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8:10 AM ET, January 17, 2007

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MSNBC:
Saudis consider sending troops to Iraq  —  Government 'deeply skeptical' al-Maliki can make Bush surge plan work  —  Saudi Arabia believes the Iraqi government is not up to the challenge and has told the United States that it is prepared to move its own forces into Iraq should the violence …
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Joshua Partlow / Washington Post:
Bombings Kill 60 at University In Baghdad
Discussion: The Reaction and The Heretik
Pachacutec / Firedoglake:
Libby Trial Jury Selection: Day One Recap of Libby's Dilemma  —  "I am completely without objectivity.  There is nothing you can say that would make me feel positively about President Bush."  Thus spake the eighth of nine prospective jurors reviewed by Judge Reggie Walton …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway and Don Surber
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Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Libby Quick Hits  —  Day One of the Libby trial has passed, and the sun did not stop in the sky - whew!  —  Let's go for some quick-ish hits.  The NY Times has a case overview from Monday that is absurdly misinformed.  Obviously, this trial is a bit awkward for them …
Emptywheel / The Next Hurrah:
We've Got a Potential Witness (and Mention) List
Discussion: JustOneMinute
Bryan / Hot Air:
Assessing Iraq  —  Michelle and I spent four days patrolling the environs around Forward Operating Base Justice in north and west Baghdad last week.  FOB Justice is near one functional neighborhood, Khadimiyah, one mostly recovered neighborhood, Al Salam, one dysfunctional neighborhood …
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Michelle Malkin:
Back from Baghdad  —  My HotAir.com colleague Bryan Preston and I are back from Iraq.  Thanks to Allah and Ian for holding down the fort at HA and thanks much to guest-bloggers Mary Katharine Ham, See-Dubya, and the Big Lizards for filling in here during my absence.  Be sure to bookmark their blogs.
Jane Hamsher / Firedoglake:
Three Time [Loser] Winner  —  There just didn't seem to be any other way to explain why I'm not going to be present for the first two weeks of the Libby trial so I decided to resort to the truth.  —  As someone who has devoted years to building this blog around coverage of the CIA leak investigation …
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
THE LEFT AND THE WAR....If anti-war liberals were right about the war from the start, how come they don't get more respect?  Here's the nickel version of the answer from liberal hawks: It's because they don't deserve it.  Sure, the war has gone badly, but not for the reasons the doves warned of.
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
What $1.2 Trillion Can Buy  —  The human mind isn't very well equipped to make sense of a figure like $1.2 trillion.  We don't deal with a trillion of anything in our daily lives, and so when we come across such a big number, it is hard to distinguish it from any other big number.
Online NewsHour:
President Bush Defends Decision to Send Additional Troops to Iraq  —  JIM LEHRER: Mr. President, welcome.  —  PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: Thank you, sir.  —  MR. LEHRER: How do you feel about the way the Iraqi government handled the hangings of Saddam Hussein, and now more recently, two of his top aides?
Dan Balz / Washington Post:
Obama Forms Presidential Exploratory Committee  —  Illinois Sen. Barack Obama (D), one of the Democratic Party's brightest young stars, jumped into the 2008 race for the White House today, establishing a presidential exploratory committee that is expected to lead immediately into a full-blown campaign for president.
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
As Trial Begins, Cheney's Ex-Aide Is Still a Puzzle  —  Paradox seems to define I. Lewis Libby Jr., who remains a bit mysterious even to close colleagues.  He is the White House policy enforcer who also wrote a literary novel; a buttoned-down Washington lawyer who likes knocking back tequila shots …
Discussion: Is That Legal? and TalkLeft
Reuters:
Philippines says Abu Sayyaf leader killed in clash  —  MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines said on Wednesday that troops had killed the top planner of the country's most deadly Islamic militant group in a clash at a rebel jungle camp in the southwest.  —  Abu Sulaiman, one of the top five leaders …
Justin Rood / TPMmuckraker:
What's the White House Doing to Prosecutors?  —  During a floor speech on the topic moments ago, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) said the White House has told her it was replacing from five to 10 Senate-confirmed U.S. attorneys with its own interim appointees.  —  We know of seven who have left during …
Chris Bowers / MyDD:
When Blogospheres Collide  —  Remember this pic?  —  This is a picture of the linking patterns among highly trafficked progressive and conservative blogs during the final months of the 2004 election.  It was the first, and to date best, academic study on linking patterns within the political blogosphere.
Discussion: tpmcafe.com and Eschaton
Richard McGregor / Financial Times:
Stronger renminbi finds key backing  —  The Chinese ministry responsible for promoting exports has backed a further appreciation of the renminbi, removing one of the last remaining institutional lobbies in Beijing against a stronger currency.  —  A think-tank attached to the commerce ministry said that an …
Discussion: Daniel W. Drezner
 
 
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Roni Singer-Heruti / Haaretz:
Police unsurprised by 7th honor killing in Ramle family
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Anti-Buildup Measure to Have Bipartisan Stamp
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Carolyn Lochhead / San Francisco Chronicle:
CONFLICT IN IRAQ  —  Iraq refugee crisis exploding
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Paul Crespo / NewsMax.com:
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Little Green Footballs:
Jimmy Carter on Al Jazeera: Palestinian Missiles Are Not Terrorism
Discussion: Power Line and NewsBusters.org
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
INSURGENCIES REVISITED....I've observed in the past that the …
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Intelligence in the Classroom
The Prowler / American Spectator:
Tancredo's Dubious Allies
The Blotter:
Pakistan Strikes Al Qaeda's Winter Hideout
Mary Anastasia O'Grady / Opinion Journal:
The Poor Get Richer  —  Incomes in the developing world start to catch up.