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Liz Sly / Chicago Tribune:
New boss turns the tables on Al Qaeda — Ex-Sunni insurgent becomes U.S. ally — The once-dreaded Al Qaeda in Iraq stronghold of Amariyah has a new boss, and he's not shy about telling the story of the shootout that turned him into a local legend and helped change the tenor of the Iraq war.
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Daily Mail:
Meet the women who won't have babies - because they're not eco friendly — Had Toni Vernelli gone ahead with her pregnancy ten years ago, she would know at first hand what it is like to cradle her own baby, to have a pair of innocent eyes gazing up at her with unconditional love …
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Jonathan Martin / The Politico:
Thompson motivation hard to pinpoint — Fred Thompson prefers plain talk. So he might bridle at using a famous Winston Churchill quote to sum up his presidential campaign: "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma." — But with fewer than 50 days to go until the Iowa caucuses …
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Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Cellphone Tracking Powers on Request — Secret Warrants Granted Without Probable Cause — Federal officials are routinely asking courts to order cellphone companies to furnish real-time tracking data so they can pinpoint the whereabouts of drug traffickers, fugitives and other criminal suspects …
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Ed Morrissey / Captain's Quarters:
Can You See Me Now? — Federal agents routinely request tracking data from cellphone companies to determine the travel and assembly habits of suspects, and courts have granted them unusual leeway in obtaining the data. Are these terrorist suspects that could present a clear and imminent danger to the lives of Americans?
Christina Bellantoni / Washington Times:
Hillary criticized for press strategy — When Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton wants to get a message out, her presidential campaign handpicks news outlets. Or, in some cases, bypasses the media entirely. — The New York Democrat's third-quarter fundraising blowout was leaked to the Drudge Report.
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Jennifer Hunter / Chicago Sun Times:
Hillary bracing for possible letdown in Iowa — Is Hillary running scared in Iowa? The latest poll from the Washington Post and ABC News shows Barack Obama ahead in the Hawkeye State, slightly in the lead with 30 percent to Hillary Clinton's 26 percent. Although this is statistically a tie …
Nicholas Wapshott / New York Sun:
Collapse of Rail, Subway Strike Is a First Success for Sarkozy — President Sarkozy of France is on the verge of a breakthrough in his ambitious plan to wean his country off the restrictive working practices he believes stand in the way of national prosperity.
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Caroline Glick / Jerusalem Post:
Column One: American folly — The mood is dark in the IDF's General Staff ahead of next week's "peace" conference in Annapolis. As one senior officer directly involved in the negotiations with the Palestinians and the Americans said, "As bad as it might look from the outside, the truth is 10 times worse.
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Ian Black / Guardian:Saudis make up 41% of foreign fighters in Iraq
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Donald Lambro / Washington Times:
Democrats party of rich, study finds — Democrats like to define themselves as the party of poor and middle-income Americans, but a new study says they now represent the majority of the nation's wealthiest congressional districts. — In a state-by-state, district-by-district comparison …
USA Today:
20,000 vets' brain injuries not listed in Pentagon tally — At least 20,000 U.S. troops who were not classified as wounded during combat in Iraq and Afghanistan have been found with signs of brain injuries, according to military and veterans records compiled by USA TODAY.
Greg Sargent / TPM Election Central:
Huckabee: I'm Against Illegal Immigration, But I'm Not A Lunatic About It — ABC News has posted a pretty compelling interview with Mike Huckabee about immigration. In it, Huckabee was asked about charges from rivals that he's soft on immigration because he supported the children …
Dan Lehr / WTVC-TV:
Corker "Underwhelmed" With President Bush — Tennessee Senator Bob Corker raised some eyebrows at a luncheon at the Chattanoogan hotel Tuesday with remarks about President Bush. — Speaking to a crowd of about 500 supporters, led by Hamilton County Mayor Claude Ramsey …
Reuters:
French prosecutors throw out Rumsfeld torture case — PARIS (Reuters) - The Paris prosecutors' office has dismissed a suit against Donald Rumsfeld accusing the former U.S. defense secretary of torture, human rights groups who brought the case said on Friday.
David Brooks / New York Times:
The Real Rudy — Rudy Giuliani can play a little rough at times, but there are some moments when an inner light turns on and he turns downright idealistic. One of those moments came on Oct. 10, 1996, as he stepped on the podium at the Kennedy School of Government to deliver a speech on immigration.
Al Baker / New York Times:
City Homicides Still Dropping, to Under 500 — New York City is on track to have fewer than 500 homicides this year, by far the lowest number in a 12-month period since reliable Police Department statistics became available in 1963. — But within the city's official crime statistics …
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