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Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
US reverses policy on military detainees — The Pentagon has decided in a major policy shift that all detainees held in US military custody around the world are entitled to protections under the Geneva Conventions, according to two people familiar with the move.
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New York Times:
In Big Shift, U.S. to Follow Geneva Treaty for Detainees — WASHINGTON, July 11 — In a sweeping change of policy, the Pentagon has decided that it will treat all detainees in compliance with the minimum standards spelled out in the Geneva conventions, a senior defense official said today.
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Dana Priest / Washington Post:
Rethinking Embattled Tactics in Terror War — Courts, Hill and Allies Press Administration — Five years after the attacks on the United States, the Bush administration faces the prospect of reworking key elements of its anti-terrorism effort in light of challenges from the courts …
Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta:
Beheading Desecration Video of Dead U.S. Soldiers Released on Internet by al Qaeda (Video/Images) — A brutal video showing the desecration of the bodies of two U.S. soldiers has been released on the internet by an al Qaeda linked group. The Jawa Report has obtained a copy of the video.
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Edward Wong / New York Times:
Insurgent Group Posts Video of 2 Mutilated U.S. Soldiers — BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 10 — Insurgents posted an Internet video on Monday showing the mutilated bodies of two American soldiers abducted in June and found murdered days later during a search by American and Iraqi forces south of Baghdad.
Hindrocket / Power Line:
COLD FURY — The terrorists have posted a video of their …
COLD FURY — The terrorists have posted a video of their …
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Kate Phillips / New York Times:
Judge Upholds F.B.I. Search of Lawmaker's Office — WASHINGTON, July 10 — While acknowledging the unprecedented nature of the F.B.I. search of Representative William J. Jefferson's legislative offices, a federal judge ruled Monday that the seizure of records there was legal and did not violate …
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Richard B. Schmitt / Los Angeles Times:
Judge Rules Capitol Office Raid Legal
Judge Rules Capitol Office Raid Legal
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Paul Blustein / Washington Post:
Smaller Budget Deficit Projected — Tax Cuts Credited; Long-Term Outlook Still Seen as Bleak — The Bush administration is planning to trumpet today a midyear revision of its budget estimates projecting that a recent surge in tax revenue will help to shrink this year's federal deficit below $300 billion …
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Salon:
Tastes great, less filling — Remember preemption? — It seems like just a few months ago — and it was — that the Bush administration laid out a National Security Strategy in which it said that the United States held itself free to use force "before attacks occur," even if the time and place of such attacks isn't yet known.
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Washington Post:
General Speaks of Immigrant Father — MIAMI, July 10 — A congressional hearing on immigration came to a dramatic pause Monday when Gen. Peter Pace, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, choked up as he talked about his Italian immigrant father and the opportunities that America had given to his family.
Susan Haigh / Newsday:
Lieberman campaign files forms to run as petitioning candidate — HARTFORD, Conn. — Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman filed paperwork Monday that will allow him to collect signatures to petition his way onto the November ballot if he loses an August primary. — Lieberman's campaign announced the move in an e-mail to reporters.
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Matt Hughes / Times of London:
Read my lips: the taunt that made Zidane snap — Our correspondent finds out what may have caused a great player to lose his head in such spectacular style — WITH his monkish mien backed by a sense of brooding menace, Zinédine Zidane has always been something of an enigma …
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E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
The GOP's Looming Battle — As it looks beyond the elections of 2006, a Republican Party known for ideological solidarity is on the cusp of a far more searching philosophical battle than are the Democrats, historically accustomed to bruising fights over the finer points of political theory.
CNN:
40 killed in Mumbai train blasts — MUMBAI, India (CNN) — At least 40 people have been killed in seven explosions on crowded rush-hour commuter trains in the Indian financial capital of Mumbai, police said. — More than 100 people were injured in the blasts, which took place between 6:20 and 7 p.m. …
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
The UW 9/11 denialist appears on "Hannity and Colmes." — The day the university announced its decision to permit Kevin Barrett to teach the one course he was hired to teach, he appeared on "Hannity and Colmes," introduced by Alan Colmes as "University of Wisconsin professor Kevin Barrett."
Des Moines Register:
Yepsen: So far, Romney's been most impressive Republican — Of all the 2008 Republican presidential candidates making the rounds in Iowa, none is doing better than Mitt Romney, the governor of Massachusetts. — Romney's made a half-dozen visits to the state, all to good reviews from the locals.
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Tom Coghlan / Independent:
Taliban use beheadings and beatings to keep Afghanistan's schools closed — The letter pinned overnight to the wall of the mosque in Kandahar was succinct. "Girls going to school need to be careful for their safety. If we put acid on their faces or they are murdered then the blame will be on their parents."
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