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2:30 AM ET, September 12, 2006

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Kristen Armstrong / sungazette.net:
Arlingtonians Remember 9/11 in Their Own Ways  —  The fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks was commemorated Monday in a ceremony that not only honored those who died, but saluted those whose actions on 9/11 made a difference.  —  "Arlington remembers all responders," …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: 9/11, as it happened Update: Amateur video added  —  I culled about 27 minutes of footage from the first six and a half hours of CNN's coverage that day.  I'll post them here in three parts.  The actual attacks themselves end about halfway through part two, but watch them all.
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
The Left Remembers 9/11  —  Earlier, I collected a series of 9/11 anniversary reflections from the press and the blogosphere.  Many of them were moving but none were particularly novel.  By that, I mean that everyone pretty much agreed that the day was horrible, changed a lot of things about the world …
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
BUSH AND 9/11....James Joyner, noting the harsh tone evident in many of the lefty blogosphere's 9/11 posts today, says that "the stridency of these posts, even from bloggers and publications on the moderate side of the lefty blogosphere is surprising."  —  Speaking only for myself, I'm not sure this should come as a surprise to anyone.
Spencer Ackerman / The New Republic:
NEW YORK ON 9/11:  —  Greetings from New York City.
Discussion: The Corner
David Sirota / Sirotablog:
Even on 9/11, neocon chickenhawks can't refrain from straw men attacks
Discussion: The News Blog
instapunk.com:
Luxury  —  RESPONSIBILITY.  So it's been exactly five years since …
Discussion: alicublog
Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:
John Yoo summarizes the last 5 years in two short sentences  —  Bob Egelko has an interesting article in The San Francisco Chronicle today examining how U.S. law has changed over the last five years as a result of the 9/11 attack.  He includes this truly revealing quote from John Yoo:
Discussion: Hullabaloo and Eschaton
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Bob Egelko / San Francisco Chronicle:
9/11: FIVE YEARS LATER BUSH CONTINUES TO WIELD POWER  —  The story of U.S. law since Sept. 11, 2001, is a story about power — who wields it, who contests it and who has the last word.  —  There are subplots — debates about secrecy, the treatment of noncitizens and the shifting balance between liberty and security.
Discussion: The Heretik
Nicole Belle / Crooks and Liars:
Matt Lauer goes after Bush over secret prisons and torture
Discussion: All Spin Zone and The Heretik
Jamie Holly / Crooks and Liars:
Keith Olbermann's Special Comment on Bush: Who has left this hole in the ground?  We have not forgotten, Mr. President.  You have.  May this country forgive you  —  Keith Olbermann blasts President Bush in his latest "Special Comment" section on Countdown tonight.  He leaves no stone unturned...
Discussion: MyDD and The Political Pit Bull
White House:
President's Address to the Nation  —  THE PRESIDENT: Good evening.  Five years ago, this date — September the 11th — was seared into America's memory.  Nineteen men attacked us with a barbarity unequaled in our history.  They murdered people of all colors, creeds, and nationalities — and made war upon the entire free world.
Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar Reported Captured  —  The commander of Hezb-i-Islami and al-Qaeda ally detained during a raid in eastern Afghanistan  —  On the day of the fifth anniversary of the 9-11 attack, Coalition forces score a high value target in Afghanistan.  Gulbuddin Hekmatyar …
CNN:
Poll: More Americans blame Bush for 9/11  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — The percentage of Americans who blame the Bush administration for the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington has risen from almost a third to almost half over the past four years, a CNN poll released Monday found.
Observer:
Wikipedia defies China's censors  —  The founder of Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia written by its users, has defied the Chinese government by refusing to bow to censorship of politically sensitive entries.  —  Jimmy Wales, one of the 100 most influential people in the world according to Time magazine …
Rick Klein / Boston Globe:
Brash GOP challenger presses Chafee in R.I.  —  Laffey stays close to Bush's stances  —  CRANSTON, R.I. — The Laffey campaign's secret weapon wears sneakers with tiny wheels on the bottom.  —  She's Stephen Laffey's 9-year-old daughter, and at Cranston's annual Greek Festival on Saturday …
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Pollster:
Conflicting GOP Primary Polls in RI
John Mueller / Cato Unbound:
SOME REFLECTIONS ON WHAT, IF ANYTHING, "ARE WE SAFER?"  MIGHT MEAN  —  With the fifth anniversary of 9/11, a central question repeatedly asked is whether that country has become safer from international terrorism or not.  I have never quite understood precisely what this question means, but let me explore six possibilities.
Little Green Footballs:
9/11 Conspiracists Defile WTC Site  —  LGF reader Zach was at the World Trade Center site in Manhattan today, and he reports that the Truthers were out in force. … Indeed.
Max Blumenthal / The Nation:
The ABC 9/11 Docudrama's Right-Wing Roots  —  On Friday, September 8, just forty-eight hours before ABC planned to air its so-called "docudrama," The Path to 9/11, Robert Iger, CEO of ABC's corporate parent, the Walt Disney Company, was presented with incontrovertible evidence outlining …
 
 
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Redstate:
My 9/11  —  AND WHY I WAS ABLE TO ACT ON THE RAGE AND FRUSTRATION THAT EVERYBODY FELT.
Christopher Buckley / Washington Monthly:
Time For Us To Go  —  Conservatives on why the GOP should lose in 2006.
Discussion: TPMCafe blogs
Richard Fausset / Los Angeles Times:
2 Georgia Races May Threaten Democrats' Struggle for Power
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Bush speech/"Path to 9/11″ open thread Update: Bush video added
John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Premiere Video: Have You had Enough? -Go McNerney!
Digby / Hullabaloo:
The Catapault Malfunctions  —  CNN just reported that the ABC …
Discussion: Firedoglake
Josh Meyer / Los Angeles Times:
Hidden Depths to U.S. Monitoring
Brian Ross Reports / The Blotter:
CIA: 5,000 Terrorists Captured or Killed
Discussion: Say Anything
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MSNBC:
Al-Zawahri hints at wider war on the West
Rasmussen Reports:
West Virginia Senate: Byrd Flying to ReelectionWith 33 Point Lead
David Carr / New York Times:
A Comeback Overshadowed by a Blog
Discussion: Althouse
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Audio: Popular Mechanics editors debate "Loose Change" …
Baron Bodissey / Gates of Vienna:
The Other September 11th
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
Cheney reasserts Iraq/al-Qaeda links
Boston Globe:
How safe a world?  —  THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY of the Sept. 11 attacks …
Brit / MSNBC:
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