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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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Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Talibanistan: The Establishment of the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan — Pakistan's "truce with the Taliban is an abject surrender, and al-Qaeda has an untouchable base of operations in Western Pakistan which will only expand if not checked — The news of the Pakistani government signing …
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Controversy Over 9/11 Film Hits Press — Here's a Sneak Preview — NEW YORK Just bubbling up from the blogs into the mainstream press — a New York Times article appears today — is debate over the "The Path to 911," the TV movie to be aired on ABC this coming Sept. 10 and 11.
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 …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Will Pakistani-Afghan Pact Spell The Taliban's End?
Will Pakistani-Afghan Pact Spell The Taliban's End?
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Jamie Holly / Crooks and Liars:
Olbermann's Latest Special Comment Targets Bush: "Have you no sense …
Olbermann's Latest Special Comment Targets Bush: "Have you no sense …
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.
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Bush plan would withhold terror evidence — WASHINGTON - President Bush pushed a hard line Wednesday on trying terror suspects through military tribunals, exhorting Congress to allow evidence to be withheld from a defendant if necessary to protect classified information.
Boston Globe:
Romney bars state security for Iranian's Harvard visit — Cites unacceptable use of funds on `a terrorist' — Governor Mitt Romney declared yesterday he would not allow any state resources to be used to protect a former Iranian president during his visit to the Boston area this weekend …
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Robin Wright / Washington Post:
War Backfiring on U.S., Khatami Says — Ex-Iranian President Also Calls Strikes Against His Country Unlikely — NEW YORK — On the eve of his first trip to Washington, former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami warned that U.S. military action in the Middle East has backfired …
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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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
Even The Gray Lady Has Run Out Of Patience
Even The Gray Lady Has Run Out Of Patience
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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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Jonathan Karl / ABCNEWS:
High-Value Detainees Will Be Given Prisoner-of-War Status — President Bush Expected to Announce Major Reversal in Handling of Terror Suspects — ABC News has learned that President Bush will announce that high-value detainees now being held at secret CIA prisons will be transferred …
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Brad Foss / Associated Press:
Vast Oil Pool Tapped in Gulf of Mexico — WASHINGTON (AP) — A trio of oil companies led by Chevron Corp. has tapped a petroleum pool deep beneath the Gulf of Mexico that could boost the nation's reserves by more than 50 percent. — A test well indicates it could be the biggest …
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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 …
Nasser Karimi / Associated Press:
Ahmadinejad proposes debate with Bush — TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's president proposed Wednesday that he and President Bush should hold a public debate, and suggested that the U.N. General Assembly later this month would be the perfect place. — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad first proposed …
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
In Bellwether District, G.O.P. Runs on Immigration — AURORA, Colo. — It was not by chance that Republicans brought their summer tour of hearings on illegal immigration to this growing community just outside Denver. — Not only is Aurora bearing the costs of schooling and providing …
Edward Wong / New York Times:
To Stay Alive, Iraqis Change Their Names — Men waited for new ID cards recently in Baghdad. Iraqis fear their names, which reveal them as Sunni or Shiite, could become a death sentence. — There was nothing out of the ordinary about the young man clutching a sheaf of papers …
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.
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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