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Jack Khoury / Haaretz:
Police: Many casualties in Egyptian resort blasts — Three explosions rocked the Sinai resort city of Dahab on Monday night leaving at least 100 dead and wounded, according to the doctor who runs Egypt's rescue squad in the peninsula. — Dr. Said Essa said he was headed to the scene of the blasts …
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CNN:
90 casualties reported in Egypt resort blasts — Red Sea town packed with vacationers — (CNN) — More than 90 people are reported killed or injured in at least three explosions Monday in the Red Sea resort town of Dahab, an Egyptian Interior Ministry official told CNN.
Associated Press:
Three Explosions Rock Sinai Resort Town — CAIRO, Egypt — Three explosions Monday night rocked the Egyptian resort city of Dahab at the height of the tourist season, killing at least 18 people and wounding more than 150 at just one hotel, according to the doctor who runs Egypt's Sinai Peninsula rescue squad.
Vital Perspective:
Egyptian Sinai Resort Town Rocked by Three Explosions, Details Emerging
Egyptian Sinai Resort Town Rocked by Three Explosions, Details Emerging
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Atlas Shrugs
Steven R. Hurst / Associated Press:
Blasts Kill 18 in Egyptian Resort City
Blasts Kill 18 in Egyptian Resort City
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Freedom for Egyptians …
Newsweek:
Secrets of the CIA — A former colleague says the fired Mary McCarthy 'categorically denies' being the source of the leak on agency renditions. — April 24, 2006 - A former CIA officer who was sacked last week after allegedly confessing to leaking secrets has denied she was the source …
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Balloon Juice, The Strata-Sphere, Crooks and Liars, The Left Coaster, TPM Muckraker and TalkLeft
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Aljazeera:
Transcript: Bin Laden accuses West — The following is an edited translation of an audiotape attributed to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, parts of which were aired by Aljazeera on April 23, 2006. (It is not known where or when the recording was made.) — Praise be to Allah …
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Walid Phares / Counterterrorism Blog:
BIN LADEN'S "STATE OF JIHAD" SPEECH — One more time Al Jazeera pomotes an Usama Bin Laden speech. After airing portions of the Bin Laden audiotape al Jazeera posted large fragments of the "speech" on its web site. This was the longest version possible we were able to have access to.
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Jihad Watch, Secular Blasphemy, Abu Aardvark, Hot Air, Thomas Joscelyn and PrairiePundit
Andy McCarthy / The Corner on National Review Online:
MCCARTHY'S POLITICAL DONATIONS — I substantially agree with Jonah's point that the extraordinary amount of money at issue here is relevant but not dispositive when it comes to divining Mary McCarthy's motives. But I do think it's highly relevant - not just another fact in a firmament of facts.
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Let's Get This Right, Please
Let's Get This Right, Please
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The Strata-Sphere, News Blog, Firedoglake, Media Blog on National …, Hugh Hewitt, Wizbang, The Political Pit Bull and A Blog For All
CNN:
Bush's approval ratings slide to new low — Poll: Only one-third say he's handling his job well — WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush's approval ratings have sunk to a personal low, with only a third of Americans saying they approve of the way he is handling his job, a national poll released Monday said.
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
Warily, Iraqis Investing Hope in New Leaders — BAGHDAD, Iraq, April 23 — On the cusp of their first permanent government since the American-led invasion, Iraqis are not exactly celebrating. Rather, they seem to be gritting their teeth and clinging grimly to the battered hope for democracy …
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Disgrace — Thanks to reader Samela for pointing out this incredible series in the Chicago Tribune outlining contractor abuses in Iraq. It's rather surprising that no other papers or any of the networks have bothered to report the story (at least that I'm aware of) but I can understand it.
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Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
Inspectors Find More Torture at Iraqi Jails
Inspectors Find More Torture at Iraqi Jails
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ACSBlog, No More Mister Nice Blog, TalkLeft, Democratic Veteran, Think Progress, Air America Radio, Needlenose and Daily Pundit
Michelle Malkin:
INTRODUCING HOT AIR — I'm excited to introduce you today to Hot Air—a conservative Internet broadcast network I founded with a team of multi-talented bloggers. (Press release here.) — Internet video is booming. Apple's iTunes store has sold a gazillion videos since its debut.
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RightWinged.com, The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta, Power Line, Hot Air, Outside The Beltway, PunditGuy and IMAO
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
A Religious Push Against Gay Unions — WASHINGTON, April 23 — About 50 prominent religious leaders, including seven Roman Catholic cardinals and about a half-dozen archbishops, have signed a petition in support of a constitutional amendment blocking same-sex marriage.
Michael J. Totten:
An Experiment in Journalism — I went to the Middle East for six months so I could expand my freelance writing portfolio. But I found, after a few months, there may be a better way forward than publishing disconnected dispatches here and there for low pay. — The mainstream media is an industry in decline.
Natan Sharansky / Opinion Journal:
Dissident President — George W. Bush has the courage to speak out for freedom. — There are two distinct marks of a dissident. First, dissidents are fired by ideas and stay true to them no matter the consequences. Second, they generally believe that betraying those ideas would constitute the greatest of moral failures.
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Blogs for Bush, Middle Earth Journal, The Carpetbagger Report, PrairiePundit and Solomonia
Currents:
Paperless news is doing just fine — Newspapers are dying. This isn't an ideological statement or a heartfelt wish, just a simple observation. Horse-drawn carriages yielded to cars, and steamships and ocean liners yielded to airplanes. Consumers prefer efficiency, and the market cannot be denied.
Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times:
Yelling 'Fire' on a Hot Planet — GLOBAL warming has the feel of breaking news these days. — Polar bears are drowning; an American city is underwater; ice sheets are crumbling. Time magazine proclaimed that readers should be worried. Very worried. There are new hot-selling books …
Jay Cost / Real Clear Politics:
2006: What About the Senate? — The recent election talk from our pundit class has been about the chances of a Democratic takeover of the House. Many expect this. I am open to this possibility; however, as I have written in the past, I think the data favors a Republican retention.