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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
STEPHEN GREEN HAS POSTED more pictures from the Danish Embassy rally, which has also gotten coverage, and photos, at Wonkette.  —  And reader Patrick Rockefeller sends the photo at bottom below, which I liked, along with this report: "It was a decent sized crowd full of good people …
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
ONE MORE PHOTO from the Danish Embassy rally.  Reader Jonathan …
Discussion: Outside The Beltway
Luis David / Age of Hooper:   ANTI-HOOPER RALLY AT DANISH EMBASSY FEB. 24, 2006
David Kaspar / Davids Medienkritik:   Signs of Solidarity: Photos from the Danish Embassy
time.blogs.com:
Standing With Denmark
Discussion: Althouse
CNN:
Pentagon: Iraqi troops downgraded  —  No Iraqi battalion capable of fighting without U.S. support  —  WASHINGTON (CNN) — The only Iraqi battalion capable of fighting without U.S. support has been downgraded to a level requiring them to fight with American troops backing them up, the Pentagon said Friday.
Jason Leopold / truthout.org:
White House 'Discovers' 250 Emails Related to Plame Leak  —  The White House turned over last week 250 pages of emails from Vice President Dick Cheney's office.  Senior aides had sent the emails in the spring of 2003 related to the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson …
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Carol D. Leonnig / Washington Post:
Libby Loses a Round in Court  —  Ex-Cheney Aide Is Denied in Bid to Learn Leaker's Identity  —  Vice President Cheney's former top aide is not entitled to know the identity of an anonymous administration official who revealed information about CIA operative Valerie Plame to two journalists …
Discussion: JustOneMinute, TalkLeft and firedoglake
Hasan Jamali / Associated Press:
Al-Qaida Claims Attack on Saudi Refinery  —  ABQAIQ, Saudi Arabia - Suicide bombers carried out a bold attack on the world's largest oil processing facility Friday but were stopped from breaking in by guards who fired on their cars, exploding both vehicles and killing the attackers.
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CNN:
Saudis thwart oil refinery attack
Discussion: Bring it On! and In the Bullpen
MSNBC:
Slacker Friday  —  Think Again is here.  It's called "Second, Third and Fourth Thoughts about the President."  —  Not a joke: Later today, the Pentagon expects to release its quarterly Iraq Progress Report entitled "Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq."
Discussion: The Big Picture
New York Times:
Sectarian Bloodshed Reveals Strength of Iraq Militias  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 24 — The sectarian violence that has shaken Iraq this week has demonstrated the power that the many militias here have to draw the country into a full-scale civil war, and how difficult it would be for the state to stop it, Iraqi and American officials say.
Discussion: Norwegianity and Informed Comment
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Borzou Daragahi / Los Angeles Times:
Anger Tinged Calls for Peace in Iraq
Discussion: Informed Comment
MSNBC:
Senators move to intervene in ports deal  —  Bipartisan group wants final decision in hands of Congress … WASHINGTON - The United Arab Emirates company at the center of the U.S. ports controversy volunteered to postpone its management of operations at six major seaports …
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Goel Pinto / Haaretz:
Chirac, de Villepin attend memorial ceremony for slain Jewish youth  —  PARIS - Cries of "vive la France" and "la justice" accompanied President Jacques Chirac, his wife Bernadette and Premier Dominique de Villepin last night as they left the memorial evening held here yesterday for Ilan Halimi.
Discussion: GOP Bloggers and The Anchoress
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Caroline Glick / Jerusalem Post:
Column One: Ilan Halimi and Israel
Tim Worstall:
Ken Livingstone Suspended  —  So Ken Livingstone is suspended from office for a month for his (subjectively) racist remarks to a reporter.  Harry's, Brighton Regency, A Councillor, The Torygraph, well, use the search engines yourselves to find more views.  Myself, if I actually thought …
Glenn Harlan Reynolds / Wall Street Journal:
Early Warning System  —  Technology is empowering ordinary people in all sorts of ways.  The blogosphere has demonstrated the ability to process information more quickly and thoroughly than other media in the past.  The debate over the acquisition of American port operations contracts …
Kevin Sullivan / Washington Post:
Bush, Blair, But Not Muhammad  —  At London Museum, Cartoonists Agree: Target the Powerful  —  LONDON, Feb. 23 — When the political cartoonist Martin Rowson draws President Bush with blood on his hands, he gets hundreds of angry and obscene e-mails.  But he doesn't mind, he said, because …
Megan Myers / argusleader.com:
House sends abortion bill to Rounds (video)  —  Governor says he's inclined to sign ban  —  PIERRE - As the South Dakota House of Representatives gave final approval today to a bill aimed at banning most abortions and creating a U.S. Supreme Court challenge to the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision …
Discussion: Vox Popoli
Ralph Blumenthal / New York Times:
1 Cafe, 1 Gas Station, 2 Roads: America's Emptiest County  —  MENTONE, Tex. — How empty is Loving County?  —  So empty that when Sheriff Billy Burt Hopper ran for office in 2004, he and his opponent attended each other's campaign barbecues.  So empty that it cannot sustain two political parties …
Discussion: Brendan Nyhan
Mona Charen / Townhall.com:
Lethal injection blues  —  They found her body in a vineyard.  Her purple sweater was pulled up revealing the knife protruding from her chest.  Terri Lynn Winchell had been 17.  It was 1981.  —  Michael Morales, whose execution was indefinitely delayed last week, was convicted of her murder.
National Review:
It Didn't Work  —  "I can tell you the main reason behind all our woes — it is America."  The New York Times reporter is quoting the complaint of a clothing merchant in a Sunni stronghold in Iraq.  "Everything that is going on between Sunni and Shiites, the troublemaker in the middle is America."

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Rick Garnett / PrawfsBlawg:
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Discussion: Althouse and SCOTUSblog
BBC:
Peacekeeper sex abuse 'too high'
Discussion: Captain's Quarters
Mary Katharine Ham / Hugh Hewitt:
Bikinis Over Burkas  —  Bringing on a revolution, one babe at a time.
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
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Molly / Molly Saves the Day:
For the women of South Dakota: an abortion manual
Sara Agnew / showmenews.com:
'48 Hours' apologizes for altered image
Greg Miller / Los Angeles Times:
E-Mails Show FBI Agents Fretted About Prisoner Abuse
Discussion: Balkinization
Clinton W. Taylor / American Spectator:
America's Hit-Kickers  —  I never thought I would need to defend …
Zeyad / Healing Iraq:
Fierce streetfighting at my doorstep for the last 3 hours.
 
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