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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.
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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.
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 …
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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David Espo / Associated Press:
Senate Panel Approves Immigration Bill
Senate Panel Approves Immigration Bill
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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 …
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.
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Adam B / Daily Kos:
FEC: The Netroots Win — The netroots have won. — Not an election, mind you - though those victories will come - but an official governmental recognition that what you all do is a valuable part of the democratic experiment, and one which should not be thwarted by the incursion of the federal government.
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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Amir Shah / Associated Press:
Christian Convert Released From Prison — KABUL, Afghanistan - An Afghan man who had faced the death penalty for converting from Islam to Christianity has been released from prison after the case was dropped, the justice minister said Tuesday. — The announcement came after the United Nations …
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Patrick Goodenough / CNSNews:
Convert Case Sparks Surge of Interest in Christianity Among Afghans
Convert Case Sparks Surge of Interest in Christianity Among Afghans
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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.
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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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Time:
The Republicans Must Get Their Act Together — Q & A: Newt Gingrich speaks out on the challenges the GOP faces in retaining control of Congress — Is there a potential for the 2006 elections to produce the same kind of upheaval on behalf of Democrats that the 1994 midterms did for Republicans?
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Ian Bishop / New York Post:
HILLARY'S 'TROOP' BUILDUP — March 27, 2006 — PREZ-ENT ARMS! — WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton won't say if she's running for the White House - but she's already drafted a presidential-size army of campaign staffers that dwarfs John McCain's outfit and those of everyone else in the field.
CNN:
Government investigators smuggled radioactive materials into U.S. — WASHINGTON (CNN) — Two teams of government investigators using fake documents were able to enter the United States with enough radioactive sources to make two dirty bombs, according to a federal report made available Monday.
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