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3:15 AM ET, April 13, 2006

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Bloomberg:
Iran Could Produce Nuclear Bomb in 16 Days, U.S. Says (Update1)  —  April 12 (Bloomberg) — Iran, which is defying United Nations Security Council demands to cease its nuclear program, may be capable of making a nuclear bomb within 16 days if it goes ahead with plans to install thousands …
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Juan / Informed Comment:
Iran Can Now Make glowing Mickey Mouse Watches  —  Despite all the sloppy and inaccurate headlines about Iran "going nuclear," the fact is that all President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday was that it had enriched uranium to a measely 3.5 percent, using a bank of 180 centrifuges hooked up so that they "cascade."
David Ignatius:
An Iranian Missile Crisis?  —  The emerging confrontation between the United States and Iran is "the Cuban missile crisis in slow motion," argues Graham Allison, the Harvard University professor who wrote the classic study of President John F. Kennedy's 1962 showdown with the Soviet Union that narrowly averted nuclear war.
New York Times:
Analysts Say a Nuclear Iran Is Years Away
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
The 54,000-Centrifuge Question
Discussion: Flopping Aces and SEIXON
George / SEIXON:
Hydrogen Warfare  —  It seems as if the war to drown the Bush administration in old news presented as scandals has begun.  Who will be able to come up with the most hot air?  Walter Pincus, David Sanger & David Barstow, David Shuster, (three Davids, how about that - an Army of Davids...) …
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Reuters:
White House denies report on Iraq WMD  —  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House on Wednesday angrily denied a newspaper report that suggested President George W. Bush in 2003 declared the existence of biological weapons laboratories in Iraq while knowing it was not true.
Editor and Publisher:
UPDATE: White House Seeks Apology, 'Post' Stands By Story
Discussion: Mia Culpa and News Hounds
Michelle Malkin:
WHERE IS BILAL HUSSEIN?  —  Where is Bilal Hussein—and who is he working for?  —  A year ago, I blogged about a controversial, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo taken by an unidentified Associated Press stringer in Iraq.  More background from the blogosphere here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
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Bill Roggio / The Fourth Rail:
A Street Corner in Ramadi [Updated with another photo from February of 2005]  —  Did the media fall for yet another insurgent information operation in Ramadi?  —  Click to play CNN video of Ramadi incident.  Original caption: "U.S. Marines beat back the largest attack in weeks by Sunni Arab insurgents in western city of Ramadi."
Olga Rodriguez / macleans.ca:
Migrants rush to Arizona border anticipating passage of guest-worker plan  —  NOGALES, Mexico (AP) - At a shelter overflowing with migrants airing their blistered feet, Francisco Ramirez nursed muscles sore from trekking through the Arizona desert - a trip that failed when his wife did not have the strength to go on.
Discussion: Power Line and HolyCoast.com
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Matthew Barakat / Associated Press:
Moussaoui Jurors Hear Flight 93 Tape  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va. - In the final minutes of doomed United Air Lines Flight 93, on Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers try to shake off passengers clamoring for control of the plane over Pennsylvania.  Amid groans and sounds of a struggle, a voice says, "I am injured."
Discussion: Decision '08 and lgf
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Crooks and Liars:
John Meacham: War on Easter is real  —  John Meacham: War on Easter is real  —  Newsweek's managing editor John Meacham, agreed with Bill O'Reilly that there is a war on religion.  I'm not sure if Meacham knew the segment would begin with a picture of an Easter Bunny when he joined Bill.
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Nico / Think Progress:   O'Reilly: Easter Bunny Under Attack!
Michael J. Totten:
Back to Iraq Part III - The Kurdish Disaster  —  This is the third installment in a Back to Iraq series which is basically a single long essay.  Don't miss Part One and Part Two.  —  TURKISH KURDISTAN - Sean and I dragged our sorry, exhausted, and malnourished selves to the car at 6:30 …
Brady McCombs / Arizona Daily Star:
TUCSON REGION  —  City man arrested after Mexican-flag burning  —  A Tucson man was arrested Tuesday for his role in the burning of a Mexican flag as part of a counterprotest at a pro-immigration rally.  —  At about 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Tucson police cited Roy Warden, 58, on suspicion of assault …
People:
Oprah Winfrey: Wealth Is 'A Good Thing'  —  By Stephen M. Silverman with Susan Mandel  —  Oprah Winfrey is a rich woman - and she's got no problem with that.  —  Speaking in Baltimore on Monday at a fundraiser for Beth Tfiloh Dahan Community School, Winfrey told the audience, "I have lots of things, like all these Manolo Blahniks.
Discussion: Hugh Hewitt and NewsBusters.org
Damon Rose / BBC:
The s-word  —  Golfer Tiger Woods has been criticised for saying he played like 'a spaz'.  Can using the word ever be right?  —  Two years ago I was involved in a linguistic incident at work.  I called a disabled colleague a spaz after hearing he'd spilt coffee over yet another expensive bit of computer kit.
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
Rumsfeld Rebuked By Retired Generals  —  Ex-Iraq Commander Calls for Resignation  —  The retired commander of key forces in Iraq called yesterday for Donald H. Rumsfeld to step down, joining several other former top military commanders who have harshly criticized the defense secretary's authoritarian style …
Discussion: Midtopia
 
 
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