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5:00 PM ET, May 4, 2006

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Peggy Noonan / Opinion Journal:
They Should Have Killed Him  —  The death penalty has a meaning, and it isn't vengeance. … Excuse me, I'm sorry, and I beg your pardon, but the jury's decision on Moussaoui gives me a very bad feeling.  What we witnessed here was not the higher compassion but a dizzy failure of nerve.
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Matthew Barakat / Associated Press:
Moussaoui Offers Final Diatribe in Court  —  ALEXANDRIA, Va. - U.S. Judge Leonie Brinkema sent Zacarias Moussaoui to prison for life Thursday, to "die with a whimper," for his role in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.  He declared: "God save Osama bin Laden — you will never get him."
David G. Savage / Los Angeles Times:
No Trials for Key Players  —  Government prefers to interrogate bigger fish in terrorism cases rather than charge them.  —  WASHINGTON — Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person prosecuted in connection with the worst terrorist attack in American history, did not get the death penalty …
Marc Santora / New York Times:
9/11 Verdict Draws Mixed Reactions  —  For the families of those killed on Sept. 11, there are many things they agree on when it comes to Zacarias Moussaoui.  —  That he is an unrepentant horror of a person is not much in question.  They are quick to call his behavior during his trial and sentencing hearing abominable and painful.
Associated Press:
U.S. Military Releases Video Showing Zarqawi Unable to Work Gun  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq — The U.S. military command Thursday released previously unseen images of a video purportedly posted by Al Qaeda in Iraq's leader, showing him decked out in American tennis shoes and unable to operate his machine gun.
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ABCNEWS:
General: Zarqawi 'Bloopers' Tape Found  —  U.S. Discovers Outtakes of Latest Terror Leader Video  —  May 4, 2006 — Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the most wanted man in Iraq, doesn't exactly look like a terrorist mastermind in a new videotape released by the U.S. military today.
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Breaking: U.S. close to capturing Zarqawi? (updated with video)
Discussion: Gateway Pundit
Richard Cohen / Washington Post:
So Not Funny  —  First, let me state my credentials: I am a funny guy.  This is well known in certain circles, which is why, even back in elementary school, I was sometimes asked by the teacher to "say something funny" — as if the deed could be done on demand.
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Fred Kaplan / Slate:
Decoding the McCaffrey Memo  —  If this is the cost of victory in Iraq, is America willing to pay it?  —  Good news and bad news on the war in Iraq: The good news is that victory is possible, our troops are the best ever, the Iraqi army is getting bigger and better, and most Iraqi people want a pluralistic government.
Motoko Rich / New York Times:
Valerie Plame Seeks Book Deal  —  Valerie Plame Wilson, the Central Intelligence Agency covert officer whose name was publicly disclosed three years ago, is shopping a book proposal among a small group of publishers, according to two people familiar with the project.
WorldNetDaily:
Judge orders San Diego cross removed  —  Gives city 90 days in case brought by ACLU-backed atheist  —  Ruling on a 15-year-old ACLU case, a federal judge today ordered the city of San Diego to remove a mountain-top cross within 90 days or face a fine of $5,000 a day.
Francis Harris / Telegraph:
'Life in London made my boy a terrorist'  —  Zacarias Moussaoui's family in France blame the British for what happened to a once-carefree youth.  —  They trace the great change in Moussaoui's life to the moment the 23-year-old arrived in Britain in 1992, to attend a business studies course …
Discussion: USS Neverdock
Jim Stratton / orlandosentinel.com:
Contractor's deal was Harris priority, former staffers say  —  Former senior members of U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris' congressional staff say they initially rejected a defense contractor's $10 million appropriation request last year but reversed course after being instructed by Harris to approve it.
Discussion: Mia Culpa, Wonkette and Hotline On Call
Mike McCurry / The Huffington Post:
Whither Internet 2.0?  —  OK, lots of comments including Ms. Huffington her own self.  On the vocabulary, Arianna, let's settle on this: the debate is about how to define network neutrality: some want "regulated net neutrality" (that would be the net neuts who are having great sport with me at the moment) …
Discussion: Making Light, Boing Boing and Eschaton
Richard Morin / Washington Post:
The Fox News Effect  —  We report.  You decide.  Does President Bush owe his controversial win in 2000 to Fox cable television news?  —  Yes, suggest data collected by two economists who found that the growth of the Fox cable news network in the late 1990s may have significantly boosted …
Rachel L. Swarns / New York Times:
Growing Unease for Some Blacks on Immigration  —  WASHINGTON, May 3 — In their demonstrations across the country, some Hispanic immigrants have compared the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle to their own, singing "We Shall Overcome" and declaring a new civil rights movement …
 
 
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