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New York Times:
Bush Blames Al Qaeda for Wave of Iraq Violence — President Bush today said Al Qaeda was to blame for the rising wave of sectarian violence in Iraq, which he refused to label a civil war. Mr. Bush said he would press Iraq's prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, during meetings in Jordan later …
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Washington Post:
Bush Pledges Continued U.S. Presence in Iraq — In NATO Summit Speech, President Says He Will Discuss Security With Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki This Week — President Bush, rejecting what he called "pessimistic" assessments of his Middle East policy, pledged Tuesday to make necessary changes …
Agence France Presse:
Iran tells Talabani that US-led forces must leave Iraq — Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei told visiting Iraqi President Jalal Talabani that US-led forces had to leave Iraq if security was to be restored in the violence-riven country. — "The first step to solve the security issue in Iraq …
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Edmund Blair / Washington Times:
Iran vows to help Iraq with security — TEHRAN — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran would do whatever it could to help provide security to Iraq amid warnings the country was on the brink of civil war. — Mr. Ahmadinejad made the pledge at the start of a visit to Iran …
Audrey Hudson / Washington Times:
How the imams terrorized an airliner — Muslim religious leaders removed from a Minneapolis flight last week exhibited behavior associated with a security probe by terrorists and were not merely engaged in prayers, according to witnesses, police reports and aviation security officials.
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Fouad Ajami / US News:
Back to the Future — The sin of George W. Bush, to hear his critics tell it, is that he unleashed the forces of freedom in Arab-Islamic lands only to beget a terrible storm. In Iraq and in Lebanon, the furies of sectarianism are on the loose; and in that greater Middle East stretching …
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Helene Cooper / New York Times:
Bush Asking Arab Friends for Iraq Help
Bush Asking Arab Friends for Iraq Help
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New York Times:
Hezbollah Said to Help Shiite Army in Iraq — A senior American intelligence official said Monday that the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah had been training members of the Mahdi Army, the Iraqi Shiite militia led by Moktada al-Sadr. — The official said that 1,000 to 2,000 fighters …
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Editor and Publisher:
'Civil' Disobedience Spreads — 'NYT' Adjusts Language on Iraq — NEW YORK In the wake of the highly-publicized NBC and MSNBC decision to start referring to the conflict in Iraq as a "civil war," other media outlets, which have long used phrases such as "sectarian violence," are re-considering their language in this regard.
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CNN:
Pilot of crashed U.S. fighter jet missing in Iraq … BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — The U.S. military said Tuesday it has not found the pilot of an Air Force fighter jet a day after it crashed in Iraq. — The pilot, who officials have not named, has been classified as "duty status and whereabouts unknown …
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Fiona Macrae / Daily Mail:
Women talk three times as much as men, says study — It is something one half of the population has long suspected - and the other half always vocally denied. Women really do talk more than men. — In fact, women talk almost three times as much as men, with the average woman chalking …
Michael Kinsley / Washington Post:
Like I Care — The first person I knew who had a Web site of his own was a fellow Washington journalist. This was when many journalists were still just getting into e-mail, but the URL for this Web site quickly circulated around town and around the world. Why? Well, we were all impressed by the technological savvy.
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Lesley Clark / Miami Herald:
Congressman calls Miami a `Third World country' — WASHINGTON - Rep. Tom Tancredo, the leader of the anti-illegal immigration faction in the U.S. House, spent a recent weekend at The Breakers in Palm Beach. — Ninety miles to the south, he found a symbol to bolster his belief …
Ed Kilgore / Salon:
Yes, Democrats do need the South! — You have to hand it to Tom Schaller. The moment the midterm election results were more or less in, he crunched some numbers and stared at the exit polls, and took to the cyber-pages of Salon to trumpet the results as a confirmation of his idée fixe.
Rich Noyes / NewsBusters.org:
Is 'Cronkite Moment' Just a Media Myth? — Amid all of the media excitement of NBC's choice to grandly pronounce the ongoing violence in Iraq a "civil war," some (like MSNBC's Keith Olbermann) are gleefully touting NBC's editorializing as a "Walter Cronkite moment," referring …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Carter blames Israel for failure of roadmap, denies he's anti-Israel — As usual when the sage of Plains turns up on TV, it's an embarrassment of outraged riches. Here you'll find him bestowing the Carter seal of approval to James Baker and the "peace at any price" gang …