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Michelle Malkin:
Oriana Fallaci, R.I.P., and the Religion of Perpetual Outrage — Deeply saddening news at the end of this 9/11 anniversary week. The outspoken lioness Oriana Fallaci has died of cancer: … She refused to candycoat her criticisms of Islam. She refused to submit to jihadi thugs.
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Alessandra Rizzo / Associated Press:
Italian Writer Oriana Fallaci Dies — ROME — Oriana Fallaci, the Italian writer and journalist best known for her abrasive interviews and provocative stances, has died, officials said Friday. She was 76. — Fallaci, who had been diagnosed with cancer years ago, died overnight …
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BBC:
Muslim anger grows at Pope speech — A statement from the Vatican has failed to quell criticism of Pope Benedict XVI from Muslim leaders, after he made a speech about the concept of holy war. — Speaking in Germany, the Pope quoted a 14th Century Christian emperor who said Muhammad …
Suzan Fraser / Associated Press:
Muslims Assail Pope's Remarks on Islam — Turkey's ruling Islamic-rooted party joined a wave of criticism of Pope Benedict XVI on Friday, accusing him of trying to revive the spirit of the Crusades with remarks he made about Islam. Muslim leaders in the Middle East expressed dismay …
Associated Press:
Report: Italian Writer Oriana Fallaci Dies — ROME — Veteran journalist and writer Oriana Fallaci, a former war correspondent best known for her abrasive interviews and provocative stances, has died, Italian news reports said Friday. She was 76. — Fallaci, who had been diagnosed …
Ian Fisher / New York Times:
Muslim Leaders Assail Pope's Speech on Islam
Muslim Leaders Assail Pope's Speech on Islam
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Sophie Hardach / Reuters:
Italy's provocative journalist Fallaci dies
Italy's provocative journalist Fallaci dies
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Philip Shenon / New York Times:
Ohio Congressman Is Said to Agree to Plead Guilty — Representative Bob Ney, Republican of Ohio, has agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal charges related to his dealings with the corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff, lawyers and others with knowledge of the investigation said Thursday.
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Sabrina Eaton / Associated Press:
Ney to plead to criminal charge — Bob Ney, R-Ohio discusses his bid for re-election, during a campaign rally at the Tuscarawas County GOP headquarters in Dover, Ohio. Ney has agreed with the Justice Department to plead guilty to at least one criminal charge.
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Carl Hulse / New York Times:
An Unexpected Collision Over Detainees — President Bush and Congressional Republicans spent the last 10 days laying the foundation for a titanic pre-election struggle over national security, and now they have one. But the fight playing out this week on Capitol Hill is not what they had in mind.
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Washington Post:
A Defining Moment for America — PRESIDENT BUSH rarely visits Congress. So it was a measure of his painfully skewed priorities that Mr. Bush made the unaccustomed trip yesterday to seek legislative permission for the CIA to make people disappear into secret prisons and have information extracted …
Kate Zernike / New York Times:
Rebuff for Bush on Terror Trials in a Senate Test — The Senate Armed Services Committee defied President Bush on Thursday, with four Republicans joining Democrats in approving a plan for the trial and interrogation of terrorism suspects that the White House has rejected as unacceptable.
Reuters:
Report: Latest al-Qaeda tape makes France a target — Deputy group leader Ayman al-Zawahiri urged militant Algerian Islamist group to punish 'crusader nation,' even though it vehemently opposes US-led war in Iraq, newspaper says — Deputy al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has urged …
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
The Tehran Calculus — In his televised Sept. 11 address, President Bush said that we must not "leave our children to face a Middle East overrun by terrorist states and radical dictators armed with nuclear weapons." There's only one such current candidate: Iran.
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Lyle Denniston / SCOTUSblog:
Prompt, free access to argument transcripts — The Supreme Court will begin making available, without charge, the transcripts of oral arguments, on the same day that an argument has been held, the Court announced Thursday. This is one of the most important innovations, in terms of public access …
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Editor and Publisher:
Tony Snow and Press Spar: 'Torture' For All of Them — NEW YORK Tony Snow conducted one of his most fascinating briefings today in his relatively short time as White House press secretary. — Most of it had to do with the administration's attempt to redefine — or as it claims …
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Jeffrey H. Birnbaum / Washington Post:
House Votes To Disclose Earmarks — The House voted yesterday to shed more light on narrow-interest tax and spending legislation called earmarks, an incremental step toward openness that ended the prospect for a more sweeping overhaul of federal lobbying laws this year.
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Austin Bay Blog:
Oil Prices — Two years ago -as oil prices began to rise- two friends of mine in the industry said to look for a dramatic climb in prices but "over the long term" (a decade? fifteen years?) look for oil to settle in a zone of $40 to $55 a barrel. When oil reached $70 a barrel I thought about that "zone."
Donna Abu-Nasr / Associated Press:
Attacks on Yemen oil plants kill 5 — SAN`A, Yemen - Suicide bombers tried to strike two oil facilities in Yemen with explosives-packed cars, but authorities foiled the attacks and four bombers and a security guard were killed, the government said Friday. — The attempts came ahead …
Rob Port / Say Anything:
Who The Terror Apologists Support — Some of you may be familiar with a group called the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR. This is a group that describes itself as the "Muslim NAACP." Some of its leaders stood by President Bush and Colin Powell as those men spoke …
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Washington Post:
Va. Senate Race Goes Negative on 1979 Essay — Women Didn't Belong At Annapolis, Webb Said — Virginia's U.S. Senate race turned nasty Wednesday as Republican Sen. George Allen launched a character attack on his Democratic opponent's past views toward women in combat …
Isambard Wilkinson / Telegraph:
US outraged as Pakistan frees Taliban fighters — Pakistan's credibility as a leading ally in the war on terrorism was called into question last night when it emerged that President Pervez Musharraf's government had authorised the release from jail of thousands of Taliban fighters caught fighting coalition forces in Afghanistan.
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