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10:55 AM ET, September 3, 2006

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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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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 …
Fred Barnes / Weekly Standard:
The Plamegate Hall of Shame  —  Instead of Cheney or Rove or Libby, the real culprits are favorites of the Washington elite and the mainstream press.  —  The rogues' gallery of those who acted badly in the CIA "leak" case turns out to be different from what the media led us to expect.
Andrew Taylor / Associated Press:
Bush: Iraq has not fallen into civil war
Discussion: The Reaction and AMERICAblog
Amit R. Paley / Washington Post:
Al-Qaeda Leader Arrested in Iraq  —  Iraqi armed forces have arrested the No. 2 leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the country's national security leader said Sunday.  —  The leader, Hamed Jumaa Faris Juri al-Saaydi, was captured within the past few days near Baqubah, along with 20 other senior members …
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Qassim Abdul-Zahra / Associated Press:
No. 2 al-Qaida leader in Iraq arrested  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraqi forces have arrested the second most senior operative in al-Qaida in Iraq, and the group now suffers from a "serious leadership crisis," the national security adviser said Sunday.  —  Hamed Jumaa Farid al-Saeedi …
Discussion: Secular Blasphemy
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:
AQ #2 In Iraq Busted
Discussion: Liberty and Justice
James Joyner / Outside The Beltway:
Al Qaeda in Iraq 2nd in Command Arrested
Discussion: PoliBlog
Walid Phares / counterterrorismblog.org:
The "Azzam" Threat: A prelude to Future Jihad in America  —  PS: This is a short version posting.  The longer version will be posted later.  —  The video tape issued by al Qaeda's "as-sahhab" production, in which Ayman Zawahiri introduces Jihadist Adam Gahdan to the world as a senior speaker …
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Times of London:
Israel plans for war with Iran and Syria  —  Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv, and Sarah Baxter, New York  —  THREATENED by a potentially nuclear-armed Tehran, Israel is preparing for a possible war with both Iran and Syria, according to Israeli political and military sources.
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.
Discussion: Riehl World View and Bring it On!
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Jason Lewis / Daily Mail:
Police swoop on Britain's first 'jihad training camp'
Sky News:
Nationwide Terror Raids
Discussion: Atlas Shrugs
Jim Dwyer / New York Times:
2 U.S. Reports Seek to Counter Conspiracy Theories About 9/11  —  Faced with an angry minority of people who believe the Sept. 11 attacks were part of a shadowy and sprawling plot run by Americans, separate reports were published this week by the State Department and a federal science agency insisting …
David W. Chen / New York Times:
G.O.P. Hopeful Says Rumsfeld Should Resign  —  State Senator Thomas H. Kean Jr., the Republican nominee for United States Senate in New Jersey, says he is so frustrated with the Bush administration's handling of the war in Iraq that he is pushing for something that few Republicans have supported …
Michael R. Gordon / New York Times:
Endurance Meets Doubt in Iraq  —  SOON after Specialist Michael Potocki was shot and killed in June, the soldiers in his platoon agreed on their goal for the months ahead: to survive and make it home alive.  —  Survival may be the only thing the troops here agree on.
Wall Street Journal:
Wrong Door  —  The Supreme Court ruled this June that evidence seized in an illegally performed "no-knock" police raid can still be used against a defendant.  Though disturbing in its own right, Hudson v. Michigan touched on only a small part of a larger problem — the trend toward paramilitary tactics in domestic policing.
Discussion: Instapundit.com
Francis Elliott / Independent:
'Deluded': Extraordinary attack on Blair by Cabinet  —  'Self-indulgent' PM urged to 'end the pantomime' as senior ministers meet to hasten his departure  —  Tony Blair will be served notice to quit Downing Street at a meeting of the Cabinet next week when senior ministers plan to confront …
Discussion: AMERICAblog
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
Discussion: The News Blog
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.
 
 
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
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Matthew Warren / The Australian:
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Deacon / Power Line:
FLATTERY WILL GET YOU EVERYWHERE  —  Daffyd at Big Lizards …
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Jules Crittenden / Boston Herald:
Martyrs wanted  —  I was planning to maintain a tasteful silence …
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