memeorandum: The West is losing patience with Putin (Telegraph)

9:10 PM ET, November 25, 2006

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Iraq P.M. struggling ahead of Bush visit — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's Shiite prime minister, struggling to prevent sectarian violence from sending Iraq into full-fledged civil war, is facing strong criticism from top Shiite and Sunni-Arab leaders alike as he prepares for a summit with President Bush next week.

Discussion: AMERICAblog

Curt / Flopping Aces:

Getting The News From The Enemy — Yesterday there were two incidents that I wrote about involving the use of enemy propagandists by our MSM. Now take a look at the latest "all hell is breaking loose" report on Iraq, from the AP of course: … As we have learned quite well over the years …

Discussion: protein wisdom, A Blog For All, The Jawa Report and Blue Crab Boulevard

Multi-National Force:

One Mosque Burned in Hurriya — Multi-National Corps - Iraq — Public Affairs Office, Camp Victory — APO AE 09342 — FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE — RELEASE No. 20061125-09 — One Mosque Burned in Hurriya — Multi-National Corps - Iraq PAO — BAGHDAD — Contrary to recent media reporting …

Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:

In Iraq, Reprisals Embolden Militias — Shiites Attack Sunni Mosques to Avenge Mass Killings; Lawmakers Threaten Boycott — In a wave of reprisal killings, Shiite militiamen attacked Sunni mosques in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq on Friday, defying a government curfew and propelling the country further toward full-blown civil war.

Discussion: MyDD, The Belgravia Dispatch, Informed Comment and PBD

Solomon Moore / Los Angeles Times:
Wave of retaliation sweeps Iraq

Discussion: QandO, PoliBlog (TM), The Next Hurrah, Decision '08, Hullabaloo, Patterico's Pontifications and First Draft

Edward Wong / New York Times:
Militants Attack Sunnis' Mosques in 2 Iraqi Cities

Discussion: The Carpetbagger Report and Daily Kos

Greg Mitchell / Editor and Publisher:

Despite Election Results, Edsall Still Sees 'Red' — Thomas B. Edsall, replacing John Tierney this month on The New York Times' op-ed page, follows up his ill-timed book, which had predicted hard times for Democrats on the campaign trial, by forecasting more trouble ahead for the party.

Matt Stoller / MyDD:

Democrats Won. We Won. Get It? — I know some friends of mine really respect Tom Edsall's work, and maybe he was good once. I don't see it. I read some of his book 'Building Red America', and it was an analytically useless description of why the Republicans will always maintain a narrow majority.

Discussion: TalkLeft, Ezra Klein, Prairie Weather and Alabama Liberation Front

Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Times Seeks to Bar Review of Phone Data

Discussion: Michelle Malkin, Blogs of War, Stop The ACLU, JURIST, Wizbang and Macsmind

Mike Sullivan / The Sun:

Deathbed spy accuses Putin — Doomed ... the ex-spy days before his death — and ALEX PEAKE — DINERS at a sushi bar where a former Russian spy was possibly poisoned have been offered medical help. — Urine tests will be offered to clients at the Itsu restaurant in Piccadilly …

Discussion: Hot Air and The Strata-Sphere

Daily Mail:
How many more were poisoned? — As the deadliest poison known …

Discussion: Wizbang, Ace of Spades HQ, Blue Crab Boulevard and Andrew Bolt

Telegraph:
The West is losing patience with Putin

Discussion: jules crittenden and EU Referendum

Tom Geoghegan / BBC:
The mystery of Litvinenko's death

Discussion: Crooks and Liars

Cahal Milmo / Independent: Who killed Litvinenko? — Alexander Litvinenko was a man …

Chuck Hagel / Washington Post:

Leaving Iraq, Honorably — There will be no victory or defeat for the United States in Iraq. These terms do not reflect the reality of what is going to happen there. The future of Iraq was always going to be determined by the Iraqis — not the Americans. — Iraq is not a prize to be won or lost.

Discussion: Redstate, Ezra Klein, The Mahablog, Right Wing Nut House, The Huffington Post, The American Street, Donklephant, Middle Earth Journal, Matthew Yglesias, Macsmind and Extreme Mortman

New York Times:

U.S. Finds Iraq Insurgency Has Funds to Sustain Itself — The insurgency in Iraq is now self-sustaining financially, raising tens of millions of dollars a year from oil smuggling, kidnapping, counterfeiting, corrupt charities and other crimes that the Iraqi government and its American patrons …

Discussion: Talking Points Memo, A Blog For All, Daily Kos and Blah3 Feed

WorldNetDaily:

Court shocker: 10 months for kiddie porn producer — Democrat activist faced 81 years in jail on charges involving kids as young as 6 — A Democrat community leader who would "offer a homily during worship services" and facilitated his congregation's "opening our doors to all people regardless …

Discussion: Clayton Cramer's BLOG

Jay / Stop The ACLU:
Outrage: Only 10 Months For Kiddie Porn Producer

Discussion: Blue Crab Boulevard

Herb Keinon / Jerusalem Post:

Israel accepts Palestinian groups' offer of ceasefire — Israel accepted a Palestinian cease-fire to go in effect Sunday morning, and will stop military operations in Gaza in return for an end to all Palestinian violence, including rocket fire, tunneling, and suicide bombers, the Prime Minister's Office announced Saturday night.

Discussion: Power Line, THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS and Israel Matzav

Reuters:

Rumsfeld okayed abuses says former U.S. general —Text+MADRID (Reuters) - Outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld authorized the mistreatment of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the prison's former U.S. commander said in an interview on Saturday.

Discussion: Balkinization, Y.A.C.R.W.B and Discourse.net

BBC:

Hariri court gets Lebanon backing — Lebanon's cabinet has given final approval to a plan for an international tribunal to try suspects in the murder of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. — The emergency session was held without six pro-Syrian ministers after talks to bring them back to the cabinet failed.

Discussion: Right Wing Nut House, Hot Air and From Beirut to the Beltway

Carl / Israel Matzav:
Time Magazine confirms: Hezbullah rearmed

Discussion: Wake up America, Y.A.C.R.W.B and Hot Air

Peter J. Smith / lifesite.net:

Abortion Fanatics Employ Death Threats to Silence British MP — MP is proposed bill to reduce the legal age for abortion from 24 to 21 weeks — LifeSiteNews.com) - A British Member of Parliament needed to call upon security after abortion activists sent her death threats for proposing …

Discussion: Hot Air, Y.A.C.R.W.B and The Moderate Voice

Mohamed Olad Hassan / Associated Press:

Somalia braces for war as residents flee — MOGADISHU, Somalia - Hundreds of Ethiopian troops arrived to protect Somalia's government Friday as witnesses said a powerful Islamic militia massed nearby, raising concerns of clashes between the two forces. — More than 130 trucks carried …

Discussion: The Jawa Report

Erica Werner / Associated Press:

Waxman has Bush administration in sights — LOS ANGELES - The lawmaker poised to cause the Bush administration's biggest headaches when Democrats take control of Congress may just be a grocer's son from Watts who's hardly a household name off Capitol Hill. — Rep. Henry Waxman (news …