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BBC:
Text: 'Bin-Laden tape' — The pan-Arab TV station al-Jazeera has broadcast an audio tape purporting to be by al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden, in which the speaker says al-Qaeda is preparing new attacks on the US. — Here is the full text of the message as broadcast.
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Chris Matthews compares Michael Moore to Osama — Chris Matthews compares Michael Moore to Osama Bin Laden — On Hardball today, Chris Matthews compared Michael Moore to Osama Bin Laden while discussing the newly released tape with Joe Biden. — Video-WMP Video-QT
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Aljazeera:
Bin Laden offers Americans truce — In an audio tape broadcast on Aljazeera, Osama bin Laden has warned that al-Qaida was preparing an attack very soon, but also offered Americans a "long-term truce". — "The new operations of al-Qaida has not happened not because we could not penetrate the security measures.
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White House:
Press Briefing by Scott McClellan — MR. MCCLELLAN: Good afternoon, everyone. I know there's a lot of interest in the purported bin Laden audiotape that aired on al-Jazeera earlier today. Let me just give you a couple of quick updates. The President was informed about the audiotape shortly …
Hassan M. Fattah / New York Times:Bin Laden Warns of More Attacks; Proposes Truce
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THE BELGRAVIA DISPATCH
Radio Blogger:
Congressman Roy Blunt's conference call with the bloggers today, and taking their questions. — Well, a couple of questions anyway... 01-19bluntconferencecall.mp3 — RB: Thank all of you for calling in. It's good to have a few minutes to talk to you this afternoon.
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Matt Margolis / GOP Bloggers:
Roy Blunt Engages Blogosphere — Just in... Majority Whip Roy Blunt will hold an exclusive conference call with bloggers on Thursday, January 19, at 3 PM Eastern Time to discuss his candidacy to be Majority Leader and detail his vision for the House of Representatives. He will be available to answer a few questions.
Dale Franks / qando.net:
MY UNENDORSEMENT — Jon and I took part in the conference calls today with the three candidates for House Majority Leader, John Shadegg, John Boehner, and Roy Blunt. These conference calls were organized through the efforts of NZ Bear, and each lasted about half an hour.
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John Hawkins / Right Wing News:Conference Calls With The Candidates For Majority Leader
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Eric Lichtblau / New York Times:
Administration Lays Out Legal Case for Wiretapping Program — WASHINGTON, Jan. 19 - The Bush administration today offered its fullest defense of the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program, saying that congressional authorization to defeat Al Qaeda after the Sept. 11 attacks …
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TAPPED
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John Byrne / rawstory.com:Justice Department to declare warrantless wiretaps legal
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Jim Brady / washingtonpost.blog:
Comments Turned Off — As of 4:15 p.m. ET today, we have shut off comments on this blog indefinitely. — At its inception, the purpose of this blog was to open a dialogue about this site, the events of the day, the journalism of The Washington Post Company and other related issues.
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
TARGETING AL-QAEDA....We may not have gotten Zawahiri, but we did get one of al-Qaeda's big fish in the attack on Damadola last week: … For the sake of argument, let's assume that we had pretty good intelligence telling us that a bunch of al-Qaeda leaders were in the house we bombed.
Michael D. Shear / Washington Post:
Democratic Leaders Turn to Kaine — Va. Governor Tapped to Give State of the Union Response for Party — RICHMOND, Jan.19 — Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine has been tapped to give the Democratic Party's response to President Bush's State of the Union speech on Jan. 31, according to Capitol Hill sources.
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Dems Pick Kaine for State of Union Response; What the Hell Are They Thinking? — So the Democrats have chosen Virginia Governor Tim Kaine to deliver the party's response to President Bush's State of the Union speech. Chalk up another one for the What the Hell Are They Thinking? file.
Wretchard / The Belmont Club:
The post-post colonial world — When's a death a death? Yahoo News carries this report on deaths in East Timor caused by Indonesian occupation. … The Third World is place where deaths are accounted with altogether different arithmetic than the First World. Events there happen as on another planet.
Thomas Joscelyn / Weekly Standard:
The Algerian Plague — THE REVELATION that Saddam Hussein's Iraq trained thousands of Islamic terrorists has important ramifications for European counterterrorism efforts. According to officials, one of the groups trained in Iraq prior to the war was al Qaeda's Algerian affiliate …
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Gates of Vienna
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Alexandra von Maltzan / All Things Beautiful:
The Firm Stand Against Iran:'No More Trips To The Paris Collections' — 'Dream of Solomon' by Luca Giordano ca. 1693, Museo del Prado, Madrid — Bob Farley the great blogger @ Lawyers Guns And Money, argues: … On the surface this is a compellingly thought-out causal chain, but the argument doesn't hold water.
washingtonpost.blog:
Deborah Howell Responds — I've heard from lots of angry readers about the remark in my column Sunday that lobbyist Jack Abramoff gave money to both parties. A better way to have said it would be that Abramoff "directed" contributions to both parties. — Lobbyists, seeking influence in Congress …
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dailyhowler.com:
Special report—How to read literacy! — PART 3—THE MORE, THE MURKIER: What's the state of literacy among college grads? It's timely that you should ask. As we noted last week, the National Center for Education Statistics recently released a massive survey of adult literacy, the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL).
Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
In Iraqi Oil City, a Formidable Foe — Airborne Soldiers Struggle to Break Grip of Insurgents — BAIJI, Iraq — Pfc. Robyn Houston fires bursts of bullets into the air as his Humvee swerves around a pothole and lurches over a highway median. His convoy bears down on oncoming traffic …
John O'Neil / New York Times:
Hillary Clinton Says White House Has Mishandled Iran — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton last night criticized the Bush administration for its response to Iran's nuclear program, saying it had chosen to "downplay" the crisis over the past several years. — In a speech at Princeton University …
