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1:50 PM ET, September 3, 2006

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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 …
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Curt / Flopping Aces:
Remembering 9/11, The Liberal Way  —  Just in time for the 5th anniversary of that terrible day comes this kind of talk at DummiesU: (as always, filled with cussing) … So not only does he want to forget 9/11 ever happened, he thinks Al-Qaeda didn't do the attack in the first place.
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   The Futility Of Applying Reason To Insanity
Gaius / Blue Crab Boulevard:   Trying To Get Facts Out About 9/11  —  The US government …
Rick Moran / Right Wing Nut House:
9/11 TIN FOIL HATS ARE MELTING
Discussion: The American Thinker
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 …
Mark Steyn / Chicago Sun Times:
Why abduct us?  We cede our values for free  —  Did you see that video of the two Fox journalists announcing they'd converted to Islam?  The larger problem, it seems to me, is that much of the rest of the Western media have also converted to Islam, and there seems to be no way to get them to convert back to journalism.
Discussion: The Shotgun and Power Line
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Glenn Greenwald / Unclaimed Territory:   Will the real cowards please stand up?
Jules Crittenden / Boston Herald:
Martyrs wanted  —  I was planning to maintain a tasteful silence …
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 …
Captain Ed / Captain's Quarters:   Will Hillary Pass On Presidential Race?
TigerHawk:
Armitage and Powell: Looking at PlameGate retrospectively  —  The indefatigable "Larwyn" sent around a link at some god-awful hour last night to an editorial in today's New York Post calling for "Justice for Scooter."  It is not one of that great newspaper's finer efforts.
Discussion: Back Talk and The Bullwinkle Blog
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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.
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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Robert / Jihad Watch:
"To Americans and the rest of Christendom we say, either repent …
Discussion: Hot Air and A Blog For All
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 …
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.
Brad DeLong / Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal:
I Am a Reality-Based Center-Left Technocrat...  Eric Rauchway writes: … I am, as I said above, a reality-based center-left technocrat.  I am pragmatically interested in government policies that work: that are good for America and for the world.  My natural home is in the bipartisan center …
Discussion: Political Animal and Eschaton
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TalkLeft:
The Value of Political Populism
Discussion: The Left Coaster
Mary Beth Sheridan / Washington Post:
Hardball Tactics in an Era of Threats  —  To the government, they were a terrorist risk in the Washington area.  To local Muslims, they were unfairly singled out for prosecution and severe sentences in a post-9/11 world.  —  The crowd was so big it spilled out of the Alexandria courtroom …
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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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
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.
Craig Murray / Washington Post:
Her Majesty's Man in Tashkent  —  The courtroom provided a telling introduction.  I had recently arrived as British ambassador in Uzbekistan's old Silk Road capital of Tashkent, where I was watching the trial of a 22-year-old dissident named Iskander Khuderbegainov.
 
 
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Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Video: Outrageously outrageous 9/11 outrage!
IAN / Hot Air:
Video: Maher mocks kidnapped Fox News journos, suggests converting to Islam
Associated Press:
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Times of London:
Hezbollah wants to swap soldiers for child killer
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Edward Wong / New York Times:
Iraqi Arabs See Unlikely Haven With Old Foes
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Eric Lipton / New York Times:
Screening Tools Slow to Arrive in U.S. Airports
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Sky News:
Nationwide Terror Raids
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