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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."
Michael J. Sniffen / Associated Press:
Moussaoui Gets Life for Role in Sept. 11 — al-Qaida Conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui Gets Life in Prison for Role in Sept. 11 Attacks — ALEXANDRIA, Va. May 3, 2006 (AP)— A federal jury rejected the death penalty for al-Qaida conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui on Wednesday and decided …
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.
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 …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
France Wants Moussaoui Back — The French have apparently not let the ink dry on the jury submission from yesterday's sentencing recommendation in the Zacarias Moussaoui trial before starting to interfere with its implementation. Le Monde reports today that French officials have contacted …
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Will / Attytood:Why won't the government try the real criminals of 9/11?
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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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Rem Rieder / American Journalism Review:
The Party's Over — It's time to shut down the White House Correspondents' Association dinner. — Rem Rieder (rrieder@ajr.umd.edu) is AJR's editor and senior vice president. — Steve Scully of C-SPAN, the incoming president of the White House Correspondents' Association …
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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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.
Philip Shenon / New York Times:
Businessman Pleads Guilty to Bribing a Representative — WASHINGTON, May 3 — A Kentucky technology executive pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of bribing a member of Congress in an investigation that has centered on Representative William J. Jefferson, a Louisiana Democrat.
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Allan Lengel / Washington Post:Businessman Pleads Guilty To Bribing Rep. Jefferson
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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.
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.
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New York Times:
Under U.S. Pressure, Mexico President Seeks Review of Drug Law — MEXICO CITY, May 3 — After intense pressure from the United States, President Vicente Fox has asked Congress to reconsider a law it passed last week that would decriminalize the possession of small amounts of drugs as part …
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 …
Eric Boehlert / Salon:
Lapdogs — Cowardly and clueless, the U.S. media abandoned its post as Bush led the country into a disastrous war. A look inside one of the great journalistic collapses of our time. — Print EmailFont: S / S+ / S++ — President Bush with Tony Snow, left, and Scott McClellan, right …
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 …
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.
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