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U.S.-Born al Qaeda Arrest News Incorrect — Confusion Over Militant's Identity Sparked Reports of Gadahn Arrest; Some Media Say It is Another U.S.-Born Terrorist — An “important Taliban militant” was arrested today in Pakistan. But that is where the confusion started.
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Qaeda Operative Arrested in Pakistan — ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — An operative of Al Qaeda believed to be an American was arrested in the sprawling southern city of Karachi in recent days by Pakistani security officials, Pakistani officials said Sunday. — American and Pakistani officials …
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Ashraf Khan / Associated Press:
Officers: Pakistan arrests American-born al-Qaida — KARACHI, Pakistan - The American-born spokesman for al-Qaida has been arrested by Pakistani intelligence officers in the southern city of Karachi, two officers and a government official said Sunday, the same day Adam Gadahn appeared …
msnbc.com:
Sources: U.S.-born al-Qaida spokesman caught — Gadahn, 31, reportedly held in Pakistan; $1 million reward on his head — KARACHI, Pakistan - Adam Yahiye Gadahn, a U.S.-born spokesman for al-Qaida, has been captured in Pakistan, government sources said Sunday.
Helen Kennedy / NY Daily News:
American Al Qaeda terrorist Adam Gadahn, aka ‘Azzam the American’, arrested in Pakistan — Adam Gadhan, the treasonous Californian Al Qaeda leader who has long been on Washington's Most Wanted list, was nabbed in Pakistan Sunday - a huge victory in the battle against the terror network.
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ACLU:
ACLU New York Times Ad Today Calls On President Obama Not To Back Down On 9/11 Civilian Trials — Group Makes Same Plea In Letter To President — CONTACT: Rachel Myers, (646) 206-8643 or (212) 549-2666; media@aclu.org — NEW YORK - The American Civil Liberties Union today published …
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Conservative lawyers criticize attacks on DOJ lawyers — Bill Kristol just launched a pre-emptive assault on a statement criticizing his and Liz Cheney's group, Keep America Safe, which bears the signature of a prominent lawyer who's typically a Cheney ally.
William Kristol / Weekly Standard:
The ACLU and Human Rights Watch Rally to Holder's Defense — The American Civil Liberties Union has an amusing full-page ad in the New York Times today (p. 8 of the Week in Review section). It morphs a photo of their onetime favorite, Barack Obama into...George W. Bush!
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John Simpson / BBC:
Simpson on Iraq — Two blocks of flats in Baghdad were flattened by bomb attacks — These elections will certainly be seen as a big success - despite the depressing level of violence, which demonstrates that it is still altogether untrue to suggest that Iraq is now a country at peace.
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Daniel Larison / Eunomia:
Who Would Want Credit For Iraq? — Whenever possible, I refer to the Iraq war as a war of aggression, because that is what it is and has always been. One thing that has often puzzled me about the reflex to declare victory in Iraq, as a Newsweek cover story did recently …
Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Iraqis Defy Blasts in Strong Turnout for Pivotal Election
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Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Washington Examiner:
Consent of the governed - and the lack thereof — Our Declaration of Independence observes: — “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
Jonathan Chait / The New Republic:
Jesus Christ, Mike Allen, Reconciliation Is NOT THAT COMPLICATED — There are a lot of thorny issues in American politics that require a great deal of concentrated attention to grasp. The controversy over budget reconciliation and health care is not one of them.
The Huffington Post:
Tom Delay: People Are Unemployed Because They Want To Be — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay called Sen. Jim Bunning (R-Ky.) “brave” on Sunday for launching a one-man filibuster of unemployment benefits, arguing that they dissuaded people from going out and finding work.
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Bridget Johnson / The Hill:
Baird: Healthcare votes of retiring Democrats aren't necessarily in the bag — Rep. Brian Baird (D-Wash.) stressed Sunday that the votes of retiring Dems such as himself aren't necessarily in the bag. — Appearing across from Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Rep. Chris Van Hollen …
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Media Decoder:
WABC Returns to Cablevision — Updated The Walt Disney Company and Cablevision announced they had agreed in principle to a new contract governing WABC about 15 minutes after the Academy Awards telecast started on Sunday night. — The companies did not disclose the terms of the deal.
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Anal yst / Stone Street Advisors:
New York Times, Gretchen Morgenson Dazzle Us With Their Ignorance (Yet Again) — Earlier today, Twitter user (and good follow!) Taste_Arbitrage alerted us - his followers, that is - an egregious error in Gretchen's latest article, wherein she attempts to inform us that - news alert …
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