superintendent of the Knox County, Tennessee, schools, said the stimulus funding is not only helping to create jobs in the short term but also investing in the future after the funding is gone.

"Our philosophy has really been around making some investments in the short term to build our capacity so that those investments will continue to pay off in the long term around student achievement and learning, long after the dollars are gone," he said.

McIntyre's school district was cited in the stimulus report as a success story for facilitating greater inclusion of students with disabilities into the regular educational setting.

The funds, according to the report, helped the district to add special education instructors in its middle and high schools, "while supporting needed training for teachers and aides who work with special education students."

Tennessee, McIntyre said, has been supportive in helping his school district plan and obtain stimulus money to "really invest in our people and hopefully invest in our kids for the long term."

The Department of Education report offered other examples that it said showed funding is working, such as:

"In several communities these dollars are being used to enhance information systems to help measure progress by both teachers and students in meeting educational standards," the report added.

CNNMoney.com's David Goldman contributed to this report.

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question: What number of jobs were saved?

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(CNN) -- Former college and pro football star Charles Aaron "Bubba" Smith, who went on to an acting career after his retirement from sports, was found dead at his home, the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office said Wednesday. He was 66.

Police and fire officials were called to Smith's home after "he was found unresponsive" and pronounced him dead, said Ed Winter, assistant chief of operations and investigation for the coroner.

An autopsy will be performed to determine cause of death, Winter said. However, asked if there was any reason to believe the death was due to anything other than natural causes, he replied, "Not at this time."

An imposing 6 foot 8 and 260 pounds, Smith was considered one of the most fearsome pass rushers of his day. The No. 1 overall pick in the 1967 National Football League draft, he played nine seasons in the NFL -- for the Baltimore Colts, Oakland Raiders and Houston Oilers.

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He played for the Colts in two Super Bowls and was also a two-time Pro Bowl pick.

Smith was one of the anchors of an overwhelming defense that was heavily favored to win Super Bowl III. Nonetheless, the New York Jets, led by Joe Namath, defeated the Colts in the 1969 championship of pro football, widely considered one of the biggest upsets in U.S. sports history.

The Colts atoned for that embarrassment -- somewhat -- two years later in a 16-13 victory over the Dallas Cowboys in Super Bowl V, but Smith reportedly said he was so dismayed by the game's sloppiness that he never wore his Super Bowl ring.

Smith was sidelined by a severe knee injury during an exhibition game in 1972, and the next season joined the Raiders. He told Sports Illustrated in 1973 that "not playing was terrible. I didn't want to show my face in public. I don't know if it was that we were losing or what, but it almost drove me crazy."

After retiring from pro football in 1975, Smith landed small roles on TV series such as "Good Times," "Charlie's Angels" and "Semi-Tough," according to IMDb, before landing his signature role as Lt. Moses Hightower in the first "Police Academy" movie in 1984. He reprised the role in all six movies in the popular comedy franchise.

Smith was a two-time All-America defensive end at Michigan State University. He played in what the national media dubbed "the game of the century" between Michigan State and Notre Dame in 1966, a 10-10 tie that resulted in the two teams' splitting the vote for that year's national championship.

Smith was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1988, an event he called "the jewel in my crown, for my collegiate days were very special to me."

Smith was born on February 28, 1945, in Beaumont Texas. His father was a high school football coach and his mother had earned two college degrees. According to his member biography on the College Football Hall of Fame website, he said he took his parents with him when he went to speak to youth groups "to demonstrate my respect for them."

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question: How many Super Bowls did he play in?

answer: two

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