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Times of London:
UN office doctored report on murder of Hariri  —  From James Bone in New York and Nicholas Blanchard in Beirut  —  THE United Nations withheld some of the most damaging allegations against Syria in its report on the murder of Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese Prime Minister, it emerged yesterday.
Discussion: BBC, The Word Unheard and lgf
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Robert Mayer / Publius Pundit:
SYRIA SCREWED  —  The Mehlis report was released today, and it was the historic bombshell that everyone knew it would be.  It implicated Syrian and Lebanese intelligence chiefs and military generals, all the way up to members of Assad's family.  The commission was also extended up until December …
Warren Hoge / New York Times:
Bush and Rice Urge Action on Syria's Ties to Lebanon Killing  —  UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 21 - President Bush and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called today for the Security Council to take urgent action in response to a United Nations report implicating high-ranking members of the Syrian government …
Anthony Shadid / Washington Post:
Syria Feels Heat Over U.N. Report
Associated Press:
UN Hariri report controversial
Discussion: Barcepundit
Barry Schweid / Associated Press:
Bush Calls for U.N. Action Against Syria
Discussion: PunditGuy
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Michelle Malkin:
THE DAMNING FEMA E-MAILS  —  I received a bit of flack from some of my conservative friends for highlighting FEMA's inadequate response—particularly former FEMA chief Michael Brown's embarrassing performance—during Hurricane Katrina.  This week, Department of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff …
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Hope Yen / Associated Press:
FEMA Official Says Boss Ignored Warnings
Discussion: JunkYardBlog
Mary Curtius / Los Angeles Times:
Insider Condemns FEMA Response
Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:   Chertoff: FEMA wasn't ready
Washington Times:
Insiders see hint of Miers pullout  —  The White House has begun making contingency plans for the withdrawal of Harriet Miers as President Bush's choice to fill a seat on the Supreme Court, conservative sources said yesterday.  —  "White House senior staff are starting to ask outside people …
ReddHedd / firedoglake:
Throw Judy From The Train  —  In advance of Public Editor Byron Calame's extensive article on the Judy escapade for Sunday's NYTimes, Bill Keller took his own case to the staff of the Times directly today.  Crooks and Liars has the text of the letter up here.
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Crooks and Liars:
Breaking: A Message from Bill Keller
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
OPEN POST  —  The purpose of the Open Post is (hopefully) obvious.  Those with something to say can link their blogs here and those readers who are interested can follow those links to the source.  This whole inter-linking thing is what the blogosphere is all about.
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Victor Davis Hanson / victorhanson.com:
With a Whimper  —  How the violence in Iraq will end.  —  National Review Online  —  The Western media was relatively quiet about the quite amazing news from the recent trifecta in Iraq: very little violence on election day, Sunni participation, and approval of the constitution.
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Tony Parkinson / The Age:
Saddam defiant but Iraq moves on
Discussion: Don Surber and normblog
New York Times:
Leak Prosecutor Is Called Exacting and Apolitical  —  WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 - In 13 years prosecuting mobsters and terrorists in New York, Patrick J. Fitzgerald earned a public reputation for meticulous preparation, a flawless memory and an easy eloquence.  Only his colleagues knew …
Discussion: firedoglake
ABCNEWS:
Young Singers Spread Racist Hate  —  Duo Considered the Olsen Twins of the White Nationalist Movement  —  Oct. 20, 2005 — Thirteen-year-old twins Lamb and Lynx Gaede have one album out, another on the way, a music video, and lots of fans.  —  They may remind you another famous pair of singers …
Philip Shenon / New York Times:
DeLay, in First Court Appearance, Seeks a New Judge  —  AUSTIN, Tex., Oct. 21 - Representative Tom DeLay entered a criminal courtroom today for the first time to face his nemesis, the Texas county prosecutor who has charged with Mr. DeLay with money laundering and conspiracy …
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
Miers' Answer Raises Questions  —  Legal experts find a misuse of terms in her Senate questionnaire 'terrible' and 'shocking.'  —  WASHINGTON — Asked to describe the constitutional issues she had worked on during her legal career, Supreme Court nominee Harriet E. Miers had relatively little …
Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
For a Senate Foe of Pork Barrel Spending, Two Bridges Too Far  —  Republicans in Congress say they are serious about cutting spending, but they learned yesterday to keep their hands off the "Bridge to Nowhere."  —  Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), a staunch opponent of pork barrel spending …
Washington Post:
Miers Backed Race, Sex Set-Asides  —  As president of the State Bar of Texas, Harriet Miers wrote that "our legal community must reflect our population as a whole," and under her leadership the organization embraced racial and gender set-asides and set numerical targets to achieve that goal.
Discussion: Conglomerate Blog and AMERICAblog
Time:
Stench Prompted U.S. Troops to Burn Corpses  —  The desecration of Taliban dead prompts outrage in Afghanistan  —  There simply wasn't enough room on the rocky hilltop above Gonbaz village in southern Afghanistan for the U.S. platoon and the corpses of the two Taliban fighters.
Agence France Presse:
One dead in violent Muslim protest in Egypt  —  CAIRO (AFP) - One Muslim protestor was killed and dozens more wounded in violent clashes with police in Alexandria amid mounting tensions in the Egyptian Mediterranean city over a Christian video, the interior ministry said.
Discussion: TigerHawk

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