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The Australian:
Sunnis and Sadr's Shiites make peace  —  THE movement of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, alleged to have played a role in the anti-Sunni violence over the last few days, publicly made peace with political and religious Sunni leaders overnight.  —  Four sheikhs from the Sadr movement made a …
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New York Times:
Younger Clerics Showing Power in Iraq's Unrest  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 25 — American officials have been repeatedly stunned and frequently thwarted in the past three years by the extraordinary power of Muslim clerics over Iraqi society.  But in the sectarian violence of the past few days …
Discussion: Informed Comment and Daily Kos
Zeyad / Healing Iraq:
Curfew Extended, Situation Still Tense  —  The daytime curfew in the capital, and surrounding governorates of Salah Al-Din, Diyala and Babel has been extended to Monday morning, as was announced during a live press conference for the ministers of Defense and Interior today.
Discussion: The Belmont Club
Nelson Hernandez / Washington Post:   Iraq Faction Leaders Condemn Violence
Steven R. Weisman / New York Times:
What Civil War Could Look Like
Discussion: Hullabaloo and firedoglake
Gateway Pundit:
Another Big 12 Incident... Ricin Found at University of Texas!  —  Ricin found at the University of Texas!  —  CBS 42 Austin KEYE News carried the story this morning,  —  VIDEO HERE  —  The poison was packed in with a roll of quarters!!  —  If ricin was packed into a roll of quarters unknowingly,...
Discussion: Gina Cobb
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Jeremiah Marquez / Associated Press:
Don Knotts, TV's Barney Fife, Dies at 81  —  LOS ANGELES - Don Knotts, who kept generations of TV audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on "The Andy Griffith Show" and would-be swinger landlord Ralph Furley on "Three's Company," has died.  He was 81.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
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Louie Estrada / Washington Post:
Don Knotts, TV's Barney Fife, Dies  —  Don Knotts, the rail-thin comic actor who was perhaps best known to millions of television viewers as the bungling Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife in "The Andy Griffith Show" and the squirrelly landlord in "Three's Company," died of lung cancer Feb. 24 at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Charles R. Babcock / Washington Post:
Contractor Pleads Guilty to Corruption  —  Probe Extends Beyond Bribes to Congressman  —  Washington defense contractor Mitchell J. Wade admitted yesterday in federal court that he attempted to illegally influence Defense Department contracting officials and tried to curry favor with two House members …
Discussion: TalkLeft and War and Piece
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Judd / Think Progress:
Katherine Harris Plays Dumb  —  Defense contractor Mitchell J. Wade pled guilty yesterday to election law fraud, among other charges for making illegal campaign contributions, including $32,000 in illegal contribution to Rep. Katherine Harris (R-FL).  —  Katherine Harris claims she had no idea …
Alexandra von Maltzan / All Things Beautiful:
In The Line Of Fire  —  Many of us have bitterly complained about the American MSM's lack of courage to stand up for what in pretty much any other circumstance it would have vociferously defended: Its freedom of expression.  —  The west is the source of the liberating ideas of individual liberty …
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New York Times:
Gaps in Security Stretch From Model Port in Dubai to U.S.  —  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Feb. 25 — To some American officials, the sprawling port along the Persian Gulf here, where steel shipping containers are stacked row after row as far as the eye can see, is a model for the post-9/11 world.
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
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Thomas L. Friedman / deseretnews.com:
Port controversy could widen racial chasm
Andrew Davies / Telegraph:
Judge rules that doctors must let ill baby die  —  The parents of Charlotte Wyatt have been told that doctors are to be allowed to let their profoundly ill baby daughter die if they feel it is in her best interests.  —  A High Court judge yesterday lifted a previous ruling that she should always …
Discussion: Stop The ACLU
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Michelle Malkin:
THE LIFE OF BABY CHARLOTTE
Discussion: Wizbang
Catherine Seipp / Los Angeles Times:
The fascists of free speech  —  A FRIEND OF MINE took his young daughter to visit the famous City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, explaining to her that the place is important because years ago it sold books no other store would — even, perhaps especially, books whose ideas many people found offensive.
Sydney Morning Herald:
Power to the people: now everyone can make a difference  —  Democracy, the internet and NGOs are fuelling a global empowerment of ordinary citizens, writes Bill Clinton.  —  THREE things have happened since the end of the Cold War to give private citizens an unprecedented capacity to do public good.
Time:
A Face-saving Dubai Deal in the Works?  —  GOP officials are apparently mulling over a deal that would allow for a new review of the Dubai Ports World contentious acquisition  —  Moving toward a deal that could allow President Bush and congressional GOP leaders to save face and avert …
Discussion: Big Lizards
New York Times:
An Afghan Prison Expands, Filling Guantánamo's Role  —  While an international debate rages over the future of the American detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the military has quietly expanded another, less-visible prison in Afghanistan, where it now holds some 500 terror suspects …
Justin Webb / BBC:
Democrats fail to find a message  —  President Bush's popularity ratings have plummeted, but why, asks Justin Webb, is it that the opposition, the Democrats, are not surfing the opinion polls, capitalising on the Republicans' misfortunes and preparing to take over Congress when the election comes in the autumn?
Discussion: USS Neverdock

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Taking Spying to Higher Level, Agencies Look for More Ways to Mine Data
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