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Bin Laden Trail 'Stone Cold' — U.S. Steps Up Efforts, But Good Intelligence On Ground is Lacking — The clandestine U.S. commandos whose job is to capture or kill Osama bin Laden have not received a credible lead in more than two years. Nothing from the vast U.S. intelligence world …
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David Johnston / New York Times:
At a Secret Interrogation, Dispute Flared Over Tactics — Abu Zubaydah, the first Osama bin Laden henchman captured by the United States after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, was bloodied and feverish when a C.I.A. security team delivered him to a secret safe house in Thailand for interrogation in the early spring of 2002.
The American Thinker:
Captured document:: AP employee spied for Saddam — Document (link) dated July 25 2000 is a report from an Iraqi Intelligence officer to different Iraqi Intelligence Directorates talking about information provided to them from a trusted source that works in the Associated Press (AP).
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Rockefeller: Bush Duped Public On Iraq — Senator Says World Would Be Better Without Iraq Invasion — (CBS News) WASHINGTON When the Senate Intelligence Committee released a declassified version of its findings this past week, the Republican chairman of the committee, Pat Roberts …
John / AMERICAblog:
Please help us plan Stage II: The attack on Disney/ABC starting on Tuesday Sept 12 — I've talked with some of the other organizers of the anti-Disney/ABC campaign, and we've decided, quite rightly, that if Disney/ABC runs this defamatory show tomorrow night, we are launching an all-out war against both companies.
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CINDY SHEEHAN: CONFESSIONS OF A DANGEROUS MOM — The right-wingers who think nothing but the worst of Cindy Sheehan probably won't change their minds after reading Peace Mom. In the book, which hits bookstores September 19, the antiwar icon admits she has fantasized about going back in time and killing …
Washington Post:
In a Pivotal Year, GOP Plans to Get Personal — Millions to Go to Digging Up Dirt on Democrats — Republicans are planning to spend the vast majority of their sizable financial war chest over the final 60 days of the campaign attacking Democratic House and Senate candidates over personal issues …
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
To Hold Senate, G.O.P. Bolsters Its Most Liberal
To Hold Senate, G.O.P. Bolsters Its Most Liberal
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Jo Mannies / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Clinton questions GOP's sincerity on security issues — Former President Bill Clinton asserted here Saturday that if Republicans were serious about national security, they'd carry out the recommendations of the bipartisan 9/11 Commission instead of regularly using the issue to pound political opponents.
New York Post:
BILL SICS LEGAL EAGLES ON ABC — * LETTER: YANK 'DESPICABLE' FILM * CAST'S — ON-SET TURMOIL REVEALED — Bill Clinton's camp yesterday demanded that ABC can its controversial film "The Path to 9/11," due to air tonight - and in a scathing new letter accused the network of exploiting the tragedy for ratings.
Jules Crittenden / Boston Herald:
Time to send message to Iran — Former Iranian President Khatami, welcome to Boston. — On the occasion of your speech at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, and considering your advocacy for an Islamic bomb, terrorism and the destruction of Israel, let us consider our nation's policy toward Iran.
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Andrea Elliott / New York Times:
More Muslims Arrive in U.S., After 9/11 Dip — America's newest Muslims arrive in the afternoon crunch at John F. Kennedy International Airport. Their planes land from Dubai, Casablanca and Karachi. They stand in line, clasping documents. They emerge, sometimes hours later …
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PR Newswire:
Families Of Kidnapped Persian Jews Sue Khatami In US Court — Law suit alleges visiting Iranian implemented anti-Semitic policy of torture and imprisonment — NEW YORK, Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ — Seven Jewish-Iranian families have filed suit in an American federal court against former President …
Bobby Chesney / PrawfsBlawg:
Cancelling classes to conference? — Here's a question for the students out there: does it bother you when a professor cancels a class in order to attend a conference or workshop? — On one hand, this sort of thing usually imposes a cost of sorts on you, either in the form of a make-up class …
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New York Times:
Woman in a Wheelchair Shoots an Attacker — As muggings go, it began like many others. A 56-year-old woman was leaving her building in her wheelchair, her only company the small dog perched on her lap. — Her attacker came from behind, the police said, and there was no one else around.
The Roanoke Times:
Nancy Reagan says it's not OK for Webb to use president in ad — Democratic Senate candidate James Webb stood by the TV ad and said it appropriately uses footage in the public domain and is not negative. — As James Webb returned to the campaign trail Friday, President Ronald Reagan's widow called …
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