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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 …
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 …
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.
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
Beneath the Surface on Plame Investigation: Rove and Libby in Deadly Dog Fight
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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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Maha / The Mahablog:
More Than a Feeling — When The Guardian reported last February about another Downing Street memo in which President Bush suggested luring Saddam Hussein into war by "flying U2 reconnaissance aircraft planes with fighter cover over Iraq, painted in UN colours," there was much scoffing and hoo-hawing from the Right.
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Patrick Goodenough / CNSNews:
Convert Case Sparks Surge of Interest in Christianity Among Afghans — (CNSNews.com) - An Afghan Christian leader in the U.S. has welcomed reports that criminal charges may be dropped against an Afghan convert who was threatened with execution for refusing to return to Islam.
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Val Prieto / Babalu Blog:
Let me be buried on this spot! (Updated continuously) — UPDATE: Welcome all new readers! This BlogBurst effort was the brainchild of Fausta Wertz and is meant solely for the highlighting of the hunger strike for net access by Guillermo Fariñas Hernandez in fidel castro's Cuba.
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.
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 …
New York Times:
Shiite Officials Express Anger Over U.S. Clash With Militia — BAGHDAD, Iraq, March 27 — Shiite officials reacted angrily today to a clash that pitted American and Iraqi government forces against Shiite militiamen in Baghdad on Sunday night. — Iraqi security officials Sunday night …
Editor and Publisher:
Iraq Reporters Hit Back at Claims They Are Biased on War — NEW YORK After the latest round of blaming the media for distorted coverage in Iraq, which emerged this week from top Bush administraton officials, war reporters and editors strongly defended their coverage this weekend in a variety of venues …
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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.
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 …
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.