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Associated Press:
Bush unaware of port deal until after approval  —  White House: President only learned recently of handover to Arab firm … Today show  —  WASHINGTON - President Bush was unaware of the pending sale of shipping operations at six major U.S. seaports to a state-owned business …
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New York Times:
Bush Would Veto Any Bill Halting Dubai Port Deal  —  WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 — President Bush, trying to put down a rapidly escalating rebellion among leaders of his own party, said Tuesday that he would veto any legislation blocking a deal for a state-owned company in Dubai to take over the management …
New York Times:
The President and the Ports  —  If President Bush follows through on his threat, he'll be making a strange choice for his first veto after more than five years in office.  After giving a pass to a parade of misbegotten Congressional initiatives and irresponsible budget packages …
Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
PORTGATE....So what's up with this Dubai port deal, anyway?  I hate to say it, but I can't help but think that Bush may be right about the whole thing.  Just for the record:  —  This isn't a matter of outsourcing a government operation to a private company.
Los Angeles Times:
Port hysteria  —  WHEN MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TAKE homeland …
Discussion: The RCP Blog and CNN
Washington Post:
Bush Threatens Veto Against Bid To Stop Port Deal
Phil Singer / dscc.org:   Republicans Opposing Dubai Deal Have Long Opposed Efforts To Secure America's Ports
Dafydd / Big Lizards:
UAE and American Ports: a Modest Proposal
Edward Wong / New York Times:
Blast Destroys Golden Dome of Sacred Shiite Shrine in Samarra  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 22 - Insurgents dressed as police commandos detonated powerful explosives on Wednesday morning inside one of Shiite Islam's most sacred shrines, destroying most of the building, located in the volatile town of Samarra …
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Omar / IRAQ THE MODEL:
Holy Shia shrine bombed in Samarra.  —  As if we didn't have enough problems already!  —  The quality of the target and the timing of the attack were chosen in a way that can possibly bring very serious consequences over the country.  —  The situation in Baghdad is so tense now …
Discussion: Reuters, The Fourth Rail and Hyscience
BBC:
Iraqi blast damages Shia shrine  —  A bomb attack in Iraq has badly damaged one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, sparking furious protests.  —  Thousands of Iraqis have gathered at the al-Askari shrine in Samarra, north of Baghdad, where two men blew up the famous golden dome in a dawn raid.
Discussion: Mark in Mexico
Ziad Khalaf / Associated Press:
Sunnis Hit After Shiite Shrine Blast  —  SAMARRA, Iraq - Assailants wearing uniforms detonated two bombs inside one of Iraq's most revered Shiite shrines Wednesday, blowing the top off its landmark golden dome and spawning mass protests and reprisal attacks against dozens of Sunni mosques.
Monica Davey / New York Times:
Vote Due on South Dakota Bill Banning Nearly All Abortions  —  PIERRE, S.D., Feb. 21 — Lawmakers here are preparing to vote on a bill that would outlaw nearly all abortions in South Dakota, a measure that could become the most sweeping ban approved by any state in more than a decade, those on both sides of the abortion debate say.
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Park Song-wu / KoreaTimes:
48% of Youth Would Support N. Korea in Case of US Attack  —  Survey Shows Half of Young Generation Are Progressive  —  Almost half of juniors surveyed, who will get their first voting rights in the 2007 presidential election, said in a recent poll that South Korea should side with North Korea …
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Associated Press:
Poll: Youths Back N. Korea if Attacked
New York Times:
President of Harvard Resigns, Ending Stormy 5-Year Tenure  —  Lawrence H. Summers resigned yesterday as president of Harvard University after a relatively brief and turbulent tenure of five years, nudged by Harvard's governing corporation and facing a vote of no confidence from the influential Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
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Alan M. Dershowitz / Boston Globe:   Coup against Summers a dubious victory for the politically correct
Elana Schor / The Hill:
GOP Senator eyes public financing bill  —  Sen. George Voinovich, Ethics Committee chairman and a sometime gadfly to Republican leadership, is warming to Democratic-backed proposals for public financing of federal elections.  —  Voinovich (R-Ohio) told The Hill that he has met …
New York Times:
Furor Over Cartoons Pits Muslim Against Muslim  —  AMMAN, Jordan, Feb. 21 — In a direct challenge to the international uproar over cartoons lampooning the Prophet Muhammad, the Jordanian journalist Jihad Momani wrote: "What brings more prejudice against Islam, these caricatures or pictures …
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
From 'Connectedness' to Conflict  —  One of the baseline assumptions of U.S. foreign policy is that "connectedness" is a good thing.  Linkage to the global economy fosters the growth of democracy and free markets, the theory goes, and that in turn creates the conditions for stability and security.
Charles Bremner / Times of London:
Jews claim police hid killers' motive to appease ghetto  —  THE torture and murder of a young Jewish man in Paris triggered outrage among Jewish leaders yesterday as the Government sought to prevent the affair from inflaming emotions in the Muslim-dominated housing estates of France.
Discussion: Fausta's Blog, Reuters and Atlas Shrugs
Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
GOP Achievers Want to Compile $5 Million for Libby Defense  —  A Who's Who of Republican heavy hitters and Bush administration supporters are lending their names to help raise $5 million for the defense of Vice President Cheney's former top aide in his criminal trial.

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