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Associated Press:
On Stand, Moussaoui Says He Knew of Plan to Attack W.T.C. — ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — Al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui testified Monday that he and would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid were supposed to hijack a fifth airplane on Sept. 11, 2001, and fly it into the White House.
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Washington Post:
Moussaoui Testifies Over Attorneys' Objections — Zacarias Moussaoui testified in an Alexandria courtroom this morning that he was tapped by Osama bin Laden to hijack a plane and fly it into the White House as part of the terrorist attacks that claimed nearly 3,000 lives on Sept. 11, 2001.
David Stout / New York Times:
Moussaoui Says He Was Part of Plot to Attack White House — ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 27 — Zacarias Moussaoui testified in Federal District Court here today that he knew of Al Qaeda's plans to fly jetliners into the World Trade Center and that he was to have piloted an airliner into the White House on Sept. 11, 2001.
Phil Hirschkorn / CNN:
Moussaoui: White House was my 9/11 target — Al Qaeda conspirator takes stand against his lawyers' wishes — ALEXANDRIA, Virginia (CNN) — Al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui told a stunned courtroom Monday that he and would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid were supposed to hijack a fifth plane …
NewsMax.com:
Alec Baldwin v. Sean Hannity in Radio Donnybrook — Hollywood liberal Alec Baldwin stormed out of an in-studio radio interview Sunday night after he was confronted on the phone by radio hosts Sean Hannity and Mark Levin. — Baldwin was 30 minutes into a planned two-hour-plus sitdown …
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Ian / Expose the Left:
Hannity and Levin Duke It Out With Alec Baldwin On Radio, Baldwin Runs Away (AUDIO) — Alec Baldwin sat down with WABC's Brian Whitman for what he planned to be a several hour interview. However, it was cut short when WABC's Sean Hannity and Mark Levin phoned in at around the 25-minute point to talk to Baldwin.
Larisa Alexandrovna / rawstory.com:
Rove said cooperating in CIA leak inquiry — Karl Rove, Deputy White House Chief of Staff and special adviser to President George W. Bush, has recently been providing information to special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in the ongoing CIA leak investigation, sources close to the investigation say.
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Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Beneath the Surface on Plame Investigation: Rove and Libby in Deadly Dog Fight — This just hit the internet at Raw Story, and TWN has confirmed the essential points through a source close to Rove: … Rove giving Patrick Fitzgerald a path into 250 pages of deleted and/or previously …
White House:
President Attends Naturalization Ceremony — Washington, D.C. — Fact Sheet: Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Securing Our Border, Enforcing Our Laws, and Upholding Our Values — In Focus: Immigration — THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Thank you very much. It's good to be with you.
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John / AMERICAblog:
Scalia just gave the finger in church yesterday (not kidding) — UPDATE: The Boston Herald is reporting Scalia's movement as "an obscene gesture" and a "flick of the wrist." That still is unclear, it could have been the wrist-under-chin gesture mixed with the middle finger. Either way, it's not really relevant.
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UPI:
Justice Scalia flips the finger in church … NEWSTRACK: A member of a Sicilian Mafia clan in Messina, Italy, shot his sister in an alleged honor killing attempt because she had a child by her lover. Early results Monday in Ukraine's parliamentary election show President Viktor Yushchenko's party …
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Boston Herald, Betsy's Page, The Washington Note, TwoGlasses, No More Mister Nice Blog and Bring it On!
Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
What Bush and Blair Told the Press After Key 2003 Meeting on Iraq — NEW YORK A front-page New York Times article this morning about a meeting between President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Jan 31, 2003, is receiving substantial international attention.
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Rogg / The Fourth Rail:
Powerplay — Jaafari's allies denounce the Hayy Ur raid while MNF-I disputes the allegations of an unjustified assault — Weapons discovered by the 2nd Battalion, 1st Iraqi Special Operations Forces Brigade during an operation in northeast Baghdad March 26 to capture or detain suspected insurgents included …
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David Pace / Associated Press:
FEC Won't Regulate Internet Politics — The Federal Election Commission decided Monday that the nation's new campaign finance law will not apply to most political activity on the Internet. — In a 6-0 vote, the commission decided to regulate only paid political ads placed on another person's Web site.
BBC:
Blogger up for non-fiction award — An anonymous blog by a young woman in war-torn Iraq has been longlisted for BBC Four's Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. — Baghdad Burning, a first-hand account written under the pseudonym Riverbend, is one of 19 books in contention.
Daveed Gartenstein-Ross / Weekly Standard:
Free to Dissent — WHEN IT HEARS ARGUMENTS IN Hamdan v. Rumsfeld this Tuesday, the Supreme Court will consider whether the Bush administration can try Guantanamo detainees in special military tribunals, or whether the detainees' cases have to be heard in federal court.
Associated Press:
Immigration protests continue in California — Crowds also gather in Detroit, Washington — LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Tens of thousands of students walked out of school in California and other states Monday, waving flags and chanting slogans in a second week of protests against legislation to crack down on illegal immigrants.