memeorandum: Zarqawi framed — I read this yesterday and simply could not believe it. (Mark/Mark in Mexico)

5:15 AM ET, June 10, 2006

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Alexis Debat Reports / The Blotter:

Captured Zarqawi Aide Spilled the Beans — Alexis Debat Reports: — An Iraqi customs agent secretly working with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's terror cell spilled the beans on the group after he was arrested, Jordanian officials tell ABC News. — Ziad Khalaf Raja al-Karbouly was arrested by Jordanian intelligence forces last spring.

Discussion: Associated Press, Riehl World View, The Belmont Club, War and Piece, Ace of Spades HQ, The Sundries Shack, AMERICAN FUTURE, New York Times, Hot Air, Right Truth, Wizbang, TalkLeft, Six Meat Buffet, The Post-Postmodernist, Villainous Company, suzieviews.blogspot.com, Barking Moonbat Early … and PrairiePundit

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 …

Discussion: Hot Air, Confederate Yankee and Captain's Quarters

Patrick Quinn / Associated Press:

A Dying Al-Zarqawi Tried to Get Away — BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Abu Musab al-Zarqawi could barely speak, but he struggled and tried to get away from American soldiers as he lay dying on a stretcher in the ruins of his hideout. — The U.S. forces recognized his face, and knew they had the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq.

Discussion: Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler and Daily Pundit

David Burge / iowahawk:
PARADISE IS OVERRATED — Iowahawk Guest Commentary — by Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi

Discussion: A Blog For All

Washington Post:
Zarqawi Did Not Die Instantly, U.S. General Says

Discussion: TalkLeft, The Left Coaster, BBC, New York Times and FP Passport

Baltimore Sun:
TV stations, Web sites exercise little restraint

Discussion: Public Eye

Associated Press: Zarqawi Lived Briefly After Attack

Ben Johnson / Front Page Magazine:
The Left and the Death of Zarqawi

Discussion: David Corn, Blogcritics.org, Pirate's Cove, The Huffington Post, ABCNEWS and Right Truth

Susan Cornwell / Reuters:

Iraq war foe Murtha eyes Democratic leadership — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rep. John Murtha, an outspoken opponent of the war in Iraq, unexpectedly announced on Friday he will run for the No. 2 leadership post in the U.S. House of Representatives if Democrats regain control of that chamber in elections this fall.

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Shailagh Murray / Washington Post:
Iraq War Critic Surprises Democrats

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Michael Crowley / The Plank:
BREAKING—MURTHA V. HOYER:

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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 …

Discussion: Transterrestrial Musings and Random Jottings

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 …

Discussion: Captain's Quarters, Michelle Malkin and Jihad Watch

Hindrocket / Power Line:

ZARQAWI SURVIVED STRIKE; PRESS CORPS SUSPECTS FOUL PLAY — General William Caldwell told a press conference this morning that Musab al-Zarqawi survived the bombing of this safe house, at least briefly, and was still alive when the first U.S. and Iraqi forces arrived on the scene.

Discussion: TigerHawk, Associated Press and Gateway Pundit

Sweetness & Light:

Time's "Corrections" About Haditha — This is a now all too familiar pattern with our one party media. — The following "corrections" have been added to the very bottom of Time's two blockbuster exclusives on Haditha in their current online versions:

Discussion: Mark in Mexico, Flopping Aces, Gay Patriot and Wizbang

Philip Elliott / Associated Press:

9/11 Commissioner Criticizes Coulter — A member of the Sept. 11 commission on Friday lashed out at conservative pundit Ann Coulter for a "hate-filled attack" in saying the widows whose husbands died in the World Trade Center used the deaths for their own political gain.

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 …

Discussion: ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES, Democrat Taylor Marsh …, Ninth State, Seeing the Forest and The Horse's Mouth

Time:

Ann Coulter Fires Back — In an interview with TIME's John Cloud, the conservative author responds to the conflagration over her criticism of 9/11 widows — Ann Coulter's new book, Godless: The Church of Liberalism, has just been published by Crown Forum.

Discussion: NewsMax.com, Andrew Sullivan, Dick Polman's American Debate, Expose the Left, Booman Tribune, Point Five and Hot Air

Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:

Gingrich May Run in 2008 If No Front-Runner Emerges — Former House speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) expects to run for president in 2008 if the contest for the Republican nomination still seems wide open late next year, he said yesterday. — In remarks that were critical of both parties' recent performance …

BBC:

Defeat for net neutrality backers — US politicians have rejected attempts to enshrine the principle of net neutrality in legislation. — Some fear the decision will mean net providers start deciding on behalf of customers which websites and services they can visit and use.

Discussion: The Sideshow

Kenneth R. Timmerman / NewsMax.com:

Judge Dismisses Khobar Towers Case Against Iran — WASHINGTON — A magistrate judge in the District Court of Washington, D.C. has dismissed a lawsuit by the survivors and families of victims of the June 25, 1996 Khobar Towers bombing in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, that sought millions of dollars …

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