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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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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.
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Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler
MSNBC:
U.K. charges official with leaking Blair memo — Document allegedly says PM dissuaded Bush push for attack on Al-Jazeera — LONDON - A civil servant has been charged under Britain's Official Secrets Act for allegedly leaking a government memo that a newspaper said Tuesday suggested …
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Shakespeare's Sister
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.
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democracyarsenal.org, The Mahablog, Liberty Street, No More Mister Nice Blog, Balloon Juice and The Heretik
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 …
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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Happy Furry Puppy Story …
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Andrew Cochran / The Counterterrorism Blog:
Jose Padilla's New Indictment Based, in Part, on USA PATRIOT Act (updated link to indictment) — Alleged "dirty bomber" Jose Padilla was indicted on new charges that he conspired to "murder, kidnap and maim" people overseas, along with 4 others. The indictment links Padilla …
Balkinization:Padilla Indicted — Today the U.S. government formally indicted …
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SCOTUSblog
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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Ms. Julien / Julien's List:
You get what you vote for... (UPDATED) — And just to have your "party" elected - you pick this, a person who "made up" the comments she quoted about Murtha being a coward, instead of an Iraq veteran...you who voted for this imbecile are some pieces of work, that's all I have to say.
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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
On Torture (updated) — Given the impromptu discussion over torture that broke out in the comments of my last WP post, I thought now might be a good time to devote a dedicated post to the subject. To begin, here's Thomas Sowell, from "Tortured Reasoning":
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Balkinization
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:Bombing al Jazeera? Not a bad idea
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Loaded Mouth
Confederate Yankee:
Think Progress Misrepresents Phone Call Between Brothers as "Chemical Weapons" Evidence — This article by radical liberal group Think Progress might make your blood boil, but be careful: they might then try to label it a chemical weapon. — Their spin begins:
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Steve Clemons:
"A Man for All Seasons": I Give the Devil Benefit of Law for My Own Safety's Sake — Yesterday evening, I went to another in a series of dinners and movies hosted by Margaret Carlson, Washington political commentator and Editor-at-Large of The Week Magazine, and this relatively new newsy weekly, The Week.
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Sirotablog
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.
CNN:
CNN LARRY KING LIVE — Interview With Bob Woodward — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. — LARRY KING, CNN HOST: Tonight, exclusive Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Bob Woodward, caught up in the CIA leak controversy.
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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ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES
Jim Lobe / ipsnews.net:
Cheney Tries to Raise the Stakes — WASHINGTON, Nov 21 (IPS) - Amid growing pressure to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq and mounting charges by Democrats that senior administration officials misled the nation into war there, Vice President Dick Cheney appears to have taken charge of defending his boss and taking on the critics.
