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Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
More Questions Raised About Delay in Reporting Cheney Misfire — NEW YORK The more than 18-hour delay in news emerging that the Vice President of the United States had shot a man, sending him to an intensive care unit with his wounds, grew even more curious late Sunday.
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Anne E. Kornblut / New York Times:
Cheney Shoots Fellow Hunter in Mishap on a Texas Ranch — WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 — Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a prominent Austin, Tex., lawyer on Saturday while the two men were quail hunting in South Texas, firing a shotgun at the man while trying to aim for a bird, a member of the hunting party said.
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Cheney Accidentally Shoots Fellow Hunter — WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and injured a man during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, his spokeswoman said Sunday. — Harry Whittington, 78, was "alert and doing fine" after Cheney sprayed him with shotgun pellets …
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John Gideon / THE BRAD BLOG:
BREAKING: Cheney Shoots Man While Hunting, News Held for 24 Hours... UPDATES...Ranch Owner Hired Cheney at Halliburton, on Covert FISA Board Under Reagan, Bush Pioneer... Incident Occurred Saturday, Not Released Until Moments Ago...HOSPITAL SPOKESMAN ON WHITTINGTON'S CONDITION …
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Newsdesk / Chicago Tribune:
Slow (White House) trigger on Cheney — How is it that Vice President Cheney can shoot a man, albeit accidentally, on Saturday during a hunting trip and the American public not be informed of it until today? — That will likely be the main question asked of the White House …
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Bob Cesca / The Huffington Post:EXCLUSIVE: First Photo of Cheney Shooting Victim
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Jim Krane / Associated Press:
Gore Laments U.S. 'Abuses' Against Arabs — JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia - Former Vice President Al Gore told a mainly Saudi audience on Sunday that the U.S. government committed "terrible abuses" against Arabs after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that most Americans did not support such treatment.
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TigerHawk:
The Gorebot: attacking America from the fountainhead of jihad — Al Gore has travelled to the heart of the Wahabbi Muslim world and attacked the United States. One is almost forced to wonder whether he has completely lost his mind. … This is asinine both substantively and procedurally.
The Big Trunk / Power Line:AL OF ARABIA — The adage that "politics stops at the water's edge" …
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Brigade de l'Argent des Français:
La BAF crash la manif des Islamistes contre les caricatures — La BAF dédicace ce gag à tous les défenseurs de la liberté d'expression et la liberté de se marrer, vivant dans des pays où les islamistes et assimilés sévissent (Syrie, Iran, Liban, Algérie, etc.).
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Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Spying Necessary, Democrats Say — But Harman, Daschle Question President's Legal Reach — Two key Democrats yesterday called the NSA domestic surveillance program necessary for fighting terrorism but questioned whether President Bush had the legal authority to order it done without getting congressional approval.
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Maggie Farley / Los Angeles Times:
Report: U.S. Is Abusing Captives — A U.N. inquiry says the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay at times amounts to torture and violates international law. — NEW YORK — A draft United Nations report on the detainees at Guantanamo Bay concludes that the U.S. treatment of them violates …
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Con Coughlin / Telegraph:
UN inquiry demands immediate closure of Guantanamo — A United Nations inquiry has called for the immediate closure of America's Guantanamo Bay detention centre and the prosecution of officers and politicians "up to the highest level" who are accused of torturing detainees.
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Follow-up to the Bush post yesterday — There are numerous replies around the blogosphere to my post yesterday regarding the various dynamics characterizing the behavior of Bush followers. I'm replying here to as many of the serious and/or commonly voiced responses as I can.
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Gateway Pundit:
The 27 Years of Happy Mullacracy Party Ends Up a Bust — Millions of Iranians boycotted the 27th Anniversary gatherings of the murderous and terroristic Islamic revolution. But, as Stefania says, "Don't expect the media to report it." — And, what a party they missed out on!
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Bryan Bender / Boston Globe:
Iran is prepared to retaliate, experts warn — WASHINGTON — Iran is prepared to launch attacks using long-range missiles, secret commando units, and terrorist allies planted around the globe in retaliation for any strike on the country's nuclear facilities, according to new US intelligence assessments and military specialists.
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Christine Hauser / New York Times:
Big Snowstorm Sets Record in New York and Disrupts Travel — A record amount of snow fell in Central Park in New York today as a major storm inundated the Northeast, closing regional airports, canceling hundreds of flights and for several hours virtually paralyzing normal traffic for city residents …
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Greg B. Smith / NY Daily News:
Shameful abuse of 9/11 footage — He's paid $300,000, but keeps 30,000 pix — A budding filmmaker that FEMA found in the yellow pages used his taxpayer-funded video of the smoldering World Trade Center ruins in a documentary featuring topless women chatting about their breasts, a Daily News investigation has found.
Robert F. Worth / New York Times:
Backed by Radical Cleric, Iraqi Prime Minister Retains Post — BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 12 — Shiite lawmakers decided by a one-vote margin today to retain Ibrahim al-Jaafari as prime minister in Iraq's next government, after a bitter internal struggle that exposed the growing power …
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