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Juan / Informed Comment:
Muslim Protests Against Anti-Muhammad Caricatures — Several readers have asked what I think about the protests among Muslims against the caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad published by a Danish newspaper. — Of course people are upset when their sacred figures are attacked!
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New York Times:
Protesters in Beirut Set Danish Consulate on Fire — BEIRUT, Feb. 5 — Protesters angry over European drawings of the Prophet Muhammad attacked a building housing the Danish Consulate here early today, setting it afire and clashing with Lebanese security forces just a day after protesters …
Daniel Schwammenthal / Opinion Journal:Europe's New Dissidents — Middle Eastern repression comes to the Continent.
Ahmed Al-Haj / Associated Press:
Cole Attack Planner Escapes Yemen Prison — SAN'A, Yemen - An al-Qaida operative sentenced to death for plotting the USS Cole bombing that killed 17 sailors in 2000 was among a group of convicts who escaped from a Yemen prison last week, Interpol said Sunday in issuing a global security alert.
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Christine Hauser / New York Times:
Mastermind of U.S.S. Cole Attack Escapes Jail — A man convicted of masterminding the attack on the American destroyer Cole in 2000 escaped a Yemeni jail through a tunnel with 22 other prisoners, the international police organization, Interpol, said today. — The prisoner, Jamal Ahmed Badawi …
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New York Times:
Specter Says Surveillance Program Violated the Law — WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 — The Republican who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee said today that he believed the Bush administration had violated the law with its warrantless surveillance program and that its legal justifications for the program were "strained and unrealistic."
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Hope Yen / Associated Press:
Specter Criticizes Rationale for Spying — WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has not adequately justified why the Bush administration failed to seek court approval for domestic surveillance, said the senator in charge of a hearing Monday on the program.
Jason Reed / Newsweek:
Exclusive: Can the President Order a Killing on U.S. Soil? — President Bush at a recent White House press briefing — Feb. 13, 2006 issue - In the latest twist in the debate over presidential powers, a Justice Department official suggested that in certain circumstances …
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ReddHedd / firedoglake:
Do You Trust This Man to Order Assassinations on American Soil? — Newsweek reports that a Justice Department official discussed the possibility that the President ought to be able to order assassination on US soil under the current AUMF. … Interesting.
TKS on National Review Online:
OBJECTIONS TO THOSE DANISH CARTOONS: THE INTOLERABLE, AND THE HONORABLE [02/05 08:15 AM] — Want some good news on those infamous Danish cartoons? — The reaction in my neck of the woods has been pretty mild - certainly nothing like the attacks on the Danish embassy in Syria.
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Arthur Silber / Once Upon a Time:
Walking into the Iran Trap, III: Mythic War, and Endless Enemies — [Part I: A Decision of Policy — and the Intelligence Won't Matter — Part II: The Folly of Intervention] — In the concluding parts of this series, I will offer some thoughts about the nature of the propaganda campaigns engaged …
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Atrios / Eschaton:March — Arthur writes: … Indeed. The point is not that Iran …
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MSNBC:
Transcript for February 5 — MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: for nearly three years, this Republican from Texas, Tom "The Hammer" Delay, was the leader of House Republicans. He has now stepped aside. This Republican from Ohio is the new majority leader of the House of Representatives.
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:The Fitzgerald Affidavit - Was Libby Novak's Source??
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Michael Isikoff / Newsweek:
The Cia Leak: Plame Was Still Covert — Feb. 13, 2006 issue - Newly released court papers could put holes in the defense of Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, in the Valerie Plame leak case. Lawyers for Libby, and White House allies, have repeatedly questioned whether Plame …
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Gateway Pundit:
Terror-Linked Danish Imam Behind Cartoon Riots Interviewed — "The Imam and others toured the Middle East showing the cartoons but adding three more new ones that were far more offensive than anything the paper published. He (Imam Ahmad Abu Laban) told us they were from threatening letters …
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EU Referendum
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Lorenzo Vidino / The Counterterrorism Blog:More lies from Danish Imams (Updated 2/5)
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Roger Kimball / ARMAVIRUMQUE:
Hamlet's question, updated — Once again, Mark Steyn hits the nail on the head, puts the arrow in the bullseye, gets it just right. When the Danish newspaper printed 12 cartoon's of Mohammed, it not only meant to be provocative, but also to demonstrate the limits of tolerance.
Deborah Howell / Washington Post:
A Global Reach, but a Local Focus — One of the big surprises for me in becoming ombudsman is that most e-mail focuses on national issues, not local news. — This column is an initial effort to solicit comment from readers about local news. Is The Post covering the kind of local news …
Michelle Malkin:
WHAT DOES THE AMERICAN LEFT HAVE TO SAY? — I have received a smattering of e-mails from liberals who are siding with Denmark and the European newspaper editors in the Cartoon Jihad. (See, for example, the liberal blogger at Deep Thought.) For the most part, however …
