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Associated Press:
Cartoon row: Danish embassy ablaze — DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Hundreds of Syrian demonstrators stormed the Danish Embassy in Damascus Saturday and set fire to the building, witnesses said. — The demonstrators were protesting offensive caricatures of Islam's Prophet Mohammed …
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Colin Perkel / Globe and Mail:
Cartoons offensive, but so is violence, Canadian Muslims say — Toronto — Cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed as a terrorist are deeply offensive, but so is the violent reaction to the drawings from Islamic extremists, Canadian Muslims said Thursday. — Outrage over the cartoons …
BBC:
Embassies burn in cartoon protest — Syrians have set fire to the Norwegian and Danish embassies in Damascus to protest at the publication of newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. — Protesters stormed the Danish site amid chants of "God is great", before moving on to attack the Norwegian mission.
New York Times:
U.S. Says It Also Finds Cartoons of Muhammad Offensive — WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 — The Muslim world erupted in anger on Friday over caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published in Europe while the Bush administration offered the protesters support, saying of the cartoons, "We find them offensive …
Anthony Browne / Times of London:
Danish cartoonists fear for their lives — TWELVE Danish cartoonists whose pictures sparked such outcry have gone into hiding under round-the-clock protection, fearing for their lives. — The cartoonists, many of whom had reservations about the pictures, have been shocked by how the affair …
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B. Preston / JunkYardBlog:
Ironic Photo of the Day — Caption: A Jordanian Muslim woman poses with a received message on her mobile phone saying 'If we keep boycotting Danish Products till next summer they will lose at least 36 billion EURO', in Amman Jordan, Febuary 1, 2006. A French newspaper reprinted on Wednesday …
David Johnston / New York Times:
New Details Revealed on C.I.A. Leak Case — WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 — Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff told prosecutors that Mr. Cheney had informed him "in an off sort of curiosity sort of fashion" in mid-June 2003 about the identity of the C.I.A. officer at the heart of the leak case …
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George Jahn / Associated Press:
IAEA Reports Iran to U.N. Security Council — VIENNA, Austria - The U.N. nuclear watchdog Saturday reported Iran to the U.N. Security Council in a resolution expressing concern that Tehran's nuclear program may not be "exclusively for peaceful purposes." Iran retaliated immediately …
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Vikas Bajaj / New York Times:
Jobless Rate Falls to Lowest Level in More Than 4 Years — The unemployment rate fell to its lowest level in four and a half years in January, the government reported today, as the economy added construction, education, health and other jobs. — Employment was up in virtually every sector …
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Jeannine Aversa / Associated Press:Unemployment Rate Drops to 4 1/2-Year Low
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Exposing Liberal Media Bias
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
From the Dept. of Ass-Smooching (Chris Matthews Division) — For further evidence of why all TV journalists covering politics should be forced to live as far away from the Beltway as possible, have a look at Chris Matthews' chummy, clubby, buddy-buddy on-air chat with former Commerce Secretary Don Evans.
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Increasingly, Internet's Data Trail Leads to Court — Who is sending threatening e-mail to a teenager? Who is saying disparaging things about a company on an Internet message board? Who is communicating online with a suspected drug dealer? — These questions, and many more like them …
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Boehner Suggests New Tack on Lobbying — House Majority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) has begun shifting his party toward an alternative lobbying reform package that stresses disclosure of lobbying contacts rather than the virtual ban on gifts and privately funded trips proposed last month by House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.).
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Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Ability to Wage 'Long War' Is Key To Pentagon Plan — The Pentagon, readying for what it calls a "long war," yesterday laid out a new 20-year defense strategy that envisions U.S. troops deployed, often clandestinely, in dozens of countries at once to fight terrorism and other nontraditional threats.
Robert Pear / New York Times:
Bush to Propose Curbing Growth in Medicare Cost — WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 — In his budget next week, President Bush will propose substantial savings in Medicare, stepping up his efforts to rein in the growing costs of social insurance programs, administration officials and health care lobbyists said Friday.
Ibn Warraq / Associated Press:
Democracy in a Cartoon — Best-selling author and Muslim dissident Ibn Warraq argues that freedom of expression is our western heritage and we must defend it against attacks from totalitarian societies. If the west does not stand in solidarity with the Danish, he argues, then the Islamization of Europe will have begun in earnest.
Confederate Yankee:
Guardian Fetches A Bucket of Prop Wash — The latest of the so-called "Downing Street Memos" is the most laughable one yet. According to a key passage in this latest theory: … One problem with that theory: U2 high altitude surveillance aircraft typically operate near their operational ceiling …
Andy McCarthy / The Corner on National Review Online:
IS THE PRESIDENT "ABOVE THE LAW"? I GUESS IT DEPENDS ON WHO THE PRESIDENT IS — Several former Clinton administration officials are among the group of "scholars of constitutional law and former government officials" who last week submitted a letter to Congress - posted on the New York Review …
Yuki Noguchi / Washington Post:
On Capitol Hill, Playing WikiPolitics — This is what passes for an extreme makeover in Washington: A summer intern for seven-term Rep. Martin T. Meehan (D-Mass.) altered the congressman's profile on the Wikipedia Web site to remove an old promise that he would limit his service to four terms.
