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Haaretz:
Dutch Islamists post cartoons depicting Anne Frank, Hitler in bed — A Belgian-Dutch Islamic political organization posted anti-Jewish cartoons on its Web site in response to the cartoons of the prophet Mohammed that appeared in Danish papers last year and offended many — Muslims.
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James Kilner / Reuters:
Norway PM blames Syria for embassy attack — OSLO (Reuters) - Norway will complain to the United Nations about Syria's failure to protect its embassy in Damascus from being torched by demonstrators angry over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said.
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Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:The Goal Of These Pages — Last week the editorial page …
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Commissar / The Politburo Diktat:I am offended — This is an image of the Cross these people are burning.
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New York Times:
Specter Says Surveillance Program Violated the Law — WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 — The Republican who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee said today that he believed the Bush administration had violated the law with its warrantless surveillance program and that its legal justifications for the program were "strained and unrealistic."
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Financial Times:
White House to lash out at media coverage of terror surveillance — The Bush administration will tell the Senate today that the National Security Agency's programme for terrorist surveillance has been badly distorted by media reports, and that the scheme is a strictly limited one aimed at al-Qaeda members and affiliated groups.
Christine Hauser / New York Times:
Mastermind of U.S.S. Cole Attack Escapes Jail — A man convicted of masterminding the attack on the American destroyer Cole in 2000 escaped a Yemeni jail through a tunnel with 22 other prisoners, the international police organization, Interpol, said today. — The prisoner, Jamal Ahmed Badawi …
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Ahmed Al-Haj / Associated Press:Cole Attack Planner Escapes Yemen Prison
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Jason Reed / Newsweek:
Exclusive: Can the President Order a Killing on U.S. Soil? — President Bush at a recent White House press briefing — Feb. 13, 2006 issue - In the latest twist in the debate over presidential powers, a Justice Department official suggested that in certain circumstances …
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David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Behind the Urgent Diplomacy: A Sense Iran Will Get the Bomb — WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 — Hours after the United States and Europe prevailed in a contest over officially reporting Iran's history of clandestine nuclear activity to the United Nations Security Council, President Bush issued a statement …
Lorenzo Vidino / The Counterterrorism Blog:
More lies from Danish Imams (Updated 2/5) — Last Friday the CT Blog revealed how a delegation of Danish Muslims, led by Copenhagen imam Abu Laban, toured the Middle East in December and showed fabricated cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in a very offensive fashion, even though the pictures had never appeared on Jyllands Posten.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Boehner Opposes Sweeping Changes In Lobbyist Work — Newly elected House Majority Leader John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) said he opposed efforts to ban privately funded travel for members of Congress and provisions in spending bills that fund lawmakers' pet projects.
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Times of London:
Self-harmers to be given clean blades — NURSES want patients who are intent on harming themselves to be provided with clean blades so that they can cut themselves more safely. — They say people determined to harm themselves should be helped to minimise the risk of infection from dirty blades …
Times of London:
Muslims tell Yard to charge protesters — BRITAIN's leading Islamic body yesterday called on Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan police commissioner, to press charges against the extremists behind last week's inflammatory protests in London over the "blasphemous" cartoons of the prophet Muhammad.
Pastorius / Infidel Bloggers Alliance:
The Infidel Bloggers Alliance Mohammed Cartoon Contest — Draw cartoons, or artistic depictions of Mohammed, and submit them to us here, by leaving a link in the comments section. — You don't need to be mean, or pornographic. Just draw good ole Mo in everyday situations …
Time:
The Political Science Test — Bush said science would guide his decisions, but those in the lab see ideology intruding on their work — The 3 1/2-hr. conference call brought together nearly two dozen of the nation's best minds on the subject of air quality—and many of them were steamed.
Sabrina Tavernise / New York Times:
As Iraqi Shiites Police Sunnis, Rough Justice Feeds Bitterness — SALMAN PAK, Iraq — When Shiite forces took over this Sunni town, they spread out and clamped down. Checkpoints sprung up. People suspected of being insurgents were driven out. A Shiite took over as mayor.
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Joshua / onefreekorea:
Springtime in the Gulag: S. Korean Gov't Says Play 'Dwells Too Heavily on Negative Aspects' of Concentration Camp Life — Update: Welcome Instapundit readers! — So it has come to this: it is no longer legal to criticize the human rights record of North Korea in Seoul, South Korea.
Deborah Howell / Washington Post:
A Global Reach, but a Local Focus — One of the big surprises for me in becoming ombudsman is that most e-mail focuses on national issues, not local news. — This column is an initial effort to solicit comment from readers about local news. Is The Post covering the kind of local news …
