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6:05 PM ET, March 26, 2006

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Daniel Cooney / Associated Press:
Afghan Court Drops Case Against Christian  —  KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan court on Sunday dismissed a case against a man who converted from Islam to Christianity because of a lack of evidence and he will be released soon, officials said.  —  The announcement came as U.S.-backed President …
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Michelle Malkin:
ABDUL RAHMAN TO BE RELEASED  —  ***scroll for updates...Video: Condi Rice thinks Afghanistan has "come a long way" because when the Taliban ruled, they "wantonly" executed people for playing music (as opposed to now, you know, where executions of people for abandoning Islam are contemplated …
Dean / Dean's World:
Abdul Rahman Freed?
Discussion: Unfogged
Kim Barker / Chicago Tribune:
Much riding on convert's case
Discussion: Dinocrat and Jihad Watch
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Rahman Unbound  —  ABC News reports this morning that the …
Discussion: Below The Beltway
Steven Senne / Newsweek:
Supreme Court: Detainees' Rights-Scalia Speaks His Mind  —  Scalia at the New England School of Law on March 15  —  April 3, 2006 issue - The Supreme Court this week will hear arguments in a big case: whether to allow the Bush administration to try Guantánamo detainees …
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Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Court Case Challenges Power of President
Discussion: Bench Memos … and The Mahablog
Marty Lederman / SCOTUSblog:
Justice Scalia Announces Opposition to Trials in Civil Courts …
Discussion: Bench Memos …
CNN:
CNN RELIABLE SOURCES  —  Are Media Turning Against War in Iraq?  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.  —  HOWARD KURTZ, HOST (voice over): Souring on the war.  As President Bush goes toe to toe with White House reporters, are news organizations turning against the war in Iraq?
Discussion: Crooks and Liars, Magpie and Eschaton
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Lara Logan smacked down the "negative Iraq War Coverage" charges  —  Lara Logan smacked down the "negative Iraq War Coverage" charges  —  She's outraged over these chargers...  I'll have the video up a little later.  The media was assailed all week by the administration trying to pass the meme that the press is too negative.
St. Petersburg Times:
Harris puts her faith in religion … As Katherine Harris' rocky Senate campaign takes an increasingly evangelical Christian bent, her remaining top campaign staffers are preparing to jump ship.  —  Colleagues say Harris' closest confidante lately appears to be spiritual adviser Dale Burroughs …
Discussion: Booman Tribune and AMERICAblog
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Jim Stratton / orlandosentinel.com:
Campaign says Harris won't turn to inheritance
Discussion: The Sideshow
Jim Stratton / orlandosentinel.com:   Harris disputes reports of defections
Peter Prengaman / Associated Press:
Size of L.A. March Surprises Authorities  —  LOS ANGELES - Thousands of immigration advocates marched through downtown Los Angeles in one of the largest demonstrations for any cause in recent U.S. history.  —  More than 500,000 protesters — demanding that Congress abandon attempts …
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Deborah Howell / Washington Post:
The Post and the Whole Picture in Iraq  —  When the Iraq war started, more than 700 reporters were "embedded," traveling with U.S. troops in the field.  Embedding brought a newfound respect between reporters and soldiers.  Members of the media and the military hoped that this would bring …
Discussion: Busy, Busy, Busy
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Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
The Washington Post & My Embed
Time:
The Democrats' plan for midtern elections  —  If the elections were held today, top strategists of both parties say privately, the Republicans would probably lose the 15 seats they need to keep control of the House of Representatives and could come within a seat or two of losing the Senate
Times of London:
Putin accused of plagiarising his PhD thesis  —  THE career of President Vladimir Putin of Russia was built at least in part on a lie, according to US researchers.  A new study of an economics  —  thesis written by Putin in the mid-1990s has revealed that large chunks of it were copied from an American text.
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
The Forgotten War In Central Asia Continues  —  More fighting in Talibanistan, and Helmand province, Afghanistan  —  Miranshah by air.  —  The current fighting in Pakistan and Afghanistan are not isolated events, but intricately linked to the rise of the Taliban in Pakistan's lawless tribal belts.
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Massoud Ansari / Telegraph:
'I have 600 suicide bombers waiting for your soldiers'
Discussion: In the Bullpen
James Langton / Telegraph:
Saddam planned to deploy 'camels of mass destruction'  —  Saddam Hussein planned to use "camels of mass destruction" as weapons to defend Iraq, loading them with bombs and directing them towards invading forces.  —  The animals were part of a plan to arm and equip foreign insurgents drawn …
Jeffrey Gettleman / New York Times:
30 Beheaded Bodies Found; Iraqi Death Squads Blamed  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 26 — The bodies of 30 beheaded men were found on a main highway near Baquba this evening, providing more evidence that the death squads in Iraq are becoming out of control.  —  Interior Ministry officials …
Orlando Patterson / New York Times:
A Poverty of the Mind  —  SEVERAL recent studies have garnered wide attention for reconfirming the tragic disconnection of millions of black youths from the American mainstream.  But they also highlighted another crisis: the failure of social scientists to adequately explain the problem …
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Craig S. Smith / New York Times:
Jews in France Feel Sting as Anti-Semitism Surges Among Children of Immigrants  —  SARCELLES, France — In working-class Parisian suburbs like this one, heavily populated by North African immigrants, the word "Jew" is now a standard epithet.  It appears in graffiti on middle school walls …
Discussion: Peaktalk
 
 
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Randy Lewis / Los Angeles Times:
Singer Found Gold and Inspiration in California
Discussion: Matt Welch and Magpie
Neil the Ethical Werewolf / Ezra Klein:
You Punish Doctors, You Punish Women
Frederic J. Frommer / Associated Press:
Feingold's Censure Call Gives Him Boost
Gateway Pundit:
Democracy Babes Get a Clubbing in Belarus
canada.com:
Hostages were 'dupes,' Iraq says
Betsy / Betsy's Page:
The New York Times Magazine has a story on Michael Steele's candidacy …
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 Earlier Items: 
Bill Harlan / Rapid City Journal:
Tribal leader rallies for abortion clinic on reservation
Tamar Jacoby / Washington Post:
'Guest Workers' Won't Work
Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
Moscow spies tipped Saddam on U.S. war plan
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Testing Presidential Waters as Race at Home Heats Up
Donald G. McNeil Jr / New York Times:
Dose of Tenacity Wears Down a Horrific Disease