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BBC:
Four killed in cartoon protests  —  Four people have died in violent protests against cartoons satirising the Prophet Muhammad, following more than a week of demonstrations.  —  Three people died after police in Afghanistan fired on protesters when a police station came under attack, a government spokesman said.
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Rory McCarthy / Guardian:
Rioting with well-planned spontaneity  —  It was one of those unpredictable Lebanese Sunday mornings.  The ski slopes in the mountains overlooking Beirut would have been crowded with skiers enjoying the brilliant winter sunshine.  Walkers were out along the Corniche, strolling in designer tracksuits.
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
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.
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.
Financial Times:
Nordic states fear attacks will spread
Barney Zwartz / The Age:
Cartoon rage spreads to New Zealand
Discussion: Sister Toldjah
Anthony Shadid / Washington Post:
Lebanon Protesters Set Embassy Afire
Discussion: Informed Comment and INDC Journal
Alberto R. Gonzales / Opinion Journal:
America Expects Surveillance  —  Monitoring the enemy is necessary and appropriate.  —  In the days following Sept. 11, 2001, President Bush charted a course of action to respond to the worst attack on our homeland in history.  He promised to use every tool available to defeat al Qaeda …
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Scott Shane / New York Times:
For Some, Spying Controversy Recalls a Past Drama  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 — As the Senate prepares to hold hearings on Monday on domestic eavesdropping by the National Security Agency, old Washington hands see a striking similarity to a drama that unfolded three decades ago in the capital.
Discussion: ACSBlog
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.
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.
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 …
Discussion: Dr. Sanity and Outside The Beltway
USA Today:
Telecoms let NSA spy on calls  —  The National Security Agency has secured the cooperation of large telecommunications companies, including AT&T, MCI and Sprint, in its efforts to eavesdrop without warrants on international calls by suspected terrorists, according to seven telecommunications executives.
Victor Davis Hanson / realclearpolitics.com:
A European Awakening Against Islamic Fascism?  —  Over the last four years Americans have played a sort of parlor game wondering when—or if—the Europeans might awake to the danger of Islamic fascism and choose a more muscular role in the war on terrorism.  —  But after the acrimony …
Suzan Fraser / Associated Press:
Catholic Priest Shot to Death in Turkey  —  ANKARA, Turkey — A teenage boy shot and killed the Italian Roman Catholic priest of a church in the Black Sea port city of Trabzon on Sunday, shouting "God is great" as he escaped, according to police and witnesses.
Adam Nagourney / New York Times:
Calling Clinton 'Angry,' G.O.P. Chairman Goes on the Attack  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 — The chairman of the Republican National Committee, Ken Mehlman, offered a broad attack on Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York on Sunday, describing her as a Democrat brimming with anger and a representative of the far left wing of her party.
Discussion: Bark Bark Woof Woof
Francoalemán / Barcepundit:
NOW, ZAPATERO HAS DEFINITELY put Spain in the wrong side.  With all Western countries publicly defending free speech and condemning the barbaric acts of violence after the publication of the Danish cartoons, Zapatero and Erdogan write an open letter that has been published in today's International Herald Tribune:
Discussion: Publius Pundit
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.
Discussion: Jay Currie and Pickled Politics

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