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Barack Obama’s bid for the US Democratic presidential nomination has been marred by the controversy over remarks made by his fomer pastor, Jeremiah Wright.

And now that relationship is being used by the Republicans in a strategy Democrats say is racially tinged.
 
We sent Max Blumenthal, a writer for the progressive magazine, The Nation, to the southern state of Mississippi. 

He asks if attack ads used in a congressional election there could be a sign of things to come.

Sami al-Hajj, a cameraman for Al Jazeera, had not tasted freedom since 2001.

But now he is in his homeland Sudan after spending six years at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he was held without charge or trial.

The frail and sick-looking man was delivered to the Sudanese authorities in Khartoum. There he had an emotional reunion with his family as he arrived at hospital.

Amr El-Kahky, who worked with al-Hajj before his imprisonement, went to meet him and sent this report.

US intelligence officials have released pictures they say show a Syrian nuclear reactor, built with help from North Korea.

Washington claims there is good reason to believe the plant was designed for non-peaceful purposes.

But seven months after Israel bombed the facility, Syria has dismissed the US accusations as a fantasy.

Al Jazeera’s Nick Spicer reports.

Inside Story explores the ramifications of the Ben Ami Kadish case.

After a wave of killings targeting his country’s top police officers, Mexico’s President is vowing to take back the streets.

Al Jazeera’s Franc Contreras reports from Mexco City.