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Al-Qaida in Iraq's al-Zarqawi 'terminated' — U.S. says it found most-wanted militant by tracking his spiritual adviser — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaida leader in Iraq who waged a bloody campaign of suicide bombings and beheadings, was killed overnight by F-16 jets dropping …
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Surveillance and Betrayal Ended Hunt — BAGHDAD, Iraq, June 8 —Muhammad Ismael, a 40-year-old Iraqi taxi driver, was standing outside his home in the tiny village of Hibhib on Wednesday evening when something unusual caught his eye. — Three GMC trucks, each with blackened windows …
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Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:
After Zarqawi, No Clear Path In Weary Iraq — Difficult Questions Surround Legacy of Insurgent Leader — BAGHDAD, June 8 — Analysts and military spokesmen said Thursday that the death of insurgent leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, killed Wednesday when two 500-pound bombs obliterated …
CNN:
U.S. military: Al-Zarqawi alive when troops arrived — BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was alive on a stretcher and tried to move off it when U.S. troops reached the wounded terrorist leader after his safe house had been bombed, a U.S. general said at a news conference Friday.
Claudia Rosett / Knight Ridder:
Zarqawi death is an important U.S. victory — What matters at least as much as the killing of al-Qaeda top terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq is that we, in America, appreciate it for the important battlefield victory it truly is. — Dubbed "the prince of al-Qaeda" by Osama bin Laden …
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
With a Death, an Opening — BEIRUT — The Arab news channels were all carrying the same image of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, taken from Thursday's Pentagon briefing. He looked almost baby-faced in death, but people in this part of the world understood what he symbolized.
MSNBC:
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, master of the Web war — Al-Qaida leader in Iraq harnessed the Internet to wage his jihad … MSNBC TV — WASHINGTON - — As the U.S. military announced Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death, al-Zarqawi's lieutenants did the same, with a statement on his own Web site, with a highly positive spin.
Joel Achenbach / Achenblog:
The Next Zarqawi — The military briefing this morning featured footage of the bombing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's hideout. We've become familiar with this kind of image, the jet-fighter's view of the terrain, the target in the middle of the screen, the flash of light, the erupting cloud of smoke and dust.
Treasure of Baghdad:The Thousand-Miles Road Starts with One Step
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
DeLay Bids the House a Torrid Goodbye — WASHINGTON, June 8 — Representative Tom DeLay personifies the word "unapologetic." — Leaving Congress on Friday under indictment in Texas and under a cloud in Washington for his relationships with a lobbyist and two former senior aides …
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Michael Grunwald / Washington Post:
DeLay Pulls No Punches In Final Speech to House — Unrepentant, 'the Hammer' Urges GOP to Keep Up Fight — Former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) said goodbye to Congress yesterday in typical fighting form, delivering a pugnacious defense of the iron-fisted partisanship that defined his decade in power.
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Rep. Tom DeLay Delivers His Farewell Address — SPEAKER: U.S. REPRESENTATIVE TOM DELAY (R-TX) — DELAY: Mr. Speaker, political careers tend to end in one of three ways: defeat, death or retirement. — And despite the fervent and mostly noble exertions of my adversaries over the years …
Times of London:
Apologise or we'll cut your funding, US envoy tells UN — From James Bone in New York and Richard Beeston — AMERICA'S bitter dispute with the United Nations escalated last night when John Bolton, the US envoy to the UN, threatened to withhold funding to the organisation unless it apologised …
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Edmund L. Andrews / New York Times:
G.O.P. Fails in Attempt to Repeal Estate Tax — WASHINGTON, June 8 — Senate Republicans failed on Thursday to muster the votes needed to abolish the estate tax on inherited wealth, but supporters of a compromise held out hope for a deal this year that could attract enough Democrats to pass.
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Marc Kaufman / Washington Post:
FDA Approves Vaccine That Should Prevent Most Cervical Cancers — In what officials called a major public health breakthrough, the Food and Drug Administration yesterday approved the first vaccine developed to protect women against cervical cancer. — The vaccine, which works by building immunity …
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Associated Press:
Dog Feces Left at Congresswoman's Office — Republican U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave's re-election campaign was already heated, and it just got smelly as well: Her staff accused a Democratic activist Thursday of leaving an envelope full of dog feces at Musgrave's Greeley office.
John Cole / Balloon Juice:
On Human Frailties — Every now and then something happens that makes me realize how flawed I am as a human being, and today we had one of that those situations. For those of you who do not know, Armando has been outed. And by outed, we mean his anonymity, not his sexual practices …
Paul Marks / New Scientist:
Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites — "I AM continually shocked and appalled at the details people voluntarily post online about themselves." So says Jon Callas, chief security officer at PGP, a Silicon Valley-based maker of encryption software.
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Eugene Volokh / The Volokh Conspiracy:
GRADING ON A CURVE: A recent comment brought up the traditional criticism of grading on curves — what if 80% of a particular class did really well, and deserves As? what if 80% did badly, and deserves Fs? why not grade objectively rather than comparatively? — so I thought I'd repost my paean to curves from 2002.
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Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
Specter Offers Compromise on NSA Surveillance — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has proposed legislation that would give President Bush the option of seeking a warrant from a special court for an electronic surveillance program such as the one being conducted by the National Security Agency.
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