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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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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.
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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Associated Press:
Bin Laden Tape: U.S. Is at War With Islam
Bin Laden Tape: U.S. Is at War With Islam
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Arthur Schlesinger Jr / Washington Post:
Bush's Thousand Days — The Hundred Days is indelibly associated with Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Thousand Days with John F. Kennedy. But as of this week, a thousand days remain of President Bush's last term — days filled with ominous preparations for and dark rumors of a preventive war against Iran.
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Justin Rood / TPM Muckraker:
WMD Report Doesn't Match CIA Official's Memory — I'm still rubbing my eyes over this. — Former senior CIA official Tyler Drumheller appeared on CBS News' "60 Minutes" last night to talk about what he knew of the Niger uranium fiasco. As Drumheller tells it, nobody at the CIA believed Iraq …
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Thomas Wagner / Associated Press:
7 Car Bombs Explode in Baghdad, Killing 6 — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Seven car bombs exploded across the capital Monday, killing at least six people and wounding dozens, as politicians met to try to finalize a new Cabinet. Police discovered the bodies of 20 Iraqis — apparent victims of sectarian killings …
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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.
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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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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.
Mike Allen / Time:
Can The New Sheriff Tame The West Wing? — Josh Bolten 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.
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 …
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.
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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.
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.
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Let's Get This Right, Please — Walter Pincus of the WaPo tries to report on the Mary McCarthy firing and manages to bungle a related story: … No, she wasn't referring to the Valerie Plame leak, or if she was, the WaPo should have noted her error rather than reinforcing it …
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.
Los Angeles Times:
Concerns About Pain Put Lethal Injection on Trial — A flurry of litigation challenging the constitutionality of lethal injection has placed a spotlight on growing evidence that condemned inmates may not be properly anesthetized and therefore experience excruciating pain during executions.
Roger Sideman / santacruzsentinel.com:
Cyber war over UCSC protest heats up — In the easy and anonymous world of cyberspace communication, angry partisans on both sides of the anti-war movement can volley threatening barbs at the click of a button. UC Santa Cruz students and conservative pundits alike have seen such messages filing …
Heidi Przybyla / Bloomberg:
Senate Vote Inquiry Widens as Democrats Probe White House Link — April 24 (Bloomberg) — To Republicans, the New Hampshire phone-jamming incident is an isolated case of political dirty tricks that took place more than three years ago. — To Democrats, it's a scandal with echoes of Watergate …
Jake Tapper / ABCNEWS:
Gearing Up for '08? McCain Befriends Old Enemies — He's Receiving Money From People Who Attacked Him in 2000 — April 23, 2006— Once they were "coyotes." Now, they're pals. — Some of the very same men who helped derail Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign in 2000 using techniques …
Melinda Barton / rawstory.com:
The left's own religious whackjobs — [Editor's note: If you've arrived here, it wasn't through the RAW STORY main site, but rather one of several blogs that have latched onto this piece as an example of "religious intolerance." I would ask readers directed by these blogs to take careful note …