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Haaretz:
Fatah and Hamas agree in principle to revive truce — Hamas and Fatah officials said Friday afternoon that they had agreed in — principle to a new cease-fire in the Gaza Strip, but needed more meetings to work out the details of a pullback of forces. — 15 Palestinians …
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Abraham Rabinovich / The Australian:
Iranians seized in attack on Hamas enclave — JERUSALEM: Seven Iranian weapons experts were seized yesterday in a raid by Fatah-affiliated security forces on the Islamic University, a Hamas stronghold in Gaza City. — Amid an escalation in the confrontation between Hamas and Fatah Palestinian factions …
Spencer Ackerman / TPMmuckraker:
NIE: The Surge Can't Work — Wow, this is grim. According to the just-released Key Judgments of the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, political reconciliation is likely a bridge too far over the next year and a half. — The Sunnis remain "unwilling to accept minority status" …
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Washington Post:
Iraq at Risk of Further Strife, Intelligence Report Warns — A new National Intelligence Estimate depicts an Iraq involved in a multi-faceted struggle among religious groups and sects and says that without a sharp reversal in the violence and changes among the Shiite, Sunni and Kurd leadership, the situation could further deteriorate.
Craig Gordon / Newsday:
On paper, Rudy's unsure — Giuliani's government filings don't lend hints to his presidential run - he hasn't submitted a declaration form or checked the Republican box — WASHINGTON - Republicans looking at Rudolph Giuliani's campaign for president always ask two questions - is he really running, and is he a "real Republican?"
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Dana Blanton / Fox News:
FOX NEWS POLL: VOTERS MOST COMFORTABLE WITH RUDY GIULIANI AS PRESIDENT — NEW YORK — More voters say they would be comfortable with former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as president than other top 2008 contenders, though majorities would also be comfortable with other leaders from both parties …
Washington Post:
Senate Democrats Split on Measure Opposing Bush — Compromise Called Weak; Report Raises Estimate of Troops Needed for 'Surge' — Senate Democratic leaders who decided to back a Republican resolution against President Bush's Iraq war plan in hopes of winning broad bipartisan support ran …
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TPMmuckraker, New York Times, The Impolitic, The Carpetbagger Report, The Heretik, The Caucus and Wake up America
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Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Majority in Senate support 'stay the course' resolution — A bipartisan majority in the Senate yesterday united behind a firm "stay the course" resolution on the war in Iraq, despite searing public criticism from both sides in Congress over President Bush's handling of the war.
David Lightman / Hartford Courant:
Dodd, Lieberman On Opposite Sides In Iraq Debate — WASHINGTON — Connecticut's U.S. senators today placed themselves squarely on opposite sides of next week's debate over the course of the Iraq war, as Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman vowed to lead the fight for a Senate statement supporting …
New York Times:
Climate Panel Issues Urgent Warning to Curb Gases — The world is already committed to centuries of warming, shifting weather patterns and rising seas from the atmospheric buildup of gases that trap heat, but the warming can be substantially blunted by prompt action, an international network of climate experts said today.
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Alex Morales / Bloomberg:
Global Warming Very Likely Caused by Humans, UN Says (Update5) — Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) — Global warming is ``very likely'' caused by humans, and world temperatures and sea-levels will increase by the end of the century, the United Nations said in its most comprehensive report yet on climate change.
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Bush administration seeks $245B for wars — WASHINGTON - The Bush administration will ask for another $100 billion for military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan this year and seek $145 billion for 2008, a senior administration official said Friday.
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Michael Yon:
The Hands of God — A Village, North of Mosul: Friday 26 January 07 — He was dressed as a woman as he walked down the alley toward the mosque full of worshippers. It was Friday, just before Ashura, and the air was chilled. — The bomb strapped to his body was studded with ball-bearings …
Wall Street Journal:
Gays Should Be Allowed to Serve Openly in Military, Poll Finds — A new poll from Harris Interactive found that 55% of Americans think gays and lesbians should be allowed to serve openly in the military. — By comparison, 19% of the 2,337 Americans polled said gays and lesbians should be allowed to serve …
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Charles Krauthammer / Washington Post:
Who's to Blame for The Killing — This week the internecine warfare in Iraq, already bewildering — Sunni vs. Shiite, Kurd vs. Arab, jihadist vs. infidel, with various Iranians, Syrians and assorted freelancers thrown into the maelstrom — went bizarre. In one of the biggest battles of the war …
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A Spork in the Drawer, Andrew Sullivan, Crunchy Con, Instapundit.com, Soccer Dad and It Shines For All
Ann Althouse / Althouse:
"Now that Althouse's powerful spell has worn off," Mark Schmitt is still opposed to Linda Hirshman's WaPo op-ed. — You remember Hirshman's "maybe goddesses have some hypnotic effect on policy wonks," which I flagged here without comment (because I'd already had my say about the WaPo op-ed on the blog and on Bloggingheads.TV).
Danny / Beltway Blogroll:
Anti-Blog Hysteria In The State Capitols — First Texas, now Tennessee. There's something strange in the state legisaltive air, as lawmakers keep introducing anti-blog bills and then backing down when bloggers start screaming. — I mentioned the Texas story in passing a couple of months ago in one of my blog bits roundups.
Maggie Haberman / New York Post:
ISRAEL FANS GROAN OVER HILL SPEECH — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton drew grumbles at a pro-Israel dinner in Times Square last night when she encouraged "engaging" with Iran before taking stronger action to keep it nuke-free. — Clinton said she wasn't sure "anything positive would come out of it" …
Kimberley A. Strassel / Opinion Journal:
Senator Feingold's Sin — The backseat generals are exposed. — The Senate is teeming with courageous souls these days, most of them Republicans who have taken that brave step of following the opinion polls and abandoning their president in a time of war.
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Daily Mail:
Police praise Muslim soldiers who acted as 'bait' for beheading gang — Two British Muslim soldiers targeted by the alleged beheading gang were used in an extraordinary "sting" operation to snare their assassins, it has emerged. — The courageous pair agreed to act like "tethered goats" …
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