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5:40 PM ET, March 27, 2006

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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.
Discussion: Outside The Beltway and Althouse
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.
Discussion: NewsHog
Phil Hirschkorn / CNN:
Moussaoui: White House was my 9/11 target
Discussion: In the Bullpen
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 …
Discussion: Bring it On!
Alister Bull / Reuters:
U.S. high court judge said to slam detainee rights
Discussion: ABC News
Steve Clemons / The Washington Note:
Secret Military Tribunals: US Teaches World Loopholes in Democracy
Discussion: the morningside post
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Telling Us What We Already Knew  —  The New York Times reports on leaked notes from a US-UK White House summit in January 2003 that shows both George Bush and Tony Blair determined to remove Saddam Hussein and to put an end to the twelve-year quagmire that kept Saddam in power.
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Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:
What Bush and Blair Told the Press After Key 2003 Meeting on Iraq
Michelle Malkin:
WELCOME TO RECONQUISTA  —  ***scroll for updates...Bush warns against stoking anti-immigrant feelings.  Wants a "civil debate."  Video here...Ok.  Tell that to the divisive militants below...***  —  As Mickey Kaus points out, the reporters at the Los Angeles Times (and all other major media …
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Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Citizen Action Steps: Phase One
Discussion: The Left Coaster
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.
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Dafydd / Big Lizards:
AP's Mainscream Media Bias  —  Although this AP story is ostensibly about Iraq, we didn't bother using the "Iraq Matters" category tag because — well, because the real story here is the creative use of the media megaphone to create the news, rather than merely report it (that's so dull!)
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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.
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.
tcsdaily.com:
The Battle of the Borders  —  What we have now — and would with guest workers — is a conscious policy of creating poverty in the United States while relieving it in Mexico.  By and large, this is a bad bargain for the United States.  It stresses local schools, hospitals and housing; it feeds social tensions (witness the Minutemen).
Karl Vick / Washington Post:
In Iran, Even Some On Right Warning Against Extremes  —  TEHRAN — Nine months after the election of hard-liner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president, Iranian politics has shifted so sharply to the right that some traditional conservatives are warning of the dangers of radicalism.
John Fund / Opinion Journal:
Mr. Levin, Meet Ms. Rohbar  —  If Yale's president wants to educate a deserving Afghan, I've got just the woman for him.  —  NEW HAVEN, Conn.—The BBC calls Malalai Joya the most famous woman in Afghanistan.  On Thursday the 27-year-old women's rights activist, a member of the Afghan Parliament …
Charles Krauthammer / Time:
Today Tehran, Tomorrow the World  —  What's at stake in the dispute over Iranian nukes?  Ultimately, human survival  —  Like many physicists who worked on the Manhattan Project, Richard Feynman could not get the Bomb out of his mind after the war.  "I would see people building a bridge," he wrote.
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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