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11:20 AM ET, March 31, 2007

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Lexington Herald-Leader:
Terror suspect gets 9 months in plea deal  —  AUSTRALIAN WILL SERVE HIS SENTENCE IN HOMELAND, CAN'T ALLEGE ABUSE  —  Australian David Hicks pleaded guilty at the Guant‡namo Bay Navy Base yesterday to supporting terrorism in exchange for a nine-month prison sentence under a plea deal …
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William Glaberson / New York Times:
Australian to Serve 9 Months in Terrorism Case  —  David Hicks, the Australian high-school dropout whose detention became an international issue, will serve nine more months in custody, most of it in Australia, under the terms of a plea deal unsealed here Friday.
Michael Melia / Associated Press:
Australian Gitmo Detainee Gets 9 Months  —  AP Photo JHX103  —  GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) - An American military tribunal sentenced an Australian to nine months in prison Friday after he pleaded guilty to supporting terrorism - in the first conviction at a U.S. war-crimes trial since World War II.
Discussion: The Huffington Post
Peter Spiegel / Los Angeles Times:   Gates is pushing to move terror trials from Guantanamo
Michelle Malkin:
How would the MSM cover "Chocolate Mohammed" at Ramadan?  —  Updated below  —  How would the MSM cover an artist exhibition of a "Chocolate Mohammed" timed to coincide with Ramadan?  —  They wouldn't.  —  But find an artist to mock Jesus at Easter with a chocolate sculpture...
Discussion: At-Largely and The Jawa Report
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Larry McShane / Associated Press:
Gallery told to shut down chocolate Jesus display  —  NEW YORK — A planned Holy Week exhibition of a nude, anatomically correct chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ was canceled Friday after Cardinal Edward Egan and other outraged Roman Catholics complained.
Discussion: Sydney Morning Herald
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:
Chocolate Jesus Meltdown As Controversial Exhibit Cancelled
Daniel Trotta / Reuters:
N.Y. gallery cancels naked chocolate Jesus exhibit
Guardian:
Europe threatens action as Iran airs new 'confession'  —  EU foreign ministers support British position and warn of 'appropriate measures' if 15 sailors and marines not released  —  The EU threatened to act against Iran last night if it did not immediately and unconditionally release …
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Washington Post:
Ex-Partner Of Giuliani May Face Charges  —  Kerik Counts Said To Include Deception During Cabinet Bid  —  Federal prosecutors have told Bernard B. Kerik, whose nomination as homeland security secretary in 2004 ended in scandal, that he is likely to be charged with several felonies …
Popular Mechanics:
Rosie O'Donnell 9/11 Conspiracy Comments: Popular Mechanics Responds  —  Recently, Rosie O'Donnell, a co-host of ABC talk show The View, made comments on the show that renewed controversy over the collapse of World Trade Center 7.  —  While saying she didn't know what to believe …
Discussion: Chicago Boyz and Hot Air
Associated Press:
Giuliani: Wife won't be Cabinet member  —  WASHINGTON - Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani said Friday his wife will not be a member of his Cabinet or attend most high-level meetings as he sought to clarify his previous statements suggesting she would play a significant role in his administration.
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Alexander Mooney / CNN Political Ticker:
Giuliani's flat tax flip flop?
Bill Hess / svherald.com:
Kurd describes 'traumatized' Iraq, why his people worry about U.S.  —  SIERRA VISTA — The Kurds in Iraq are afraid they will again be left in a lurch if American troops are forced to leave next year, the Kurdistan representative to the United States said Thursday.
Discussion: The Belmont Club and Redstate
Don'T Miss This / Associated Press:
Imams removed from flight may sue passengers  —  Lawyers step up to defend fliers who voiced concerns; chilling effect feared  —  Pat Snelson of suburban Minneapolis recalls on March 29, the concern he and his wife had about alleged suspicious behavior by six Muslim imams before the men …
White House:
President Bush Visits Troops at Walter Reed Army Medical Center  —  Washington, D.C.  —  THE PRESIDENT: Thank you.  Please be seated.  Thank you all for joining me.  Every time I come to Walter Reed my spirits are lifted.  They're first lifted by the soldiers and Marines who are recovering from some very tough wounds.
Discussion: INTEL DUMP, Daily Kos and First Draft
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:   At Walter Reed, Bush Offers an Apology
White House:
Press Briefing by Dana Perino  —  White House Conference Center Briefing Room  —  MS. PERINO: Good morning.  Good Friday afternoon, I'm sorry.  It's been 53 days since the President requested funding for the troops.  We sent up the budget on February 5th, and in addition to sending up the budget we sent the supplemental, as well.
Discussion: JURIST and First Draft
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Laura Rozen / American Prospect:
The First Contract  —  New questions arise concerning Mitchell Wade's first White House contract — and his connections to the vice president.  —  From 1991 to 1993, a young lieutenant commander in the Navy Reserve was working as a program manager in a Pentagon intelligence office.
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Thomas Harding / Telegraph:
Without America's might the options are few  —  The Government has few options if it wants to pressure Iran into releasing the captured Britons.  —  Military action is unfeasible without American support and so is a military blockade of the Gulf.  Unless the United Nations shows more rigour …
Mark Kukis / Time:
A Deadly U.S.-Iran Firefight  —  The soldiers who were there still talk about the September 7 firefight on the Iran-Iraq border in whispers.  At Forward Operating Base Warhorse, the main U.S. military outpost in Iraq's eastern Diyala Province bordering Iran, U.S. troops recount events reluctantly …
 
 
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