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7:00 AM ET, December 18, 2006

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Hope Yen / Associated Press:
Reid: Brief troop increase OK in Iraq  —  WASHINGTON - The Senate's top Democrat offered qualified support Sunday for a plan to increase U.S. troops in Iraq, saying it would be acceptable as part of a broader strategy to bring combat forces home by 2008.  —  President Bush's former secretary of state …
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John / AMERICAblog:
Senator Reid's game
Discussion: Eschaton
Michael Moss / New York Times:
Former U.S. Detainee in Iraq Recalls Torment  —  One night in mid-April, the steel door clanked shut on detainee No. 200343 at Camp Cropper, the United States military's maximum-security detention site in Baghdad.  —  American guards arrived at the man's cell periodically over the next several days …
Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES and The RBC
Oliver North / Washington Times:
Winning the war  —  RAMADI, Iraq.  —  "We're here to win."  That's how a U.S. Marine corporal put it when I asked him what he was doing in Iraq.  He spoke looking squarely into our TV camera — a more intimidating experience for him than the rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) …
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Deacon / Power Line:   RAMADI OR BAGHDAD?  —  Oliver North, reporting from Ramadi, says we are winning there.
MSNBC:
MTP Transcript for Dec. 17  —  MR. TIM RUSSERT: Our issues this Sunday: the president explores new options for Iraq.  —  (Videotape):  —  PRES. GEORGE W. BUSH: I'm not going to be rushed into making a difficult decision.  —  MR. RUSSERT: The tension between the First Amendment and the war on terror.
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Riley Yates / New Hampshire Union Leader:
Gingrich defends free speech curbs
Times of London:
Litvinenko's killers used polonium worth $10m to give massive overdose  —  British investigators believe that Alexander Litvinenko's killers used more than $10 million of polonium-210 to poison him.  Preliminary findings from the post mortem examination on the former KGB spy suggest …
Maria Cereghino / New Yorker:
THIS WEEK IN THE NEW YORKER  —  For Immediate Release: December 10, 2006  —  Press Contacts: Sonya McNair, (212) 286-6375  —  Can Social Scientists Redefine the War on Terror?  —  In the December 18, 2006, issue of The New Yorker, George Packer reports on a radically new approach …
New York Times:
Murdoch Is Said to Have Ordered Editor's Dismissal  —  Rupert Murdoch personally ordered the dismissal of Judith Regan, the publisher of a widely criticized O. J. Simpson book, after he heard reports of a heated conversation Ms. Regan had with a company lawyer on Friday that included comments …
New York Times:
After Bankruptcy Filing, Recriminations Fly at Air America  —  In its search for a new chief executive this past summer, Air America Radio interviewed seasoned media executives in an effort to revive the faltering network.  One interview took a bizarre turn, however, when the executive got …
Elizabeth Day / Daily Mail:
O, Muslim town of Bethlehem...  All is quiet in Bethlehem.  On Manger Square, the Church of the Nativity stands in the pale gloom of dusk, its doors open to passing pilgrims.  —  But inside, the nave is empty of visitors and the collection boxes depleted of coins.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:   Bethlehem no longer safe for Christians
Michael Theodoulou / Times of London:
Hardliners defeated in Iran's twin elections  —  Iranians have dealt a blow to President Ahmadinejad's hardline Government, by thwarting his allies in municipal and clerical elections.  —  According to early results, Mr Ahmadinejad's fundamentalist mentor who espouses cultural isolation from the West …
Chris Wallace / Fox News:
TRANSCRIPT: SEN. EDWARD KENNEDY ON 'FOX NEWS SUNDAY'  —  The following is a partial transcript of the Dec. 17, 2006, edition of "FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace":  —  "FOX NEWS SUNDAY" HOST CHRIS WALLACE: Well, joining us now for the first time ever, Senator Edward Kennedy.
Discussion: LiberalOasis and The Corner
Randy Kennedy / New York Times:
An Atheist Can Believe in Christmas  —  IF last holiday season charitably could have been described as the war-on-Christmas Christmas — with Bill O'Reilly of Fox News declaring war on the warriors and others declaring war on him — maybe it's not such a stretch to think of this year's prevalent yuletide theme …
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
And merry Xmas to you all  —  I passed through Shannon Airport in Ireland the other day.  They've got a "holiday" display in the terminal, but guess what?  It says "Merry Christmas."  The Emerald Isle has a few Jews, and these days rather a lot of Muslims, and presumably even a militant atheist or two …
Elaine Ganley / Associated Press:
France to pull troops from Afghanistan  —  PARIS - France is to withdraw its 200-strong special forces from Afghanistan, all of its ground troops engaged in the U.S anti-terror operation there, authorities announced Sunday.  —  The decision to pull the elite troops, based in the southeastern city …
Dan Conley / Political Insider:
More On Warner  —  Now that Hotline has published the rumor, my sources have released me from my pledges ... Mark Warner has, in fact, been rethinking his decision to leave the Presidential race for several weeks now.  Warner's going to wait and see how this race plays out …
Discussion: Hot Air and SOTUblog
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Hotline On Call:
What If Warner's Reconsidering?
Discussion: Donklephant and Raising Kaine
Lindsay Beyerstein / Majikthise:
Michelle Malkin invited to Iraq, Pajamas Media solves immolation mystery  —  Michelle Malkin invited to Iraq, former Pajamas Media partner solves immolation mystery  —  When the Associated Press reported that 6 Iraqis had been burned to death in sectarian violence, Michelle Malkin …
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Ilya Somin / The Volokh Conspiracy:
THE ECONOMICS OF DC DATING: Julian Sanchez and Heather debate …
Discussion: BizzyBlog
BBC:
China awards massive nuclear deal
BarbinMD / Daily Kos:
Fred Kagan Explains "The Surge"
Discussion: CorrenteWire
Los Angeles Times:
In jail and in danger  —  Violence has left 14 dead …
Baron Bodissey / Gates of Vienna:
The Veil is Islamism's Symbol
Yitzhak Benhorin / Ynetnews:
Neocons: We expected Israel to attack Syria
Discussion: Informed Comment
Times of London:
Tsunami survivors given the lash
Discussion: Pajamas Media
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Larry McShane / Associated Press:
Time Magazine's Person of the Year: You
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Editor and Publisher:
Laura Bush Pleads for Positive Media Coverage from Iraq …
Discussion: theday.com and Liberty Street
Digby / Firedoglake:
FDL Book Salon: Whistling Past Dixie
Washington Post:
Doubts About Iraqi Leader's Capabilities Persist
Jules Crittenden / Boston Herald:
Kerry rewrites U.S. foreign policy to fix Iraq wisecrack
 

 
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