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Shafika Mattar / Associated Press:
Iraqi Woman Confesses on Jordan TV — AMMAN, Jordan - Strapped with a disabled explosives belt, an Iraqi woman arrested Sunday confessed on television to trying to blow herself up with her husband in one of three suicide attacks earlier this week that killed 57 people.
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Austin Bay Blog:
A big victory in The War On Terror — And an information victory at that. Today Jordan put a captured "would be suicide terrorist" on tv. (Link is to an AP report.) — Why is this a victory? Because the harsh evil of Al Qaeda is front and center in Sunni Arab media.
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Molly Moore / Washington Post:
Police, Rioting Youths Clash in Central Lyon — PARIS, Nov. 12 — Dozens of youths threw trash cans at police and attacked sidewalk shops in a main square of Lyon on Saturday night in the first clash between rioters and police in a city center after more than two weeks of violence in France, according to news reports.
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Samantha Bordes / Associated Press:Rioters Attack Police in Lyon; Paris Calm
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:French Riots Continue Despite Ban On Assemblies
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Daniel J. Solove / Concurring Opinions:
Does Yale Law School Owe Anything to Alito? — A New York Times article queries whether Yale Law School has been institutionally too harsh to its former professors and alumni who are nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court. Robert Bork was a former Yale Law School faculty member and Justice Thomas was a Yale Law School alumni.
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Drudge Report:
HOWARD THE DUCK: DEAN DODGES NBC APPEARANCE WITH REPUBLICAN — Dem Chair Dean Ducks Last Second Joint MEET THE PRESS Appearance With GOP Chair Mehlman — The DRUDGE REPORT has learned from exclusive sources that Democrat Party Chair Howard Dean turned down Republican Party Chair Ken Mehlman's …
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Liza Porteus / Fox News:
Bush Fires Back Against Iraq War Critics — President Bush on Friday shot back at critics claiming his administration misconstrued or lied about pre-war intelligence showing that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, saying "it is deeply irresponsible to rewrite the history of how that war began."
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
DECLARATION OF WAR....On Friday, George Bush said that, based on the intelligence known at the time, "more than a hundred Democrats in the House and the Senate...voted to support removing Saddam Hussein from power." In tomorrow's Washington Post, one of those Democrats, John Edwards, says this:
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Civil Rights Focus Shift Roils Staff At Justice — Veterans Exit Division as Traditional Cases Decline — The Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, which has enforced the nation's anti-discrimination laws for nearly half a century, is in the midst of an upheaval that has driven away dozens …
David Von Drehle / Washington Post:
Wrestling With History — Sometimes you have to fight the war you have, not the war you wish you had — If only he could show us the memo. — "It's still classified, I suppose?" says Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, looking toward his assistant.
Eugene Volokh / Opinion Journal:
Free Speech Libertarian — Judge Alito has an expansive view of the First Amendment. — What would Samuel Alito's confirmation mean for First Amendment law? It's impossible to be sure, but his appeals court opinions give us some clues. A Justice Alito would likely take a pretty broad view …
Right Wing Nut House:
CARNIVAL OF THE CLUELESS #21 — Decisions...decisions... Who will wear the "Cluebat of the Week" laurels? — Certainly there has been enough cluelessness exhibited by Republicans this week as a group of Republican Congressmen decided that the American people don't really care about high gas prices.
Robin Toner / New York Times:
An Opening for Democrats, However Slim — ACROSS the political landscape, there are signs the nation may be headed toward a sweeping anti-incumbent election next year. The Republican Congressional majority is staggering from one setback to another, the voters seem uneasy about problems …
Washington Post:
Libby May Have Tried to Mask Cheney's Role — In the opening days of the CIA leak investigation in early October 2003, FBI agents working the case already had in their possession a wealth of valuable evidence. There were White House phone and visitor logs, which clearly documented the administration's contacts with reporters.
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Justin Stares / Telegraph:
EC declared us mad so it could sack us, claim staff — The European Commission has been accused of trying to have troublesome staff declared mentally ill in order to provide an excuse for giving them the sack. — Critics claim that the commission has resorted to tactics "worthy of the KGB" …
Forbes:
CIA allegedly hid evidence of detainee torture - report — WASHINGTON (AFX) - CIA interrogators apparently tried to cover up the death of an Iraqi 'ghost detainee' who died while being interrogated at Abu Ghraib prison, Time magazine reported today, after obtaining hundreds of pages of documents …
Nico / Think Progress:
Sen. Roberts Questions Bush Claim That Congress Saw "Same Intelligence" On Iraq — On Friday, President Bush claimed that members of Congress who voted for the 2002 Iraq war resolution "had access to the same intelligence" as his administration. ThinkProgress has published information debunking that claim.
