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8:00 PM ET, May 4, 2006

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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)  —  *Video below.  Major General Rick Lynch says they've got a hot lead.  Could be nothing, could be something, but ABC News has a report about a recovered videotape too.  —  Update: Note this from the ABC story:
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Bill Roggio / Counterterrorism Blog:   Hunting Zarqawi and Tales of the Tape (Updated)
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."
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Drudge Report:
KENNEDY CAR CRASH COVER-UP?  —  Police labor union officials asked acting Chief Christopher McGaffin this afternoon to allow a Capitol Police officer to complete his investigation into an early-morning car crash involving Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), son of Sen. Ted Kennedy.
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Mark Tapscott / Tapscott's Copy Desk:
Historic Senate Earmarks Battle Updated on Porkbusters; Coburn Example Shows True Political Courage, Value of Term Limits  —  It's been an historic week in the U.S. Senate as Sen. Tom Coburn, R-OK, used an obscure parliamentary move dubbed the "clay pigeon" amendment to force votes on nearly …
Discussion: The Influence Peddler and RedState
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Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
To Earmarking Senators, Veto Seems to Spell Vote  —  Senators keep stuffing new provisions into an emergency spending bill for Iraq and hurricane recovery, ignoring President Bush's veto threat to advance their priorities.  —  An amendment by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) …
Think Progress:
VIDEO: Rumsfeld Called Out On Lies About WMD  —  Speaking in Atlanta today, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was sharply questioned about his pre-war claims about WMD in Iraq.  An audience member confronted Rumsfeld with his 2003 claim about WMD, "We know where they are."
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MSNBC:
'Hardball with Chris Matthews' for ay 3, 5pm  —  Guests: Rudy Giuliani, George Pataki, Michael Isikoff, Joe Biden, Kristin Breitweiser  —  CHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNBC ANCHOR: Thank you, Dan.  —  We've just been watching those very heartfelt remarks from the victims' families of 9/11 …
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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 …
Jeffrey Goldfarb / Reuters:
Fox, BBC, Al Jazeera most trusted: poll  —  LONDON (Reuters) - One-quarter of consumers abandoned a news source over the past year because they lost trust in its reporting, according to a new survey that also found the BBC, Fox News and Al Jazeera the most trusted brands in their respective home regions.
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.
Lou Chibbaro Jr / sovo.com:
Dean fires Dems' gay outreach chief  —  Shakeup follows criticism by partner; Bond named replacement  —  Democratic Party Chair Howard Dean on May 2 fired the party's gay outreach advisor Donald Hitchcock less than a week after Hitchcock's domestic partner, Paul Yandura, a longtime party activist …
Mark Kleiman / The Reality-Based Community:
More absurdity  —  NBC News called this morning.  Could they come interview me about Mexican drug decriminalization?  Sure, I said, but as far as I can tell decriminalization isn't what happened.  Fine, they said, we'll be right over.  —  So I made on camera pretty much the same points I'd made on the radio:
starwars.com:
This September: Original Unaltered Trilogy on DVD  —  Fans can look forward to a September filled with classic Star Wars nostalgia, led by the premiere of LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy video game and the long-awaited DVD release of the original theatrical incarnations of the classic Star Wars trilogy.
Associated Press:
Bush Calls U.S. a Nation of Prayer  —  WASHINGTON - President Bush said Thursday that America's history is inexorably tied to prayer.  —  "America is a nation of prayer.  It's impossible to tell the story of our nation without telling the story of people who pray," Bush said during …
Sara Goudarzi / space.com:
New Storm on Jupiter Hints at Climate Change  —  A storm is brewing half a billion miles away and in a rare event, astronomers get to watch it closely.  —  Jupiter is growing a new red spot and the Hubble Space Telescope is photographing the scene.  Backyard astronomers have been following the action, too.
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.
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 …
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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.
 
 
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