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graves and pray for the dead.
• The three-day holiday marks the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which was particularly deadly in Syria as the 18-month-old uprising reached the country's two largest cities, Damascus and Aleppo.
• Amateur video posted by activists on the Internet showed a large group of worshippers in a mosque at al-Zahera district in Damascus shouting, "There is no God but Allah and Assad is the enemy of God," while clapping their hands over their heads.
• "May God protect the Free Syrian Army!" they also cried, referring to the main rebel group fighting to topple Assad.
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Bomb hidden in cemetery kills Afghan police official, brother of lawmaker in south
• KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) -- A bomb hidden in a cemetery in a southern Afghan city exploded Sunday, killing a police official and his brother as they were visiting the grave of a relative, police said.
• Seven other family members were wounded in the blast in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province.
• No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack but it matched the declared strategy of the Taliban to target government officials and others who align themselves with the government or international forces.
• The two men killed in the explosion were brothers of a lawmaker for Helmand province, Abdulwadood Popal, who was not at the cemetery at the time of the blast. (Continued on page 27)
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