memeorandum: House leader calls for war debate (Edward Epstein/San Francisco Chronicle)

11:10 PM ET, June 9, 2006

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U.S. troops hunt al-Qaida in raids in Iraq — BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. troops conducted nearly 40 raids Friday in Iraq, taking advantage of information gleaned from searches following Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death, a military spokesman said, also revealing new information about the man believed poised to take the terror leader's place.

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Ned Parker / Times of London:

Al-Zarqawi spoke, then died as US medics tried to save him — IRAQI police discovered Abu Musab al-Zarqawi alive in the rubble of his bombed safe house, then watched him try to roll off a stretcher before dying, it emerged yesterday. — Announcing his death, US officials said on Thursday …

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MSNBC:

Al-Qaida in Iraq's al-Zarqawi 'terminated' — U.S. says it found most-wanted militant by tracking his spiritual adviser — BAGHDAD, Iraq - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qaida leader in Iraq who waged a bloody campaign of suicide bombings and beheadings, was killed overnight by F-16 jets dropping …

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Baltimore Sun:
TV stations, Web sites exercise little restraint

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Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Al-Zarqawi said to survive airstrike

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Associated Press: Zarqawi Lived Briefly After Attack

Philip Kennicott / Washington Post:
A Chilling Portrait, Unsuitably Framed

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CNN:
U.S. military: Al-Zarqawi alive when troops arrived

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New York Times:
Death of a Terrorist

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David Burge / iowahawk:

PARADISE IS OVERRATED — Iowahawk Guest Commentary — by Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi — Former Senior VP, Al-Qaeda In Iraq — Howzit swingin', fagsicles? Yeah, I know all you bitzoches all seen the pictures by now. Go on and laugh it up chump, like your drivers license photo is all George f**kin' Clooney.

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Jeff Goldstein / protein wisdom:

The protein wisdom interview: Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — Ahmad Fadheel Nazaal al-Khalaylah ("Abu Musab al-Zarqawi" is his nom de guerre) was born in Zarqa, Jordan in October 1966. He came from a large family belonging to the trans-Jordanian Bani Hassan tribe, which is known for its loyalty to the royal Hashemite family.

Discussion: Hot Air, Gateway Pundit, Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, Six Meat Buffet and Representative Jack Kingston

Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:

A new low — the Senate seeks to "pardon" the President for past lawbreaking — Observing and commenting on the behavior of Arlen Specter is one of the most unpleasant obligations a person can have, but for anyone following the NSA eavesdropping scandal specifically, and the Bush administration's abuses …

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Walter Pincus / Washington Post:

Specter Offers Compromise on NSA Surveillance — The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee has proposed legislation that would give President Bush the option of seeking a warrant from a special court for an electronic surveillance program such as the one being conducted by the National Security Agency.

Discussion: TalkLeft, Shakespeare's Sister, JURIST, Democrat Taylor Marsh …, Stop The ACLU and Just a Bump in the Beltway

Clarice Feldman / The American Thinker:

Evidence accumulates of a hoax in Haditha. The weblog Sweetness & Light has done an estimable service gathering together the articles which cast substantial doubt on the charge of a massacre of civilians at Haditha . Because the blog is too busy gathering and fisking the news …

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Sweetness & Light:
Time's "Corrections" About Haditha

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Allahpundit / Hot Air: Is Haditha a hoax? (Update: Murtha wants to be House majority leader)

Michael Crowley / The Plank:

BREAKING—MURTHA V. HOYER: — Major news from the House: Pennyslvania Congressman John Murtha has begun delivering a letter to his Democratic House colleagues announcing plans, should Democrats retake the House this fall, to seek the number-two job of House Majority Leader.

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Suzanne Gamboa / Associated Press:
DeLay: Partisanship Refreshes Politics

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CNN:
DeLay leaves House unbowed, without regret

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Allahpundit / Hot Air:

Infiltrating Yearly Kos: Now with photos! — Expecting a catharsis of nutroots fury, our man on in the inside faces the terrible truth about YK: it's crushingly boring. — But he did catch Wes Clark enjoying the Colonel's secret recipe. Read on. — Panels

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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Infiltrating Yearly Kos: The taunting of Byron York

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Des Moines Register:

Iowa Ear: Des Moines' well-endowed flood control — City design with a vast difference — An anonymous source at City Hall tipped Iowa Ear off to this aerial photo on the Polk County assessor's Web page. It's of the city of Des Moines' detention basin at 2617 Easton Blvd.

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Kate Phillips / New York Times:

Liberal Bloggers Gather in Las Vegas — LAS VEGAS, June 9 — Hundreds of liberal (they'd say progressive) Internet bloggers crawled out of their cybertunnels for face-time and political networking here at the first-ever YearlyKos convention. — Named after DailyKos.com …

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Geoff Cumming / New Zealand Herald:

Pilot with 9/11 links found in NZ — EXCLUSIVE - A Saudi Arabian linked to one of the September 11 hijackers spent four months in New Zealand before being expelled as a national security risk. — The United States-qualified pilot, Rayed Mohammed Abdullah Ali, was admitted to New Zealand …

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Rick Casey / Houston Chronicle:

$1 million Moonie mystery — IT was a dark night in a city that knows how to keep its secrets. — The phone rang on my desk, waking me from a reverie I don't remember. — "Casey," I said, hoping to sound like a private eye. — The guy on the other end really was a private eye.

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Aftenposten:

Record meteorite hit Norway — As Wednesday morning dawned, northern Norway was hit with an impact comparable to the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima. — At around 2:05 a.m. on Wednesday, residents of the northern part of Troms and the western areas of Finnmark could clearly see a ball …

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