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New York Times:
Iraqi Officials Count Ballots Following Saturday's Vote — BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 16 - Iraqi officials were counting ballots today after a constitutional referendum on Saturday that appeared to have drawn as many as 10 million voters, about two-thirds of those eligible, to polling stations across this war-ravaged country.
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Robin Wright / Washington Post:
Rice: Iraq Constitution Appears to Have Passed — Sunnis Appear Short of Threshold Required to Reject Controversial Charter — LONDON, Oct. 16 — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday that initial assessments indicate Iraqis had probably approved a controversial constitution …
strategypage.com:
Another Election Carried Out Despite Terrorist Threats — October 16, 2005: The government is getting better at running national elections under the threat of terrorist attacks. The legislative elections last January had fewer than ten million people voting (69 percent of those registered) …
Washington Post:
Sunni Turnout Is High In Vote on Iraqi Charter — Attacks by Insurgents Largely Halt During Referendum — BAGHDAD, Oct. 15 — Sunni Arab voters turned out in force for Iraq's constitutional referendum Saturday as insurgents largely suspended attacks, granting Sunnis a chance to try to defeat …
Washington Post:
On the Streets of Iraq, Scenes of Joy and Determination — For the cooped-up children of bomb-weary Baghdad, referendum day was a winner, no matter what the final outcome. — A security ban on private vehicles, invoked to keep would-be bombers from reaching targets, had a blissful side effect …
Anthony Shadid / Washington Post:In a Sunni Quarter, A Day of Emotion
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David Adesnik / OxBlog:WaPo VS. NYT: WHAT HAPPENED TODAY IN IRAQ? Was turnout high or low?
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Sooni, The Moderate Voice, Rantingprofs, Roger L. Simon, Daily Kos, COUNTERCOLUMN and Iraq Elections newswire
Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
After 'NY Times' Probe: Keller Must Fire Miller, and Apologize to Readers — As the devastating Times article, and her own first-person account, make clear, Miller should be promptly dismissed for crimes against journalism — and her own paper. And her editor, who has not taken responsibility …
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Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Judy the Obscure — Well we finally got the tua culpa from Judith Miller we've all been expecting: … In other news, Mohammed ElBaradai and the International Atomic Energy Agency win the Nobel Prize for getting it right. You can't blame Judy. It's hard to hear when you're so full of s**t it's coming out your ears.
Don Surber:
We, the people, of Iraq ... E channel shows old SNL shows. I was struck by Friday's repeat from October 2002. Hard to believe that just three years ago the show was mocking Saddam Hussein. Tina Fey gave the dictator the what for — safely from a studio an ocean and six time zones away.
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The Evil Emperor Mindstation / Point Five:Weekend Open Trackbacks: Dick Morris Edition
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Mark Steyn / Agence France Presse:
Media utters nonsense, won't call enemy out — F rom Thursday's New York Times: ''Nalchik, Russia — Insurgents launched a series of raids today in this southern Russian city, striking the area's main airport and several police and security buildings in large-scale, daytime attacks that left at least 85 people dead.''
Time:
Contingency Plan — Karl Rove has a plan, as always. Even before testifying last week for the fourth time before a grand jury probing the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity, Bush senior adviser Rove and others at the White House had concluded that if indicted he would immediately resign …
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:Reporter Says Libby Told Her About CIA Operative
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Washington Post:
How a Lobbyist Stacked the Deck — Abramoff Used DeLay Aide, Attacks On Allies to Defeat Anti-Gambling Bill — Lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his team were beginning to panic. — An anti-gambling bill had cleared the Senate and appeared on its way to passage by an overwhelming margin in the House of Representatives.
Independent:
Revealed: IRA bombs killed eight British soldiers in Iraq — Terror devices used by the IRA in a vicious murder campaign in Ulster blew up British servicemen as the world blamed Iran — Eight British soldiers killed during ambushes in Iraq were the victims of a highly sophisticated bomb …
John Podesta / Washington Post:
Freeh's Self-Whitewash — During his tenure as director of the FBI, Louis Freeh presided over a series of blunders and failures that brought the bureau to a low point in its history. From the embarrassment of the Russian mole Robert Hanssen to the bungling of the Wen Ho Lee investigation …
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Todd S. Purdum / New York Times:
Plenty of Praise for a Nominee, but Few Details — WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 - Ask any of Harriet E. Miers's typically press-shy White House colleagues what she has been like in her years as a top Bush administration staff member, and the praise pours out. She is intelligent. Meticulous. Selfless.
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Nick Cohen / Observer:
One woman's war — Maryam Namazie personifies the gulf between liberal apologists and those who really want equality — A week ago, at a reception in one of London's dowdier hotels, Maryam Namazie received a cheque and a certificate stating that she was Secularist of the Year 2005.
