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BBC: Blair to announce troop pullout from Iraq — At least 1,500 to return home within the next several weeks, report says — LONDON - Prime Minister Tony Blair will announce Wednesday a timetable for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq, with 1,500 to return home in several weeks, the BBC reported.
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Cernig / NewsHog:
Breaking - Al Sadr's Office Attacked
Breaking - Al Sadr's Office Attacked
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Marty Lederman / Balkinization:
Initial Thoughts on Boumediene — The U.S. Court of Appeals today by a 2-1 vote dismissed the pending habeas corpus petitons of hundreds of Guantanamo detainees. In an opinion by Judge Randolph, joined by Judge Sentelle, the court held (i) that the Military Commissions Act stripped …
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Mike Allen / The Politico:
Helen Thomas Moving Back After 46 Years Down Front — Every theater-style seat in the White House briefing room, now closed for renovation, had a brass plaque inscribed with the name of a news organization. Only one, in the middle of the front row, had a name: "HELEN THOMAS," it said.
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Matthew Miller / DSCC:
NRSC "Inner Circle Member" Indicted On Terror Charges — According to the Associated Press, Abdul Tawala Ibn Ali Alishtari, a self-proclaimed life member of the National Republican Senatorial Committee's "Inner Circle Leadership Committee" has been indicted on charges of financing a terrorist training camp in Afghanistan.
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Campos: The right's Ward Churchill — Murder is the premeditated unlawful killing of a human being. Glenn Reynolds, the well-known University of Tennessee law professor who authors one of the Internet's most popular blogs, recently advocated the murder of Iranian scientists and clerics.
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Frankie Edozien / New York Post:
LET ALIENS VOTE: ACTIVISTS — Immigrant-rights activists yesterday renewed their push to allow legal noncitizens to vote in the Big Apple. — A bill that would grant permanent residents and other legal immigrants the right to vote in municipal elections has been stalled in the City Council since last year.
Keith Epps / Free Lance-Star:
Police say political dispute with stranger got physical — Man's Republican beliefs irritate suspect — A Fredericksburg man was arrested Saturday on charges he assaulted three strangers at their home during a dispute over politics, police said. — According to a Fredericksburg police report …
Paul Kane / Capitol Briefing:
Obama, McCaskill Plan Military Hospitals Bill — Seizing on an investigative report by The Washington Post's Dana Priest and Anne Hull, Sens. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) will introduce legislation next week to require more frequent inspections of hospitals providing treatment to active-duty military personnel.
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James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Iraq War Attitudes — Public Opinion Strategies* has released a survey [PDF file here] of likely voters' attitudes toward the Iraq War that finds that most voters think the country is going in the wrong direction (67%) and President Bush is doing a poor job (60%), and that Iraq will never be a stable democracy (60%).
Aaron Gould Sheinin / The State:
Clinton stresses credentials — N.Y. senator tells Columbia crowd she has experience needed to be president — Hillary Clinton told a crowd of more than 3,000 at Allen University on Monday she's "proud to be a woman," but she's not basing a run for president on her gender.
Bill / INDCJournal:
"Tell the American people we need the U.S. Army here:" An Interview with the Jundi — An Interview with the Jundi — (L to R) Iraqi Army soldiers Jabbar, Mohaned F, Mohaned N and Mohammed sit in their room at Forward Operating Base Castle in NE Fallujah.
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Mary Jane Park / St. Petersburg Times:
Tormented first by hiccups, now by media … ST. PETERSBURG - The notes under the door. The incessant phone calls. The impassioned pleas, all begging for a piece of the story. — It wasn't reporters in search of secret intelligence involving the war in Iraq.
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New York Times:
Moral Waivers and the Military — The Iraq war has plunged the Army into a vicious cycle of declining standards. Multiple, extended tours of duty have sapped morale and blighted recruiting. New plans for a larger overall force could reduce pressures but would also mean that recruiters would have to meet higher quotas.
Times of London:
Female Pakistani minister shot dead for 'breaking Islamic dress code' — Devika Bhat, and Zahid Hussain in Islamabad — A Pakistani minister and woman's activist has been shot dead by an Islamic extremist for refusing to wear the veil. — Zilla Huma Usman, the minister for social welfare …
James Gordon Meek / NY Daily News:
All these President's men leaked CIA agent's name — WASHINGTON - Any staffer proven to have leaked CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity "would no longer be in this administration," former White House spokesman Scott McClellan promised in September 2003. — But three years later …
Ashley Fantz / CNN:
Teen 'sport killings' of homeless on the rise … MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (CNN) — All Nathan Moore says he wanted to do was smoke pot and get drunk with his friends. — Killing Rex Baum was never part of the plan that day in 2004. — "It all started off as a game," Moore said.
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AlterNet:
Maybe We Deserve to Be Ripped Off By Bush's Billionaires — While America obsessed about Brittany's shaved head, Bush offered a budget that offers $32.7 billion in tax cuts to the Wal-Mart family alone, while cutting $28 billion from Medicaid. — What was she thinking? How about nothing?
CNN:
Scores choke in poison gas attack … BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — A cloud of deadly toxic gas engulfed an Iraqi town Tuesday, killing six people and leaving dozens of others choking on fumes after a tanker carrying chlorine exploded outside a restaurant. — An Iraqi Interior Ministry official …