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Juan / Informed Comment:
Zawahiri Letter to Zarqawi: A Shiite Forgery? — The Arabic text of the recently released letter alleged to be by Zawahiri (al-Qaeda's number two man) to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq raises questions for me as to its authenticity. — The very first element of the letter is the blessing on the Prophet.
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Neptunus Lex, Hit and Run, Associated Press, The Heretik, The Washington Monthly, California Conservative, Nitpicker and Dr. Sanity
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Aljazeera:
Al-Qaida: US faked al-Zawahiri letter — A purported al-Qaida web posting has charged the United States with fabricating a letter from the group's second in command allegedly to its leader in Iraq asking for money and laying out the group's plans for the Middle East.
Michelle Malkin:
LIGHTS! CAMERA! PROJECTION! — An overwhelming number of our troops support President Bush. This drives the MSM mad. So mad they lied about his Thanksgiving trip to Iraq in 2003. So mad they'll flog anti-military stories that undermine national security. — And have no journalistic merit whatsoever.
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:Staged Bush Military Photo Op Caught By Reporters: The Nose Grows?
Matthew Scully / New York Times:
The Harriet Miers I Know — WHITE House speechwriters first learned the name Harriet Miers in January 2001, when drafts started reappearing full of corrections, instructions and particularly annoying requests for factual substantiation. In the campaign, life had been simpler, the editing and fact-checking a little more casual.
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Captain's Quarters, Hugh Hewitt, A Chequer-Board of Nights …, The Anchoress, The Strata-Sphere, Brendan Nyhan, Bench Memos …, The Right Coast, The Hedgehog Blog, The Carpetbagger Report, David Frum's Diary …, The Heretik, All Things Beautiful, Daily Pundit, www.AndrewSullivan.com, PoliPundit.com and TAPPED
Washington Post:
In Iraqi Swing City, Hope vs. Defiance — BALAD, Iraq, Oct. 13 — In a dusty room of Qadriya Elementary School, Lt. Col. Jody L. Petery delivered his message: Sunni Arabs should cast their votes Saturday in a referendum on Iraq's proposed constitution. His skeptical audience had other concerns.
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cyber.law.harvard.edu:
GLOBAL VOICES WEBLOG — Echoes from the Tunisian blogosphere — Tunisia, Middle East & North Africa, Weblog — The beginning of this week marked a big buzz in the Tunisian blogosphere about Tunisia's national soccer team qualifying to the World Cup next year after a 2-2 draw with Morocco.
Mark Finkelstein / NewsBusters.org:
Up the Creek: Out to Embarrass Bush Over Alleged Video Stunt, Today Gets Caught in Stunt of Its Own — In a deliciously ironic twist of fate, shortly before airing a segment aimed at embarrassing the Bush administration by suggesting that it had staged a video conversation between the president …
Stephen Gordon / The Speculist:
An Open Letter to President Bush — Dear Mr. President: — Like many Americans I'm deeply concerned about the risk of Avian flu. News about our nation's preparedness has not been reassuring. — The only drug that is thought to have any impact on the disease once contracted is Tamiflu.
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National Review:
Start Over — When President Bush nominated Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court, we called it a missed opportunity. The ensuing debate has confirmed that judgment. For all its fury, a consensus was reached early on that point. Leaving aside the president and his employees …
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Roger L. Simon / Mystery Novelist and Screenwriter:
Harold Pinter Wins Nobel Prize — For what I imagine to be a variety of reasons... perhaps because I have been a professional writer of screenplays and novels for more years than I care to admit in public or perhaps because I have served on awards committees for PEN and the Los Angeles Times …
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Vaughn Ververs / CBS News:
Outside Voices - The Anchoress Speaks — Each week we invite someone from the outside to weigh in with their thoughts about CBS News and the media at large. This week, we invited The Anchoress, one of the blogosphere's most mysterious and interesting voices who this week turned …
Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
A Flu Hope, Or Horror? — While official Washington has been poring over Harriet Miers's long-ago doings on the Dallas City Council and parsing the byzantine comings and goings of the Patrick Fitzgerald grand jury, relatively unnoticed was perhaps the most momentous event of our lifetime — what is left of it, as I shall explain.
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www.AndrewSullivan.com, Hugh Hewitt, Transterrestrial Musings, TMH's Bacon Bits and Daily Pundit
Los Angeles Times:
Window Into Miers' Legal Thinking in the 1990s Reflects a Glint of Liberalism — HOUSTON — In the early 1990s, lawyer-bashing was all the rage. And Harriet Miers didn't like it one bit. — Then the president of the State Bar of Texas, Miers used her monthly column in the Texas Bar Journal …
hughhewitt.com:
Tucker and Teddy (and Beldar) — I agreed to appear on The Situation with Tucker Carlson tonight to discuss Harriet Miers. I appeared, but we did not discuss Hariet Miers. We discussed, for most of the segment, a couple of paragraphs drawn from Miers' articles for the Texas Bar Association magazine when she was president.
Donna St. George / Washington Post:
For Injured U.S. Troops, 'Financial Friendly Fire' — Flaws in Pay System Lead to Dunning, Credit Trouble — His hand had been blown off in Iraq, his body pierced by shrapnel. He could not walk. Robert Loria was flown home for a long recovery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center …
Bloomberg:
Bush's Miers Predicament Forces GOP Split or Nominee Withdrawal — Oct. 14 (Bloomberg) — President George W. Bush prides himself as a man who never runs from a fight and as a leader who pays careful attention to his political base. Harriet Miers has put those qualities in conflict.
