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8:10 PM ET, June 6, 2007

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Selcan Hacaoglu / Associated Press:
Turkish officials say troops enter Iraq  —  ANKARA, Turkey - Hundreds of Turkish soldiers crossed into northern Iraq on Wednesday pursuing Kurdish guerrillas who stage attacks on Turkey from hideouts there, Turkish security officials and an Iraqi Kurd official said.
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Zerin Elci / Reuters:
Turkey denies major incursion into N.Iraq  —  Source: Reuters  —  ANKARA, June 6 (Reuters) - Turkey denied a report on Wednesday it had launched a major incursion into northern Iraq to crush Kurdish rebels, but a military source said troops had conducted a limited raid across the mountainous border.
Discussion: TPMmuckraker, Fox News and On Deadline
MSNBC:
Turkey denies troops entered Iraq  —  The last major Turkish incursion into northern Iraq was in 1997, when about 50,000 troops were sent to the region.  —  The officials did not say where the Turkish force was operating in northern Iraq, nor did he say how long they would be there.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Pajamas Media:
Turkish Troops Reported In Iraq:
Discussion: The Belmont Club
Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
NULL SET....I tuned in too late to hear Mitt Romney's "null set" answer last night, but apparently his algebraic illiteracy is nothing compared to his ignorance of actual events from four years ago.  Here's his answer to a question about whether it was a mistake to invade Iraq: … WTF?
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Michael Calderone / New York Observer:
Murdoch, Ailes, Weymouth Pump Bloomberg At Breindel Awards  —  "I'm sworn to secrecy," Rupert Murdoch told The Observer as he was leaving the New-York Historical Society's auditorium last night.  But: "We're making progress," the News Corp. chief added.  —  Mr. Murdoch hosted …
Des Moines Register:
Giuliani will skip August straw poll  —  New Yorker plans "non-traditional" caucus run  —  Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani plans to skip the Ames straw poll in August, but compete to win the leadoff Iowa caucuses, a gamble by the former New York Mayor on a "non-traditional" caucus campaign and a first for Iowa.
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Associated Press:   Officials: Giuliani to skip Iowa straw poll
Chris Cillizza / The Fix:
Giuliani, McCain Skipping Ames Straw Poll
Discussion: Decision '08
The Blotter:
Document: Iran Caught Red-Handed Shipping Arms to Taliban  —  Brian Ross and Christopher Isham Report:  —  NATO officials say they have caught Iran red-handed, shipping heavy arms, C4 explosives and advanced roadside bombs to the Taliban for use against NATO forces, in what the officials …
Christy Hardin Smith / Firedoglake:
A Favor For Sen. Leahy...  Sen. Pat Leahy needs you to make a few phone calls today on behalf of your Constitution. … If you have a few minutes to spare, it would be much appreciated of you could make a few phone calls to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee — and also to your own Senators.
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Justin Rood Reports / The Blotter:
GOP Lawmakers Demand Probe of ABC News Story  —  Justin Rood Reports:  —  A group of House Republicans are calling for an investigation into "the release of sensitive information" in a recent ABC News report on CIA covert activities against Iran.  —  In a carefully worded request …
Discussion: Don Surber and Wizbang
Rasmussen Reports:
Support for Senate Immigration Bill Falls, 49% Prefer No Bill At All  —  Public support for the Senate immigration reform bill has slipped a bit over the past week.  A Rasmussen Reports poll conducted Monday and Tuesday night found that just 23% of voters now support the bill while 50% are opposed.
David Weigel / Reason Magazine:
Rudy: No on Medical Marijuana  —  Just finished my reporting trip with a Rudy Giuliani town hall in New Castle, New Hampshire, a tiny island luxuryville a few miles from Portsmouth.  Don Murphy from Republicans for Compassionate Access, the pro-medical marijuana group, got to ask Rudy …
Discussion: Unqualified Offerings
Carol Eisenberg / Newsday:
Credibility of JFK terror case questioned  —  When U.S. Attorney Roslynn Mauskopf described the alleged terror plot to blow up Kennedy Airport as "one of the most chilling plots imaginable," which might have caused "unthinkable" devastation, one law enforcement official said he cringed.
M.E. Sprengelmeyer / Rocky Mountain News:
Tancredo to change direction of his campaign  —  Rep. Tom Tancredo plans to change direction in his long-shot presidential campaign so he can pressure fellow Republicans into rejecting an immigration reform plan he considers "amnesty."  —  Before a debate tonight on CNN, Tancredo, R-Littleton …
Digby / Hullabaloo:
Crushes  —  I honestly don't know what to make of all these men in the political establishment who insist on using their mancrushes as some sort of guideline for who is and is not "presidential."  Honestly, even Kathryn Jean Lopez's famous drooling over Mitt Romney isn't as embarrassing.
Opinion Journal:
An Independent Newspaper  —  The Bancrofts and a century of "free people and free markets." … So wrote William Peter Hamilton, one of the first men to hold the job of editorial page editor of The Wall Street Journal, in the early decades of the last century.
Ned Parker / Los Angeles Times:
Iraq's leader can't get out of 1st gear  —  BAGHDAD — Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki and Tariq Hashimi, the country's Sunni vice president, faced each other across the room as the latter spoke angrily of the bad blood between Sunni and Shiite officials.  —  A hush fell over the room …
 
 
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
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Agence France Presse:
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