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9:25 AM ET, September 30, 2006

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Washington Post:
Rep. Foley Quits In Page Scandal  —  Six-term Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) resigned yesterday amid reports that he had sent sexually explicit e-mails to at least one underage male former page.  —  Foley, who was considered likely to win reelection this fall, said in a three-sentence letter of resignation …
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The Blotter:
Exclusive: The Sexually Explicit Internet Messages That Led to Fla. Rep. Foley's Resignation  —  Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz & Maddy Sauer Report:  —  Florida Rep. Mark Foley's resignation came just hours after ABC News questioned the congressman about a series of sexually explicit instant …
Roll Call:
Foley Interviewed About Page Last Year; Democrats Not Told  —  Ex-Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.), who resigned Friday after reports of his improper communications with a former male House page were made public, was interviewed about some of those contacts by the chairman of the House Page Board and the then-Clerk of the House last year.
Talking Points Memo:
Big.  Big Trouble.  —  We caught wind of this and tried our damneddest to confirm it this afternoon.  But we weren't able to.  Rep. Alexander's office wasn't eager to return out calls.  —  But now the AP has the story.  And here's why there may be a lot more fall out from the Rep. Foley (R-FL) story.
John / AMERICAblog:
House GOP Leadership knew about Foley almost a year ago, let Foley remain in House leadership, let him remain as chair of House sex offender caucus  —  UPDATE: Foley's "instant message" communications with the underage boy have now been posted by ABC.  They are horrendous.
Greg Hilburn / thenewsstar.com:
Congressman resigns because of e-mail to Monroe teen  —  A Florida congressman resigned today after questions arose concerning e-mails he wrote to a former teenage male page from Monroe.  —  U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, a Republican who represented an area around Palm Beach County …
Jamie Holly / Crooks and Liars:
ABC News Releases Message Exchanges Between Foley And Teens
Discussion: AMERICAblog and The Agonist
Bill Adair / St. Petersburg Times:
Foe questions e-mails from Foley to page
Discussion: TIME and All Spin Zone
Associated Press:
Foley Resigns From Congress Over E-Mails
Jennifer Nix / Firedoglake:   Foley: "We Track Library Books Better Than We Do Sexual Predators."
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Florida's 16th District: Rep. Foley Drops Out
Discussion: The Strata-Sphere
Omar / IRAQ THE MODEL:
Fierce clashes in Baghdad; government imposes curfew.  —  About an hour ago local TV stations reported that the office of PM Maliki announced that a total curfew will be imposed in Baghdad from now until Sunday morning.  —  The curfew apparently came in response to an acute deterioration …
Discussion: The Belmont Club and Pajamas Media
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BBC:
Total curfew declared in Baghdad  —  The Iraqi government has declared an immediate curfew in the capital, Baghdad, to run until Sunday morning.  —  The move affects both vehicles and pedestrians, a spokesman for the Iraqi prime minister said.  —  The spokesman did not reveal why a curfew …
MSNBC:
Baghdad under curfew over suspected plot
Discussion: All Spin Zone
CNN:
Al Qaeda No. 2: Bush a liar, 'spiller of Muslim blood'  —  (CNN) — Calling President Bush "the murderer and spiller of Muslim blood," al Qaeda's top deputy released a videotape Friday accusing the U.S. president of being a "deceitful charlatan" who has lied to the American people.
Discussion: Angry Bear
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Firouz Sedarat / Reuters:
Zawahri calls Bush a failure over war on terrorism  —  DUBAI (Reuters) - Al Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahri called President Bush a lying failure for talking of progress in the war on terrorism, according to a video posted on the Internet on Friday.
Sheldon Gweiser / MSNBC:
Poll shows Virginia Senate race is dead heat  —  Incumbent Sen. Allen and challenger James Webb tied with 43 percent  —  NEW YORK - Incumbent Republican Senator George Allen and Democratic challenger Jim Webb are tied in the latest MSNBC/McClatchy poll conducted by Mason-Dixon.
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
White House Disputes Book's Report of Anti-Rumsfeld Moves  —  New revelations that White House aides tried twice in the past two years to persuade President Bush to fire Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld fueled a caustic election-season debate yesterday over the president's wartime leadership …
Discussion: Booman Tribune
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
White House Disputes Book's Account of Rifts on Iraq
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Randy Hall / CNSNews:
Sen. Clinton: 'Incalculable Damage Done to Our Country'  —  (CNSNews.com) - The upcoming mid-term election is important because the U.S. is "in a deep hole, and Republicans don't want to quit digging," Sen. Hillary Clinton told a gathering of Democratic women in Washington, D.C., on Thursday.
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Glenn Thrush / Newsday:
Hillary urges Dean to raise campaign funds
Discussion: Redstate
Investor's Business Daily:
97 Reasons Democrats Are Weak On Defense And Can't Be Trusted To Govern In Wartime  —  Today's Democrats are nothing like Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Kennedy, who with courage and decisive action kept on top of their jobs and aggressively confronted one national defense crisis after another.
Michael Barone / US News:
Poll numbers on Iraq  —  Is the Iraq war as disastrously unpopular as mainstream media assume?  Not necessarily.  Consider these results from the University of Cincinnati's most recent poll in Ohio.  Ohio is a pretty good bellwether: It voted 51 to 49 percent Bush in 2004, while the country as a whole voted 51 to 48 percent.
Discussion: Power Line
Martin Arnold / Financial Times:
Teacher in hiding after attacking Islam  —  A French philosophy teacher has gone into hiding under police protection after receiving death threats for an article he wrote attacking Islam and the Prophet Mohammed.  —  The teacher, Robert Redeker, was writing in response to the angry reactions around …
 
 
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