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3:25 PM ET, June 4, 2006

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Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Events at Haditha don't change need for victory  —  Here are a couple of observations from two parents of American heroes fallen in Iraq.  The first is from Cindy Sheehan, the mother of Army Spec.  Casey Sheehan, a brave man who enlisted in 2000, re-upped for a second tour and died in 2005 …
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New York Times:
A Hard Look at Haditha  —  The apparent cold-blooded killing last November of 24 Iraqi civilians by United States marines at Haditha will be hard to dispose of with another Washington damage control operation.  The Iraqi government has made clear that it will not sit still for one, and neither should the American people.
Thomas E. Ricks / Washington Post:
In Haditha Killings, Details Came Slowly  —  Official Version Is at Odds With Evidence  —  At 5 p.m. Nov. 19, near the end of one of the most violent days the Marine Corps had experienced in the Upper Euphrates Valley, a call went out for trucks to collect the bodies of 24 Iraqi civilians.
Don Surber:
A Hard Look at A Haditha Editorial
Dan / Riehl World View:   Media Bias  —  Here's a classic example of media bias.
Gregory Bonnell / Globe and Mail:
Accused from a 'broad strata' of society  —  From an unmarried computer programmer to a university health sciences graduate and the unemployed, the 17 suspects charged in a foiled terrorist plot represent a "broad strata" of Canadian society.  —  "Some are students, some are employed …
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Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
RCMP Went Undercover For Raid  —  The Toronto Star reports this morning that the RCMP itself sold the Toronto terror cell the three tons of ammonium nitrate it planned to use for devastating attacks on Canada.  The Mounties moved to capture all of the suspects as soon as the deal for the fertilizer concluded:
Discussion: protein wisdom
cbc.ca:
Accused 'inspired by al-Qaeda,' say police
Discussion: Yahoo! News and The Reaction
Beth Duff-Brown / Associated Press:
Canada Nabs 17 Terror Suspects in Toronto
Discussion: A Blog For All and TigerHawk
Dana L. / Washington Post:
What Happens When There Is No Plan B?  —  The conservative politics of the Bush administration forced me to have an abortion I didn't want.  Well, not literally, but let me explain.  —  I am a 42-year-old happily married mother of two elementary-schoolers.
Byron Calame / New York Times:
Hillary and Bill: A Relationship Too Political to Be Ignored  —  COMPLAINTS about the May 23 Page 1 article on Hillary and Bill Clinton add up to one of the most uniformly negative and partisan reader reactions to a Times article during the past year.  Most decried as tabloid journalism …
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Melanie Phillips / New York Post:
LONDONISTAN  —  HOW BRITAIN'S HABITUAL APPEASEMENT OF ISLAMISM REAPS TERROR  —  June 4, 2006 — AFTER 9/11 plotter Zacarias Mous saoui was sentenced to life im prisonment, his family blamed - the British.  Their son had had first arrived in London in the 1990s for an MA course …
Discussion: Ed Driscoll.com, Dinocrat and Cold Fury
Telegraph:
Terror cell 'was planning nerve gas attack on capital'  —  Your view: should police be allowed to shoot terror suspects?  —  Terrorists were planning a chemical attack in London similar to the outrage on the Tokyo underground, according to police and the security services.
Discussion: A Blog For All
The Sideshow:
Kennedy, Manjoo, and the stolen election  —  OK, I want to be able to comment fully on the Farhad Manjoo article in Salon, "Was the 2004 election stolen?  No." But I'm looking at it and it's long - too long for me to promise a full response within the day - and right from the top I'll tell you that the title is dishonest.
Jesus' General:
Mrs. Malkin's sacrifice  —  Michelle Malkin  —  Anti-Immigrant Activist  —  Dear Mrs. Malkin,  —  I know you've already given a lot for this country.  Your courageous defense of everything from toddlercide to concentration camps has inspired us all.  However, there is one more thing …
Barcepundit / English edition:
¿DID YOU KNOW that the Zapatero administration (you know, the "no blood for oil", "Bush is killing innocents" and "let's get out of this illegal war" one) just gave Spain's highest military decoration to... gasp... can hardly say it... to... to the US Army Chief of Staff?
Discussion: Riehl World View
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Rice Key to Reversal on Iran  —  Expected Failure of International Effort Led to U.S. Turnaround  —  At the end of March, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew to Europe and had unusual, one-on-one conversations with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Jacques Chirac and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Discussion: american footprints and The Grit
Jim Abrams / Associated Press:
Lobbying reform slow despite scandals  —  WASHINGTON - The stench of scandal on Capitol Hill is getting stronger five months after lobbyist Jack Abramoff pleaded guilty to influence-peddling charges, but a lobbying overhaul has yet to see the light of day.  —  The Senate passed its version …
Discussion: MyDD
Los Angeles Times:
Harry Truman would have given terrorists hell  —  Democrats know how to fight real wars, not just political ones, says Peter Beinart.  —  IN 1948, AMERICAN liberals went to war — with each other.  The chief combatants were Henry A. Wallace, Franklin D. Roosevelt's former vice president …
Discussion: Power Line and Instapundit.com
Associated Press:
Gunmen Kill 21 Commuters Near Baghdad  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) — Gunmen dragged passengers off three minibuses northeast of Baghdad early Sunday and killed 21 people, including a dozen students.  Authorities said the attackers spared four Sunni Arabs in one of Iraq's worst sectarian atrocities in recent weeks.
Discussion: Hullabaloo and War and Piece
 
 
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Jay Tea / Wizbang:
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING  —  Quite a few people are in high dudgeon …
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Judd / Think Progress:
Rice Drops White House Claim That Iraqi Prime Minister Was Misquoted About Haditha
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Nancy A. Youssef / Knight Ridder:
Iraqis accuse Marines of killing unarmed civilian
Digby / Hullabaloo:
The Mood of The Country  —  I read this series of posts …
David Leppard / Times of London:
British brigade of Islamists join Al-Qaeda foreign legion in Iraq
Reuters:
Canada terror suspects may have had US contacts
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Asia Times:
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Anthony H. Cordesman / Los Angeles Times:
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