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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
THE AP CLARIFIES WHAT THE AP MUDDIED — Lord help those who rely for their news on the mainstream media and their inferior imitators around the country. A mere two days after its outrageously misleading reporting on the warnings given to President Bush before Hurricane Katrina hit, the AP has issued this:
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Drudge Report:
AP FRIDAY NIGHT CLARIFICATION ON BUSH/KATRINA VIDEO — WASHINGTON (AP) _ In a March 1 story, The Associated Press reported that federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees in New Orleans …
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
AP Issues Clarification Concerning Bush-Katrina Video Story
AP Issues Clarification Concerning Bush-Katrina Video Story
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Raleigh News & Observer:
FBI agent: UNC suspect allegedly cited 'American treatment of Muslims' — Carrboro police evacuate suspect's apartment complex — CHAPEL HILL — Police evacuated the apartment complex of a 23-year-old man who injured six people when he drove a Jeep Laredo across the main student hub …
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wral.com:
Authorities Search For Answers In UNC Hit-And-Run — Six Hurt As SUV Plows Into Student-Filled 'Pit' — CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Authorities say 23-year-old Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar drove a silver Jeep Grand Cherokee into The Pit at the UNC-Chapel Hill campus around noon Friday, injuring five students and a visiting scholar.
Michelle Malkin:
A JIHADIST IN NORTH CAROLINA — Mohammed Reza Taheriazar, lone jihadist — New details from ABC 11 in Raleigh, N.C., about the Muslim man who plowed into students on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus today: … Taheriazar is a native of Iran and a December 2005 UNC graduate, according to the Raleigh News and Observer.
Confederate Yankee:
Carolina Crusher — Is someone is taking tomorrow night's Duke-Carolina basketball game just a bit too seriously? … All kidding about the intense Duke-Carolina rivalry aside, I have it on expert authority that the SUV was a rental vehicle picked up last night from a central North Carolina rental car company.
Crooks and Liars:
O'Reilly-FOX Security threatening callers — O'Reilly-FOX Security threatening callers — (O'Reilly threatened radio show caller with "a little visit" from "Fox security" for mentioning Olbermann's name on the air) — I posted this yesterday and Media Matters picked it up.
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John Gizzi / Human Events:
Chertoff Has 'Few Days Left,' Sources Say — In the aftermath of the public revelation of the presidential "teleconference" and mounting criticism of the performance of Michael Chertoff, Administration sources told HUMAN EVENTS today that the secretary of Homeland Security has "only a few days left" in the Bush Cabinet.
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Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Brownie Redux — Michael Browne's willingness to be honest …
Brownie Redux — Michael Browne's willingness to be honest …
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Andy McSmith / Independent:
Blair: 'God will be my judge on Iraq' — Tony Blair has proclaimed that God will judge whether he was right to send British troops to Iraq, echoing statements from his ally George Bush. — Contradicting warnings from advisers not to mix politics and religion, the Prime Minister …
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Bill Frist threatens to re-structure the Intelligence Committee in order to block NSA hearings — (updated below) — The Senate Intelligence Committee was created in 1976 and, from the beginning, it has been unique in its structure and operation. Due to the urgency of ensuring …
BBC:
Pakistan blocks blogs on cartoons — Pakistan telecom authorities have blocked several websites inviting people to draw cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, it has emerged. — Instructions were issued to internet service providers across Pakistan on 27 February to block about a dozen websites of various origins.
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New York Times:
U.S. Reveals Identities of Detainees — GUANTÁNAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba, March 3 (AP) — After four years of secrecy, the Pentagon released documents on Friday that have the names of detainees at the American military prison at Guantánamo Bay.
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Searching for the Sheikh of Slaughters — Coalition forces are investigating claims Zarqawi may have been detained in the raid in the Jazerra region — The death or capture of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, al-Qaeda's commander in Iraq who is affectionately called the "Sheikh of Slaughters" …
MSNBC:
Bush, Musharraf begin meeting in Pakistan — Leader of small opposition party detained ahead of planned protest — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - President George W. Bush and his Pakistani counterpart were set to discuss this Muslim nation's role in the U.S.-led war on terror Saturday, during a high-profile, high-security visit.