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Michelle Malkin:
Rumors and reporting in Iraq — ***scroll for updates...NYTimes blogger Tom Zeller Jr weighs in...plus: bloggers note the significance of the capture of Mazer Al-Jubouri, aka the Baghdad Sniper, and his group...*** — I've been following up with CENTCOM on the Associated Press/sketchy sources brouhaha.
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Dr. Rusty Shackleford / The Jawa Report:
"Juba" the Baghdad Sniper Captured! — The Iraqi Ministry of the Interior announced that it has captured the Baghdad sniper known as Ali Nazar al Jubori. The name sounds eerily familiar. al Jubori....could this be the original Juba sniper? That is the claim being made.
American Thinker:
Fanning the flames — Our contributor Sharon Tosi Moore is an officer in the United States Army Reserves, currently serving in Iraq. Today, she writes about the disputed report of Sunnis burned alive by Shiites. … This headline was blared with authority and gleeful revulsion across every newspaper …
Curt / Flopping Aces:
Getting The News From The Enemy, Update IV — Many people have emailed me with an update on the Iraqi press conference. I received the same email as Michelle Malkin did but she was able to get a more complete transcript. First here is the email from Centcom: … Please note that the AP was at the briefing.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
A possibly stupid question about the AP/Centcom kerfuffle
A possibly stupid question about the AP/Centcom kerfuffle
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Associated Press
Tom Zeller Jr / The Lede:
So Just Who Is Capt. Jamil Hussein?
So Just Who Is Capt. Jamil Hussein?
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Dean's World, Reason Magazine, Media Blog, Blue Crab Boulevard, The News Blog, Townhall.com Blog's …, PoliBlog (TM) and PrairiePundit
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
As promised: Iraqi spokesman says AP police source is phony …
As promised: Iraqi spokesman says AP police source is phony …
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Confederate Yankee, Ace of Spades HQ, A Blog For All, JunkYardBlog, The Lede and Don Surber
ABCNEWS:
EXCLUSIVE: Iranian Weapons Arm Iraqi Militia — Hezbollah Training Also Linked to Iraq Violence — U.S. officials say they have found smoking-gun evidence of Iranian support for terrorists in Iraq: brand-new weapons fresh from Iranian factories. According to a senior defense official …
Greg Sargent / tpmcafe.com:
George Will Distorts WaPo's Own Reporting To Smear Jim Webb — This has to be one of the rankest displays of journalistic dishonesty I've seen in some time on the part of any columnist, large or small. — In today's Washington Post column, George Will assails Dem Senator-elect Jim Webb …
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George Will / Jewish World Review:
Webb conveys the message of a boor — Wednesday's Washington Post reported that at a White House reception for newly elected members of Congress, Webb "tried to avoid President Bush," refusing to pass through the reception line or have his picture taken with the President.
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Argghhh!
Dan Froomkin / Watchdog Blog:
On Calling Bulls**t — Mainstream-media political journalism is in danger of becoming increasingly irrelevant, but not because of the Internet, or even Comedy Central. The threat comes from inside. It comes from journalists being afraid to do what journalists were put on this green earth to do.
Associated Press:
IRAQI PM AL-MALIKI TELLS BUSH, RICE IT'S NO 'BIG DEAL' TO CONTROL MAHDI ARMY — AMMAN, Jordan — President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed the Iraqi prime minister on Thursday to disband a heavily armed Shiite militia blamed for much of the country's sectarian violence …
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Associated Press:
Japan Says It Could Build a Nuclear Bomb — TOKYO (AP) — Japan has the technological know-how to produce a nuclear weapon but has no immediate plans to do so, the foreign minister said Thursday, several weeks after communist North Korea carried out a nuclear test.
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Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Benchwarming — THE SUPREME COURT MELTS DOWN OVER GREENHOUSE GASSES. — If there is anything stranger than writing up your story on global warming in a T-shirt ... in late November ... in the District of Columbia, I can't quite think what it is. In fact nothing about this morning's oral argument …
yct-ut.org:
Conservative Students to Display "ACLU Nativity Scene" — Contact: Kevin Potter, Director of Communications - 469.231.4327 — Conservative Students to Display "ACLU Nativity Scene" — Young Conservatives of Texas at UT Austin — Contact: Tony McDonald, Chairman 512.923.6893
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
FEMA Told to Resume Storm Aid — Judge's Ruling May Affect Thousands On the Gulf Coast — The Bush administration unconstitutionally denied aid to tens of thousands of Gulf Coast residents displaced by hurricanes Katrina and Rita and must resume payments immediately, a federal judge ordered yesterday.
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Firedoglake, Facing South, The Mahablog, DownWithTyranny!, The Democratic Daily and the talking dog
Lindsay Beyerstein / New York Press:
COVER UP — How New York's buildings are disappearing beneath a blanket of never-ending scaffolds and backroom deals — For many residents of the oft-termed New New York, the post-9/11 building boom represents prosperity, regeneration and renewed vitality.
Margaret Webb Pressler / Washington Post:
Do Not Pry Open Until Christmas — The Hard Truth About Hated 'Clamshell' Packaging — There's a part of Christmas morning that Tiffany Seay dreads: getting everything out of its packaging. The twisties. The tape. The hard plastic ties, like handcuffs for dolls. The itty-bitty screwdrivers.
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David Corn
Sister Toldjah:
Promises made, promises broken - a retrospective on Pelosi's 9-11 Commission promises (PM UPDATE: 12:32 PM) — Well, they promised the most "honest, ethical, and open Congress in history", which proved to be complete BS post-election after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi not only let it be known …
Wall Street Journal:
Majority of Americans Believe Iraq Is in 'Civil War', Poll Finds — A majority of Americans think Iraq is in the midst of a civil war, a new Harris Interactive poll finds, and few are confident that Robert Gates's nomination as Secretary of Defense will improve the situation there.
Nico / Think Progress:
Right-Wing Radio Host Fabricates Controversy To Attack First Muslim Congressman — Right-wing radio host Dennis Prager wrote a column earlier this week claiming that Rep.-elect Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim elected to Congress, had "announced that he will not take his oath of office on the Bible …