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12:55 PM ET, June 15, 2006

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Kim Gamel / Associated Press:
Iraq using 'treasure' of al-Zarqawi info  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's national security adviser said Thursday a "huge treasure" of documents and computer records was seized after the raid on terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's hideout, giving the Iraqi government the upper hand in its fight against al-Qaida in Iraq.
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Associated Press:
Text of al-Zarqawi Safe-House Document  —  Text of a document discovered in terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's  —  The document was provided in English by Iraqi National  —  Security Adviser Mouwafak al-Rubaie:  —  ___  —  The situation and conditions of the resistance in Iraq …
Washington Post:
Iraq Amnesty Plan May Cover Attacks On U.S. Military  —  Leader Also Backs Talks With Resistance  —  BAGHDAD, June 14 — Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Wednesday proposed a limited amnesty to help end the Sunni Arab insurgency as part of a national reconciliation plan that Maliki said would be released within days.
George F. Will / Washington Post:
Iraq's Atomization  —  The dust having settled — 500-pound bombs can raise, and even manufacture, a lot of dust — it is time to give the devil his due.  To understand the diabolical genius of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, that pornographer of violence, begin with this:
Sameer N. Yacoub / Associated Press:
Documents: Al-Qaida sought U.S.-Iran war  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - A blueprint for trying to start a war between the United States and Iran was among a "huge treasure" of documents found in the hideout of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Iraqi officials said Thursday.
CNN:
General: Baghdad crackdown reveals hostages  —  Despite tight security, car bomb kills 2 in Iraqi capital  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Iraqi troops Wednesday uncovered a kidnapping ring, seized weapons — including three rockets — and defused two roadside bombs after beginning a security clampdown …
Associated Press:
U.S. Identifies al-Zarqawi's Successor
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
AMNESTY FOR SOME INSURGENTS MAY BE THE PRICE OF VICTORY
Linda Feldmann / Christian Science Monitor:
The Iraq war debate reopens in Washington  —  The US House is set to argue the future of the Iraq war - the No. 1 issue for voters - Thursday.  —  WASHINGTON - The No. 1 issue for American voters - the future of the Iraq war - moves to the fore this week, both among President Bush's wartime advisers and on the floor of Congress.
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Hawaiian Marine Reserve To Be World's Largest  —  Bush to Designate National Park in Pacific Waters  —  President Bush plans to designate an island chain spanning nearly 1,400 miles of the Pacific northwest of Hawaii as a national monument today, creating the largest protected marine reserve in the world …
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Kenneth R. Weiss / Los Angeles Times:   Bush to Create World's Largest Marine Protected Area Near Hawaii
David Brown / Washington Post:
Crisis Seen in Nation's ER Care  —  Emergency medical care in the United States is on the verge of collapse, with the nation's declining number of emergency rooms dangerously overcrowded and often unable to provide the expertise needed to treat seriously ill people in a safe and efficient manner.
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
Specter falsely denied proposing amnesty for the Administration's illegal eavesdropping  —  Last Friday, Walter Pincus of the Washington Post reported that Sen. Arlen Specter had proposed legislation which included blanket amnesty for anyone who has violated FISA, i.e., a …
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New York Times:
A Leap of Faith, Off a Cliff
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Stopwatch Ticking for Dan Rather  —  CBS to Drop Ex-Anchor From '60 Minutes'  —  NEW YORK — CBS executives have decided there is no future role at the network for Dan Rather, making it certain that the man who sat in the anchor chair for 24 years will depart by this fall.
USA Today:
Bill would limit consumers' credit rights  —  SEATTLE — Congress is considering pre-empting laws in 17 states that allow anyone to freeze their own credit and instead restricting the privilege to ID theft victims.  —  The proposed Financial Data Protection Act of 2006 …
Richard Morin / Washington Post:
What's Black and White and Red All Over?  —  More ink equals more blood, claim two economists who say that newspaper coverage of terrorist incidents leads directly to more attacks.  —  It's a macabre example of win-win in what economists call a "common-interest game," say Bruno S. Frey …
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expatica.com:
Centre for extremist studies established  —  AMSTERDAM — A new centre for the study of radicalism and extremism has been established in Amsterdam.  —  The Centrum voor Radicalisme en Extremisme Studies (CRES) is being hosted by the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and will bring together researchers …
Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
Overshadowed  —  For one brief, shining hour, Karl Rove was the lead story in America.  Okay, an hour and a half.  —  Then the White House disclosed that President Bush had stealthily arrived in Baghdad, and Rove's avoiding indictment in the Valerie Plame case was relegated to distinctly secondary status.
 
 
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