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Abd al-Qader al-Ubaidi has said the Awakening Councils – mostly paramilitaries credited with rolling back the al-Qaeda network – will not become a permanent military force
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Fresh signs of a slowdown in Britain's economy emerged this weekend, as new data revealed that house prices fell for the third consecutive month in December, while the British Retail Consortium warned that heavy discounting on the high street may have made for a much less merry Christmas than retailers had been hoping for.