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8:20 AM ET, January 21, 2007

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CNN:
Youth arrested in Turkish journalist's killing … ISTANBUL, Turkey (CNN) — Police have arrested a suspect in the shooting death of outspoken Turkish journalist Hrant Dink after a 32-hour search, authorities said Sunday.  —  Police have identified him as Ogun Samast.
Discussion: The Jawa Report
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Benjamin Harvey / Associated Press:   Outspoken Editor Is Slain in Turkey
Los Angeles Times:   Journalist slain in Turkey
Amberin Zaman / Telegraph:
Turkish journalist who spoke up for Armenians is shot dead in the street
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
Sebnem Arsu / New York Times:
Armenian Editor Is Slain in Turkey
Discussion: CNN
Bassem Mroue / Associated Press:
20 U.S. service members killed in Iraq  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - At least 20 American service personnel were killed in military operations Saturday in one of the deadliest days for U.S. forces since the Iraq war began, and authorities also announced two U.S. combat deaths from the previous day.
Discussion: Daily Kos and The Reaction
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Real Cities:
Kurdish Iraqi soldiers are deserting to avoid the conflict in Baghdad  —  SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq - As the Iraqi government attempts to secure a capital city ravaged by conflict between Sunni and Shiite Muslim Arabs, its decision to bring a third party into the mix may cause more problems than peace.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
CNN:
13 killed in U.S. copter crash in Iraq, 5 in militia attack … BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — All 13 people aboard a U.S. military helicopter Saturday were killed when it went down northeast of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.  —  Later in the day, five U.S. soldiers were killed and three wounded …
Discussion: Blog P.I.
New York Times:
Bush to Urge New Tax Plan for Health Care Coverage  —  President Bush intends to use his State of the Union address Tuesday to tackle the rising cost of health care with a one-two punch: tax breaks to help low-income people buy health insurance and tax increases for some workers whose health …
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White House:
President's Radio Address
Discussion: Washington Wire
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
Waiting Room — Saturday Edition  —  (Screen grab from Breakfast At Tiffany's.)  —  Just spoke to folks at the hospital.  Jane is doing well, and was getting ready to take a nap.  Howie and Matt Stoller are apparently going to visit this afternoon, and I hope to get a first hand report from them at some point.
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Bob Geiger:   The Saturday Cartoons  —  We have an added treat today …
Joshua Green / The Atlantic Online:
Also see:  —  Most of the prayer groups are informally affiliated with a secretive Christian organization called the Fellowship, established in the 1930s by a Methodist evangelist named Abraham Vereide, whose great hope was to preach the word of Jesus to political and business leaders throughout the world.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
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Carlotta Gall / New York Times:
At Border, Signs of Pakistani Role in Taliban Surge  —  QUETTA, Pakistan — The most explosive question about the Taliban resurgence here along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan is this: Have Pakistani intelligence agencies been promoting the Islamic insurgency?
New York Times:
Banned Station Broadcasts Voice of Rebels in Iraq  —  The video starts with a young American soldier patrolling an Iraqi street.  His head is obscured by leaves, so a red target is digitally inserted to draw the viewer's eye.  A split second later, the soldier collapses, shot.
Discussion: Taylor Marsh and toohotfortnr
Associated Press:
Nearly 40 illegal immigrants arrested at military bases  —  ATLANTA: Nearly 40 illegal immigrants hired by contractors working on three military bases in Georgia, Virginia and Nevada were arrested over the last three days by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, the agency said Friday.
Discussion: ImmigrationProf Blog
Telegraph:
Hands up if you've lost the plot  —  First, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad alienated the rest of the world with his religious extremism, nuclear ambitions and global grandstanding.  Now, due to domestic failures and economic incompetence, he is doing the same to ordinary Iranians  —  Imagine you are the president of Iran.
Discussion: Hot Air and Samizdata.net
Jan Crawford Greenburg / Washington Post:
The Cause Bush Did Justice To  —  The courtroom crackled with tension on the final day of the Supreme Court's 2004-05 session.  It was shaping up to be a historic day, many believed, and the seats were packed with top government officials and people who had camped out overnight in the sticky heat of a Washington summer.
Discussion: Legalities and Althouse
Dan / Riehl World View:
The Left's War On Free Speech  —  I suppose I shouldn't be surprised at this below from Mike Stark, it probably isn't the first time he's issued a threat upon which he doesn't have a prayer of delivering. … Hopefully I'll have a few minutes tomorrow courtesy of CNN's Reliable Sources …
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
I Want My HDTV  —  I was a skeptic at first.  We got the 46 inch LCD TV for Christmas but I was utterly indifferent to High Definition.  It sounded like a snow-job to me.  But Aaron insisted, so we got the new box and set up the new connection.  Within seconds, I was hooked.
Discussion: Liberal Values
BBC:
Chavez admits Castro gravely ill  —  Cuban leader Fidel Castro is battling to save his life, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has said.  —  Mr Chavez, a close friend of Cuba's left-wing leader, said he hoped Mr Castro would recover but admitted he faced a hard struggle.
 
 
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Mandy Dalugdug / Music Business Worldwide:
UMG, ABKCO, and Concord sue Believe and its subsidiary TuneCore for $500M+, alleging Believe built its business via “industrial-scale copyright infringement”

Reuters:
French judicial source: investigators searched Netflix's offices in France and the Netherlands as part of a preliminary investigation into tax fraud laundering

Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
India issues a notice to Wikipedia over bias concerns, questioning if it should be classified as a publisher, after judges called its open editing “dangerous”

 
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