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3:45 PM ET, December 31, 2006

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Steven R. Hurst / Associated Press:
Hundreds flock to see Saddam's gravesite  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - Hundreds of Iraqis flocked to the village where Saddam Hussein was born on Sunday to see the deposed leader buried in a religious compound 24 hours after his execution.  —  Dozens of relatives and others, some of them crying and moaning …
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:   Conflicts Shaped Two Presidencies
Michael Roston / TPMCafe blogs:
Saddam and the cellphones  —  1 of 1 people recommend this blog entry.
Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
The Defiant Despot Oppressed Iraq for More Than 30 Years
Najmaldin Karim / New York Times:
Justice, but No Reckoning  —  MY personal battle with Saddam Hussein …
Discussion: normblog
Michael A. Fletcher / Washington Post:
Bush Has Quietly Tripled Aid to Africa  —  Increase in Funding to Impoverished Continent Is Viewed as Altruistic or Pragmatic  —  President Bush's legacy is sure to be defined by his wielding of U.S. military power in Afghanistan and Iraq, but there is another, much softer and less-noticed effort …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   An Overlooked Legacy?  —  The Washington Post notes …
The Hill:
Conyers accepts responsibility for possible ethics violations  —  Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) has "accepted responsibility" for possibly violating House rules by requiring his official staff to perform campaign-related work, according to a statement quietly released by the House ethics committee late Friday evening.
Discussion: Flopping Aces and Blogs for Bush
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Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Poll: Americans see gloom, doom in 2007  —  WASHINGTON - Another terrorist attack, a warmer planet, death and destruction from a natural disaster.  These are among Americans' grim predictions for the United States in 2007.  —  Only a minority of people think the U.S. will go to war with Iran …
Discussion: Inactivist and CANNONFIRE
Tim Golden / New York Times:
For Guantánamo Review Boards, Limits Abound  —  GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — At one end of a converted trailer in the American military detention center here, a graying Pakistani businessman sat shackled before a review board of uniformed officers, pleading for his freedom.
Discussion: Firedoglake and the talking dog
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Google's Tipping Point  —  Taken in a vacuum, a fairly trivial thing happened a few days ago.  The co-founder of Firefox, Blake Ross, wrote a post criticizing Google called "Tip: Trust is hard to gain, easy to lose".  He takes issue with a new Google search feature that promotes certain …
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Liz Fedor / Minneapolis Star Tribune:
Area Somalis want peace for homeland  —  Many of the 1,500 protesters in Minneapolis were angered that the U.S. gave tacit support for ousting of Islamists.  —  More than a thousand Somalis gathered in Minneapolis on Saturday to call for Ethiopian troops to withdraw immediately from Somalia.
Times of London:
Hillary falls to earth in poll race  —  THE first vote is still more than a year away, but the campaign to replace President George W Bush in the White House is already throwing up surprises.  —  Unfortunately for Senator Hillary Clinton, long the front-runner in the Democratic drive to retake …
Barbara O'Brien / Crooks and Liars:
Old Tapes  —  I know the young folks despair at the way we moldering relics of the Baby Boom can't let go of Vietnam.  Let me say forthrightly that I know how you feel.  —  Imagine being a teenager in the mid-1960s and lusting after the Correges-style boots the other girls were wearing …
IrelandOn-line:
Hundreds of Turks injured in Muslim animal sacrifice  —  Hundreds of Turks spent the first day of the Muslim feast of Eid al-Adha holiday in emergency wards today after stabbing themselves or suffering other injuries while sacrificing startled and agitated animals.
Discussion: Sweetness & Light
Zachary Abuza / Counterterrorism Blog:
New Years Eve Bombs Shake Up Bangkok  —  Seven bombs were exploded across downtown Bangkok on New Years Eve as revelers began to turnout for dinner and the evening's festivities.  The first bomb exploded at the Victory Monument, an area crowded with food stalls, the terminus for small commuter vans from the northern districts.
jules crittenden:
Next Order of Business  —  From Tripoli to Syria to Teheran to Beirut to Pyongyang, how many of Saddam Hussein's fellow travelers involuntarily rubbed their own necks as the world was treated to this spectacle of justice for once achieved and not cynically subverted?  —  Heads up, Khaddafy, Assad and Ahmadinejad.
Byron Calame / New York Times:
Truth, Justice, Abortion and the Times Magazine  —  THE cover story on abortion in El Salvador in The New York Times Magazine on April 9 contained prominent references to an attention-grabbing fact.  "A few" women, the first paragraph indicated, were serving 30-year jail terms for having had abortions.
Times of London:
Science told: hands off gay sheep  —  Experiments that claim to 'cure' homosexual rams spark anger  —  SCIENTISTS are conducting experiments to change the sexuality of "gay" sheep in a programme that critics fear could pave the way for breeding out homosexuality in humans.
Washington Post:
Prosecutorial Indiscretion  —  "THE PROSECUTOR has more control over life, liberty and reputation than any other person in America.  His discretion is tremendous.  He can have citizens investigated, and, if he is that kind of person, he can have this done to the tune of public statements and veiled or unveiled intimations."
Clive Thompson / New York Times:
Music of the Hemispheres  —  "Listen to this," Daniel Levitin said.  "What is it?"  He hit a button on his computer keyboard and out came a half-second clip of music.  It was just two notes blasted on a raspy electric guitar, but I could immediately identify it: the opening lick to the Rolling Stones' "Brown Sugar."
Discussion: The Agonist and Althouse
 
 
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White House:
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Pakistan could become next US nightmare
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