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Associated Press:
VP Accident Tale Filled With Discrepancies — WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney said he didn't immediately disclose his hunting accident because he wanted the confusing details to come out right. Instead, authorized accounts came out slowly — and often still wrong.
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Rick Lyman / New York Times:
Compassion for Cheney as Victim Heads Home — CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., Feb. 17 — Declaring that "accidents do and will happen," the 78-year-old man who was shot by Vice President Dick Cheney at a weekend quail hunt emerged from the hospital here Friday looking tanned, cheery, robust and speckled with bruises.
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Khaled El-Deeb / Associated Press:
Libya Suspends Official After Deadly Riots — TRIPOLI, Libya - Libya suspended its interior minister Saturday, citing an "excessive use of force" in riots the day before that left at least 10 people dead in the bloodiest protest yet against the Prophet Muhammad cartoons roiling the Muslim world.
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Ann Scott Tyson / Washington Post:
Rumsfeld Urges Using Media to Fight Terror — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld yesterday called for the military and other government agencies to mount a far more aggressive, swift and nontraditional information campaign to counter the messages of extremist and terrorist groups in the world media.
ReddHedd / firedoglake:
Of Greymail, CIPA, Scooter and Fitz — Crooks and Liars has graciously offered to host the hearing transcript (PDF) from the February 3, 2006, Libby scheduling conference and hearing. (For some contemporaneous notes on the Feb. 3rd hearing, see this post and several others on this page.)
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Bad Girls Deserve Abuse? Italian Court Says 'Si!' — The Italian supreme court handed down an inexplicable decision in a sexual assault case, saying that the jury should have been told about the sexual history of a 14-year-old girl when considering the guilt of her stepfather for forcing her to submit to oral copulation.
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Mansoor Ijaz / Los Angeles Times:
Islamic truths — ANOTHER WEEK, another Muslim country burns in rage over months-old Danish cartoons depicting the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) in an unflattering light. On Friday it was Libya, and earlier in the week it was my father's homeland, Pakistan, where violent protests were scattered across the nation.
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AJStrata / The Strata-Sphere:
Able Danger Hearings Summary — As threatened when I started analyzing the Able Danger hearings I am summarizing what I believe are the key revelations coming from these hearings. There is a lot of information out there to digest. More than one person can process in a few days, so I expect to see more revelations as time goes by.
Chester / The Adventures of Chester:
The Saddam Tapes and the Intelligence Summit — The Intelligence Summit, a "non-partisan, non-profit, educational forum", is taking place this weekend in the Washington, D.C. environs. Another blogger, Kobayashi Maru — , is there and I just spoke with him on the phone.
Washington Post:
Dems Need A Newt Of Their Own — The Party Can't Have a Revolution Without the Revolutionaries — Back in 1992, seven upstart Republican freshmen forced real change in the House of Representatives. — Egged on by a more senior revolutionary, Rep. Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) …
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
Hotline's William Beutler Dissembles and Smears Liberal Blogs — The Hotline is the trade political publication for insider staffers in DC. It fancies itself the arbiter of conventional wisdom, and has a lot of really good content, as well as quips and useful information.
Wpnieditor / washingtonpost.blog:
Comments Welcome — As we reopen comments here, I wanted to say a few words about the purpose of the newspaper and the website. — The Washington Post and washingtonpost.com are independent daily news sources, dedicated to providing the news to our readers as quickly, completely and fairly as possible.
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time.blogs.com:
How Muslim Blackmail Works — Moscow has now canceled its Gay Pride parade. It was canceled after the chief Muslim leader in Russia warned that marchers would be "bashed" if they dared to walk the streets. Money quote: … Notice this is not al Qaeda. It is the official mainstream Muslim leadership.
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WorldNetDaily:
Clinton in Pakistan: Convict cartoon publishers — Says press should not be allowed to criticize other faiths — Former President Bill Clinton today called for the conviction of European papers that published satirical cartoons of Muhammad, according to reports in the Islamic press and elsewhere.
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AMERICAN DIGEST:
The Global Muslim Position on Everything in One Image — ANY QUESTIONS? — More photos from FROM the Muslim No-Cartoons-Ever Demonstration in New York .
Los Angeles Times:
Niger Uranium Rumors Wouldn't Die — WASHINGTON — In the spring of 2001, long before Sept. 11 and the American focus on Iraq, the CIA asked its Paris station about rumors that 200 tons of nuclear material had vanished from two French-owned mines in the West African nation of Niger.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Battling The Cult — Glenn Greenwald attracted a fair bit of attention with his post explaining that some Bush followers are "authoritarian cultists". Let's squeeze some juice on Saturday morning: … Whatever. Look, the point of these Bush-bashing diatribes is not to make sense …
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Bush Sees Need to Expand Role of NATO in Sudan — ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 17 — President Bush signaled a new American commitment on Friday to addressing the crisis in Darfur, saying he would support an expanded role by NATO to shore up a failing African peacekeeping mission there.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
When Hacks Attack — Carl Hulse of the NY Times engages in a half-hearted Hack Attack on the Times very own St. John the McCain: … As Carl Hulse knows, and any careful reader will figure out, the Times is blurring two related issues - "pork", which we will describe as "wasteful" …
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Thom Lambert / TRUTH ON THE MARKET:
ABA: You MUST follow the law. (Unless we don't like it.) — WARNING: This post is off-topic for this blog (it doesn't relate to markets). If that bothers you, don't read any further. Moroever, I do not purport to speak for my co-bloggers. Their opinions of the issue discussed below may differ from my own.
