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3:00 PM ET, March 18, 2006

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Editors' Note  —  A front-page article last Saturday profiled Ali Shalal Qaissi, identifying him as the hooded man forced to stand on a box, attached to wires, in a photograph from the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal of 2003 and 2004.  He was shown holding such a photograph.
Stephen F. Hayes / Weekly Standard:
Saddam's Philippines Terror Connection  —  SADDAM HUSSEIN'S REGIME PROVIDED FINANCIAL support to Abu Sayyaf, the al Qaeda-linked jihadist group founded by Osama bin Laden's brother-in-law in the Philippines in the late 1990s, according to documents captured in postwar Iraq.
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Hiawatha Bray / Boston Globe:
US puts Iraqi documents on the Web  —  Goal is to speed up translation of files  —  Joseph Shahda of Randolph earns his living as an engineer.  But in his spare time, he's an intelligence agent, working to ferret out the truth about the regime of deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
Discussion: Rantingprofs
New York Times:
Before and After Abu Ghraib, a U.S. Unit Abused Detainees  —  As the Iraqi insurgency intensified in early 2004, an elite Special Operations forces unit converted one of Saddam Hussein's former military bases near Baghdad into a top-secret detention center.  There, American soldiers …
Los Angeles Times:
U.S., Iraqi Troops Extend Assault Against Insurgents  —  BAGHDAD — An Iraqi-U.S. operation targeting insurgents in the vast hardpan desert northeast of Samarra has led to the capture of a possible ringleader of the bombing of the Gold Mosque, Iraqi officials said today.
Discussion: Needlenose and OpiniPundit
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Looser Emission Rules Rejected  —  Court Says Changes By EPA Violated Clean Air Act  —  A federal appeals court blocked the Bush administration's four-year effort to loosen emission rules for aging coal-fired power plants, unanimously ruling yesterday that the changes violated the Clean Air Act …
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Michael Janofsky / New York Times:
Judges Overturn Bush Bid to Ease Pollution Rules
Discussion: Charging RINO
Chris Hondros / Newsweek:
Losing Ground  —  A NEWSWEEK poll shows President Bush's approval rating dropping to new lows on domestic issues and rising public anger over Iraq and homeland security.  —  U.S. troops evacuate a wounded soldier from Balad to Kuwait on March 17.  A NEWSWEEK poll shows that only 29 percent …
Discussion: MyDD and Dohiyi Mir
Neil the Ethical Werewolf / Ezra Klein:
Everybody Screwed Up.  Including Russ Feingold.  —  Lots of people are upset about the Democrats' initial performance on the resolution to censure Bush for his illegal wiretapping, and they're right to be.  From what I know of FISA, wiretapping without following the laughably easy conditions …
Christopher Lee / Washington Post:
Advance Workers for Bush Impersonated Reporters  —  The White House said yesterday that it will discipline two government employees who masqueraded as journalists this month while scouting locations for a presidential visit to the Gulf Coast.  —  A Mississippi couple whose home was destroyed …
Pete Yost / Associated Press:
Libby Defense May Highlight Infighting  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Vice President Dick Cheney's former top aide are signaling they may delve deeply at his criminal trial into infighting among the White House, the CIA and the State Department over pre-Iraq war intelligence failures.
Discussion: firedoglake
Jonathan S. Landay / Washington:
Pentagon hired contractor to advise on collecting information on churches, mosques, other U.S. sites - 3/17/2006 07:38 PM EST  —  WASHINGTON - A Pentagon intelligence agency that kept files on American anti-war activists hired one of the contractors who bribed former Rep. Randy "Duke" …
Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
House GOP Leader Well Traveled  —  House Majority Leader John A. Boehner (Ohio), who rose to power in the wake of a congressional lobbying scandal, spent the equivalent of nearly six months on privately funded trips over the past six years, according to a new study by a nonpartisan research group.
Joel Achenbach / Washington Post:
Mad Science  —  No question is too crazy to snare a prize  —  We're entering the science fair season, when schools teach children about science by making their parents conduct experiments.  Across America, grown men and women will be watching crystals grow, grapes shrivel …
Irshad Manji / New York Times:
How I Learned to Love the Wall  —  ON March 28, Israelis will elect a new prime minister to replace the ailing Ariel Sharon.  But I'd bet my last shekel that I'll continue to hear the phrase "Ariel Sharon's apartheid wall."  It's a phrase spoken — make that spewed — on almost every university campus …
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Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
Lesson Learned  —  Dear HuffPost Readers, Commenters and Bloggers :  —  I've read all your insightful feedback over the last few days and realized something I did not see right away but should have.  —  At the beginning of the week, I was so focused on making it crystal clear that we did indeed …
stamfordadvocate.com:
U.S. Senate primary could be a plus  —  Ned Lamont, take a bow.  By challenging Joseph Lieberman for the Connecticut Democratic Party's nomination for U.S. senator, Mr. Lamont is encouraging a debate that his party and this state need to have.  —  This is not to suggest that Mr. Lamont …
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Jane Hamsher / firedoglake:
Lieberman Distorts His Record
Discussion: Middle Earth Journal
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Senate passes funeral-protest bill 58-1  —  Only Sen. Becky Lourey, mother of a fallen soldier, dissented.  The bill may go to a conference committee.  —  With a lone dissenting vote from Sen. Becky Lourey, the Senate approved restrictions Thursday on funeral protests such as one that marred …
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Agence France Presse:
'Crash' director to lead Hollywood anti-Iraq war protest
Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Rep. Sabo to end his long career in Congress
Ron Fournier / Associated Press:
McCain Taps Former Bush Political Director
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National Review:
A Walkout from Reality  —  You'd need a heart of stone not to root …
Michelle Malkin:
BANNED IN PAKISTAN  —  The latest on the Cartoon Jihad comes …
Julia Keller / Chicago Tribune:
Why we hate Duke  —  As NCAA tourney gets going, exploring why we are so blue-deviled
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Candidate proposes chopping block for 'porn-pimps'
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Harvard, Chicago, and the 'Lobby'
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Kempthorne Picked for Interior