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New York Times:
Iraq Panel to Recommend Pullback of Combat Troops — The bipartisan Iraq Study Group reached a consensus on Wednesday on a final report that will call for a gradual pullback of the 15 American combat brigades now in Iraq but stop short of setting a firm timetable for their withdrawal …
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Sharon Behn / Washington Times:
Shi'ites, Sunnis amass arms — Rival Shi'ite and Sunni groups are massing their militias in expectation of major confrontations, Iraqis say, even as President Bush prepares to meet today with the nation's embattled prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki. — Mr. Bush's meeting in Jordan is part …
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Daily Mail:
'Spy' radiation alert for 33,000 BA passengers — More than 33,000 British Airways passengers faced a radiation scare last night as three planes were grounded over fears that they have been contaminated by the toxin that killed Russian dissident Alexander Litvinenko.
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Noble Americans / CNN:
Ahmadinejad's letter to Americans — [Editor's note: This is the full text of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's open letter to "the American People," as supplied to CNN.] — (CNN) — In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful — O, Almighty God, bestow upon humanity …
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Nasser Karimi / Associated Press:
Iraq, Iran reach agreement on security — TEHRAN, Iran - Iraq's president said Wednesday he had reached a security agreement with Iran, which the United States accuses of fueling the chaos in the war-torn country. Iran's president called on countries to stop backing "terrorists" in Iraq and for the Americans to withdraw.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:Text: Ahmadinejad's letter to the American people
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Joseph Farah / WorldNetDaily:
Illegal aliens murder 12 Americans daily — Death toll in 2006 far overshadows total — U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, Afghanistan — WASHINGTON - While the military "quagmire" in Iraq was said to tip the scales of power in the U.S. midterm elections, most Americans have no idea …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
More Demonization Of Illegals At WND — I'm in favor of tough border enforcement stopping illegal entry into the US. That comes from a solid concern about national security and support for legal immigrants who take the time to follow the law when they move to our nation.
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Patti Waldmeir / Financial Times:
Supreme Court clashes over climate change — The global political battle over climate change was also being fought at the US Supreme Court on Wednesday as judges bickered over the role of greenhouse gas emissions in global warming and disagreed on whether the Environmental …
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Joseph D. McNamara / Wall Street Journal:
50 Shots — Around 4 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 25, several New York City police officers in plain clothes fired an estimated 50 shots at a car, wounding two black men and killing a third, 23-year-old Sean Bell. Some police bullets penetrated nearby homes. Although an undercover officer …
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Dennis Prager / Townhall.com:
America, Not Keith Ellison, decides what book a congressman takes his oath on — Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first Muslim elected to the United States Congress, has announced that he will not take his oath of office on the Bible, but on the bible of Islam, the Koran.
Audrey Hudson / Washington Times:
Marshals decry imams' charges — Air marshals, pilots and security officials yesterday expressed concern that airline passengers and crews will be reluctant to report suspicious behavior aboard for fear of being called "racists," after several Muslim imams made that charge in a press conference Monday …
CNN:
Colin Powell says Iraq in a 'civil war' … DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (CNN) — Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Wednesday that Iraq's violence meets the standard of civil war and that if he were heading the State Department now, he might recommend that the administration use that term.
CNN:
Lawyer wrongly arrested in bombings: 'We lived in 1984' … PORTLAND, Oregon (CNN) — The U.S. Justice Department said Wednesday it is paying $2 million and apologizing to an Oregon lawyer wrongly accused of being involved with the 2004 train bombings in Madrid, Spain.
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Ted Bridis / Associated Press:
U.S. Bans Sale of IPods to North Korea — WASHINGTON — The Bush administration wants North Korea's attention, so like a scolding parent it's trying to make it tougher for that country's eccentric leader to buy iPods, plasma televisions and Segway electric scooters.
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Elliot Spagat / Associated Press:
San Diego to Ban Wal-Mart Supercenters — SAN DIEGO (AP) — The City Council here voted late Tuesday to ban certain giant retail stores, dealing a blow to Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s potential to expand in the nation's eighth-largest city. — The measure, approved on a 5-3 vote …
Roddy Boyd / New York Post:
HANK'S NEW LADY — GREENBERG PUTS SQUEEZE ON PINCH'S PAPER — Billionaire insurance titan Maurice "Hank" Greenberg has begun buying huge blocks of New York Times stock to break the Sulzberger family's stranglehold on the media empire, The Post has learned.
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