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Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
They Should Have Killed Him — The death penalty has a meaning, and it isn't vengeance. … Excuse me, I'm sorry, and I beg your pardon, but the jury's decision on Moussaoui gives me a very bad feeling. What we witnessed here was not the higher compassion but a dizzy failure of nerve.
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Matthew Barakat / Associated Press:
Moussaoui Offers Final Diatribe in Court — ALEXANDRIA, Va. - U.S. Judge Leonie Brinkema sent Zacarias Moussaoui to prison for life Thursday, to "die with a whimper," for his role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. He declared: "God save Osama bin Laden — you will never get him."
Michael J. Sniffen / Associated Press:
Moussaoui Gets Life for Role in Sept. 11 — al-Qaida Conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui Gets Life in Prison for Role in Sept. 11 Attacks — ALEXANDRIA, Va. May 3, 2006 (AP)— A federal jury rejected the death penalty for al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui on Wednesday and decided …
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
No Trials for Key Players — Government prefers to interrogate bigger fish in terrorism cases rather than charge them. — WASHINGTON — Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person prosecuted in connection with the worst terrorist attack in American history, did not get the death penalty …
Marc Santora / New York Times:
9/11 Verdict Draws Mixed Reactions — For the families of those killed on Sept. 11, there are many things they agree on when it comes to Zacarias Moussaoui. — That he is an unrepentant horror of a person is not much in question. They are quick to call his behavior during his trial and sentencing hearing abominable and painful.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:France Wants Moussaoui Back
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Associated Press:
U.S. Military Releases Video Showing Zarqawi Unable to Work Gun — BAGHDAD, Iraq — The U.S. military command Thursday released previously unseen images of a video purportedly posted by Al Qaeda in Iraq's leader, showing him decked out in American tennis shoes and unable to operate his machine gun.
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General: Zarqawi 'Bloopers' Tape Found — U.S. Discovers Outtakes of Latest Terror Leader Video — May 4, 2006 — Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted man in Iraq, doesn't exactly look like a terrorist mastermind in a new videotape released by the U.S. military today.
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
So Not Funny — First, let me state my credentials: I am a funny guy. This is well known in certain circles, which is why, even back in elementary school, I was sometimes asked by the teacher to "say something funny" — as if the deed could be done on demand.
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Lou Chibbaro Jr / sovo.com:
Dean fires Dems' gay outreach chief — Shakeup follows criticism by partner; Bond named replacement — Democratic Party Chair Howard Dean on May 2 fired the party's gay outreach advisor Donald Hitchcock less than a week after Hitchcock's domestic partner, Paul Yandura, a longtime party activist …
Fred Kaplan / Slate:
Decoding the McCaffrey Memo — If this is the cost of victory in Iraq, is America willing to pay it? — Good news and bad news on the war in Iraq: The good news is that victory is possible, our troops are the best ever, the Iraqi army is getting bigger and better, and most Iraqi people want a pluralistic government.
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Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
Growing Unease for Some Blacks on Immigration — WASHINGTON, May 3 — In their demonstrations across the country, some Hispanic immigrants have compared the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle to their own, singing "We Shall Overcome" and declaring a new civil rights movement …
Jim Stratton / orlandosentinel.com:
Contractor's deal was Harris priority, former staffers say — Former senior members of U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris' congressional staff say they initially rejected a defense contractor's $10 million appropriation request last year but reversed course after being instructed by Harris to approve it.
WorldNetDaily:
Judge orders San Diego cross removed — Gives city 90 days in case brought by ACLU-backed atheist — Ruling on a 15-year-old ACLU case, a federal judge today ordered the city of San Diego to remove a mountain-top cross within 90 days or face a fine of $5,000 a day.
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Richard Morin / Washington Post:
The Fox News Effect — We report. You decide. Does President Bush owe his controversial win in 2000 to Fox cable television news? — Yes, suggest data collected by two economists who found that the growth of the Fox cable news network in the late 1990s may have significantly boosted …
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Valerie Plame Seeks Book Deal — Valerie Plame Wilson, the Central Intelligence Agency covert officer whose name was publicly disclosed three years ago, is shopping a book proposal among a small group of publishers, according to two people familiar with the project.
Eric Boehlert / Salon:
Lapdogs — Cowardly and clueless, the U.S. media abandoned its post as Bush led the country into a disastrous war. A look inside one of the great journalistic collapses of our time. — Print EmailFont: S / S+ / S++ — President Bush with Tony Snow, left, and Scott McClellan, right …
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