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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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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.
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Alexis Debat Reports / The Blotter:
Captured Zarqawi Aide Spilled the Beans — Alexis Debat Reports: — An Iraqi customs agent secretly working with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's terror cell spilled the beans on the group after he was arrested, Jordanian officials tell ABC News. — Ziad Khalaf Raja al-Karbouly was arrested by Jordanian intelligence forces last spring.
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Philip Kennicott / Washington Post:
A Chilling Portrait, Unsuitably Framed — The frame surrounding an image of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's head, revealed to the world as proof the terrorist is dead, is bizarre. When the picture was displayed at a U.S. military news briefing, Zarqawi's face was seen inside what appeared …
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New York Times:
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 …
Kim Gamel / Associated Press:
U.S. troops hunt al-Qaida in raids in Iraq — BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. troops conducted nearly 40 raids Friday in Iraq, taking advantage of information gleaned from searches following Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death, a military spokesman said, also revealing new information about the man believed poised to take the terror leader's place.
Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Al-Zarqawi said to survive airstrike — WASHINGTON - A mortally wounded Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, still alive after a U.S. airstrike on his hideout, mumbled briefly and attempted to "turn away off the stretcher" he had been placed on by Iraqi police, the U.S. military said Friday.
Ellen Knickmeyer / Washington Post:After Zarqawi, No Clear Path In Weary Iraq
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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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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
A new low — the Senate seeks to "pardon" the President for past lawbreaking — Observing and commenting on the behavior of Arlen Specter is one of the most unpleasant obligations a person can have, but for anyone following the NSA eavesdropping scandal specifically, and the Bush administration's abuses …
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David Burge / iowahawk:
PARADISE IS OVERRATED — Iowahawk Guest Commentary — by Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi — Former Senior VP, Al-Qaeda In Iraq — Howzit swingin', fagsicles? Yeah, I know all you bitzoches all seen the pictures by now. Go on and laugh it up chump, like your drivers license photo is all George f**kin' Clooney.
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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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Clarice Feldman / The American Thinker:
Evidence accumulates of a hoax in Haditha. The weblog Sweetness & Light has done an estimable service gathering together the articles which cast substantial doubt on the charge of a massacre of civilians at Haditha . Because the blog is too busy gathering and fisking the news …
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Agence France Presse:
Iran confirms stepping up nuclear activities — An Iranian official has confirmed that the country has stepped up its nuclear activities, following a report from the UN atomic agency that said Iran has accelerated uranium enrichment. — "Iran has started another stage of injecting hexafluoride gas …
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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.
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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.
Eric Boehlert / The Huffington Post:
The Washington Times Slimes Democrats With a Lie — Wingers online, already high off their I-told-you-so buzz permeating from the killing of Abu Musab Zarqawi (a pro-war buzz we haven't sensed since Saddam was captured, his sons were killed, or his statute was toppled—take your pick) …
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Panel News...Of Sorts — A little bird told me...well, actually it was Siun...that C-Span will be broadcasting our Plame panel live this morning on the main C-Span channel. So those of you at home or at work with a TV or streaming internet capabilities are going to be able to watch it right along with the folks in Vegas.
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