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5:30 AM ET, May 29, 2006

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Douglass K. Daniel / Associated Press:
Murtha: Iraq killings may hurt war effort  —  WASHINGTON - The deaths of as many as two dozen Iraqi civilians and an ensuing cover-up threaten to do more harm to U.S. efforts in Iraq than even the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, a prominent congressman and war critic says.
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Michael Duffy / Time:
The Shame Of Kilo Company  —  Sparked by a TIME report published in March, a U.S. military investigation is probing the killing of as many as 24 Iraqi civilians by a group of Marines in the town of Haditha last November.  Several Marines may face criminal charges, including murder.
Brian Knowlton / New York Times:
Senate Panel to Examine Deadly Military Raid in Iraq  —  WASHINGTON, May 28 — A senior Republican senator said today that he would hold hearings on the disputed role of a small number of American marines in the deaths of up to 24 Iraqi civilians in November, an incident that a Democratic war critic called …
Discussion: Hot Air
Washington Post:
Mr. Murtha's Rush to Judgment
Discussion: Telegraph, Macsmind and Hot Air
Raymond Whitaker / Independent:   The massacre and the Marines  —  US troops could face death penalty …
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Frist Backs Search of Congressman's Office  —  WASHINGTON — In a break with his counterparts in the House, the Senate's leader said Sunday the FBI was within its right to search the office of a congressman under investigation in a bribery case.  —  "No House member, no senator …
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Kevin Sullivan / Washington Post:
Blair Bowed to U.S. Pressure in Speech, Paper Says  —  British Leader Said to Make 'Significant' Changes on Iran, Global Warming in Address at Georgetown  —  LONDON, May 29 — Prime Minister Tony Blair caved in to White House pressure by sharpening language on Iran and softening …
Discussion: Air America Radio
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Pentagon Seeks Nonnuclear Tip for Sub Missiles  —  WASHINGTON, May 28 — The Pentagon is pressing Congress to approve the development of a new weapon that would enable the United States to carry out nonnuclear missile strikes against distant targets within an hour.
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Gingrich revolutionaries turn into arrogant elite  —  Of all the many marvelous Ronald Reagan lines, this is my favorite: ''We are a nation that has a government — not the other way around.''  —  He said it in his inaugural address in 1981, and, despite a Democrat-controlled Congress, he lived it.
Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
A Few Years, and Then Another Bush?  —  WASHINGTON — Bush III?  Or has the dynasty run its course?  —  Those are the questions some Republicans are asking themselves as political talk bubbles up yet again about President Bush's brother Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida and his interest in the White House.
Charles S. Johnson / helenair.com:
Tester, Morrison deadlocked  —  HELENA — John Morrison and Jon Tester are running neck-and-neck in their race for the June 7 Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat held by Republican Conrad Burns, a Lee Newspapers poll taken last week shows.  —  Morrison received 42 percent …
Tom Raum / Associated Press:
Analysis: Bush lands in same hole as dad  —  WASHINGTON - Through his presidency, George W. Bush has worked hard to avoid repeating the mistakes of his father.  He has done almost everything differently, yet now finds himself in the same hole despite trumping his dad by winning a second term.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Times of London:
MI5 at full stretch as 20 Islamist terror plots revealed  —  TWENTY "major conspiracies" by Islamist terrorists in Britain have been uncovered by the security services, John Reid, the home secretary, has disclosed.  —  Reid said that the existence of so many plots means that the police …
Discussion: USS Neverdock and Jihad Watch
Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
If Power Shifts In 2008  —  A Democrat Might Not Be as Different as You Would Think  —  Could the United States be better off with a Democrat in the White House in 2009?  Here are a couple of reasons the answer might be yes, even if you're not a Democrat.
Discussion: Booman Tribune
Lois Rogers / Times of London:
Babies with club feet aborted  —  MORE than 20 babies have been aborted in advanced pregnancy because scans showed that they had club feet, a deformity readily corrected by surgery or physiotherapy.  —  According to figures from the Office for National Statistics covering the years from 1996 to 2004 …
Discussion: Blogs for Bush
Nir Rosen / Washington Post:
Iraq Is the Republic of Fear  —  Every morning the streets of Baghdad are littered with dozens of bodies, bruised, torn, mutilated, executed only because they are Sunni or because they are Shiite.  Power drills are an especially popular torture device.  —  I have spent nearly two of the three years since Baghdad fell in Iraq.
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Newsweek:
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