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After Bad Debate Performance, Jan Brewer Gives Up Debating

(Sept. 3) -- One and done? Jan Brewer, Arizona's Republican governor, announced on Thursday that she will not participate in any future debates with her Democratic rival, Terry Goddard, following what many consider an overwhelmingly embarrassing performance at a debate on Wednesday night. "I don't believe that things...

NATO: 6 Afghan Police Beheaded by Insurgents

(July 21) -- Six Afghan policemen have been beheaded by insurgents who overran a checkpoint in northern Afghanistan, NATO said today. The victims were members of the Afghan National Police force in the Dahanah-ye Ghori district of northern Baghlan province, the international force said in a statement on its website. They...

Background on beheadings

Decapitation (from Latin, caput, capitis, meaning head) is the separation of the head from the body. Beheading typically refers to the act of intentional decapitation, e.g., as a means of murder or execution; it may be accomplished, for example, with an axe, sword, knife, wire, or by other more sophisticated means such as a guillotine.

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