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Iran president to free UK sailors … TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has pardoned 15 British military personnel being held in Iranian custody and vowed to set them free shortly. — "I declare that the people of Iran and the government of Iran …
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Iran To Free UK Captives — Iran is to free the 15 UK sailors and marines taken captive in the Shatt al Arab waterway as a "gift" to Britain. — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the group would be released promptly and handed over to the British embassy in Tehran.
Nasser Karimi / Associated Press:
Iranian leader says he'll free Britons — TEHRAN, Iran - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran would free the 15 detained British sailors and marines Wednesday as an Easter holiday "gift" to the British people. — He said the captives, who were seized while on patrol in the northern Persian Gulf …
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Howard Schneider / Washington Post:
Iranian Leader Says He Will Free Britons — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today said he had "pardoned" 15 British sailors and marines seized by the Iranian military two weeks ago and would free them to be with their families. — Ending a diplomatic crisis with a bit of political theater …
BBC:
Iranians release British sailors — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says 15 British naval personnel captured in the Gulf are free to leave. — He repeated Iran's view that the British sailors and marines "invaded" Iranian waters, but said they were being released as a "gift" to Britain.
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Daily Mail:
Freed British sailors to fly home in time for Easter — The President of Iran shook hands with the British hostages this afternoon after announcing he was freeing them. — The sailors will leave Tehran early Thursday and arrive at London's Heathrow airport around 1200 GMT, said Robin Air, father of Royal Marine Capt. Chris Air.
Roger Kimball / Armavirumque:
A gift? — OK, we are told not "to look a gift horse in the mouth": someone gives you a present, you don't start investigating the state of its dentition to estimate its worth. So I suppose we should simply rejoice that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has decided to release …
Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Obama rivals Clinton in fundraising — DAVENPORT, Iowa - Democrat Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) raked in $25 million for his presidential bid in the first three months of 2007, placing him on a par with front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton and dashing her image as the party's inevitable nominee.
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Anne E. Kornblut / Washington Post:
Obama Raises $25M for Presidential Campaign — Sen. Barack Obama raised at least $25 million for his presidential campaign in the first quarter of the year, putting him just shy of Sen. Hillary Clinton, the Democratic frontrunner, who made a splash with her announcement Sunday that she had drawn a record-breaking $26 million.
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Chicago Tribune:
Obama fundraising rivals Clinton — Sen. Barack Obama raised at least $25 million dollars during the first quarter for his presidential campaign, a total surprisingly close to the $26 million collected by his chief rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Media Matters for America:
CNN reported on Pelosi's "bad trip" to Syria — On the April 2 edition of Lou Dobbs Tonight, CNN ran an on-screen graphic reading "Pelosi's Bad Trip?" throughout a report about a congressional delegation visit to Syria led by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).
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Maha / The Mahablog:Pelosi Wears Scarf; Righties Bark at Moon
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Michael Roston / The Raw Story:
Blogs accuse CNN reporter of disrupting McCain press conference again — A group of conservative political weblogs offered new evidence in continuation of their allegation that CNN reporter Michael Ware disrupted a Sunday press conference in Baghdad with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and other Congress members.
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Charlotte Martin / Yale Daily News:
Elis jailed for flag burning — Three Yalies arrested Tuesday for burning an American flag at Chapel Street home — Three Yale students, including the son of a former governor of an Afghan province, were arrested early Tuesday morning after burning an American flag attached to a home on Chapel Street.
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Mary Ann Akers / The Sleuth:
Edwards Provides Lesson in E-Campaigning 101 — When you visit the John Edwards for President Web site, you're invited to send a sympathy note to the Edwardses. And tens of thousands of well wishers have done so since that heart-wrenching news conference two weeks ago at which Elizabeth …
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Political Radar:
EXCLUSIVE: Cheney One-on-One — ABC News Radio's Ann Compton Reports: In an exclusive interview with ABC News Radio, Vice President Dick Cheney greeted the release of fifteen British sailors from Iran, blasted Democratic efforts to attach a timetable for withdrawal to an Iraq spending bill …
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Rick Maze / Military Times HOME:
No more GWOT, House committee decrees — The House Armed Services Committee is banishing the global war on terror from the 2008 defense budget. — This is not because the war has been won, lost or even called off, but because the committee's Democratic leadership doesn't like the phrase.
Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Bush Blames Democrats for Impasse Over Iraq Bills — The political brinkmanship over Iraq war spending intensified Tuesday, as President Bush said Congressional Democrats had "undercut the troops" by passing legislation that ties continued war financing to mandated timelines for the withdrawal of American combat units.
The White House:
What is an Earmark? — Earmarks are funds provided by the Congress for projects or programs where the congressional direction (in bill or report language) circumvents the merit-based or competitive allocation process, or specifies the location or recipient, or otherwise curtails the ability …
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