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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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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. — Angry protesters attacked the Norwegian mission after storming the Danish site amid chants of "God is great".
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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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:
Identity Politics, Free Speech, and the Future of worldwide Liberalism, 2: a follow-up — From Islam Online: … [all emphases mine] — Note the bolded text, because it draws clear (if to be expected) lines of demarcation between the actions of the rival "protest" groups …
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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 …
Gateway Pundit:
Danish Embassy Torched in Syria! — Witnesses say that protesters set the entire building ablaze which also houses embassies of Chile and Sweden! — Chanting "God is Great," they stormed the embassy, burned the Danish flag and replaced it with another flag reading "No God but Allah, Mohammad is His Prophet."
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
DANISH EMBASSY BURNED in Syria. Gateway Pundit has a roundup. This really is a case of civilization against the barbarians. The good news is that moderate Muslims are standing up for civilization: … The bad news is that the Boston Globe is siding with the barbarians, comparing the Danish cartoonists to Nazis.
Boston Globe:
Forms of intolerance — FREEDOM OF expression is not the only value at issue in the conflict provoked by a Danish newspaper's publication of cartoons satirizing Islam's founding prophet, Mohammed. The billowing controversy is being swept along by intolerance, ignorance, and parochialism.
Charles Moore / Telegraph:
If you get rid of the Danes, you'll have to keep paying the Danegeld — It's some time since I visited Palestine, so I may be out of date, but I don't remember seeing many Danish flags on sale there. Not much demand, I suppose. I raise the question because, as soon as the row about the cartoons …
New York Times:U.S. Says It Also Finds Cartoons of Muhammad Offensive
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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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Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times:
NASA Chief Backs Agency Openness — A week after NASA's top climate scientist complained that the space agency's public-affairs office was trying to silence his statements on global warming, the agency's administrator, Michael D. Griffin, issued a sharply worded statement yesterday calling for …
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail — Soon companies will have to buy the electronic equivalent of a postage stamp if they want to be certain that their e-mail will be delivered to many of their customers. — America Online and Yahoo, two of the world's largest providers of e-mail accounts …
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Saul Hansell / New York Times:Increasingly, Internet's Data Trail Leads to Court
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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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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 …
James Taranto / Opinion Journal:
Best of the Web — Whitewashing a Black Leader — Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP, spoke Wednesday at North Carolina's Fayetteville State University during an event kicking off Black History Month. News 14 Carolina, a local cable-news network, did a feel-good story about this "civil rights icon" and NAACP recruitment:
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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.
Louis Charbonneau / Reuters:
Iran is world's top sponsor of terrorism: Rumsfeld — MUNICH (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld accused Iran on Saturday of being the world's leading sponsor of terrorism, a charge that his Iranian counterpart rejected as "ridiculous" and "outrageous."
Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
Halliburton Subsidiary Gets Contract to Add Temporary Immigration Detention Centers — WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 — The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a contract worth up to $385 million for building temporary immigration detention centers to Kellogg Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary …
