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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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New York Times, Washington Times, The Politburo Diktat, Rantingprofs, Balloon Juice, QandO, AMERICAblog, MyDD, This Blog Is Full Of Crap, Centerfield, THE ASTUTE BLOGGER, Democracy Project, Seeing the Forest, OSM, The Heretik, The Mahablog, The American Mind, Daily Kos, The All Spin Zone and Think Progress
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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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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 …
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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Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
'Dirty Bomb' Suspect Jose Padilla Indicted — Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen held by the Bush administration for three years without charges as an enemy combatant plotting a "dirty bomb" attack in the United States, has been indicted on charges unrelated to any potential terrorist attack in this country.
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:Dirty Bomb Suspect Jose Padilla Indicted
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The Counterterrorism Blog, The Huffington Post, The All Spin Zone, Michelle Malkin and Mathew Gross
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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IMAO, Wonkette, Polunatic, IntoxiNation-News …, mediabistro, California Conservative and Daily Pundit
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Drudge Report:
CNN SENIOR MANAGEMENT LAUNCHES INVESTIGATION OF CHENEY 'X'; CONTROL ROOM STAFFER 'LAUGHED' WHEN X FLASHED — CNN management has launched an internal investigation into how a giant black 'X' mark appeared over Vice President Dick Cheney's face — as he delivered a speech from Washington on Monday!
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 …
OSM:
Excuse us while we change back into our pajamas — Once upon a time, some friends who met in the casual atmosphere of the blogosphere (us) got together and decided it would be groovy to start a blog company. "We could call it Pajamas Media," we said, referring to the now-famous quote by whatshisface …
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Althouse, The Hotline's Blogometer, Open Source, La Shawn Barber's Corner, Don Surber, PoliBlog, Arguing with signposts, Tammy Bruce, Decision '08, The Young Curmudgeon, TalkLeft, California Conservative, BuzzMachine, blogs4God, The Blogging of the President, The Talent Show, Barcepundit, All Things Beautiful, Secular Blasphemy, This Blog Is Full Of Crap and ProfessorBainbridge.com
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
Cheney Sees 'Shameless' Revisionism on War — WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 - Vice President Dick Cheney stepped up the White House attacks on critics of the Iraq war on Monday, declaring that politicians who say Americans were sent into battle based on a lie are engaging in "revisionism of the most corrupt and shameless variety."
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The Heretik, Washington Post, Daily Pundit, This Modern World, Wonkette and Air America Radio
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Financial Times:
Threat of federal charges against DeLay grows — The likelihood of federal charges against members of Congress intensified on Monday when a key player in a broad corruption probe pleaded guilty to conspiracy and agreed to co-operate with investigators. — Under a plea agreement …
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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.
robot guy:
in defense of the Political Teen — Update: Welcome, Michelle Malkin and Hugh Hewitt readers. Sorry the place is such a mess, the maid is on vacation etc. — Drudge pointed out some shenanigans at CNN during the live coverage of VP Cheney's speech the other day.
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Michelle Malkin:CNN'S X-MEN...UPDATE: IT WAS JUST A GLITCH...OR NOT?
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>bt: Brain Terminal, The Political Teen, mediabistro.com, IntoxiNation-News …, Stop The ACLU, Hit and Run, Suitably Flip, Six Meat Buffet, Hugh Hewitt, GOP and the City, A Blog For All, All Things Beautiful, Crooks and Liars, Wizbang, mediabistro, The Mahablog, World O'Crap, PunditGuy, euphoricreality.net, JunkYardBlog, The Right Place, Slant Point, Amygdala and Ed Driscoll.com
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 …
