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SlhiairoR’s defeat W?f in Gaza withdrawal 4 44 : Villagers APphoto in cover up their noses during a mass funeral ceremony Pattani province southern Thailand on Thursday Thai police shot and killed more than 1 00 suspected militants on Wednesday Thailand warns more militant attacks likely PATTANI Thailand (AP) n — Angry and recent history fueled by longstanding discontent amid pie in the south over perceived neglect of minority Muslims by the Buddhist central government d unrest has been on the increase since ' January and police said they were tipped to the planned attacks by their network of Muslim and Buddhist inform- - grief-stricke- villagers buried their dead Thursday a day after Thai police killed more than 100 suspected Islamic militants and the government braced for revenge attacks amid allegations of excessive forced Ethnic-relate- The widespread killings happened as police repulsed : coordinated insurgent attacks at dawn Wednesday across Thailand’s Muslim south Bands of about 20 people each raided about IS police out- posts and checkpoints in the provinces of Yala Pattani and ' Songkhla shot and forces Security killed 108 alleged militants including 32 hojed up in a ' mosque Five police were killed in fights withthe sus- pects most of them teenagers armed wiih knives or other bladed weapons “These people only had machetes’’ said Wahlkh Chemu a relative of one of those killed “The authorities should not have retaliated with i weapons of war” " Wednesday's bloodshed was by far the worst in Thailand’s Israeli leader looking for support JERUSALEM (AP) — With polls forecasting defeat Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Thursday portrayed this weekend’s Likud Party referendum on his proposed with- drawal from the Gaza Strip as a vote of confidence in him Sharon stopped short of saying he will resign if he loses but he warned that rejecting a plan supported by a vast majority of Israelis might eventually force Likud out of power He portrayed his opponents in Likud as extremists who he said use “lies obscene language and deceitful propaganda” in their campaign The prime minister spoke after p polls reflected a dramatic among the 193000 eligible Likud voters just three days before Sunday’s referendum In recent weeks plan supporters maintained were ahead by several percentage points but three polls published Thursday indicated a clear advantage for plan opponents The referendum marks the first time a vote is being held in Isrtiel on an issue that has divided the nation for decades: whether to give up land captured in the 1967 Mideast War! referendum 1 3 flip-flo- td AP photo An Jewish man walks past Ukud referendum posters with a message reading in Hebrew “Love you Sharon voting against unilateral disengagement” left and ”A vote for the plan is a vote for Shimon Peres” on a wall in Jerusalem on Thursday ultra-orthod- critics in Israel believe he pro-posed the plan partly to deflect Under the plan Sharon would withdrawtroops and 7500 settlers in the Gaza Strip and evacuate four small settlements in the West Bank Palestinians suspect Sharon is giving up Gaza to tighten his hold on much of die West Bank and the prime minister’s attention from two corruption probes against him: United Democrats Political Action Committee The Two Party System Provides True Checks and Balances Join Now! $5011 Membership $ 00 ('hairs-l'rrcl4 Dell Johnson 1300 - Canyim Road Avon Utah In brief Man strangles daughter for ‘honor’ killinjg ANKARA Turkey (AP — Ignoring the pleas of his 14year-ol- d daughter to spare her life Mehmet Halitogullari pulled on a wire wrapped around her neck and strangled her — supposedly to restore the family’s honor after she was kidnapped and raped Nurari Halitogullari buried Thursday in a ceremony attended by women's rights advocates is the latest victim in a long history of “honor” killings which Turkey’s government is strug- gling to curb Each year dozens of girls ' are killed in Turkey by their relatives forallegedly disgrac- ing their families — some for merely being seen speaking to men! 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