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Salah Nasrawi / Associated Press:
Iraqi Leaders Call for Pullout Timetable — AP Photo XAN107 — CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Leaders of Iraq's sharply divided Shiites, Kurds and Sunnis called Monday for a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces in the country and said Iraq's opposition had a ``legitimate right'' of resistance.
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Juan / Informed Comment:
Iraqis ask for Withdrawal Timetable — AP reports on the results of the Cairo national reconciliation conference, attended by the major Iraqi political factions, including Sunni Arabs. — Al-Hayat gives the orginal Arabic wording of some articles of the agreement.
mirror.co.uk:
EXCLUSIVE: BUSH PLOT TO BOMB HIS ARAB ALLY — Madness of war memo — PRESIDENT Bush planned to bomb Arab TV station al-Jazeera in friendly Qatar, a "Top Secret" No 10 memo reveals. — But he was talked out of it at a White House summit by Tony Blair, who said it would provoke a worldwide backlash.
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Agence France Presse:
Blair talked Bush out of bombing al-Jazeera: report — LONDON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush planned to bomb pan-Arab television broadcaster al-Jazeera, British newspaper the Daily Mirror said, citing a Downing Street memo marked "Top Secret". — The five-page transcript …
BBC:
Bush al-Jazeera 'plot' dismissed — The White House has dismissed claims George Bush was talked out of bombing Arab television station al-Jazeera by UK Prime Minister Tony Blair. — The allegations were made by an unnamed source in the Daily Mirror newspaper.
David Stout / New York Times:
U.S. Indicts Padilla After 3 Years in Pentagon Custody — WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 - Jose Padilla, an American citizen held without charge for more than three years as an enemy combatant, has been indicted in what the federal authorities said today was a plot to "murder, kidnap and maim" people overseas.
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Balkinization:Padilla Indicted — Today the U.S. government formally indicted …
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Malia Rulon / Cincinnati Enquirer:
Schmidt in war of words — Rookie lawmaker's 'coward' remarks ricochet — WASHINGTON - Three days after Rep. Jean Schmidt was booed off the House floor for saying that "cowards cut and run, Marines never do," the Ohioan she quoted disputed the comments. — Danny Bubp, a freshman state …
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Drudge Report:
CNN: 'IT WAS A COMPUTER BUG' — 'IT IS NOT SOMETHING WE CAN RE-CREATE TO SHOW YOU HOW IT HAPPENED' — CNN on Tuesday morning hoped to explain how and why a black 'X' flashed over Vice President Dick Cheney's face during a live speech. — The startling 'X' flashes over Cheney's face were first revealed by the DRUDGE REPORT.
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ReddHedd / firedoglake:
The Scanlon Plea Hat Trick — I spent a few hours last night researching the "speech and debate clause" to explain how significant Scanlon's plea is to the prosecution of members of Congress involved in the Abramoff mess. And I woke up to find that Bloomberg has beaten me to the punch. (Darn!
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:
Kos and the Left Betray Our Troops and Nation — You and the Left are sounding more and more like al Jazeera every day. You're blind hatred of the Bush Administration is endangering the lives of U.S. soldiers and embolding our enemies to kill them. — I know you 'love' America …
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Dean Bakopoulos / Los Angeles Times:
Silver spoons and rusted wrenches — THE AMERICAN auto industry is dead. With General Motors announcing, days before Thanksgiving, 30,000 more layoffs and nine plant closings, the Rust Belt just got the final strike of the sledgehammer. When GM finally goes down for good, all the rusted remains of that region will crumble.
Murray Waas / nationaljournal.com:
Key Bush Intelligence Briefing Kept From Hill Panel — Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime …
Richard Bernstein / New York Times:
Merkel Takes Over as Germany's Chancellor — BERLIN, November 22 - In a ceremony mixing solemnity with a bit of humor, Parliament today elected the conservative political leader Angela Merkel to the post of chancellor, making her the first woman to head a German government and the first chancellor …
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Agence France Presse:
More Americans than ever are pessimistic about Iraq's future: poll — WASHINGTON (AFP) - A majority of Americans do not think Iraq will be successful in establishing a stable democratic government and would like US troops to come home next year, according to a poll.
