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Bill Roggio / The Long War Journal:
Pakistani Taliban claim credit for failed NYC Times Square car bombing — Image from an audiotape purportedly from Qari Hussain Mehsud, who takes credit for the failed car bombing in New York City. Qari Hussain is a senior leader and master bomb maker in the Movement of the Taliban in Pakistan.
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Michael S. Schmidt / City Room:
T-Shirt Vendor Takes On New Persona: Reluctant Hero of Times Square — About 12 hours had passed since a T-shirt vendor in Times Square had alerted police to a suspicious S.U.V. that was packed with a bomb. But by 7 a.m. Sunday, with the S.U.V. towed away and the streets safe and reopened …
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Steve Coll / Think Tank:
Terrorism — A few years ago, I was at an event with New York Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. The conversation turned to why terrorist groups, particularly those associated with Al Qaeda, had not carried out any attacks inside the United States since September 11th.
Telegraph:
Times Square car bomb: police investigate South Park link — Police in New York are investigating whether a car bomb in Times Square was targeted at the makers of South Park over a controversial depiction of the Prophet Mohammed. — The device, which failed to detonate …
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New York Times:
Police Find Car Bomb in Times Square — A crude car bomb of propane, gasoline and fireworks was discovered in a smoking Nissan Pathfinder in the heart of Times Square on Saturday evening, prompting the evacuation of thousands of tourists and theatergoers on a warm and busy night.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Attempted car bomb in Times Square? …
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WCBS-TV:
NYPD: No Evidence Of A Taliban Link To SUV Bomb
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NY Daily News:
3 cops, street vendor stop Times Square car bomb from detonating …
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Leslie Kaufman / New York Times:
New Technique Holds Hope for Oil Spill Cleanup — NEW ORLEANS — Officials in charge of the cleanup of a massive oil spill now approaching three Gulf Coast states said Saturday that a new technique in battling the leaks 5,000 feet beneath the sea showed promise.
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Government closes fishing in oil spill areas for 10 days — The U.S. government on Sunday released a ten-day ban on fishing in federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico affected by an oil spill. — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) closed commercial and recreational fishing …
Brian Maloney / The Radio Equalizer:
Libtalkers Blame Gulf Oil Spill On Bush, While Praising Obama — 'GOD'S A DEMOCRAT' — As Oil Spill Serves Their Agenda, Libtalkers Find Religion — As the rabid left expertly recognizes, the best defense is a good offense. And with Obama's inaction on the rapidly-escalating Gulf oil …
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msnbc.com:
Obama: Spill could be unprecedented disaster
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Crist says he's open to supporting a Democrat for Senate majority leader — Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (I) would not say Sunday which party he'd caucus with if elected to the Senate. — Crist, who left the Republican Party this week to pursue an independent bid for the state's open Senate seat …
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Derrick DePledge / Honolulu Advertiser:
Hawaii Poll: Djou leads Democratic rivals in congressional race — Poll shows concerns over Hanabusa, Case splitting vote are real — Honolulu City Councilman Charles Djou has the advantage in the special election for Congress, a new Hawai'i Poll has found, giving Republicans the best opportunity …
Roman Polanski / La Règle du Jeu:
I can remain silent no longer! — Throughout my seven months since September 26, 2009, the date of my arrest at Zurich Airport, where I had landed with a view to receiving a lifetime award for my work from the representative of the Swiss Minister of Culture, I have refrained from making …
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Michael Cieply / New York Times:
Polanski Breaks Silence on His Extradition From Switzerland — LOS ANGLES — Ending a long silence, Roman Polanski addressed his possible extradition to the United States over a 33-year-old sex-crime case with a statement that accused authorities here of “trying to serve me on a platter …
Gretchen Morgenson / New York Times:
Repaying Taxpayers With Their Own Cash — AS we inch closer to a clearer understanding of the products and practices that unleashed the credit crisis of 2008, it's becoming apparent that those seeking the whole truth are still outnumbered by those aiming to obscure it.
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Glynnis MacNicol / Mediaite:
Obama Kills At WHCD: ‘Approval Ratings Are High In Country Of My Birth’ (VIDEO) — Well if his day job doesn't end up working out President Barack Obama may have a comedy career to fall back on. Obama addressed the star-studded crowd (for Washington, anyway) at the White House Correspondents dinner tonight …
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Alia Wilson / Mercury News:
Riot breaks out in downtown Santa Cruz; windows broken on dozens of businesses, porch of cafe set on fire — SANTA CRUZ - A large group of protesters demonstrating at a May Day rally for worker's and immigrant rights downtown broke off into a riot vandalizing about a dozen businesses around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, police said.
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Donald Sensing / Sense of Events:
Major flooding in middle Tennessee — Much more updated on May 2 - click here. — Rain in middle Tennessee today has already achieved the second-highest total in one day (average across the midstate of 9.4 inches) and as I write this, there are five hours left in the day. Some areas have exceeded 12 inches.
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Nicholas D. Kristof / New York Times:
Op-Ed Columnist: Who Can Mock the True Catholic Church? — Maybe the Catholic Church should be turned upside down. — Jesus wasn't known for pontificating from palaces, covering up scandals, or issuing Paleolithic edicts on social issues. Does anyone think he would have protected clergymen who raped children?
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