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4:40 PM ET, April 24, 2006

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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.
Discussion: IMAO
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
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
Associated Press:
30 killed, three Israelis wounded in Dahab explosions
Discussion: Counterterrorism Blog
Steven R. Hurst / Associated Press:   Blasts Kill 18 in Egyptian Resort City
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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.
Matt Stoller / MyDD:
The Internet Freedom Fight: A Round-Up  —  Background on the Issue: The internet is open because private companies haven't been allowed to block content they don't like.  Now the telcos want to make it so they can block what you see.  —  The Threat to You is real: Telcos …
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Save The Internet  —  I urge everyone to click this link …
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.
Don Jacobs / knoxnews.com:
Parade for 'warriors'  —  Thousands downtown welcome 278th Regimental Combat Team home after deployment to Iraq  —  Up to 20,000 people turned out Saturday for a parade to welcome home the National Guard's 278th Regimental Combat Team, providing a big-city atmosphere powered by small-town values.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Opinion Journal:
Cole Fire  —  Yale is set to ditch Taliban Man and may hire a notorious anti-Israel professor.  —  Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi's luck is running out.  Eight weeks ago the Taliban diplomat turned special Yale student made a media splash on the cover of the New York Times magazine in which he proclaimed …
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 …
Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
Inspectors Find More Torture at Iraqi Jails  —  Top General's Pledge To Protect Prisoners 'Not Being Followed'  —  BAGHDAD — Last Nov. 13, U.S. soldiers found 173 incarcerated men, some of them emaciated and showing signs of torture, in a secret bunker in an Interior Ministry compound in central Baghdad.
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.
Dglover / Beltway Blogroll:
Blog Fight On Capitol Hill  —  How deep is the partisan rancor in Congress?  So deep that aides are bickering over who knows more about blogs.  —  The spat broke out in the House on Friday between spokesmen for Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Georgia Republican Jack Kingston …
 
 
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