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Michael Chertoff / Washington Post:
A Tool We Need to Stop the Next Airliner Plot — Imagine that our troops in Afghanistan raided an al-Qaeda safe house and captured a computer containing the cellphone numbers of operatives in Europe. Wouldn't it be important to know whether one of those cellphone numbers was used to book a transatlantic flight?
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Kristin Roberts / Reuters:
Rumsfeld: U.S. able to take new fight despite Iraq — NAVAL AIR STATION FALLON, Nevada (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned potential adversaries on Monday that the United States remained capable of responding to military threats at home and abroad, despite its troop commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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New York Times:
Details Emerge in British Terror Case — On Aug. 9, in a small second-floor apartment in East London, two young Muslim men recorded a video justifying what the police say was their suicide plot to blow up trans-Atlantic planes: revenge against the United States and its "accomplices," Britain and the Jews.
Robert Burns / Associated Press:Rumsfeld: Terrorists manipulating media
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Randal C. Archibold / New York Times:U.S. Blocks Men's Return to California From Pakistan
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Washington Post:
Karr Won't Be Charged In Death of JonBenet — Prosecutor Says DNA Samples Did Not Match — Prosecutors dropped their case against John Mark Karr in the decade-old killing of JonBenet Ramsey on Monday, abruptly ending a 12-day whirlwind that reached halfway around the globe …
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New York Times:
Bush Cites Progress in Gulf Coast Visit — On the eve of the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, President Bush returned to the devastated Gulf Coast today promising to continue federal assistance, and eagerly pointing out signs of progress. — "It's amazing, isn't?" he told a gathering under a sweltering sun.
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Michael Abramowitz / Washington Post:
The President and His Critics Mark Anniversary Along Coast — A year after Hurricane Katrina devastated Mississippi and Louisiana, President Bush and Democratic leaders are converging on the Gulf Coast this week to commemorate the losses while continuing the political argument over the federal response …
Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Pronouncing Blame on the Israel Lobby — It was quite a boner. — University of Chicago political scientist John Mearsheimer was in town yesterday to elaborate on his view that American Jewish groups are responsible for the war in Iraq, the destruction of Lebanon's infrastructure and many other bad things.
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Paul / Wizbang:
THE KATRINA VIDEO CONGRESS DIDN'T WANT YOU TO SEE — I'm going to warn you now. If you've only heard the news from the mainstream media, everything you think you know about Katrina flooding New Orleans is wrong. If you think you already know everything there is to know about Katrina, then you can safely ignore this post.
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E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Slowly Sidling To Iraq's Exit — Many GOP Candidates Part Company With Bush — By Election Day, how many Republican candidates will have come out against the Iraq war or distanced themselves from the administration's policies? — August 2006 will be remembered as a watershed in the politics of Iraq.
Albert R. Hunt / Bloomberg:
Democrats See Victory in U.S. House Races, Senate Within Reach — Aug. 28 (Bloomberg) — Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Chairman Charles Rangel and Chairman — again — John Dingell. Those titles will soon sound familiar. — Barring an unexpected and big event, Democrats will win control …
Pete Du Pont / Opinion Journal:
Trash the 'Compact' — An attempt to circumvent the Electoral College is really an urban power grab. — For more than 200 years America has chosen its presidents as the Constitution provides: through the Electoral College. Traditionally, each state has cast its electoral votes …
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Celia W. Dugger / New York Times:
Clinton Makes Up for Lost Time in Battling AIDS — Bill Clinton spoke with a girl at a treatment center in Lesotho in July. The Africa trip was his fifth since 2001. More Photos > — RWINKWAVU, Rwanda — Bill Clinton worked the crowd of AIDS survivors, clasping the outstretched hands …
Sudarsan Raghavan / Washington Post:
Iraqi Troops Battle Shiite Militiamen In Southern City — With American combat aircraft providing cover, U.S.-backed Iraqi troops battled radical Shiite militiamen Monday in the southern city of Diwaniyah in one of the first major clashes between the two forces.
Michael Barone / Real Clear Politics:
A GOP Terror Bump — There seems to have been a change in the political winds. They've been blowing pretty strongly against George W. Bush and the Republicans this spring and early this summer. Now, their velocity looks to be tapering off or perhaps shifting direction.
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Vic Walter Reports / The Blotter:
New Orleans District Attorney Bristles at Criticism, Walks Out of Interview — Vic Walter Reports: — New Orleans District Attorney Eddie Jordan bristled at criticism and walked out of an ABC News Nightline interview when told that law enforcement officials were critical of Jordan's handling of his office.
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