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Telegraph:
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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Washington Post:
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 …
Discussion: Obsidian Wings
Washington Post:
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 …
Jazz / Running Scared:
Alleged gang rape victim convicted of making false charges  —  This one isn't going to be easy at all, but a very disturbing story came to me via Shakespeare's Sister.  (Also see more from The Heretik, Dave Johnson and American Street's Kevin Hayden so far.)  Here's the short version of this news report out of Beaverton, Oregon.
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D.E.D. / DED Space:   It's important to report a rape correctly …
Arthur Silber / Once Upon a Time:   The Male Myth: Men Are Always Right, and They Are Never to be Questioned
Kathy / Liberty Street:
One More Disincentive for Women to Report Rape
Discussion: Ezra Klein
The Heretik:   TYPICAL  —  THE TYPICAL RESPONSE to rape in centuries past was the women asked for it.
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?
Laurie Goodstein / New York Times:
Intelligent Design Might Be Meeting Its Maker  —  TO read the headlines, intelligent design as a challenge to evolution seems to be building momentum.  —  In Kansas last month, the board of education voted that students should be exposed to critiques of evolution like intelligent design.
Adam Cohen / New York Times:
This Season's War Cry: Commercialize Christmas, or Else  —  Religious conservatives have a cause this holiday season: the commercialization of Christmas.  They're for it.  —  The American Family Association is leading a boycott of Target for not using the words "Merry Christmas" in its advertising.
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 ..."
Michael Gurian / Washington Post:
Disappearing Act  —  In the 1990s, I taught for six years at a small liberal arts college in Spokane, Wash. In my third year, I started noticing something that was happening right in front of me.  There were more young women in my classes than young men, and on average, they were getting better grades than the guys.
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.
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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Observer:
Rice rejects EU protests over secret terror prisons  —  America does not break international law, Secretary of State insists  —  US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will inflame the transatlantic row over America's alleged torture of terror suspects in secret jails by telling Foreign Secretary Jack Straw …
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 …
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Dems determined to ignore progress in Iraq  —  Sen. Joe Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut, came out with a big statement on Iraq last week.  Did you hear about it?  Probably not.  Everyone was still raving about his Democrat colleague, Rep. Jack Murtha, whose carefully nuanced position on Iraq is …
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