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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 …
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Will / Attytood:
The Emperor's New Clothes: How 2nd graders saw what the American media wouldn't report — George W. Bush is a man on a mission today: To remind the American people how they felt five years ago, when the public was understandably frightened by the killing of nearly 3,000 fellow citizens …
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Christopher Hitchens / Opinion Journal:
Solidarity — Our first duty is to stand together against bin Ladenism. — Never mind where I was standing or what I was doing this time five years ago. (Because really, what could be less pertinent?) Except that I do remember wondering, with apparent irrelevance, how soon I would be hearing one familiar cliché.
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Michelle Malkin:
Never forget: American Airlines Flight 77 — 2,996: Who are you remembering? — Now marks the third moment of silence to mark the crash of American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon at 9:37:46. — Gen. Peter Pace's message to terrorists: "Not on our watch" — From the 9/11 Commission report:
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September 11th... 1565 — The fifth anniversary of September 11th 2001 is upon us. It is fitting that the day should see both a solemn remembrance of the dead and the renewal of a cold-hearted resolve to win the war that was declared on us. — There is however, another September 11th …
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The Jawa Report
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Republicans to Concede RI if Chaffey Loses Primary — Politics, they say, makes strange bedfellows. A classic case-in-point: The Republican Party is sparing no expense to help Lincoln Chafee, its least reliable Senator, get re-nominated. Further, the party has announced …
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Bryan / Hot Air:
Five Years On — I remember where I was, as I'm sure you do. I remember the feeling of knowing our country was under attack the instant the second plane hit. The feeling grew and hardened when we heard by phone from someone in Washington, before any media reported it …
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Editor and Publisher:
ABC Airs 9/11 Film — Contested Scenes Remain — NEW YORK The first part of the controversial "The Path to 9/11" movie aired as scheduled on ABC on Sunday — despite pleas that it be halted by several top officials in the Clinton administraton, among others — and while several last-minute cuts were made …
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Brit / MSNBC:
STUFF HAPPENS by David Hare — 'America changed.' That's what we're told. 'On September 11th everything changed.' 'If you're not American, you can't understand.' — The infantile psycho babble of popular culture is grafted opportunistically onto America's politics.
Lee Keath / Associated Press:
Al-Zawahri: Gulf, Israel next targets — CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden's deputy warned that Persian Gulf countries and Israel would be al-Qaida's next targets, according to a new videotape aired by Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera on Monday, the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
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R. Jeffrey Smith / Washington Post:
Worried CIA Officers Buy Legal Insurance — Plans Fund Defense In Anti-Terror Cases — CIA counterterrorism officers have signed up in growing numbers for a government-reimbursed, private insurance plan that would pay their civil judgments and legal expenses if they are sued or charged …
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
Situation Called Dire in West Iraq — Anbar Is Lost Politically, Marine Analyst Says — The chief of intelligence for the Marine Corps in Iraq recently filed an unusual secret report concluding that the prospects for securing that country's western Anbar province are dim …
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Ralph Peters / New York Post:
9/11: FIVE YEARS ON — GETTING IT RIGHT — THE biggest story since 9/11 is that there hasn't been an other 9/11. According to our hysterical media culture, everything's always going wrong. The truth is that we've gotten the big things right. — On this fifth anniversary …
Robert Andrews / Wired News:
9/11: Birth of the Blog — When the world changed on Sept. 11, 2001, the web changed with it. — While phone networks and big news sites struggled to cope with heavy traffic, many survivors and spectators turned to online journals to share feelings, get information or detail their whereabouts.
Boston Globe:
How safe a world? — THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY of the Sept. 11 attacks is a day of remembrance and special sadness for the nation, and all those who knew any of the 2,973 victims. Yet in the long run, the reaction of the Bush administration may prove more harmful to the national interest than even these horrific attacks.
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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.
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 …
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Josh Meyer / Los Angeles Times:
Hidden Depths to U.S. Monitoring — The scope of domestic surveillance has steadily expanded since 9/11. But lawmakers and privacy experts complain of too little information on it. — WASHINGTON — As Americans consider whether they are more safe or less five years after the Sept. 11 attacks …
Steve Doughty / Daily Mail:
Threat of up to two million Muslim terrorists, warns community leader — Britain will face have to deal with up to two million Islamic terrorists unless there is an end to 'demonising' of Muslims, the leader of the most influential Muslim organisation has said.
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