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John F. Burns / New York Times:
U.S. and Iraqis Are Wrangling Over War Plans — Just days after President Bush unveiled a new war plan calling for more than 20,000 additional American troops in Iraq, the heart of the effort — a major push to secure the capital — faces some of its fiercest resistance from the very people …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Bush antagonizes the left on "60 Minutes" — Comedy gold tonight on CBS as the president hints that he's being scapegoated by his critics; that the problem with Iraqis is that they're insufficiently grateful; and that he's a "flexible, open-minded person" — with an oblique jab …
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Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Saddam Hussein's Co-Defendants Hanged — Half Brother and Chief Judge Condemned With Deposed Iraqi Leader — The Iraqi government executed two of Saddam Hussein's associates early Monday morning for their participation in crimes against humanity, according to an Iraqi official.
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Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
Saddam half brother, ex-official hanged — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Saddam Hussein's half brother and the former head of Iraq's Revolutionary Court were both hanged before dawn Monday, Prosecutor Munqith al-Faroon said, two weeks and two days after the former Iraqi dictator was executed in a chaotic scene that has drawn worldwide criticism.
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New York Times:
Two Hussein Allies Are Hanged, Iraqi Official Says — Saddam Hussein's half-brother and the head of his revolutionary court were executed before dawn today, according to the Iraqi government. — The executions come just two weeks after Mr. Hussein's hanging caused considerable criticism around …
Mark Seibel / Real Cities:
Administration leaving out important details on Iraq — WASHINGTON - President Bush and his aides, explaining their reasons for sending more American troops to Iraq, are offering an incomplete, oversimplified and possibly untrue version of events there that raises new questions about the accuracy …
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Fareed Zakaria / Newsweek:
Lt. Col. Steven Duke says the Mahdi Army is 'sitting on the 50-yard line, eating popcorn, watching us do their work for them.' — Everyone seems quite certain that George W. Bush's new plan for Iraq is bound to fail. But I'm not so sure. At a military level, the strategy could well produce some successes.
Noam Cohen / New York Times:
Bloggers Take on Talk Radio Hosts — A San Francisco talk radio station pre-empted three hours of programming on Friday in response to a campaign by bloggers who have recorded extreme comments by several hosts and passed on digital copies to advertisers. — The lead blogger …
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Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Cheney Defends Efforts to Obtain Financial Records — Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday defended efforts by the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency to obtain financial records of Americans suspected of terrorism or espionage, calling the practice a "perfectly legitimate activity" …
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The Big Trunk / Power Line:
THE PROPHETIC VOICE — When Martin Luther King, Jr. brought his nonviolent campaign against segregation to Bull Connor's Birmingham, he laid siege to the bastion of Jim Crow. In Birmingham between 1957 and 1962, black churches and homes had been subjected to horrific bombings.
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Youssef Ibrahim / New York Sun:
Will Saudis Ban the Letter 'X'? — The letter "X" soon may be banned in Saudi Arabia because it resembles the mother of all banned religious symbols in the oil kingdom: the cross. — The new development came with the issuing of another mind-bending fatwa, or religious edict …
New York Post:
JIMMY FOR TERROR — Has a former president of the United States - a Nobel Peace Prize winner, no less - given his blessing to wanton murder and terrorist assaults against Israel? — Sure looks that way. — How else to read that astonishing statement on page 213 of Jimmy Carter's new anti-Israel screed …
Agence France Presse:
Economists upgrade US outlook after surprisingly strong data — Economists are hastily upgrading their forecasts for the US economy after a series of surprisingly strong reports suggesting the so-called "soft landing" may be over and growth is accelerating.
James Glanz / New York Times:
Rebuilding Teams Would Swell Under Bush's New Iraq Plan — As part of its latest plan to stabilize Iraq, the United States intends to more than double the number of regional reconstruction teams and to add nearly 400 specialists for existing and new teams, in fields from politics and the rule …
Bill / INDCJournal:
The Jacksonian Tradition: An Interview with Lance Corporal Nathan (Chad) Yeager — Exchanging pictures with an Iraqi cop. — A preface: A few weeks before coming over here, I met a pleasant Icelandic woman in a bar. A friend introduced us and told her that I was headed to Iraq …
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