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Little was the "hobo agitator", fighting for freedom of speech and catching trains to flashpoints in Washington, California, New Mexico, anywhere where he could stir things up.

One popular tourist attraction is the Troubles Tour, in which ex-combatant cabdrivers guide visitors to flashpoints from the bad years, decoding the ubiquitous murals that conjure famous battles, martyrs, and gunmen.

Mr Allawi wants to deploy most of them on Iraq's porous borders but is also setting up a "special task force" division, 10,000-strong, that could be sent to flashpoints such as Najaf, to keep Americans out of the fray.But Mr Allawi and the new interior minister, Samir Sumaidy, are struggling with the divided loyalties of many Iraqis, especially those serving in the revamped army and police.

South Africa's army was deployed to flashpoints on Monday to prevent further violence.

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Amanda See, 21, an aspiring film producer from Huntley, Ill., spent a year at the University of Iowa, and then decided to go to Flashpoint.

"It is quite right in our role as Acpo [Association of Chief Police Officers] goalkeeper to watch where the social protests are going and how they are developing and to try, where possible, to identify flashpoints," said Detective Chief Superintendent Adrian Tudway, who took over the role of national co-ordinator for domestic extremism last week.

The government must be careful not to create flashpoints with an authoritarian reaction.

In Ardoyne and other such places dissident activists can easily direct disaffected young Catholics to traditional flashpoints and point them at police.

The Administration would like to use the gathering of world leaders to explore how to build on the coöperative precedent established when the six major powers negotiated with Iran, and apply it to other flashpoints.

But critics say it also contains significant warnings about traffic, transit, parking, air pollution, ground pollution and neighborhood schools, many of which are likely to become flashpoints during the seven-month approval process.

If he were really interested in "community cohesion" why would he be suggesting a protest only weeks after a real demo in Dudley by 600 EDL supporters led to ugly flashpoints and 30 arrests?

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