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9:25 AM ET, September 5, 2007

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Idaho Statesman:
UPDATED 7:25 p.m. — Craig may not quit after all if he's cleared of charges, spokesman says  —  Sen. Larry Craig says he may fight to keep his job in the U.S. Senate after all.  —  "Basically, as he stated on Saturday, Senator Craig intends to resign on Sept. 30th," said his spokesman Dan Whiting via e-mail Tuesday night.
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John Miller / Associated Press:
Craig Reconsiders Decision to Resign  —  BOISE, Idaho — Sen. Larry Craig is reconsidering his decision to resign after his arrest in a Minnesota airport sex sting and may still fight for his Senate seat, his spokesman said Tuesday evening.  —  "It's not such a foregone conclusion anymore …
New York Times:
Craig Said to Consider Not Resigning
David McHugh / Associated Press:
Germany: Plot targeted U.S. facilities  —  BERLIN - Three suspected Islamic terrorists from an al-Qaida-influenced group nursing "profound hatred of U.S. citizens" were arrested on suspicious of plotting imminent, massive bomb attacks on U.S. facilities in Germany, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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New York Times:
Terrorism Suspects Arrested in Germany  —  Police in Germany have arrested three Islamic militants suspected of planning major terrorist attacks on Frankfurt's airport and the United States military base at Ramstein.  —  The suspects — two German citizens and a Turkish resident of Germany …
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Another shoe drops: "Massive" terror attack thwarted in Germany; Update: Two are German converts to Islam  —  As predicted in the update to yesterday's post about the Danish terror busts.  I'll be shocked if these three aren't connected in some way to the eight pinched in Copenhagen.
Discussion: Spiegel Online
CNN:
3 planned 'massive airport bombs'
Discussion: Confederate Yankee
Logan Murphy / Crooks and Liars:
Countdown Special Comment: You have no remaining credibility about Iraq, sir.  —  Keith Olbermann's Special Comment tonight is without a doubt, one of his hardest hitting and most emotional to date.  Keith absolutely lays waste to President Bush's lies and rhetoric about the surge.
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WCBS-TV:
Couric: 'Real Progress' In Iraq  —  Evening News Anchor Says Police Finally Making Inroads  —  Featured Slideshows:  —  (CBS) BAGHDAD, Iraq One week before Gen. David Petraeus is expected to give his report on U.S. progress in Iraq, CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric says she has already seen dramatic improvements in the country.
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Bush Shifts Terms for Measuring Progress in Iraq  —  With the Democratic-led Congress poised to measure progress in Iraq by focusing on the central government's failure to perform, President Bush is proposing a new gauge, by focusing on new American alliances with the tribes and local groups …
Washington Post:
Military Officials in Iraq Fault GAO Report  —  A bleak portrait of the political and security situation in Iraq released yesterday by the Government Accountability Office sparked sharp protests from the top U.S. military command in Baghdad, whose officials described it as flawed and "factually incorrect."
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Anne Flaherty / Associated Press:   Bush faces political clash over war plan
Martin Miller / Los Angeles Times:
Is Clinton's candidacy blocking the "Path to 9/11?"  —  Screenwriter of docudrama says ABC exec said delay has been prompted by unflattering portrayal of previous administration.  —  Among the nearly two dozen television DVDs slated for nationwide release on Sept. 11 is the second season of …
Horses Mouth:
Oh, man, this is an unsightly one indeed.  —  Take a look at this video of CNN's Kyra Phillips reporting today on the big GAO report finding that the Iraqi government has only met three of 18 benchmarks for measuring political progress.  Phillips wonders whether this really carries any …
Hecate:
No One Could Have Anticipated . . . .  Today's WaPo reports on something that I think we all saw coming.  —  [M]ansionization comes with a twist: Some of the new homes, neighbors and town leaders say, are being used as boardinghouses for several families or unrelated people.
Andrew Glass / The Politico:
Why can't we all practice Broderism?  —  How did David Broder go from being revered as the dean of the Washington political press corps to being reviled on both the left and the right as the apotheosis of what has come to be known as Broderism?  —  Not everybody gets to see his or her name bandied about as an "-ism."
Washington Times:
The next war?  —  BERN, Switzerland.  —  After a brief interruption of his New Hampshire vacation to meet President Bush in the family compound at Kenebunkport, Maine, French President Nicolas Sarkozy came away convinced his U.S. counterpart is serious about bombing Iran's secret nuclear facilities.
 
 
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Lindsey Sees the Future
David Bernstein / The Volokh Conspiracy:
WHY SHOULD LARRY CRAIG RESIGN?:  OK, so he was caught soliciting sex in a public restroom.
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Caitlin Huston / The Hollywood Reporter:
Internal memo: Hearst Magazines president announces layoffs as part of a decision to “reallocate resources” to “continue our focus on digital innovation”

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced she will leave the agency on January 20; she was the first woman to be confirmed to lead the agency

Lachlan Cartwright / The Ankler:
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