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An Unlikely Offensive — THE IRAQ Study Group's recommendations for shifting U.S. military tactics in the war are specific, focused and aimed at incremental improvement over the next few months; they are also close to what the Pentagon and Iraqi government already were hoping to achieve.
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Nancy Trejos / Washington Post:
U.S. Report Rejected By Iraqi President — Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Sunday strongly rejected a bipartisan U.S. panel's report on U.S. war strategy in Iraq, calling some of its recommendations "dangerous" and a threat to his country's sovereignty. — "The report does not respect …
Kirk Semple / New York Times:
Iraqi President Denounces U.S. Strategy on Security — President Jalal Talabani said Sunday that the American program to train Iraq's security forces had been a repeated failure and he denounced a plan to increase the number of American advisers working with the Iraqi Army, saying it would subvert the country's sovereignty.
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Christine Hauser / New York Times:
Rumsfeld, in Iraq, Bids Farewell to U.S. Troops — The outgoing secretary of defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld, paid a surprise visit to Iraq this weekend and said American troops should stay in the country until the insurgents were defeated. — "We feel great urgency to protect the American people …
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Associated Press:
Talks under way to replace Iraq PM — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Major partners in Iraq's governing coalition are in behind-the-scenes talks to oust Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki amid discontent over his failure to quell raging violence, according to lawmakers involved.
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Qais Al-Bashir / Associated Press:
17 people slain in Baghdad clashes — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen attacked two Shiite homes in western Baghdad, killing 10 people, police said Sunday, while seven others died in clashes elsewhere in the capital. — No one claimed responsibility for the attack, which occurred at about 11 p.m. Saturday …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:Maliki Out? — It appears that events have begun to pick up pace in Iraq.
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Katherine Kersten / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Suspicion about imams grows as terror links pile up — The grounded imams incident at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport has been a public relations coup for the imams, their supporters and their claims that the group's only suspicious activity was saying evening prayers.
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
THE FLYING IMAMS: CONNECTING THE DOTS — Star Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten has not gotten the word from editor Anders Gyllenhaal that the story of the flying imams has played itself out. In an important column for tomorrow's paper, Kersten opens up some new avenues of investigation …
Washington Post:
Ex-Dictator Of Chile Dies at 91 — Gen. Augusto Pinochet, 91, the former Chilean dictator whose government murdered and tortured thousands during his repressive 17-year rule, died yesterday at a Santiago military hospital of complications from a heart attack, leaving incomplete numerous court cases …
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Mark Landler / New York Times:
New Radiation Traces Linked to Associate of Ex-Spy — German authorities said today that they had found traces of the radioactive substance polonium in a car and two homes in Hamburg used by a Russian business associate of the murdered ex-K.G.B. agent Alexander V. Litvinenko a few days before the men met in London.
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Lebanon deal in works after mass Beirut rally — Arab League envoy due in Beirut Monday after announcing he received positive response from Hizbullah-led pro-Syrian opposition to proposals aimed at ending political crisis which paralyzed government and raised fears of return to civil strife
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Associated Press:
Arab states study shared nuclear program — RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - The oil-rich Arab states on the Persian Gulf said Sunday that they will consider starting a joint nuclear program for peaceful purposes. — The announcement comes as the U.S. and its allies allege Iran is developing atomic weapons …
New York Times:
Taliban and Allies Tighten Grip in North of Pakistan — PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Islamic militants are using a recent peace deal with the government to consolidate their hold in northern Pakistan, vastly expanding their training of suicide bombers and other recruits and fortifying alliances …
Jessica Heslam / Boston Herald:
Plagiarist reporter back in business — After a humiliating plagiarism scandal that rocked the New York Times [NYT], Jayson Blair is quietly resurrecting his journalism career by writing about the very subject he says brought him down: Bipolar disorder. — Blair, 30, has been lending …
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:
Media Ignore Foley E-mail Leaker and Possible Connection to Rahm Emanuel — The House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct released its report concerning the Mark Foley page scandal on Friday, and the media banged the predictable drum about this all being a Republican cover-up.
Confederate Yankee:
Proof? — I just a received an email that claims to show photographic proof of the Jamil Hussein/Burning Six story of the Associated Press. Make of it what you will. … I'm not certain if Mr. Hussein's claims are accurate, but his explanation sounds every bit as credible …
Judy Holland / Albany Times Union:
On the Hill, the sound of silence — John Sweeney, still reeling from re-election loss to Kirsten Gillibrand, fails to show for votes — WASHINGTON — Since losing re-election last month, Rep. John Sweeney has played hooky in Congress, skipping votes, dodging reporters and avoiding …
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