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Gregory / The Belgravia Dispatch:
LIEBERMAN AND RUMSFELD — I've really got no dog in the whole Lieberman/Lamont fight. I live in Manhattan, not Connecticut, and this blog has never focused much on senatorial races and the like. So I wasn't going to write about it much, if any. But today I hear that Lieberman has called for Don Rumsfeld's resignation.
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Michael van der Galien / The Moderate Voice:
Kerry Blasts Lieberman
Kerry Blasts Lieberman
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John M. Broder / New York Times:
McCain Mines Elite of G.O.P. for 2008 Team — Senator John McCain is locking up a cast of top-shelf Republican strategists, policy experts, fund-raisers and donors, in a methodical effort to build a 2008 presidential campaign machine that is drawing supporters of President Bush despite the sometimes rocky history between the two men.
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Christopher Lee / Washington Post:
Cold War Missiles Target of Blackout — The Bush administration has begun designating as secret some information that the government long provided even to its enemy the former Soviet Union: the numbers of strategic weapons in the U.S. nuclear arsenal during the Cold War.
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
For Kurds, a Long Wait for Justice — Hussein Begins Trial Today for 1988 Offensive That Used Chemical Attacks — Mustafa Arab Youssef walked up the grimy, stone steps of the crumbling, sand-colored Nizarkeh fort. As he reached the second floor, his neighbor Haji Mohammed pointed …
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Times of London:
If you want sharia law, you should go and live in Saudi — Shahid Malik, the Labour MP, explains why he told fellow Muslims that if they don't like Britain they should pack their bags — Scotland Yard described it as a plot "to commit mass murder on an unimaginable scale".
Roger Scruton / Opinion Journal:
'Islamofascism' — Beware of a religion without irony. — The term "Islamofascism" was introduced by the French writer Maxine Rodinson (1915-2004) to describe the Iranian Revolution of 1978. Rodinson was a Marxist, who described as "fascist" any movement of which he disapproved.
Salon:
Overlooking New Orleans' women — A favorite approach of some cultural anthropologists is to look at the women of a given society as a gauge of its overall well-being. By that approach, post-Katrina New Orleans is floundering. No surprise there: We're all familiar with the criticism leveled …
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Ben Taylor / Daily Mail:
Firebrand Islamic academic: 'dying for your beliefs is just' — A British-based Muslim radical appeared to back suicide bombing yesterday when he claimed that dying for your beliefs was 'just'. — Dr Azzam Tamimi told an 8,000-strong crowd that standing up for your principles was the 'greatest act of martyrdom'.
USA Today:
Katrina struggle goes on for many — WASHINGTON — As the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches next week, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll of those hit by the storm finds that just 16% say their lives are back to normal. — While most people are still in their homes and back on the job …
Rana Fil / tomgrossmedia.com:
Suha Arafat "remarries" (& anti-Hizbullah comment starts W. Bank wedding riot) — 1. West Bank wedding riot after guest calls Nasrallah "a dog" — 3. Palestinian babies being named after Hizbullah — 6. Iranian cleric: We'll hit Tel Aviv over "iota" of Israeli aggression
Joseph Goldstein / New York Sun:
Columbia-Educated Doctor Will Argue He Had To Help Al Qaeda — The Columbia University-educated doctor charged with promising to provide medical care to Al Qaeda operatives will argue that professional ethics require him to offer medical aid to all patients, even terrorists.
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John Donnelly / Boston Globe:
And now for the good news — Progress is being made in the fight against AIDS in Africa, thanks in no small part to the president's aid program. But that's not what some people want to hear. — FIVE YEARS AGO, in Jos, Nigeria, a city on the country's central plateau …
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Miss Kelly
Robert Weller / Associated Press:
Experts Praise Royal Treatment of Karr — Authorities probably had a very good reason for allowing JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect John Mark Karr to live it up on the 15-hour flight to the United States, legal experts say — they wanted him to talk. — Denver attorney Larry Pozner …
New York Post:
DID OSAMA LUST FOR — WHITNEY? — OSAMA bin Laden has more on his mind than just the destruction of the United States - the world's most wanted terrorist is obsessed with Whitney Houston, so much so that he's even mulled a hit on her hubby, Bobby Brown. — Kola Boof, 37 …
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Guardian:
CIA's secret UK bank trawl may be illegal — US effort to track jihadist money transfers faces inquiry over privacy — Alexi Mostrous and Ian Cobain — A covert programme under which confidential information about British banking transactions is passed to the CIA with the full knowledge …
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