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Telegraph:
Day of anger threatened over cartoons of Prophet — A leading Islamic cleric called for an "international day of anger" today over publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed, and a Danish activist predicted that deadly violence could break out in Europe "at any minute".
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Michelle Malkin:
THE "INTERNATIONAL DAY OF ANGER" — Watch out. The London Telegraph reports: … Qaradawi heartily endorses terrorist suicide bombings. Previous coverage of Red Ken Livingston's terrorist sympathies here. — Just as a visual reminder that this Islamist conflagration is a violent global phenomenon, look and learn:
Washington Post:
Tension Rises Over Cartoons of Muhammad — Publication Widens In Europe as Protests Grow in Islamic World — PARIS, Feb. 2 — Protests against European newspapers' publication of cartoons lampooning the prophet Muhammad gained momentum across the Islamic world Thursday …
CNN:
Storm grows over Mohammad cartoons — (CNN) — The international storm over cartoon drawings of the Prophet Mohammad published in European media gathered pace across the Islamic world Thursday with angry demonstrations and the shutting down of the EU office in Gaza City.
Michelle Malkin:
THE COWARDLY AMERICAN MEDIA (VIDEO ADDED) — ***scroll for updates*** — Read this CNN report very carefully: … Unbelievable. The news network reports on an international controversy, but refuses to show readers what the news is actually about and let them judge the cartoons for themselves.
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David Rennie / Telegraph:
Newspapers challenge Muslims over cartoons of Mohammed — 10am update: French editor sacked over cartoons — David Rennie's weblog: the cartoon row goes on — Newspapers across Europe yesterday defended what one editor called the "right to blasphemy" by printing Danish cartoons …
Qassim Abdel-Zahra / Associated Press:Muslims Again Protest Muhammad Caricatures
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
Senate Session on Security Erupts in Spying Debate — WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 — Senate Democrats on Thursday angrily accused the Bush administration of mounting a public relations campaign to defend the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program while withholding details …
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Katherine Shrader / Associated Press:
CIA Says Disclosures Damage Work — WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence officials told Congress on Thursday that disclosure of once-classified projects like President Bush's no-warrant eavesdropping program have undermined their work. — "The damage has been very severe to our capabilities …
Sam Rosenfeld / TAPPED:
IS ABORTION BAD? So far, Will Saletan and Katha Pollitt's exchange about abortion in Slate is interesting and worth a read, though I rather think it typifies a certain frustrating tendency in political commentary that Matt has often noted: the insistence on framing discussions of actual …
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Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
Surveillance Prompts a Suit: Police v. Police — The demonstrators arrived angry, departed furious. The police had herded them into pens. Stopped them from handing out fliers. Threatened them with arrest for standing on public sidewalks. Made notes on which politicians they cheered and which ones they razzed.
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Tony Blankley / realclearpolitics.com:
State of the Democratic Party — During an election campaign, political operatives are fond of seeking to induce in their opponent a negative "defining moment." That is to say a highly publicized moment when their opponent portrays everything that is wrong with him.
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The Anonymous Liberal:
Is Cliff May a Lying Liar? — Mark Kleiman makes an interesting point [and I see so does a commenter at JustOneMinute]. When the Plame scandal first surfaced in late 2003, Clifford May of the National Review wrote the following: … This was an important claim.
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Salah Nasrawi / Associated Press:
Dozens of Bodies From Egyptian Ship Found — An Egyptian passenger ship carrying about 1,300 people sank in the Red Sea overnight during bad weather, and rescue ships arriving at the scene Friday pulled dozens of bodies from the water, an official said. About 30 survivors were rescued, some in lifeboats.
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Murray Waas / nationaljournal.com:
Iraq, Niger, And The CIA — Vice President Cheney and his then-Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were personally informed in June 2003 that the CIA no longer considered credible the allegations that Saddam Hussein had attempted to procure uranium from the African nation of Niger …
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Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
A Cry of Concern by Republicans at Voter Unease — WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 — The surprise election of Representative John A. Boehner of Ohio as House majority leader was a cry of concern by an entrenched Republican majority, acutely worried that voter unease about corruption and partisan excesses …
Washington Post:
Rumsfeld Offers Strategies for Current War — The United States is engaged in what could be a generational conflict akin to the Cold War, the kind of struggle that might last decades as allies work to root out terrorists across the globe and battle extremists who want to rule the world …
Mark Benjamin / Salon:
Out of jail, into the Army — Facing an enlistment crisis, the Army is granting "waivers" to an increasingly high percentage of recruits with criminal records — and trying to hide it. — Pages 1 2 — Print EmailFont: S / S+ / S++ … It was about 10 p.m. on Sept. 1, 2002 …
Adam Nossiter / New York Times:
New Orleans Facing Election and New Order — NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 2 — In great confusion and peculiar circumstances, this city has suddenly found itself in the midst of an unexpected mayoral election campaign. The result may once again upend this city's old order: a white man might …
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Times of London:
The President is a dolt - so how can America be such a success story? — TWO CEREMONIAL events occurred in Washington on Tuesday evening that shone a spotlight on one of the most important but paradoxical features of a modern democratic society. — The more widely reported was President Bush's State …
Gabriel Schoenfeld / Commentary:
Has the New York Times Violated the Espionage Act? — "Bush Lets U.S. Spy on Callers Without Courts." Thus ran the headline of a front-page news story whose repercussions have roiled American politics ever since its publication last December 16 in the New York Times.
Richard Norton-Taylor / Guardian:
Bush told Blair we're going to war, memo reveals — · PM backed invasion despite illegality warnings — · Plan to disguise US jets as UN planes — · Bush: postwar violence unlikely — Tony Blair told President George Bush that he was "solidly" …
