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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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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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Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Bush Mourns 9/11 at Ground Zero as N.Y. Remembers — Vowing that he was "never going to forget the lessons of that day," President Bush paid tribute last night to the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack, laying wreaths at ground zero, attending a prayer service at St. Paul's Chapel …
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 …
Lt Col P / Op For:
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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Confederate Yankee:Day of Denial — Today more than any other in the past five years …
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Michelle Malkin:The 2,996 Project — I am kicking off 24-hour 9/11 anniversary …
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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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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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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.
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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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 …
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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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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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 …
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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 …
Raymond Hernandez / New York Times:
For Democrats' Hopes, Less Promise in New York — Kirsten Gillibrand campaigned with Hillary Rodham Clinton last month. She is trying to unseat Representative John E. Sweeney, a four-term Republican. — In a year when Democrats hope to take control of the House of Representatives …
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Eli Lake / New York Sun:
Khatemi Is Served With Summons at Gala Dinner — WASHINGTON — When Iran's ex-president was having his picture taken with admirers at a gala dinner sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations in northern Virginia, he received an unexpected message from some of his former countrymen.
New York Times:
Proposal for Autonomous States in Iraq Creates Tension — An agreement struck 11 months ago by Shiite and Kurdish leaders to win Sunni Arab support for a new constitution is fraying, causing concern among some political leaders that it could jeopardize Iraq's fragile governing coalition.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Audio: Popular Mechanics editors debate "Loose Change" morons on 9/11 Update: Video added — The brawl to settle it all. — Bonus audio: Bottom-feeding LC director Dylan Avery laughs at the hijackers' boxcutters and accuses the father of a passenger on Flight 77 of being in on the conspiracy.
Aftenposten:
Imam casts doubt over existence of bin Laden — The leader of Muslim imams in Norway said Monday that many Muslims feel they've been under collective suspicion since September 11, 2001. He also questioned whether Osama bin Laden actually exists. — Imam Zulqarnain Sakandar Madni answered …
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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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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.
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