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Purported bin Laden tape slams West for 'crusader-Zionist war' — (CNN) — Parts of an audiotape purportedly from Osama bin Laden aired Sunday on an Arabic-language TV network in which the al Qaeda leader attacks the West for cutting off funds to the Palestinian Hamas-led government and referred to a …
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Walid Phares / Counterterrorism Blog:
New Bin Laden Tape: Ten Main Points — Al Jazeera aired audiotape-fragments it said was from Bin Laden. In it, the leader of al Qaida made the following main ten points: — 1. Hamas: Despite the fact that we (including Ayman Zawahiri) warned (Muslim Palestinians) not to take part …
TigerHawk / tigerhawk.blogspot.com:
Bin Laden changes the subject — Osama Bin Laden has opened his pie hole again via Al Jazz. Walid Phares of the newly re-launched Counterterrorism Blog has summarized bin Laden's key points, at least as revealed in the fragments broadcast on al Jazeera, to wit:
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Austin Bay Blog:
Why is Osama declaring war on the world? — Salah Nasrawi reports for the Associated Press that bin Laden is urging jihadis to head for Sudan. Why? To prepare to wage holy war against...get ready... The United Nations. — The AP's lede: … The AP report says the tape was broadcast …
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Treason by association — Almost every Bush follower screeching about the Mary McCarthy story thinks it is extremely significant that (a) she donated money to John Kerry's campaign; (b) Dana Priest's husband knows Joe Wilson, as does McCarthy herself; and (c) McCarthy has professional ties to Sandy Berger.
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
McCarthy's Contributions - Still An Impenetrable Mystery At The Times
McCarthy's Contributions - Still An Impenetrable Mystery At The Times
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Michael Tanji / GroupIntel:
McCarthyism — Welcome Captain's Quarters readers:
McCarthyism — Welcome Captain's Quarters readers:
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Times of London:
Iran's president recruits terror master — Sarah Baxter, Washington and Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv — Plot for revenge attacks on West — IRAN'S president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, attended a meeting in Syria earlier this year with one of the world's most wanted terrorists …
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Mike Allen / Time:
Can Josh Bolten Rescue the Bush Presidency? — He started by shaking up the staff. Next comes a five-point White House "recovery plan" — At the George W. Bush campaign headquarters in Austin, Texas, in 1999, policy director Josh Bolten was a low-key Washingtonian in a building full of brash Texans.
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Cathy Siepp / Los Angeles Times:
Battling cancer — and Blue Cross — Unlike THE TYPICAL Blue Cross "valued member," as the annual letter on rate and benefit changes always calls us, I wasn't upset to learn that my monthly premium would increase by $50, to $395 a month, for me and my daughter. — That's because I'm not really a Blue Cross valued member.
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
BATTLING THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY....Cathy Seipp, who contracted …
BATTLING THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY....Cathy Seipp, who contracted …
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Daniel / Venezuela News And ViewsVenezuela News …:
A commemoration for the 70 000 that died under Chavez — Acuestate por la Vida, — commemorating the 70 000 deaths by violence in Venezuela in the last 6 years. — Since Hugo Chavez has become president in 1998, the toll of violent death from crime has been multiplied by three.
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A.M. Mora y Leon / Publius Pundit:
TENS OF THOUSANDS PROTEST 70k MURDERS IN VENEZUELA
TENS OF THOUSANDS PROTEST 70k MURDERS IN VENEZUELA
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Lawrence Wilkerson / Baltimore Sun:
Is U.S. being transformed into a radical republic? — We Americans came not from a revolution but from an evolution. — That is in large part why our so-called revolution produced success while most throughout history did not. We came as much from the Magna Carta as from our own doings …
Los Angeles Times:
Bush's third term — IF PRESIDENT BUSH HOPES the "shake-up" of his administration initiated last week will re-energize his listless presidency, he's bound to be disappointed. A far more audacious makeover is needed — one that sends Vice President Dick Cheney into early retirement.
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Brian Bennett / Time:
The Missing Girls of Iraq — Sex trafficking, virtually nonexistent under Saddam Hussein, has resurfaced in Iraq. TIME reports on a seldom-discussed epidemic: girls being kidnapped and sold to brothels — The man on the phone with the 14-year-old Iraqi girl called himself Sa'ad.
Con Coughlin / Telegraph:
'We would have been close even if 9/11 hadn't happened' — Tony Blair had just finished a video conference with George W. Bush when I arrived to meet him at Downing Street. Their conversation, inevitably, had been mainly about Iraq. "Every week, we have a video conference to catch up on things," he explained.
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Shakespeare's Sister / Ezra Klein:
The Three-Ring Circus Floats Some Trial Balloons — Shakes here... Some Republicans are urging Bush to dump Cheney and replace him with Condi "if he is serious about presenting a new face to the jaded American public." — Well, that's certainly a big if, but okay, I'll play along.
Eliot A. Cohen / Opinion Journal:
Honor in Discretion — Conduct unbecoming from retired generals. — One could say much to defend Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld against the recent attacks of half a dozen retired generals—that the indictments are either old ("not enough troops," a trope from April 2003) or vague …