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Njadvara Musa / Associated Press:
Cartoon Protests Leave 15 Dead in Nigeria — MAIDUGURI, Nigeria - Nigerian Muslims protesting caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad attacked Christians and burned churches on Saturday, killing at least 15 people in the deadliest confrontation yet in the whirlwind of Muslim anger over the drawings.
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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.
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
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Washington Post:
Bush Calls For More Muscle In Darfur — ORLANDO, Fla., Feb. 17 — President Bush on Friday called for doubling the number of international troops in the war-ravaged Darfur region of Sudan and a bigger role for NATO in the peacekeeping effort. — Bush has concluded that peace talks …
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Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
This Week in Cheney — Live By the Polls, Die By the Polls — Now that we've had a bit of a lull in the Cheney cycle (not that I believe for a minute that it is anything more than a lull — this story is not over) it is perhaps appropriate to take stock of what exactly happened this week.
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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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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.
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.) …
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.
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.
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.
David Bernstein / volokh.com:
The Volokh Conspiracy — About UsSubscribeFeaturesStuffBlogrollArchive sSearch — LOTS OF GOOD STUFF over at PrawfsBlawg recently. — MORE ON THE ABA'S ILLEGAL RACIAL PREFERENCE REQUIREMENT: Below is the text of the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar\s new …
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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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.
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 .
washingtonian.com:
Lobbyist Abramoff Describes Pictures of a "Bearded, Fatter Me" With President Bush — [Editor's note: A version of this story was posted briefly on Monday of this week. Within an hour, Jack Abramoff contacted the author, Washingtonian national editor Kim Eisler, and asked that the report …
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.
