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BBC:
Embassies burn in cartoon protest  —  Syrians have set fire to the Norwegian and Danish embassies in Damascus to protest at the publication of newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.  —  Angry protesters attacked the Norwegian mission after storming the Danish site amid chants of "God is great".
Associated Press:
Cartoon row: Danish embassy ablaze  —  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Hundreds of Syrian demonstrators stormed the Danish Embassy in Damascus Saturday and set fire to the building, witnesses said.  —  The demonstrators were protesting offensive caricatures of Islam's Prophet Mohammed …
Boston Globe:
Forms of intolerance  —  FREEDOM OF expression is not the only value at issue in the conflict provoked by a Danish newspaper's publication of cartoons satirizing Islam's founding prophet, Mohammed.  The billowing controversy is being swept along by intolerance, ignorance, and parochialism.
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
DANISH EMBASSY BURNED in Syria.  Gateway Pundit has a roundup.  This really is a case of civilization against the barbarians.  The good news is that moderate Muslims are standing up for civilization: … The bad news is that the Boston Globe is siding with the barbarians, comparing the Danish cartoonists to Nazis.
Gateway Pundit:
Danish Embassy Torched in Syria!  —  Witnesses say that protesters set the entire building ablaze which also houses embassies of Chile and Sweden!  —  Chanting "God is Great," they stormed the embassy, burned the Danish flag and replaced it with another flag reading "No God but Allah, Mohammad is His Prophet."
Charles Moore / Telegraph:
If you get rid of the Danes, you'll have to keep paying the Danegeld  —  It's some time since I visited Palestine, so I may be out of date, but I don't remember seeing many Danish flags on sale there.  Not much demand, I suppose.  I raise the question because, as soon as the row about the cartoons …
Albert Aji / Associated Press:
Syrians Torch Embassies Over Caricatures  —  DAMASCUS, Syria - Thousands of Syrians enraged by caricatures of Islam's revered prophet torched the Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus on Saturday — the most violent in days of furious protests by Muslims in Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
Guardian:
Cartoon controversy spreads throughout Muslim world
George Jahn / Associated Press:
IAEA Reports Iran to U.N. Security Council  —  VIENNA, Austria - The U.N. nuclear watchdog Saturday reported Iran to the U.N. Security Council in a resolution expressing concern that Tehran's nuclear program may not be "exclusively for peaceful purposes."  Iran retaliated immediately …
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Washington Post:
U.N. Nuclear Agency Reports Iran to Security Council  —  Move Signals Growing Unease About Nation's Nuclear Program  —  VIENNA, Feb. 4 — The United Nations nuclear agency reported Iran to the U.N. Security Council on Saturday, signaling growing worldwide unease about the nature and intent …
Andrew C. Revkin / New York Times:
NASA Chief Backs Agency Openness  —  A week after NASA's top climate scientist complained that the space agency's public-affairs office was trying to silence his statements on global warming, the agency's administrator, Michael D. Griffin, issued a sharply worded statement yesterday calling for …
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Mark Kleiman / The Reality-Based Community:
The Bush war on science (Part CXIII): the Big Bang is just an opinion
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Dean / Dean's World:
News Flash: Neal Boortz is Just Another Foaming Islamophobe (JIFA)  —  You know what this Neal Boortz rant is known as?  A game of "throw enough sh** against the wall and some of it will stick."  And that's all it is.  If you can't immediately, this very instant, supply retorting examples for all of it, Boortz wins right?
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Mike Allen / Time:
How Gonzales Plans to Defend Eavesdropping  —  TIME Exclusive: Attorney General will tell Senators that wiretaps target suspects, not innocents … Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales plans to use a Congressional hearing on Monday to lash out at "misinformed, confused" …
Discussion: Daily Kos
Saul Hansell / New York Times:
Postage Is Due for Companies Sending E-Mail  —  Soon companies will have to buy the electronic equivalent of a postage stamp if they want to be certain that their e-mail will be delivered to many of their customers.  —  America Online and Yahoo, two of the world's largest providers of e-mail accounts …
Discussion: TalkLeft and Boing Boing
New York Times:
Oil Graft Fuels the Insurgency, Iraq and U.S. Say  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 4 — Iraqi and American officials say they are seeing a troubling pattern of government corruption enabling the flow of oil money and other funds to the insurgency and threatening to undermine Iraq's struggling economy.
Discussion: Needlenose and TalkLeft
Louis Charbonneau / Reuters:
Iran is world's top sponsor of terrorism: Rumsfeld  —  MUNICH (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld accused Iran on Saturday of being the world's leading sponsor of terrorism, a charge that his Iranian counterpart rejected as "ridiculous" and "outrageous."

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