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Associated Press:
Al Qaeda No. 2 Releases Tape Inviting Americans to Convert to Islam — CAIRO, Egypt — Al Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri issued a new videotape Saturday along with a man identified as an American member of the terror network, inviting Americans to convert to Islam.
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Lee Keath / Associated Press:
Al-Qaida's deputy issues new videotape — CAIRO, Egypt - An American thought to be an al-Qaida activist appeared in a videotape with the terror group's deputy leader Saturday and called on his countrymen to convert to Islam and for U.S. soldiers to switch sides in the Iraq and Afghan wars.
New York Times:
Mr. Bush's Nuclear Legacy — Unless something changes soon, by the end of President Bush's second term North Korea will have produced enough plutonium for 10 or more nuclear weapons while Iran's scientists will be close to mastering the skills needed to build their own.
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Josh White / Washington Post:
Target Intercepted In Anti-Missile Test — In First Such Success Since 2002, U.S. Simulates North Korean Attack — The U.S. military shot down a target missile using its long-range missile defense system yesterday, the first time such a test has intercepted a mock enemy warhead since 2002, officials said.
Independent:
14 terror suspects arrested in London — Police have arrested 14 men following anti-terror raids in south and east London. — The men were arrested late last night and in the early hours of today on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism.
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State of the Day
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Maggie Michael / Associated Press:
Palestinian group to target non-Muslims — CAIRO, Egypt - Palestinian militants who held two Fox News journalists hostage for nearly two weeks threatened in a statement posted online Saturday to abduct non-Muslims visiting the Palestinian territories and kill them unless their demands were met.
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Times of London:
Attacks on Jews soar since Lebanon — Synagogues and citizens have been targeted — BRITISH Jews are facing a wave of anti-Semitic attacks prompted by Israel's conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Synagogues have been daubed with graffiti, Jewish leaders have had hate-mail and ordinary people …
Ingrid Melander / Reuters:
EU gives Iran two more weeks in nuclear standoff — LAPPEENRANTA, Finland (Reuters) - The European Union agreed on Saturday to try to clarify Iran's stance on halting uranium enrichment within two weeks and U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan held talks in Tehran to try and settle the standoff.
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Caroline Glick / Jerusalem Post:Column One: Setting the conditions for disaster
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Israel Matzav
Andrew Bolt / NEWS.com.au:
The ambulance hoax - why no missile could have done this — A military source I know, who cannot be identified, has checked to see if Israel has any missile that would pop a neat hole in the roof of an ambulance and explode, causing no scorch marks, no shrapnel damage and no fatalities to the people inside.
Matthew Pennington / Associated Press:
U.S. says Afghan opium out of control — KABUL, Afghanistan - Opium cultivation in Afghanistan is spiraling out of control, rising 59 percent this year to produce a record 6,100 tons — nearly a third more than the world's drug users consume, the U.N. said Saturday.
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Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Iraqi Casualties Are Up Sharply, Study Finds — A girl checked her parrots Friday in her Baghdad home, which was damaged by rocket attacks. Attacks on civilians have risen sharply. — Iraqi casualties soared by more than 50 percent in recent months, the product of spiraling sectarian clashes …
Eric Reeves / Washington Post:
Accommodating Genocide in Darfur — In the face of ongoing genocide in Darfur, the international community's failure to accept the "responsibility to protect" (that's United Nations language, officially adopted) innocent civilian lives has taken its last, abject form.
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Gateway Pundit, Atlas Shrugs, One Hand Clapping, Blue Crab Boulevard and Done With Mirrors
Walter Pincus / Washington Post:
FBI Role in Terror Probe Questioned — Lawyers Point to Fine Line Between Sting and Entrapment — Standing in an empty Miami warehouse on May 24 with a man he believed had ties to Osama bin Laden, a dejected Narseal Batiste talked of the setbacks to their terrorist plot and then uttered …
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Bush's Shift of Tone on Iraq: The Grim Cost of Losing — President Bush's newest effort to rebuild eroding support for the war in Iraq features a distinct shift in approach: Rather than stressing the benefits of eventual victory, he and his top aides are beginning to lay out the grim consequences of failure.
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
ORWELLIAN?....NOT QUITE....Kevin Carey is the author of "Is Our Students Learning?" our cover story this month suggesting that we have surprisingly little information about whether our universities are actually educating anyone. Today he's back with another guest post.
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Dohiyi Mir
Bob Geiger / BobGeiger.com:
I Know This Little Boy In New Orleans — I get a lot of e-mail. Most of it is very nice, some funny and some from right-wingers who — go figure — I seem to have made very angry. But the most gratifying I've ever received has been over the last week or so when a large number of people …
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