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Colin Randall / Telegraph:
Leaders fiddle as France burns — In pictures: Paris burns after week of rioting — France was struggling to overcome one of its gravest post-war crises last night as every major city faced the threat of fierce rioting that began 12 nights ago and now seems to have spun out of control.
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Jamey Keaten / Associated Press:
French Authorize Curfews to Stop Violence — PARIS - France's Cabinet authorized curfews under a state-of-emergency law Tuesday in an extraordinary measure to halt the country's worst civil unrest in decades after violence raged for a 12th night. — Local officials "will be able …
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Associated Press:France Sets Curfews, Deploys 9,500 Cops
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Peter Popham / Independent:
US forces 'used chemical weapons' during assault on city of Fallujah — Powerful new evidence emerged yesterday that the United States dropped massive quantities of white phosphorus on the Iraqi city of Fallujah during the attack on the city in November 2004, killing insurgents and civilians …
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dailykos.com:
Italian Satellite TV to Broadcast Evidence of US Use of Chemical Weapons on Civilians — by paper tigress — Italian media going full-bore on the Bush Administration. After its revelations on the subterfuge behind the Nigergate forgeries, documentary evidence of the use by US troops …
Washington Post:
Fires in France — THE RIOTS in France have provoked their own mini-storm of misinterpretation, outside the country and among some of the French. So it's worth noting what 12 days (so far) of car-burning, looting and occasional shooting in the poor suburbs of Paris, and now dozens of other towns, is not about.
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This is Not A Good Man — Kevin Drum says: … I agree. It's finally coming into focus that every single one of this administration's so-called grown-ups are idiots. There were people who knew that the avuncular Dick Cheney was something of a nut, but nobody believed them.
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Daniel Benjamin / Slate:
President Cheney — His office really does run national security. — It has become a cliché to say that Dick Cheney is the most powerful vice president in American history. Nonetheless, here is a prediction: When the historians really get digging into the paper entrails …
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James Lewis / The American Thinker:
There are an amazing number of French fingerprints all over the Plame-Wilson affair. While it is not easy to penetrate the dark fog of lies, there is a highly consistent pattern pointing to French government involvement with a Watergate-style assault on the American Presidency, fronted by Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV.
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New York Times:
President Bush's Walkabout — After President Bush's disastrous visit to Latin America, it's unnerving to realize that his presidency still has more than three years to run. An administration with no agenda and no competence would be hard enough to live with on the domestic front.
strategypage.com:
The Real Problems With Urban Schools and Recruiters — November 7, 2005: The U.S. Department of Defense sees urban schools as ones of its biggest recruiting obstacles. Not because leftist teachers in some of those schools try to keep recruiters out, but because so many potential recruits …
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Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:Middle class filling up military, study says
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Bernard O'Riordan / Guardian:
Australia foils 'catastrophic' terrorist chemical attack — · 17 arrested in raids in Sydney and Melbourne — · Railway stations thought to be likely target — Australian authorities believe they have foiled a major terrorist attack after arresting 17 people in overnight raids …
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radioblogger.com:
Victor Davis Hanson on Muslim violence in France and Europe. — HH: I'm now joined by Victor Davis Hanson, military historian extraordinaire, and you can read him every Friday at National Review Online. Victor, good to have you back on the program. — VDH: Glad to be here, Hugh.
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Official Reveals Budget for U.S. Intelligence — WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 - In an apparent slip, a top American intelligence official has revealed at a public conference what has long been secret: the amount of money the United States spends on its spy agencies. — At an intelligence conference …
Mark Steyn / Telegraph:
Early skirmish in the Eurabian civil war — According to its Office du Tourisme, the big event in Evreux this past weekend was supposed to be the annual fête de la pomme, du cidre et du fromage at the Place de la Mairie. Instead, in this charmingly smouldering cathedral town in Normandy …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
His Night in the Sun — After 25 Years, Ted Koppel Is Leaving the Show That Did It His Way — Given all the heat Ted Koppel took last year for reading the names of the hundreds of Americans killed in Iraq, he could be forgiven for claiming vindication over the huge coverage when the death toll hit 2,000 late last month.
Stephen Green / Vodkapundit:
The Arm of Decision — Four years into the Terror War, "What's the most important element for victory?" is a question long overdue. It's also a question our national leadership, nearly all of our intellectuals, and none of our mainstream media have yet to answer.
