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Associated Press:
Italian nun shot dead by Somali gunmen — MOGADISHU, Somalia - An Italian nun was shot dead at a hospital by Somali gunmen Sunday, hours after a leading Muslim cleric condemned Pope Benedict XVI for his remarks on Islam and violence. — The nun, who was not immediately identified …
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Ian Fisher / New York Times:
Vatican Says Pope Benedict Regrets Offending Muslims — Palestinian firefighters in the West Bank city of Nablus responded to the bombing of an Orthodox church Saturday. It was just one case of violence in the area after remarks made by the pope last week.
Michelle Malkin:
Italian nun killed; Pope sorry for Muslim reaction
Italian nun killed; Pope sorry for Muslim reaction
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Pier Paolo Cito / Associated Press:
Pope sorry for reaction to his remarks
Pope sorry for reaction to his remarks
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Andrew G. Bostom / The American Thinker:
The most important address commemorating 9/11/01 was delivered …
The most important address commemorating 9/11/01 was delivered …
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Fisnik Abrashi / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
U.S., Afghan troops launch offensive — KABUL, Afghanistan — Thousands of American and Afghan troops unleashed a new offensive against Taliban militants in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday in an effort to expand the government's reach into the volatile Pakistani border region.
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Anna Badkhen / San Francisco Chronicle:
Afghan government failure reopens door to the Taliban — Analysts say U.S. focus on Iraq is hurting mission, allowing insurgency to grow — A car bomb rips through a U.S. military convoy in the capital. A suicide bomber assassinates a provincial governor; another bomber kills six guests at the governor's funeral the following day.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Report: AQ warns Muslims to leave NYC, Washington — The worry meter remains at midlevel, but I'm obliged to follow up on that earlier post. Via Bama Pachyderm via Gateway Pundit via World Net Daily, Pakistani journalist Hamir Mir says the end is nigh: … Let's wait and see about that audio message.
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Jon Henke / The Allen Blog:
Liveblogging Meet the Press — The Allen/Webb Meet the Press debate begins momentarily. I'll be liveblogging it here, with time-stamped updates to include information and analysis. More as it happens. — PREDICTION: Senator Allen will discuss his positions on issues like the economy …
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Dean Barnett / Hugh Hewitt's TownHall Blog:
If It Was a Prize Fight, It Would Have Been Stopped at the First Commercial Break — I just finished watching the George Allen - Jim Webb debate on "Meet the Press." For conservatives wishing for Allen to retain his seat, their best hope is that Virginians were otherwise occupied this morning …
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Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
Called From Diplomatic Reserve — Former Secretary of State Leads Attempt to Salvage Iraq Mission — Is Jim Baker bailing out the Bushes once again? — The former secretary of state, James A. Baker III, a confidant of President George H.W. Bush, visited Baghdad two weeks ago to take a look …
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Patrick Quinn / Associated Press:
U.S. war prisons legal vacuum for 14,000 — BAGHDAD, Iraq - In the few short years since the first shackled Afghan shuffled off to Guantanamo, the U.S. military has created a global network of overseas prisons, its islands of high security keeping 14,000 detainees beyond the reach of established law.
Tom Bevan / The RCP Blog:
The AP's Switcheroo — Here's an email we received yesterday morning at 10:26 am: … The emailer is right that if you look at the AP headline now, it reads "Poll Shows GOP Not Making Its Case:" — Since I was the one who published the AP story yesterday and was 100% sure that I copied …
John Yoo / New York Times:
How the Presidency Regained Its Balance — FIVE years after 9/11, President Bush has taken his counterterrorism case to the American people. That's because he has had to. This summer, a plurality of the Supreme Court found, in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, that Congress must explicitly approve military commissions …
Jonathan Chait / Los Angeles Times:
A liberal hawk strikes back — THE CIRCULAR firing squad is the signature practice of the Democratic Party. Think of 1968, or 1972, or everything that happened during the Clinton presidency except impeachment, or the Howard Dean campaign. Democrats are never truly happy unless they're at each others' throats.
Robert Tanner / Associated Press:
U.S. holds AP photographer in Iraq 5 mos — The U.S. military in Iraq has imprisoned an Associated Press photographer for five months, accusing him of being a security threat but never filing charges or permitting a public hearing. — Military officials said Bilal Hussein, an Iraqi citizen …
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Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
FDL Book Salon Welcomes Arianna Huffington — (Arianna Huffington will be joining us in the comments today to discuss her book, On Becoming Fearless. Week One of the discussion can be found here . As always with the Book Salon, please restrict your comments to the topic at hand and if you'd like to discuss.)
CC Goldwater / Newsweek:
Goldwater Today — CC Goldwater on what her grandfather would make of today's GOP. — As the granddaughter of Barry Goldwater, I am often asked what I think my grandfather would have felt about the direction of today's Republican Party. What I found in the past year I spent making …