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1:59 AM ET, May 28, 2007

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Michael Kamber / New York Times:
Doubts Grow as G.I.'s in Iraq Find Allies in Enemy Ranks  —  BAGHDAD — Staff Sgt. David Safstrom does not regret his previous tours in Iraq, not even a difficult second stint when two comrades were killed while trying to capture insurgents.  —  "In Mosul, in 2003, it felt like we were making the city a better place," he said.
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:   TRAINING THE ENEMY....In the New York Times today, Michael Kamber writes …
Nadia Abou El-Magd / Associated Press:
Egypt bashes U.S. for hypocrisy  —  CAIRO, Egypt - Egypt criticized the U.S. Sunday after four Congress members met with a lawmaker from the banned Muslim Brotherhood, less than two months after House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (news, bio, voting record) met the same politician.
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Peter S. Canellos / Boston Globe:
GOP rivals embrace unproven Iraq-9/11 tie  —  WASHINGTON — In defending the Iraq war, leading Republican presidential contenders are increasingly echoing words and phrases used by President Bush in the run-up to the war that reinforce the misleading impression that Iraq was responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Andrew Sullivan / The Atlantic Online:
Al Qaeda's Enabler
Discussion: Firedoglake and The Impolitic
Audrey Hudson / Washington Times:
More details on Flight 327 released  —  The inspector general for Homeland Security late Friday released new details of what federal air marshals say was a terrorist dry run aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 327 from Detroit to Los Angeles on June 29, 2004.  —  Several portions of the report remain redacted.
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Flight 327: More To The Story
Discussion: Hot Air and Ed Driscoll.com
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
NORTHWEST AIRLINES FLIGHT 327: A TERRORIST DRY RUN
Discussion: Washington Times
Marty Lederman / Balkinization:
The Constitutional Crisis Within  —  After the White House Counsel and Chief of Staff had tried to shake down the sedated and ailing Attorney General in his hospital bed.  —  After those two officials did not so much as acknowledge the presence of the Acting Attorney General and the head of OLC, standing there in the hospital room.
Discussion: Unqualified Offerings
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Little Green Footballs:
Video: Death Cult Children's Theater  —  Uploaded to YouTube by a Hamas supporter last April, this is one of the most unbelievably evil videos I've ever seen.  —  It's a home movie from hell, featuring a group of young girls dressed as suicide bombers and terrorists, waving knives and guns …
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: School pageant, Palestinian style; Update: YouTube deleting comments?
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
SO MY PANEL was on — hold your breath — blogging, and featured Anthony Duignan-Cabrera of Space.Com, Alan Boyle of MSNBC's Cosmic Log, Rob Pearlman of CollectSpace, and uber-spaceblogger Jeff Foust.  (Another uber-spaceblogger, Clark Lindsey, wasn't here, and was missed.)
Discussion: MSNBC
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Bart Leahy / SPACE.com:
For Space Entrepreneurs, Access Equals Economic Growth  —  DALLAS, Texas - Taking advantage of the theme of the panel he was speaking on, Jim Benson, CEO of the Benson Space Company, officially announced changes to the basic design of his company's Dream Chaser space tourism vehicle Friday.
Eric Felten / Wall Street Journal:
In Search of the Real Tom Collins  —  How a classic cocktail got a bad name — and how to make it right  —  Memorial Day wasn't always on a Monday.  Inaugurated shortly after the Civil War, the holiday was originally known as "Decoration Day," and came to be observed in most states on May 30 of each year.
Discussion: National Review
New York Times:
Militants Widen Reach as Terror Seeps Out of Iraq  —  When Muhammad al-Darsi got out of prison in Libya last year after serving time for militant activities, he had one goal: killing Americans in Iraq.  —  A recruiter he found on the Internet arranged to meet him on a bridge in Damascus, Syria.
Discussion: AMERICAblog and Prairie Weather
Bob Johnson / Associated Press:
Ala. Terror Web Site Angers Activists  —  MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama Department of Homeland Security has taken down a Web site it operated that included gay rights and anti-war organizations in a list of groups that could include terrorists.  —  The Web site identified different types of terrorists …
Discussion: Firedoglake
Robert Burns / Associated Press:
U.S. rescues 42 Iraqis from Al Qaeda hideout  —  BAGHDAD — U.S. forces raided an Al Qaeda hide-out northeast of Baghdad on Sunday and freed 42 Iraqis imprisoned inside, including some who had been tortured and suffered broken bones, a senior U.S. military official said Sunday.
Discussion: Hot Air and Blue Crab Boulevard
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Don Surber:
That unmentioned al-Qaeda torture handbook is being used
Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:
Supreme Court Memo: A Devil in the Details, but Not the Constitution  —  When people think, if they ever do, about a Supreme Court justice's daily routine, many undoubtedly envision a life spent contemplating the great issues: due process, equal protection and other resonant constitutional concepts.
The Atlantic Online:
Back to the Schools  —  Oh man.  I don't think I've seen anyone make a serious effort to argue that ongoing school construction endeavors in Iraq outweigh the fact that we aren't achieving any of our mission objectives, but apparently Chris Muir didn't get the memo that these talking points are inoperative:
KC Johnson / Durham-in-Wonderland:
Trustees, Dartmouth, and the AP  —  The Duke case has provided a good example of how Boards of Trustees, by taking an excessively passive approach to their oversight role, can cause significant harm to an institution.  —  But Duke is hardly alone.  The Dartmouth administration also made a name …
Discussion: Power Line
 
 
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McCain: Current Iraq plan is best option
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SHEEN RETHINKS NUTTY 9/11 FILM
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