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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.
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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 …
Anthony Shadid / Washington Post:
Syria Feels Heat Over U.N. Report — Middle East Is Captivated By Findings in Hariri Killing — DAMASCUS, Syria, Oct. 21 — A day after its release, a U.N. report that implicated senior Syrian officials in the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri escalated pressure …
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 …
Don Surber:
Iraqi Semper Liberi … Iraq came closer to freedom and liberty when its constitution was approved by a direct vote of the people. May the civil war subside and the Shia, Sunni and Kurds learn to live together. — Of course, thousands of loyalists were forced from their homes and marched to a foreign country.
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Beth / MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy:WLWOTPCFCD time — Time for the Weekend Link Whorage Open …
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Opinion Journal:
The Miers Blunder — Walking the nominee into a political crossfire. — Although skeptical from the start, we've restrained our criticism of the Harriet Miers nomination because we've long believed that Presidents of either party deserve substantial deference on their Supreme Court picks.
Hope Yen / Associated Press:
FEMA Official Says Boss Ignored Warnings — WASHINGTON — In the midst of the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina, a Federal Emergency Management Agency official in New Orleans sent a dire e-mail to Director Michael Brown saying victims had no food and were dying. No response came from Brown.
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Howard Kurtz / Washington Post:
A Split Between The Times & Miller? — Editor Says Reporter May Have Misled The Newspaper in Plame Leak Case — New York Times executives "fully encouraged" reporter Judith Miller in her refusal to testify in the CIA leak investigation, a stance that led to her jailing …
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Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice:Are Judith Miller And The New York Times Headed For A Divorce?
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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 …
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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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.
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 …
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 …
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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.
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Rupert Cornwell / Independent:
Rice cooks up some southern hospitality for Straw — Usually they meet in the gilded halls of the Foreign Office or on the elegant seventh floor of the State Department in Washington. But for three days this weekend, Condoleezza Rice and Jack Straw are mulling over the problems of the world …
