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UN office doctored report on murder of Hariri — From James Bone in New York and Nicholas Blanchard in Beirut — THE United Nations withheld some of the most damaging allegations against Syria in its report on the murder of Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese Prime Minister, it emerged yesterday.
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Michael J. Totten:
Mehlis Day — Fear and apprehension turned to anger and relief in Beirut after the Mehlis report named Syrian President Bashar Assad's brother-in-law as the chief suspect, and Lebanese President Emile Lahoud as a possible accomplice, in the assassination of Rafik Hariri. — The city didn't explode.
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Anthony Shadid / Washington Post:
Syria Feels Heat Over U.N. Report — Middle East Is Captivated By Findings in Hariri Killing — DAMASCUS, Syria, Oct. 21 — A day after its release, a U.N. report that implicated senior Syrian officials in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri escalated pressure …
Robert Mayer / Publius Pundit:
SYRIA SCREWED — The Mehlis report was released today, and it was the historic bombshell that everyone knew it would be. It implicated Syrian and Lebanese intelligence chiefs and military generals, all the way up to members of Assad's family. The commission was also extended up until December …
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Warren Hoge / New York Times:Bush Pushes U.N. to Move Swiftly on Syria Report
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Don Surber:
Iraqi Semper Liberi — News Busters says the media ignores the good news in Iraq. Not everyone. … Iraq came closer to freedom and liberty when its constitution was approved by a direct vote of the people. May the civil war subside and the Shia, Sunni and Kurds learn to live together.
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Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:OPEN POST — The purpose of the Open Post is (hopefully) obvious.
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Jonah Goldberg / The Corner on National Review Online:
THIS IS WHERE I GET OFF — My official position on Miers has been to criticize the selection, but give her the benefit of the doubt until the hearings. In other words, bad pick but she's the nominee so let's give her a shot. — No more. — After reading this story I'm officially against Miers.
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Washington Post:
Miers Backed Race, Sex Set-Asides — As president of the State Bar of Texas, Harriet Miers wrote that "our legal community must reflect our population as a whole," and under her leadership the organization embraced racial and gender set-asides and set numerical targets to achieve that goal.
Washington Times:
Insiders see hint of Miers pullout — The White House has begun making contingency plans for the withdrawal of Harriet Miers as President Bush's choice to fill a seat on the Supreme Court, conservative sources said yesterday. — "White House senior staff are starting to ask outside people …
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Libby Remembers A Time He Knew What Happiness Was... White House supporters who read the Times' glowing profile of Special Counsel Fitzgerald will note this chilling detail: "[Fitzgerald] once went to considerable trouble to adopt a cat." — Like people, a dog in a pack can engage in uncharacteristic behavior.
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John Solomon / Associated Press:Editor Says He Missed Miller 'Alarm Bells'
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Opinion Journal:
The Miers Blunder — Walking the nominee into a political crossfire. — Although skeptical from the start, we've restrained our criticism of the Harriet Miers nomination because we've long believed that Presidents of either party deserve substantial deference on their Supreme Court picks.
BBC:
Three killed in Egypt church riot — Three people have died during a riot outside a Coptic church in Alexandria, Egypt, after a protest against a play accused of offending Islam. — Police used sticks and tear gas to hold back a crowd of some 5,000 protesters who marched on St George's church.
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George F. Will / Washington Post:
Defending The Indefensible — Such is the perfect perversity of the nomination of Harriet Miers that it discredits, and even degrades, all who toil at justifying it. Many of their justifications cannot be dignified as arguments. Of those that can be, some reveal a deficit …
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
A Split Between The Times & Miller? — Editor Says Reporter May Have Misled The Newspaper in Plame Leak Case — New York Times executives "fully encouraged" reporter Judith Miller in her refusal to testify in the CIA leak investigation, a stance that led to her jailing …
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Hope Yen / Associated Press:
FEMA Official Says Boss Ignored Warnings — WASHINGTON — In the midst of the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina, a Federal Emergency Management Agency official in New Orleans sent a dire e-mail to Director Michael Brown saying victims had no food and were dying. No response came from Brown.
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ABCNEWS:
Young Singers Spread Racist Hate — Duo Considered the Olsen Twins of the White Nationalist Movement — Oct. 20, 2005 — Thirteen-year-old twins Lamb and Lynx Gaede have one album out, another on the way, a music video, and lots of fans. — They may remind you another famous pair of singers …
Victor Davis Hanson / victorhanson.com:
With a Whimper — How the violence in Iraq will end. — National Review Online — The Western media was relatively quiet about the quite amazing news from the recent trifecta in Iraq: very little violence on election day, Sunni participation, and approval of the constitution.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Senate Pushes Back Stem-Cell Debate to '06 — WASHINGTON, Oct. 21 - A Senate debate over whether to ease federal restrictions on stem cell research will be put off until next year, an influential senator seeking to relax the rules said Friday. — The lawmaker, Senator Arlen Specter …
