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Rusty / The Jawa Report:
Inshallashshaheed Outted: North Carolina Jihadi in the News — Michael Moss of the New York Times has outted Inshallashaheed, the al Qaeda supporting blogger who we've been investigating for over a year. I've been sitting on his true identity for months, but in one fell swoop Samir ibn Zafar Khan …
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Washington Post:
Al-Qaeda In Iraq Reported Crippled — Many Officials, However, Warn Of Its Resilience — The U.S. military believes it has dealt devastating and perhaps irreversible blows to al-Qaeda in Iraq in recent months, leading some generals to advocate a declaration of victory over the group …
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New York Times:
An Internet Jihad Aims at U.S. Viewers — When Osama bin Laden issued his videotaped message to the American people last month, a young jihad enthusiast went online to help spread the word. — "America needs to listen to Shaykh Usaamah very carefully and take his message with great seriousness," he wrote on his blog.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
Gore Derangement Syndrome — On the day after Al Gore shared the Nobel Peace Prize, The Wall Street Journal's editors couldn't even bring themselves to mention Mr. Gore's name. Instead, they devoted their editorial to a long list of people they thought deserved the prize more.
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Lee Bandy / The Politico:
McCain is bouncing back — Republican presidential hopeful John McCain is back, two months after he was given up for dead. — For most of 2007, McCain was the prohibitive favorite among GOP voters. No one else came close. — Then, suddenly, his campaign — swollen with overhead and consultants …
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Jed Babbin / Human Events:
Pelosi's Most Dangerous Ploy — Congressional Democrats anxious to force a withdrawal of American forces from Iraq are frustrated by their inability to muster a veto-proof majority for legislation that would establish a firm date for retreat. But what they cannot do directly they are now working hard to do indirectly.
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Charles Hurt / New York Post:
'WIRE' LAW FAILED LOST GI — 10-HOUR DELAY AS FEDS SOUGHT TAP — U.S. intelligence officials got mired for nearly 10 hours seeking approval to use wiretaps against al Qaeda terrorists suspected of kidnapping Queens soldier Alex Jimenez in Iraq earlier this year, The Post has learned.
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Kagro X / Daily Kos:
Cowboys need lawyers, too. — The playbook for the Republican FISA fear-fest is out, and can you guess what kind of bull they have cooked up this time? — Subscription-only Roll Call sez: … FISA put U.S. troops in danger? For the "story" on that, we have to turn to the incomparably stupid and in-the-tank NY Post:
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Amanda / Think Progress:
Malkin quits The O'Reilly Factor. — Inside Cable News has obtained an e-mail written by Michelle Malkin stating that she has decided to quit appearing on Fox News's The O'Reilly Factor: … Some highlights of her time on the show HERE, HERE, and HERE.
Richard Pérez-Peña / New York Times:
Group Plans to Provide Investigative Journalism — As struggling newspapers across the country cut back on investigative reporting, a new kind of journalism venture is hoping to fill the gap. — Paul E. Steiger, who was the top editor of The Wall Street Journal for 16 years …
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Drudge Report:
THE RESURRECTION OF IMUS: RETURNS ON NATION'S TOP TALK STATION — In a dramatic and dazzling career rebound, controversial radio host Don Imus has secured a deal returning him to the airwaves on December 3 — this time on the nation's most listened to talk station, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned!
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Hillary Rodham Clinton / Foreign Affairs:
Security and Opportunity for the Twenty-first Century — Summary: The next U.S. president will have a moment of opportunity to reintroduce America to the world and restore our leadership. To build a world that is safe, prosperous, and just, we must get out of Iraq, rediscover the value of statesmanship …
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Molly Ball / Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Poll: Reid's popularity falls among Nevadans — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's appeal among Nevadans has plunged dramatically in a new Review-Journal poll, which finds him viewed unfavorably by most likely voters in his home state. — Reid is still slightly more well-liked than Gov. Jim Gibbons.
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Standing Their Ground — Brave New Films has released a powerful new film today about a subject that has the potential to knock Rudy Giuliani's campaign to its knees. Most of us know that the NY Firefighters are mad as hell at Giuliani, but this films starkly lays out one very serious reason why: the radios.
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Mike Kelly / NorthJersey.com:
Al-Qaida associates in N.J. — Osama bin Laden may be hiding in the impenetrable mountains near the Afghanistan border, but FBI counterterror officials say they have identified several of his associates in a far more accessible spot — northern New Jersey. — The FBI's elite Joint Terrorism …
The Big Trunk / Power Line:
IT'S THE COVERUP THAT KILLS YOU, PART 2 — It's been another week without word from the New Republic on the status of its "investigation" into the columns of TNR Baghdad Diarist Scott Thomas Beauchamp. "The editors" have not spoken on the matter since their August 10 update.