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Al-Qaeda number three 'killed by CIA spy plane' in Pakistan — Al-Qaeda's third-ranking leader has been killed by a missile fired by an American drone in Pakistan, near the Afghan border, NBC television news reported yesterday. — Egyptian-born Abu Hamza Rabia, who is said to head al …
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Blast in Pakistan Kills Al Qaeda Commander — Figure Reportedly Hit by U.S. Missile Strike — BERLIN, Dec. 3 — The killing of an al Qaeda commander in a U.S.-led operation in a remote corner of Pakistan marks an advance in the struggle to locate and eliminate the network's leadership …
Dana Priest / Washington Post:
Wrongful Imprisonment: Anatomy of a CIA Mistake — German Citizen Released After Months in 'Rendition' — In May 2004, the White House dispatched the U.S. ambassador in Germany to pay an unusual visit to that country's interior minister. Ambassador Daniel R. Coats carried instructions …
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Blanco Releases Katrina Records — La. Governor Seeks to 'Set the Record Straight' — Thousands of documents released by Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco Friday night shed new light on clashes between state officials, New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin and the Bush administration …
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
In Newly Released Documents, a View of the Storm After Katrina — WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 - It was Thursday, Sept. 1, three days after Hurricane Katrina had ripped across the Gulf Coast. As New Orleans descended into horror, the top aides to Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco of Louisiana were certain …
Shakespeare's Sister:
Once my face burned with the shame of rape; now I smolder with anger. — I've spent the entire day burning up from the inside out about the Oregon case in which a rape victim was found guilty of filing false charges after prosecutors decided not to purse a case against her attackers.
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Katharine Q. Seelye / New York Times:
Snared in the Web of a Wikipedia Liar — ACCORDING to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, John Seigenthaler Sr. is 78 years old and the former editor of The Tennessean in Nashville. But is that information, or anything else in Mr. Seigenthaler's biography, true?
Emily Bazelon / Slate:
Shoot To Kill — Alito's blank check for cops. — Late on an October night in 1974, Memphis, Tenn., police officer Elton Hymon responded to a call about a break in. At the scene, a neighbor said she'd heard glass shattering and pointed to the house next door. Hymon went behind it.
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Richard Reeves / Yahoo! News:
IS GEORGE BUSH THE WORST PRESIDENT — EVER? — PARIS — President John F. Kennedy was considered a historian because of his book "Profiles in Courage," so he received periodic requests to rate the presidents, those lists that usually begin "1. Lincoln, 2. Washington ..."
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Oversight for Sore Eyes — It sounded on Thursday as if Senate committee chairmen were about to flex their oversight muscles. — An angry Armed Services Committee Chairman John W. Warner (R-Va.) summoned Pentagon officials for a briefing on the military's paying for favorable coverage in Iraqi newspapers.
Joseph Kahn / New York Times:
Torture Is 'Widespread' in China, U.N. Investigator Says — BEIJING, Dec. 2 - A high-level United Nations investigator condemned the "widespread" use of torture in Chinese law enforcement and said Beijing must overhaul its criminal laws, grant more power to judges and abolish labor camps …
John / AMERICAblog:
Ford Motor Company embraces homophobia in order to appease religious right — UPDATE: Some initial contact info for Ford's public relation's people. Let's fill their voice mail boxes over the weekend. Ask them if they'd pull all their advertising in black media or Jewish media if the Klan gave them a call:
Eric Schmitt / New York Times:
Military Admits Planting News in Iraq — WASHINGTON, Dec. 2 - The military acknowledged Friday in a briefing for a ranking Senate Republican that news articles written by American troops had been placed as paid advertisements in the Iraqi news media and not always properly identified.
Hindrocket / Power Line:
A SPLENDID EVENING — Last night, Mrs. R. and I attended the Claremont Institute's Winston Churchill Dinner at the Beverly Wilshire, at which Mark Steyn was honored with the Henry Salvatori Prize. The evening was delightful. The Claremont people—Brian Kennedy, Bruce Sanborn, Larry Arnn …
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
White House Seeks a Strategy for Victory, at Home and in Iraq — WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 - There could be no doubt about the theme of President Bush's Iraqi war strategy speech on Wednesday at the Naval Academy. He used the word victory 15 times in the address; "Plan for Victory" …
J. Peter Mulhern / realclearpolitics.com:
Hit 'Em Again, Harder — When he took the nation's highest office, George W. Bush famously called himself a uniter, not a divider, signaling a kinder, gentler approach to Washington politics. Fat lot of good it did him. He faces opponents who offer no quarter, even when the national interest is at stake.
Greyhawk / Mudville Gazette:
FORWARD PROGRESS ON HAIFA STREET — I can imagine a scenario where various media outlets "divvied up" the President's speech at Annapolis, each claming a critical passage to do their best to discredit. This didn't happen, of course, but it's not hard to picture them printing the speech …
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