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Sarah Baxter / Times of London:
Friends of Hillary hint she may pull out of presidential race — FRIENDS of Hillary Clinton have been whispering the unthinkable. Despite her status as the runaway frontrunner for the 2008 Democratic nomination for president, some of her closest advisers say she might opt out of the White House race …
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New York Times:
Rove's Word Is No Longer G.O.P. Gospel — Karl Rove, the president's chief political adviser, is struggling to steer the Republican Party to victory this fall at a time when he appears to have the least political authority since he came to Washington, party officials said.
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Washington Post:
More GOP Districts Counted as Vulnerable — Facing the most difficult political environment since they took control of Congress in 1994, Republicans begin the final two months of the midterm campaign in growing danger of losing the House while fighting to preserve at best a slim majority in the Senate …
Lee Keath / Associated Press:
Al-Qaida's deputy issues new videotape — CAIRO, Egypt - An American thought to be an al-Qaida activist appeared in a videotape with the terror group's deputy leader Saturday and called on his countrymen to convert to Islam and for U.S. soldiers to switch sides in the Iraq and Afghan wars.
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Al Qaeda tells U.S. to convert or die — Another pitiful attempt at jihadi propaganda starring American traitor Adam Gadahn, once again replete with leftist name-dropping. This time the lucky recipients are George Galloway, Robert Fisk, and Seymour Hersh. — He also names some enemies.
Jason Lewis / Daily Mail:
Police swoop on Britain's first 'jihad training camp' — Anti-terror police raided what is believed to be Britain's first home-grown jihad training camp in the grounds of a former English ballet school. — They rounded up a network of alleged terrorist recruiters after spying on them at the secluded country mansion.
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Alan Cowell / New York Times:
14 Arrested in London Anti-Terror Raids — The British police arrested 14 men in south, east and north London overnight, raiding a halal restaurant and an Islamic school in the latest display of concern about the spread of potential terrorists among British Muslims, police officials said Saturday.
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Jerusalem Post:
N. Korea: US missile tests a threat — SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea on Saturday accused the United States of threatening war against the communist nation with its missile defense test, and vowed to strengthen its own self-defense to counter any US attack.
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Carlotta Gall / New York Times:
Opium Harvest at Record Level in Afghanistan — Afghanistan's opium harvest this year has reached the highest levels ever recorded, showing an increase of almost 50 percent from last year, the executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Antonio Maria Costa, said Saturday in Kabul.
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Bill Sizemore / Virginian-Pilot:
Blackwater and Colombian workers clash over pay scale — About three dozen former Colombian soldiers are engaged in a pay dispute with Blackwater USA, saying their salaries for security work in Iraq turned out to be one-quarter what they had been promised by recruiters in Bogota.
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Matt O. / Firedoglake:Blackwater Recruited Colombian Soldiers; Paid $34/Day
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Andrew Bolt / NEWS.com.au:
The ambulance hoax - why no missile could have done this — A military source I know, who cannot be identified, has checked to see if Israel has any missile that would pop a neat hole in the roof of an ambulance and explode, causing no scorch marks, no shrapnel damage and no fatalities to the people inside.
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Jennifer Medina / New York Times:
War Veterans Lend Support to Lieberman in TV Ads — An independent group, Vets for Freedom, will begin sponsoring television commercials early next week for Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, thanking him for his support of the war in Iraq. — Vets for Freedom is a group of veterans of the wars …
Telegraph:
I no longer have power to save Iraq from civil war, warns Shia leader — The most influential moderate Shia leader in Iraq has abandoned attempts to restrain his followers, admitting that there is nothing he can do to prevent the country sliding towards civil war.
Kevin Drum / Political Animal:
PITCHFORKS AND TORCHES....Brad DeLong says something worth starting a conversation over: … I would have agreed with this 15 years ago. And I am enough of a temperamental moderate to agree with it still — emotionally, anyway. — But one has to respond to reality, no?
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Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Iraqi Casualties Are Up Sharply, Study Finds — A girl checked her parrots Friday in her Baghdad home, which was damaged by rocket attacks. Attacks on civilians have risen sharply. — Iraqi casualties soared by more than 50 percent in recent months, the product of spiraling sectarian clashes …
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