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Bin Laden Gets a Pass from Pakistan — Brian Ross and Gretchen Peters Report: — Osama bin Laden, America's most wanted man, will not face capture in Pakistan if he agrees to lead a "peaceful life," Pakistani officials tell ABC News. — The surprising announcement comes …
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Jesse McKinley / New York Times:
9/11 Miniseries Is Criticized as Inaccurate and Biased — Days before its scheduled debut, the first major television miniseries about the Sept. 11 attacks was being criticized on Tuesday as biased and inaccurate by bloggers, terrorism experts and a member of the Sept. 11 commission …
Brian Ross Reports / The Blotter:
Pakistan Denies Bin Laden Gets a Pass — Brian Ross Reports: — The government of Pakistan today denied it would allow Osama bin Laden to avoid capture under terms of a peace agreement it signed with Taliban leaders in the country's North Waziristan area.
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Pamela Constable / Washington Post:
Pakistan Reaches Peace Accord With Pro-Taliban Militias — The government of Pakistan signed a peace accord Tuesday with pro-Taliban forces in the volatile tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, agreeing to withdraw its troops from the region in return for the fighters' pledge to stop attacks inside Pakistan and across the border.
Jamie Holly / Crooks and Liars:
Olbermann's Latest Special Comment Targets Bush: "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" — Keith gave us another special comment tonight, but with a different target. Tonight he went after Bush himself. — Keith: "More over, Mr. Bush, you are accomplishing in part what Osama Bin Laden and others seek …
Sadaqat Jan / Associated Press:Pakistan denies al-Qaida 'sanctuary' comments
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Insight:
GOP secretly channeled millions to Lieberman — The White House funneled millions of dollars through major Republican Party contributors to Sen. Joseph Lieberman's primary campaign in a failed effort to ensure the support of the former Democrat for the Bush administration.
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Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Republican Rift Over Wiretapping Widens — Party at Odds on Surveillance Legislation — Deepening Republican divisions over the future of President Bush's warrantless wiretapping program may jeopardize GOP leaders' hopes of making terrorism surveillance legislation a centerpiece of their final legislative push this month.
Associated Press:
Harris wins Fla. GOP Senate nomination — MIAMI - U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris (news, bio, voting record) overcame a campaign ridiculed even by her own party to easily claim the GOP nomination for the Senate on Tuesday, and Rep. Jim Davis (news, bio, voting record) won the Democratic nomination to succeed popular Gov. Jeb Bush.
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New York Times:
Time for Answers — For three years, Washington has been periodically consumed with the question of who unmasked a covert C.I.A. agent to the columnist Robert Novak. It has been a huge distraction for the White House, resulted in the unjustified jailing of one reporter …
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Eric Fehrnstrom / mass.gov:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: — CONTACT: — (617) 725-4025 — ROMNEY DENOUNCES KHATAMI VISIT TO HARVARD — Declines to provide escort, or offer state support for trip — Governor Mitt Romney today ordered all Massachusetts state government agencies to decline support, if asked …
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Merrill Hartson / Associated Press:
Bush reminds Americans U.S. is at war — WASHINGTON - President Bush used terrorists' own words Tuesday to battle complacency among Americans about the threat of future attack, defending his record as the fall campaign season kicks into high gear. — Bush said that despite the absence …
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Germaine Greer / Guardian:
'That sort of self-delusion is what it takes to be a real Aussie larrikin' — The world mourns. World-famous wildlife warrior Steve Irwin has died a hero, doing the thing he loved, filming a sequence for a new TV series. He was supposed to have been making a new documentary …
Zogby:
Zogby Poll: 9/11 + 5 Reveals Dramatic Partisan Split — 9/11 + 5 finds a nation badly divided as GOPers back U.S. war on terror, wiretapping, and Saddam's role in 9/11; Dems, Indies suspicious of all three — Five years after 9/11, the bitter division between Republicans and Democrats …
Brody Mullins / Wall Street Journal:
Lobbying Probe Looks at Payments To DeLay's Wife — WASHINGTON — The Justice Department's congressional lobbying-and-bribery investigation is looking into whether former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's wife received money from a lobbying firm for a no-show job, recent FBI interviews indicate.
expatica.com:
Hezbollah doubtful over German role in UN force — BERLIN - The Shiite Hezbollah militia has expressed "reservations" about Germany's involvement in the multinational UN force deploying for Lebanon, owing to German demands that its troops be allowed to stop and search boats bound for the country.
PR Newswire:
USC Study: Celebrities Really Are More Narcissistic Than the General Public — LOS ANGELES, Sept. 5 /PRNewswire/ — Celebrities have more narcissistic personality traits than the general population, and people with narcissistic tendencies seem to be attracted to the entertainment industry rather …
Qais Al-Bashir / Associated Press:
Al-Qaida's No. 2 in Iraq arrested in June, not a few days ago — BAGHDAD, Iraq — The U.S. military said today the arrest of al-Qaida in Iraq's second in command took place in June and was the most significant blow to the terror network since the death of al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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Jonathan Singer / MyDD:
GOP Tactic of Maligning Pelosi Failing — Republicans have been up on the air in a number of congressional districts around the country trying to paint Democratic canididates as excessively liberal and too close of allies of House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi — a San Francisco liberal.
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Judge Hears Arguments on Federal Spying Program — In a lively oral argument lasting almost three hours, a federal judge in Manhattan indicated yesterday that he had serious reservations about the legality of a National Security Agency surveillance program that monitors the international communications of people in the United States.
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